Sometimes my children are born with the normal vanilla portraits and sometimes they've got the Gaelic ones (I'm Scotland). Is this normal?
Differing children portraits?
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Check your parents and grandparents and see if they are Gaelic or have Gaelic portrait. Portrait type is inherited.
Once a kid is born, they're born. You could go find them in your save file and change their graphics culture by hand, but that's pretty much it.
Graphical culture is inherited randomly I believe from father or mother. What parts are which is decided by DNA. Graphical culture and character's culture have nothing to do with each other. One is identity, the other is ethnicity.
Oh, I know they're separate. It was a poor choice of words on my part, I think. I rather meant that from my understanding, childhood portraits are based off the prevalent graphical culture of the character (A character who has an Arabic nose, cheek, and chin, Ethiopian hair and eyes, and a Scottish mouth would use the Arab childhood portrait).
For example:
We see a Scottish cultured character who is obviously not graphically Scottish. He's married to an (obviously) Irish cultured character, both culturally and graphically (With some possible Norse-ness). However, we see that their first child is using the Arab childhood portrait (I have all the portrait backs, and use CPR). What I meant originally is that this was chosen based on the prevalence (And presence) of Arab cultured graphics (Nose/Mouth/Ears/etc.) from cross-breeding between cultures (Notice his grandfather had Arab skintone/characteristics).
It's also possible it's determined based off skintone specifically of the character, which would make sense the more I consider it. A character with a specific "cultural" skintone (for lack of a better term) is given its portrait based primarily off that.
You're overthinking it a bit i think. When a black character marries a White Character the graphical culture outcome for their children are just one of these three. Black, Mixed (uses the Arab portraits) or White.
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Graphical culture is a random function of mother's and father's graphical culture only. It's either one graphical culture or the other and never in between. It's not encoded in the DNA. Ethnicity is in no way encoded in the DNA of a character, as strange as that may sound. Facial features like chubbiness, long cheekbones, etc. are. The only reason those portraits appear mixed as if they'd been genetically mixed is because CPR uses graphical assets from various, oft unrelated portrait DLCs to define a graphical culture's appearance given a set of DNA, so there are graphical elements of vanilla norse in gaelic, and so on.
But no actual gene splicing here, sorry.
But no actual gene splicing here, sorry.
Aye, you can't have scots ears but a norse nose or whatever. You're either fully one graphical culture or fully another.