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GeorgAfLöfbacka

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Mediterranean Ladies Beautified and Chaps Handsomer [Mod]

Hello all!

A NEW THREAD HERE

The purpose of this mod is to enhance the Mediterranean female portraits from the DLC by replacing the hairs, chins and noses with the same from the vanilla CK2 with some modifications. The rest of the features aren't all that bad, even quite nice in fact. Beautified is perhaps a strong word, but at least now some of the mediterranean women look quite nice, and the rest of them do have some rugged charm. In my opinion, they look more natural now, which is the main thing. Well, Mediterranean Ladies Naturalised wouldn't quite convey the right meaning :). I have also made quite a few new hairs (mixing and matching the originals). For me, at least, these changes seem to do the trick. I hope you enjoy my humble(-ish) contribution!

Requirements:
The Mediterranean Faces DLC (doesn't do much otherwise, unless you want to use the hairs somewhere else)

Here are a few screenshots, as requested:
beautifiedmediterraneanladiesscreen.jpg

I have now uploaded version 1.01. One hair and one nose are replaced with my own modifications/creations (again using material from the originals, so that they should fit in nicely). The reason I changed them is that I did find the previous ones the least charming ones of the lot. The rest of the noses were slightly adjusted too to make them match the faces better (i.e. made parts of them slightly darker).

Here is a screenshot with the new nose and the hair:
newnose_newhair.jpg

Download: View attachment MediterraneanLadiesBeautified v1.01.rar


!!!Now also, due to popular request, the Mediterranean Chaps Handsomer Mod. I didn't include these in the same mod with the ladies, at this stage, in case you prefer the original ones for males, or the other way round perhaps. This mod does modify the originals rather heavily (the only way to improve them, I'm afraid, without including material from the DLC). The chins and noses were replaced with the vanilla western ones, whereas the eyes and cheeks were replaced with the vanilla muslim ones. Of course, they had to be modified to some extent. I'm not happy with the beards, though, but I wouldn't like to completely replace them either. At least, the Mediterranean chaps now seem to have much more character.

meditchap.jpg meditchap2.jpg

Uploaded 1.01 with the necks replaced too, because there were some clipping issues (haven't changed the screenshots though).
Download: View attachment MediterraneanChapsHandsomer_v1.01.rar
 
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Cool! But will you also enhance the male mediterraneans? Several of them have very ugly beards and look "weird".

I certainly agree that they could do with some discreet enhancing. However, because to change one beard I would have to change them all, there is very little I could do without changing them rather too drastically (assuming that one does try to avoid using material from the DLCs). I'm afraid the same medicine might not work with the males, and, as it is, I am reasonably happy with them.
 

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Damn, those look much closer to the vanilla style. I don't think the original med portraits are that bad, the only real issue that they don't look like vanilla portraits in terms of style as much as, say, the Mongols did.
 

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Good work mate...Congrats..
Much better than Med. faces...
 

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Great work! Looks much better than the regular Med. faces. If it's possible, i'll throw in my support for something similar done to the males.
+1 for a male version also...
 

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Their lips still look like they've had cosmetic surgery.