Teenage and Infant Face Pack

[Lemont Elwood]

It's beyond me how Paradox has decided to push something near a dozen portrait packs for groups that really don't need them, yet continues to portray fifteen-year-old boys as looking the same as young children. Apparently, the world of Crusader Kings II is one in which puberty takes literally one day. Must be awful for the kids.

I'm not unreasonable, though, so I'm not going to say that this should be a free feature. No, I'd pay the price of a normal portrait pack for an Early Life pack. Maybe they could even split it by major region, to where you'd have the European, African/Middle Eastern, and Steppe/Indian faces. However they do it, though, we need at least two more stages of faces; one that lasts for the first three years and looks like a baby, and then one for ages 12-20 that looks more like a teenager.

 

[BrokenSky]

These are portraits, not accurate representations of what the character looks like; hence why the ugly and attractive traits have no noticeable effect on the portraits. They go through puberty at the normal rate. Having a separate portrait for 8-15 year-olds would still be nice though.

 

[Es57]

Yes, there should be 3 tiers for the generic child portraits :
0-3 years : baby/toddler
3-10 years : child
10-16 : teenager

 

[Lemont Elwood]

I know, the post was written to be tongue-in-cheek. However, there is a legitimate use for having more portrait stages. The purpose of portraits is, arguably, to distinguish between characters at a glance. Now, I'm normally not brokering betrothals when the child can't even walk. It gets to be relevant, though, when they're almost at the age of majority. It's also just hideous to look at a supposed teenager and see a nine-year-old. It's at least as immersion-breaking as if, say, all the blacks in Mali were given Norse portraits.

It would help to have these extra faces. I absolutely do not want to pay for each individual culture, though (like "Mediterranean Teeangers").

 

[zbyrne]

I would not pay money for this. Otherwise I'm fully behind it as an idea.

 

[Rags17]

This really would be very easy to implement - as a father of four kids I can tell you that all babies look pretty much the same (<wife kicks me>).

Thus PDX could get away with maybe a dozen baby faces and 2-3 dozen young child faces (ages 3-10, male and female). Young teens could be implemented by making another "variation" of the adult face, similar to the way "old" characters are given white hair and lined faces, young adults could be given puffier faces, shorter more unruly hair (and no facial hair) and maybe the occasional spot or blemish.

Princess Zitface of the Asturias, age 13 and a half !

Someone did a post elsewhere about making a new "post death" facepack which would be pictures of churches and mosques, I recommended that you could make them be pictures of simple crosses, cairns or runestones, with the option to buy more elaborate versions if the deceased was known as "the Great" or whatever. Thus every time you looked up dear old dead grandpa "Karl the Great" for example you would see not his living face but an elaborate stained glass of his likeness from Cologne Cathedral . . .

In life a living breathing human, in death just a memory.

 

[Lemont Elwood]

This really would be very easy to implement - as a father of four kids I can tell you that all babies look pretty much the same (<wife kicks me>).

Thus PDX could get away with maybe a dozen baby faces and 2-3 dozen young child faces (ages 3-10, male and female). Young teens could be implemented by making another "variation" of the adult face, similar to the way "old" characters are given white hair and lined faces, young adults could be given puffier faces, shorter more unruly hair (and no facial hair) and maybe the occasional spot or blemish.

Princess Zitface of the Asturias, age 13 and a half !

Good suggestions. Yeah, and as it is, I don't see hardly any difference in the existing child portraits. It seems that it would be a minimum-effort fix.

Someone did a post elsewhere about making a new "post death" facepack which would be pictures of churches and mosques, I recommended that you could make them be pictures of simple crosses, cairns or runestones, with the option to buy more elaborate versions if the deceased was known as "the Great" or whatever. Thus every time you looked up dear old dead grandpa "Karl the Great" for example you would see not his living face but an elaborate stained glass of his likeness from Cologne Cathedral . . .

In life a living breathing human, in death just a memory.

That's a cool-sounding idea, but I don't know as I'd actually want that in my game. I mean, as toggleable DLC, it'd be fine, but I don't think I'd pay for it myself. It would make it quite inconvenient to try and figure out who people looked like, or even tell them apart. However, something like a background change (such as to a coffin or sarcophagus) would work nicely.

 

[megaspider01]

I don't know if I would want to pay for it, but the point is valid

 

[Azarias59]

While you're at it, make fat be tied to gluttony, and give alternate necks and cheeks for children of fatties who aren't gluttonous themselves.