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About this mod
Adds the Origin characters' unique hair, eye, and skin color swatches to the character creator. ***Last two mod page images have (out-of-context) spoilers!!***
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Made for Patch 5 - Hotfix 17, Working with Patch 8
(I made this forever ago and never uploaded it 😅 Well, now I have!)
Hi!! Have you ever wanted to use the origin characters' hair, eye, and skintone swatches for your own characters? Well, look no further than this very mod!!!
Each origin character has unique eye, hair, and skincolor swatches that are not included in the character creator. All this mod does is make them available again!
This mod is completely standalone, and will work on its own for custom characters. But you can also use it in tandem with Eralyne's Appearance Edit Enhanced: Origins mod, which is actually affected by the missing swatches! And not just when starting a new game; when editing an origin character in the mirror, AEE assigns pretty close matches to their original swatches (it does a really good job of that imo!!), but they aren't the exact same ones. The swatches this mod adds are!
A note when using it with AEE, though: this mod does not assign the color swatches to the origin characters automatically. It just makes the swatches available in the character creator—it doesn't affect any of the origin characters' visual templates or change any code beyond that. You'll have to add them back to the characters manually, but you'll have the original color swatches for each character available to you now!
Color swatches for the following characters are included:
From what I can tell, Minthara, Halsin, Jaheira, and Minsc don't have their own unique color swatches, but I could be wrong! If am, let me know, and I'll add their swatches to the mod as well.
[Spoilers for part of Wyll's story in Act 1 and the end of Act 2 ahead!]
The mod also adds Shadowheart's alternate haircolor to the character creator, which is unique too. Wyll's Devil eye color is not unique, and is already included in the character creator, so it's not a part of this mod! If you're looking for the specific swatch, I believe it's Demonic Red 1.
[End spoilers]
I don't think there are any other unique origin character color swatches (at least not that are used in the game; there's a reference to a couple older swatches for some characters, that have since been changed.) If there are, though: again, I'll add them to this mod!
A note about eye swatches, pupils, and glow effects:
This mod doesn't affect the pupils or glow effects each head model uses! Karlach and Lae'zel will retain their slit pupils when using the swatches with Appearance Edit Enhanced, and Githyanki will retain their slit pupils for all swatches. Other characters will have round pupils if their model originally had them. Karlach's eye swatch has a glow effect, but it will only be visible on tieflings and dragonborn, unless you use a mod to enable it for other characters.
This mod just makes the colors themselves available. It won't change the materials or textures the eyes use, so it won't give the glow or slit pupils to any other characters. You can use labotor's Eyes of the Beholder mod to change this, though, and Astralities' Glow Eyes will enable the glow on Karlach's eye swatch for characters besides tieflings and dragonborn as well! This mod is fully compatible with both.
Install via BG3 Mod Manager.
As always, let me know if you run into any issues, and enjoy!
Special thanks to Aimryax for helping with the mod page images, and for helping test the mod 🎶💗!!!!
Mods used in preview images:
(By the way, if you like my work, tips are welcome!! You can do so through my ko-fi here: https://ko-fi.com/herotune
It's the same ko-fi I use for my art, but I'll never paywall my mods. Thanks for taking a look, if you do!!)
(I made this forever ago and never uploaded it 😅 Well, now I have!)
Hi!! Have you ever wanted to use the origin characters' hair, eye, and skintone swatches for your own characters? Well, look no further than this very mod!!!
Each origin character has unique eye, hair, and skincolor swatches that are not included in the character creator. All this mod does is make them available again!
This mod is completely standalone, and will work on its own for custom characters. But you can also use it in tandem with Eralyne's Appearance Edit Enhanced: Origins mod, which is actually affected by the missing swatches! And not just when starting a new game; when editing an origin character in the mirror, AEE assigns pretty close matches to their original swatches (it does a really good job of that imo!!), but they aren't the exact same ones. The swatches this mod adds are!
A note when using it with AEE, though: this mod does not assign the color swatches to the origin characters automatically. It just makes the swatches available in the character creator—it doesn't affect any of the origin characters' visual templates or change any code beyond that. You'll have to add them back to the characters manually, but you'll have the original color swatches for each character available to you now!
Color swatches for the following characters are included:
- Astarion
- Gale
- Karlach
- Lae'zel
- Shadowheart
- Wyll
From what I can tell, Minthara, Halsin, Jaheira, and Minsc don't have their own unique color swatches, but I could be wrong! If am, let me know, and I'll add their swatches to the mod as well.
[Spoilers for part of Wyll's story in Act 1 and the end of Act 2 ahead!]
The mod also adds Shadowheart's alternate haircolor to the character creator, which is unique too. Wyll's Devil eye color is not unique, and is already included in the character creator, so it's not a part of this mod! If you're looking for the specific swatch, I believe it's Demonic Red 1.
[End spoilers]
I don't think there are any other unique origin character color swatches (at least not that are used in the game; there's a reference to a couple older swatches for some characters, that have since been changed.) If there are, though: again, I'll add them to this mod!
A note about eye swatches, pupils, and glow effects:
This mod doesn't affect the pupils or glow effects each head model uses! Karlach and Lae'zel will retain their slit pupils when using the swatches with Appearance Edit Enhanced, and Githyanki will retain their slit pupils for all swatches. Other characters will have round pupils if their model originally had them. Karlach's eye swatch has a glow effect, but it will only be visible on tieflings and dragonborn, unless you use a mod to enable it for other characters.
This mod just makes the colors themselves available. It won't change the materials or textures the eyes use, so it won't give the glow or slit pupils to any other characters. You can use labotor's Eyes of the Beholder mod to change this, though, and Astralities' Glow Eyes will enable the glow on Karlach's eye swatch for characters besides tieflings and dragonborn as well! This mod is fully compatible with both.
Install via BG3 Mod Manager.
As always, let me know if you run into any issues, and enjoy!
Special thanks to Aimryax for helping with the mod page images, and for helping test the mod 🎶💗!!!!
Mods used in preview images:
- Appearance Edit Enhanced
- Euphrosyne - Karlach Edits
- Githyanki Ridged Spots Overhaul
- Astarion's Earrings
(By the way, if you like my work, tips are welcome!! You can do so through my ko-fi here: https://ko-fi.com/herotune
It's the same ko-fi I use for my art, but I'll never paywall my mods. Thanks for taking a look, if you do!!)