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swaps vanilla medallion-like pendant to a book canon one

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She had pretty shoulders, a shapely neck and, around it, a black velvet choker with a star-shaped jewel sparkling with diamonds.

A black velvet ribbon wound around her neck, an obsidian star set with diamonds hanging from it.

“That star…” muttered Ciri. “What’s it made of? Those stones move and shine so strangely…”“They pulsate,” smiled the magician. “They are active diamonds, sunken in obsidian...

I never liked the vanilla pendant - it was a bit too unremarkable in my opinion - so I decided to create my own version. Features new, custom mesh for Yennefer's iconic bejeweled star, as well as 3 ribbon styles to choose from.

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MAIN FILES

Style 1 - Vanilla

A choker with the star hanging from it. Expect some clipping with base of the neck (same as in vanilla).

Style 2 - Choker

Tighter choker with the star pinned to it. No dangly bits, the least clipping.

Style 3 - Necklace

Looser style, more of a necklace. Clipping may occur in extreme poses.

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INSTALLATION

Select ONE archive from the main files.
Extract modbsbah_obsidian_star_[..] to your The Witcher 3/mods folder. 
Give mod higher priority over other mods editing Yen's necklace, if necessary.

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COMPATIBILITY

COMPATIBLE with outfit / appearance / dynamic mods, as long as they use vanilla paths
COMPATIBLE with Geralt Doppler, Custom Characters, MCM, SBUI - replaces vanilla necklace
COMPATIBLE with face & hair mods
INCOMPATIBLE with other mods editing Yen's necklace (its w2ent / mesh)
INCOMPATIBLE with mods editing Yen's necklace textures - mod uses own paths

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KNOWN ISSUES
Diamonds may look too bright in dark areas - vanilla "gem" shader issue.
Some clipping between ribbons and neck, especially in extreme poses (far head tilts).
Style 1 - pendant may look disconnected from it's hanger - vanilla issue, nothing I can do about it without rebuilding the dyngset.
Style 1 - pendant may sink into the body - vanilla issue.
Style 3 - pendant may sink into the body - vanilla issue.

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PERMISSIONS

You CAN use this mod however you want until your work is:

• TRANSFORMATIVE (ie NO REUPLOADS of unchanged stuff, full or partial)
• OR has this mod as its REQUIREMENT.

Please also sneak credit to me somewhere.