Does this still work?

They're technically different cosmetics.

Do I need to add all 3 tiers of a cosmetic to the whitelist even if they all look the same, or can I stop at the conventional tier?

Mod is overwriting customization of character pool soldiers.

Alright, thanks for quick answer.

Afaik AOTI messes with soldier appearance generation, so probably nothing you can do here.

The mod worked fine for many months, now it randomly started to generate soldiers with custom body parts from newely added mods, mainly Armours of the Imperium (https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1562717298) and Officio Assassinorum (https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1943755557) . Any idea of fixing it?

No

hello, is there a way to make it a blacklist instead of a whitelist?

This mod has no effect on that.

How would this mod handle other mods such as Modular X-COM Hero Suits and [WOTC] Claus Hero Cosmetics Compendium? I noticed when equipping the any of the Resistance Armor or Warden armor the legs, arms and shoulders would default to pieces used by those mods instead of the standard vanilla torso, arms and legs.

Hey I assumed that those TemplateNames in XComSoldierGeneration.ini decide what could be choosed when generating soldiers, such as their voice like 'MaleVoice1_English_US'? Does it mean, if I subscribe lots of voice mod, they can't be generated according to the soldiers' nation?

Thanks, yeah I always delete the 2k launcher its like malware when trying to play games that require it, came back to try vanilla xcom 2 without any mods a while back (also without AML) and instantly crashed...

Instructions for cleaning config are here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/xcom2mods/wiki/mod_troubleshooting#wiki_regenerate_user_config

Don't use 2k launcher ever.

Thanks for the reply, can confirm I am not using unrestricted customization but I had it apparently in my cofig file saved there for some reason. Right now I have fully reset my mod set up by nuking my config folder and I'll try again and see if any other weird mod armors appear with this installed after my fresh set up. Though, I just wanted to ask if I was clean saving properly, it seems like I should first delete config folder > launch vanilla xcom 2 to get config folder through the 2k launcher > exit and go to AML launcher to play wotc with mods.

As long as you're not using Unrestricted Customization, Clean Soldier Generation should prevent the game from picking anything that isn't vanilla cosmetic body parts for generating random soldier appearance.

Only worked for me when I started a new game, would love to see a version that would allow modded hairs to go through though. One question, would this mod help at all if say I downloaded a mod that required Steam Workshop::[WOTC] Invisible Body Parts For All (v1.3) mod.
I noticed when I had this mod downloaded + the cosmetic mod that needed it whenever I had a soldier upgrade their armor it would default to giving them invisible limbs or defaulting the soldier to say the halo mod armor's.

I dont think it is touching voices at all. Im getting a lot of mod voices. Easy enough to just change them, and some modded voices are fine - like the extra language packs.

Very happy with this regardless though, thanks!

I don't recall if I set up this mod to handle voices.

Grimy's reskinned base armour is one, it works btw. New soldiers generated use his new camo patterns etc.

I am getting modded voices for new recruits though, I assume that's beyond the scope of the mod? No big deal, just a bit weird hearing Garrus in my first mission. He's got calibrations to be doing.

Sounds about right, but tbh I'm not familiar with any mods that would do that.

So a tweaked vanilla armour part is probably using its original vanilla name and will probably be on that inclusion list unless the mod author has done something non-standard or changed it's name.

Is that about right?

This mod works by forcing the game to use cosmetic body parts that have their template names included into an inclusion list.

If you are using a mod that replaces (or modifies, reshades, tweaks colour palette etc) the vanilla armours, does this mod revert those changes?

After.

Does this prevent your appearance manager from applying a uniform on soldier gen, or does it apply it's uniform AFTER this clean gen take place? :)

Oh my god thank you for making this.
I was always annoyed i got some super random soldier with bizzare parts

Um... I thought you said this DIDN'T work with Unrestricted... because it works fine for me

@italiangamer[Schizophrenic]
You probably have some incompatible mod, like Unrestricted Customization.

hey, it doesnt look like it works for me, am i doing something wrong? all of my soldiers spawn in with moded armor look

Unrestricted Customization has its own soldier appearance generator, nothing my mod can do about that. Also, this mod doesn't prevent appearance randomization, it just makes the game use only vanilla body parts, ignoring those from cosmetic mods.

What you can do is get my Appearance Manager mod and set up some uniforms for your soldiers.

Yeah, but I don't want to disable it because I have a lot of mods that have it as a dependency

@CompleteTrash
Are you also using Unrestricted Customization?

So mod seems to be broken as I'm now getting randomized soldiers when using this mod.

@AssassinsXCove I think this is a vanilla bug. I had this happen to some dead civvies on a "Destroy the device" mission in a vanilla non wotc run.

Never mind. It seems to only do it on some terror missions.

I noticed this also makes the civilians in terror missions wear basic Avenger clothing instead of their usual civilian clothing. Is this a bug or something unavoidable?

Can’t believe I was ever playing without this mod. No more rookies with Tracer heads, Titanfall armour, and dresses.

Yes

does it exclude modded hairstyles?

Question. Most soldier customization mods require Unrestricted customization and it's redux. So does this mean this wont work with them?

I somehow never found this mod until now and it's everything I ever wanted

@Iridar I see, but thank you for clarifying. And thank you for all the hard work you put into all your mods. I use a bunch of them and couldn't play without them anymore!

It's not possible with this version.

Hey, does anyone know if you can change this mod to only ensure just scientists and engineers are "cleanly generated"?
I have no issues with wonky soldiers, as I can just change them and with a bit of tweaking of the ingame settings I rarely get missing bodyparts.
I sometimes like how a randomly generated soldier looks and just expand on that. But since I cannot change Scientists and Engineers this is something really annoying.

For what it's worth, despite having Unrestricted Customization Redux installed, this mod seems to be keeping my Avenger staff from being invisible head bug-eyed monsters, which is the most important thing it can do, as I can change my soldiers but I can't change the generics.

@Sharur
In theory it's possible to make any cosmetic body part available to any unit through config. I don't know if there are any mods that already do that, though.

What would you recommend as an alternative to Unrestricted Customization that would allow this mod to work? The thing I'm probably most interested in is being able to use the hero outfits (especially Reaper) with any class.

@Slade
I'll investigate, thanks.

Just wanted to point out that what TheRyderShotgun mentioned on 2 Feb, 2021 @ 2:59am is still true.

When you upgrade to predator armor the mod stops working . Until this point it works great. All told it's just a minor inconvenience but I just wanted to throw that out there in the event that this is an easy fix. Either way, thank you very much for the mod and I'll keep using it.