@kharnthebetrayer Bro... There is literally an up to date mod linked below your comment... The only difference is it's without clothing dirt.

I wonder if this ever gets update, or at least fan update. One of the best mods.

This mod hasn't been updated in over a year so I decided to try and take a crack at remaking at least the eyebrow and body hair matching feature

Here's a link to my mod Matched Eyebrow and Body Hair Colors Updated

Tryed to understand how this mod works, but failed. So +1 vote for update. Can't play without it.

I need an update for this mod more than I need air.

Great mod, essential even. But the fact that after an update it breaks your game AND your save files and then isn't updated for a year, really hurts. As others have mentioned the outlines of the game map are blackened and characters have weird portrait artifacts, pitch black skin or orange skin or white cheeks.

Please update! Shader files in gfx/FX are incompatible with 1.12 version.

Seems to be broken with the new version. The new table is displayed in black and the characters look strange

I would like to ask for the version that only have hair color matched if possible and thank you

Please, need a update

Does make people invisible, at least on MacOS/vulkan. Thank you for the mod, in any case. It was my favourite one, while it worked.

When I enable this mod it just makes everyone invisible

Hello. Aging options are broken. In previous (1.8) version with late aging hairs just started to become white in 50-60 years, and with "No aging" option they remained the same color forever, up to 100500 years. But now everybody becomes gray-haired in the range of 40-50 years, maximum up to 60 (with "no aging"). I put this mod to the bottom of the modlist, so it is hardly problem from other mods.

So if chars are missing is due Vulcan?

I have dx11 and vulkan as options, changed to vulkan due seems to make my PC overheat less and make less noice...

IDK What he's talking about TBH. I checked in game and at most powerful, the salt and pepper gene makes few small streaks appear in early 20's. They don't go what you would consider "grey" until mid 30's. It's not super unrealistic. Obviously the effect is procedural, so certain hairstyles might look worse.

not necessarily "COMMON", but I have straight up WHITE beard hairs peppered throughout and I am 30. I have a friend with 70% dark grey/30%black hair (and with no hair loss to boot) in his mid 30s, but he was obviously greying in his late 20s. My mom has had grey hair since she was 22 she told me....so id say its not rare either

It is not common to see people full gray in their late 20's to early 30's. The process starts at mid to late 30's with a significant amount visible at 50 for half. Now you can find characters almost completely gray at 30 years old

Earendel, that's common in real life too you know.

The way it's set up is that at it's strongest, characters will only start greying in their 20s, but will be notably grey in 30's, on the opposite side of the scale some characters hair should almost never go grey.

The effect is too strong on some people, I'm seeing characters in their early 30's and late 20's with full strands of gray hair with barely any natural color remaining...

@noxovac93 I've personally had no issue using this alongside EPE. The matching eyebrow/beardstubble color feature feels so natural that seeing CK3 without it now feels kinda weird lmao.

Does this work with EPE? I know they add the salt and pepper effect but the eyebrows are not included

Thanks for making this standalone!

Hey I don't know if this will help you, but for some reason my launcher spazzed and after I fixed it I was presented with a choice between OpenGl and Vulkan renderers, when previously it was Vulkan and DX11 which I thought was strange for linux.

So I selected OpenGL to see what happens and the characters are displaying, though as expected they still do not display with Vulkan.

But with the OpenGL renderer my characters have waxy black bodies which is related to the Fair Ladies/Lords Expanded mods, though they have normal bodies with the Vulkan renderer.

So maybe that will give you a clue as to what is going on.

I feel you, and look forward to the update when you get round to it, your efforts are much appreciated mate

Well, all my whinging aside, I will fix it soon, just a bit burned out lately is all.

Damn that sucks. I feel you on that, I've worked on many projects where I've had to reverse engineer in order to progress, it's fun if you're doing it once to make a base for progression, but eventually destroys the soul if you have to keep on making the same base over and over again just to support what you already have, let alone progress further.

There are much much better modders than me out there, but if nobody wants to help out due to their own schedules and because linux is niche, I wouldn't mind having a conversation with you to see if I can help with the linux side.

PDX keeps changing shader things and I'm running out of energy to keep mac/linux support working. They give you no debugging tools and just leave you shooting in the dark.

Not sure if this is your end or epe, but they just did a release saying they re-enabled S&P, having removed it form the previous release, but in the new release all characters have disappeared,

I had to remove the FX folder and rar again to get the characters to show, just as I had to do back in September until you updated your mod to fix the issue for linux/mac.

So is this an issue again where we have to wait on you to update S&P or is it a epe issue?

anyway to make a separate mod for the matched eyebrow and hair?

Thank you.

TAMA, yes go ahead, just keep in mind it will be up to you to integrate it and maintain it. Credit is welcome.

Hello, I'm the author of “character beautification” mod. Can I use your shader to put it in my mod to change the color of body hair and pubic hair? I want to get authorization, thank you.

@Buck I've been using ruler designer mods with unlocked genes for over a year. It definitely causes no problems. I've just been able to set this usually unavailable genes manually.
And know I understand the meaning of that groub = body code.

Lucky Lenny. I don't think you get access to these genes in vanilla ruler designer, they only become available when using unlocked ruler designer. However since my mod is based on vanilla genes, and it overwrites the unlocked ruler designer ones, they become unavailable again. I suppose there is no harm adding them into ruler designer anyway.

@buck @cleanshirt06 I've been testing around for a few minutes and found the/a solution for the problem.

You just have to insert group = body in the code in common > genes > gene_age_override.txt as used in common > genes > 01_genes_morph.txt in the ruler desinger mods I mentioned before.

---

morph_genes = {

gene_age = {
group = body

...

gene_body_hair = {
group = body

---

After I did this, the missing entries became visible.

I don't knwo why it's working, because these code lines are also lacking in the vanilla common > genes > 01_genes_morph.txt .

Yeah in ruler designer

You mean in ruler designer? In that case I may need to double check

@buck @cleanshirt06 I've got this proglem too! As lang as "Buck's Portrait Shaders" mod is activated, the "gene_age" entries and the "gene_body_hair" entries (including the density slider) are not shown in the body section. Deactivating this mod makes them visible again. This means, I can either edit the body hair color and the hair aging or the body hair density and the visible aging of my character.

I'm using Unlocked Ruler Designer Genes or Unlocked Ruler Designer - CFP and A Spouse Designer for 1.7.* .

Because I thought it would be in the body section, or the hair section but I couldn't find it

Ah I must've missed it then

Cleanshirt, can you elaborate? There is a slider for body hair thickness by default, and I have added another one for the darkness too.

@Buck Really impressive work! I'm truly happy about the return of the body hair colors. Every thing is working fine, even under Linux and with a hole bunch of other mods.

Shame about the lack of a body hair slider

@Buck Great! Thanks for that info.

@★R'R★ Buck yeah I picked up the new EPE last night and it required no work on my part which was great. Nice to see this mod and all the others I use working properly again post Bastion.

Lenny, the mod as is should add the salt n' pepper hair effect to characters randomly, some will get more, some less. It is quite subtle but you can often see it in beards of older Muslim rulers for example.

Nomad, this update should not have an effect on any type of compatch you made as it doesn't alter anything aside from the shader files. EPE should be updated with the latest version if it hasn't yet.

@★R'R★ Buck as a linux user I sincerely thank you so much, even if means I'll have to update my EPE compatch yet again when they inevitably include your update

Hi Buck, thanks for this update. I appreciate your mod and would have strongly regret plying without it.
Is this mod just working with designed characters or with premade as Vratislav II, Duke of Bohemia?

Hi Lucky Lenny. It was tough, but I managed to fix the mod for Linux/MAC versions of the game.

Hi Buck, your update solved the invisibility problem for Windows OS. Using Linux/Ubuntu OS it’s still existing: All characters are invisible, no skin, no eyes, no mouth, no clothings. I really regret this, because it has been fun playing with it.