Astarion's Re-Grinchifier

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HI IM REALLY TIRED AND MAY HAVE BEEN FOOLED BY LIGHTING/SHADER ISSUES disregard most of this mod page for now, will update fully when I have more energy but please check the stickied post in the comments for more information.

Ok, yeah, I'm now pretty sure he wasn't De-Grinched in Patch 7. This page is now just a place to keep Astarion's Patch 6 backup mesh + rigs! If he was De-Grinched for you, try troubleshooting lighting issues/shaders/if its changes in the dialog files itself, or mod issues first! And if you're still having issues, try these backup files.

Made for Patch... Uh. Well, these are actually the models and rigs I extracted when I first made the De-Grinchifier, just, uploaded for anyone who wants them. The models were extracted from Patch 6, Hotfix 20. This is specifically for Patch 7, though, which seems to have De-Grinched him.

And uh, I do feel partially responsible for that 😅 But, hey. I'm making amends.

I'll be honest, though, while his mesh does seem to have been fixed up a bit, some of the more dramatic changes to his expressions might actually be them just, editing the dialog itself, and using a different expression rig entirely. A lot of the changes to his expressions were pretty subtle! But they are there, and you can see one example in the mod page images, thanks to Aimryax.

I can't guarantee this will bring back all the grinch expressions, because it only affects the meshes, and won't help if the expression rig he's using in a scene was changed in the dialog files.

But it will restore his Pre-Patch 7 rigs, model, and wrinkle map, bringing back the original expressions themselves, just not where they're used. The .zip file also currently includes some loose .lsf.lsx files containing data for his rig and animations. These are unpacked files that don't do anything atm, and they don't seem to be necessary. I'll probably remove them sometime in the near future, but I'll be honest, I'm exhausted.

And because of that, there's also a note in the .zip about the rigs themselves that's a bit outdated (it talks about how you shouldn't put these in your game unless Larian changes something, and, well, it seems like they did!). When I have the energy I'll probably update that, but for now, just ignore it.

These backup files were actually already provided on the original De-Grinchifier page, but I thought it'd be helpful to have them on their own page, so people could find them easier. That's all this is, really.

The De-Grinchifier will probably stay up, for anyone who prefers that look for him.

EDIT: I just realized I literally extracted most of the dialog files from Patch 6 in anticipation of Patch 7. I could probably just package up some of th