The Pale Milf (Female Astarion Head Mod)

So hi! This is my first mod. I've usually just done 3d Renders, but started doing small head sculpts for my best friends. Female Astarion has been going around lately, and I wanted to try doing my own spin on it.

Rather than taking exact sculpts of his head or sculpting around his head mesh, I decided to try incorporating and sculpting some of the noticeable features onto a femme elf head. Honestly kind of proud of the work in spite of the few kinks here and there.

SMALL THINGS TO RULE OUT THAT I HOPE TO FIX IN THE FUTURE:

• []Neck seam is noticeable with a texture change that I hope to find the fix to soon.

  []Adding vampire fangs onto the mesh

  []Piercings in correct location of skeleton

  []Some snatched hairstyles may be a bit weird on the head (Apolocheese, making her look snatched with a JoJo Siwa ponytail will NOT happen yet /j)

  QUICK NOTE: Please also use the aging slider (to about 20-30% or more to your liking)! Because the age lines fit to the face naturally, I preferred those over putting them too heavy on the textures. I may potentially add them later into the NM and HMVY, but I think it lays a bit nicer this way onto the head rather than the other head mesh the textures were painted on.

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  HOW TO INSTALL:

  As this is a replacer and not a PAK file yet (I want to iron out fixes before going through the trouble of coding), you will need to put these files into specific folders in your Baldur's Gate 3 Data folder. Place the files given in the following places:

  Place ELF_F_NKD_Head_B into C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Baldurs Gate 3\Data\Generated\Public\Shared\Assets\Characters\_Anims\Elves\_Female\Resources

  Place the CLEA, NM, and HMVY .dds Files into G:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Baldurs Gate 3\Data\Generated\Public\Shared\Assets\Characters\_Models\Elves\ELF_F_NKD\ELF_F_HEAD_B\Resources

  If you do not see these folders in your Data folder, that is totally normal! Just create the folders by the path you see here!

  HOW TO UNINSTALL:

  Delete the "Generated" folder inside your Data folder. If it is causing issues, I recommend verifying the integrity of game files, but usually it is not an issue.

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  MASSIVE thank you to the following people:

  Cedastarion for walking me through it very gently and with an amazing guide you can find on their profile

  Padme 4000 for amazing tutorials that are the backbone of modding BG3

  Lumad11's head sculpting tutorial that simplified the process for me

  My friends, the Quinkles, who simped for the Pale M