Glowy Vanilla Body Tattoos - for KAVT

⭐ ⭐ (190 endorsements) 📥 7,301 downloads 📌 v1.0.1 📅 5/9/2024
🟠 Updated over a year ago

By jerinski · Character Customisation

⬇ Download Mod Source: Nexus Mods ↗ 📅 Updated: 6/30/2025 📅 Created: 5/9/2024

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📋 About This Mod

15 vanilla body tattoos converted to be used as Glow Tattoos with Kazstra Virtual Tav (KAVT)

⫸ About:

Mod contains 15 tattoos (most of them vanilla designs, a few my own and a couple mashups), these were previously converted to glowy tattoos for Kaz Virtual Tav - and now I have updated them to work with its successor, Kazstra Virtual Tav (KAVT).

These glow tattoos NEED Kazstra Virtual Tav to work!

This mod will add an additional folder to the Unique Tav directory called GLOWY (if you already have it that means you are probably already using KAVT and know how this works). Inside which are a number of named subfolders each containing one glowy tattoo.

Only one tattoo file can be active at a time.

There are 2 versions you can download:

  • []Glowy: These are simply the tattoo designs seen above, as glow tattoos. Nothing more, nothing less.

    []Glowy + Gith: These utilize a second channel in order to have the glowy tattoo PLUS and additional (non-glowy) gith spots tattoo. Theoretically any design could be in this second channel, I just chose the gith spots since they are usually gone if a custom (normal) tattoo is in the TATTOO folder.

    ⫸ Installation:

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    • [] Extract the downloaded file, open it.

      [] Find and place the Data folder into your game's base directory

      (e.g. the default with Steam is C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Baldurs Gate 3 )

      [] If you are prompted to Replace anything, do so.

      [] Head into the following directory: ..\Baldurs Gate 3\Data\Generated\Public\Shared\Assets\unique_tav\BODY\GLOWY

      [] Inside it should look like this:

      [] The individual folders are for safekeeping/organization - they will do nothing on their own. The only active file is the highlighted one in the image. Choose a DDS file from the subfolder you want and copy/paste it into here, replacing KVT_Body_Glowmap. DDS (the glow tattoo file must have this name).

    • NOTE: If you are using the Glowy+Gith version these files will be a mix of blue and red due to utilizing the red and blue channels for 2 designs in one.

⫸ Advanced - changing colours / glow pulse / etc:

here lies madness

(thankfully this is now much easier, thanks to Astralities' amazing work on the step-by-step KAVT Guide + the annot

📊 Mod Details

Game
Baldursgate3 Mods
Author
jerinski
Version
1.0.1
Downloads
7,301
Endorsements
190
Category
Character Customisation
Created
5/9/2024
Updated
6/30/2025

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