New Heads

Description

It's time to make Gothic modding more modular.

Feel like having refreshed graphics, but don't want to be forced to install the whole package bundled together with opinionated difficulty changes and dubious new content? (yes, L'Hiver 90% of Gothic mods - I'm looking at you)

Or just tired of seeing the same pixelated faces everywhere?

In both cases this mod is for you.

For details please refer to the comparison image (top pic = original, bottom pic = modded).

Majority of heads are from the Gold Remaster mod, few are from the newest L'Hiver, except that Sarah has her real face (sorry JLO fans!).

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Installation

Unpack the zip file into your game's main directory. Union is optional but recommended to adjust few womens' visuals (Edda, Nadja, Sonja, Vanja). Otherwise i.e. Sonja's new head texture would not match her old head mesh.

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Changelog

1. 1 | 19. 02. 2023

- Nadja: use short hair head model (new texture didn't fit the old model)

- Cassia: changed face texture (old one didn't fit well the head model and had no red ribbon)

- one guard in upper town got brand new face

mod compatibility patches:

- included original female body model in case any mod overwrites it (like i.e. New Balance)

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New Heads for New Balance

This file (new-faces_override-NB.d) is an optional patch if you are playing New Balance mod.

To install unpack to System/Autorun and remove new-faces_override.d.

1. 0 | 19. 02. 2023

added compatibility patch for New Balance mod:

- Nadja: restored original model and outfit

- Cassia: restored original model and outfit

- Lucia: uses new face to have a different one that Cassia and new outfit to have different one than Abigail, uses original body texture (skimpy fur, although in NB it looks different, but also interesting, so I decided to leave it like that)

- one guard in upper town got brand new face (to prevent conflict with Abigail from New Balance)