Baldur's Better Aesthetics 1.0 — Baldur's Gate 3

[AlbertHeinous]

Have you made any progress with your mod version? If you can put up a tuto on how you do it, I can help if needed.

I have adjusted most skin Colors, but there are some NPCs that are difficult to find, and have required me to skip them for now. I've read this seems to be connected to cutscenes, but they're not where all the other NPCs are listed.

I have not yet adjusted any hair styles, hair color or replaced faces. Though SniperChris has already done a lot.

[SoLong]

Thank god the retarded redditors finally did something right, if only by accident.

Hi! You don't know me but I downloaded your mod while it was online on Nexus. I found it during the idiotic spergfest on the BG3 subreddit (which unfortunately seems to have resulted in mass-reporting of your mod because Nexus is a trashfire).

I originally planned to write a short thank you on Nexus but since now can't I'll just do it here. So thank you, your mod makes the game much more enjoyable. I hated having my suspension of disbelief smacked back down to reality by the out-of-place black elf in what was supposedly a pretty isolationist druid circle. I'm willing to forgive Rath and Nettie since Halsin mentions in-game that Circles exchange members if they need to replenish numbers but I draw the line at Chultan elves. I haven't reached Act 3 yet but going by this thread chances are high that the city would've probably made me scowl at my screen in dismay.

Oh, by the way: When the reddit freakout happened some of the terminally online posters made snide comments about your "pink haired half-orc" remark. I thought, like them, that it was just a subtle remark about feminists with aposematic hair colors.

Turns out there are actual pink haired half-orcs in my game. Or at least there were, until your mod helped me excorcize these particular abominations.

Now I only need a mod to make Astarion less of a braindead cunt (I was all prepared to like him since I usually enjoy the foppish rogue archetype but he's just an asshole who attended finshing school) and I'll be perfectly content with this game. At least until WotC decides that we're having too much fun again.

[AlbertHeinous]

I hated having my suspension of disbelief smacked back down to reality by the out-of-place black elf in what was supposedly a pretty isolationist druid circle. I'm willing to forgive Rath and Nettie since Halsin mentions in-game that Circles exchange members if they need to replenish numbers but I draw the line at Chultan elves.

Sure the Chultan elf was too much, but for me Rath was worse. He was the voice of reason, he was the calm one, the one with empathy. So ofcourse they made him black.

[Davaris]

Why are people playing BG3 at all?

[ornithoc]

Why are people playing BG3 at all?

because its good

[rusty_shackleford]

"CHULTANS could be here" he thought. "I've never been in this part of the sword coast before. There could be CHULTANS anywhere." The cool wind felt good against his bare chest.

[SniperChris]

Thank god the retarded redditors finally did something right, if only by accident.

Hi! You don't know me but I downloaded your mod while it was online on Nexus. I found it during the idiotic spergfest on the BG3 subreddit (which unfortunately seems to have resulted in mass-reporting of your mod because Nexus is a trashfire).

I originally planned to write a short thank you on Nexus but since now can't I'll just do it here. So thank you, your mod makes the game much more enjoyable. I hated having my suspension of disbelief smacked back down to reality by the out-of-place black elf in what was supposedly a pretty isolationist druid circle. I'm willing to forgive Rath and Nettie since Halsin mentions in-game that Circles exchange members if they need to replenish numbers but I draw the line at Chultan elves. I haven't reached Act 3 yet but going by this thread chances are high that the city would've probably made me scowl at my screen in dismay.

Oh, by the way: When the reddit freakout happened some of the terminally online posters made snide comments about your "pink haired half-orc" remark. I thought, like them, that it was just a subtle remark about feminists with aposematic hair colors.

Turns out there are actual pink haired half-orcs in my game. Or at least there were, until your mod helped me excorcize these particular abominations.

Now I only need a mod to make Astarion less of a braindead cunt (I was all prepared to like him since I usually enjoy the foppish rogue archetype but he's just an asshole who attended finshing school) and I'll be perfectly content with this game. At least until WotC decides that we're having too much fun again.

Thank you for your kind words. I wish I could say I'm surprised about people misrepresenting what I meant about pink-haired Half-Orcs. I literally included a picture on the mod page of one of the Half-Orcs I fixed. But people were also saying that the mod turns Wyll white... when you could just download the mod and see that's not the case at any point in the game because he's in your party! People just lied to scandalize the moderators at Nexus. Also, Astarion grows on you - he's my favorite companion and has the most personality. It's a shame my Dark Urge is a Rogue/Ranger to make the most of being a Bhaalspawn so he's never in my party in this run.

[SoLong]

Thank you for your kind words. I wish I could say I'm surprised about people misrepresenting what I meant about pink-haired Half-Orcs. I literally included a picture on the mod page of one of the Half-Orcs I fixed. But people were also saying that the mod turns Wyll white... when you could just download the mod and see that's not the case at any point in the game because he's in your party! People just lied to scandalize the moderators at Nexus. Also, Astarion grows on you - he's my favorite companion and has the most personality. It's a shame my Dark Urge is a Rogue/Ranger to make the most of being a Bhaalspawn so he's never in my party in this run.

I noticed that. Also the implication that you made some other mods that would definitively get removed from the nexus.

He does? Good, I want to like Astarion after all. I've kept him in my party as often as I can purely because rogues are so useful. (Admittedly with dual crossbows because that's the broken combination of the game). If his suicidal stupidity improves that'll make the effort worth it I just gave the Durge cape to him after I got it. Invisibility does nothing for a blaster caster after all.

Sure the Chultan elf was too much, but for me Rath was worse. He was the voice of reason, he was the calm one, the one with empathy. So ofcourse they made him black.

I was ready to agree completely until I actually finished the druid circle quest. However, Rath is ultimately portrayed as a spineless, gutless whimp. Yes, he's got reason and empathy... and does nothing to stop Kagha from actually killing a kid or corrupting the circle. If you actually kill the bitch then he doesn't even become the next leader when Halsin leaves, instead he calls for a backup from another circle.

I'm pretty sure his moral weakness and Halsin dunking on him like that was more of a lucky writing accident. Still, I enjoy seeing the strong black leader guy portrayed as a limp-dicked whimp for once.

[Davaris]

Why are people playing BG3 at all?

because its good

Enjoy it now. You'll regret it when you are judged.

[Boontaker]

Why are people playing BG3 at all?

because its good

Enjoy it now. You'll regret it when you are judged.

Judged for?

[AlbertHeinous]

A few notes:

Don't-call-me-Runt (Zhent guard at thieves guild entrance)
Character Visual ID:19821518-906c-a9bb-5b59-4cb850626d4c
Is missing his head
I replaced (f7800ea5-8415-4f1c-e3ae-0784d6468afaw)
With: (87fd844a-b72f-527a-41ec-df7653c8ea47)


Fist Ulthred
Character Visual ID:49a6a81d-9867-1fea-a2b3-3a9bc89c8494
Should have the same skin as (e491a48d-3570-ec40-0cf7-c2e16a720f13) as the Dev notes say, the latter is a backup dummy that dies in a cutscene.

His majesty has received two updates, first it made him a hairy cat, but after complaints they changed him back to a hairless cat. Maybe that's why he's a floating head.

[SniperChris]

A few notes:

Don't-call-me-Runt (Zhent guard at thieves guild entrance)
Character Visual ID:19821518-906c-a9bb-5b59-4cb850626d4c
Is missing his head
I replaced (f7800ea5-8415-4f1c-e3ae-0784d6468afaw)
With: (87fd844a-b72f-527a-41ec-df7653c8ea47)


Fist Ulthred
Character Visual ID:49a6a81d-9867-1fea-a2b3-3a9bc89c8494
Should have the same skin as (e491a48d-3570-ec40-0cf7-c2e16a720f13) as the Dev notes say, the latter is a backup dummy that dies in a cutscene.

His majesty has received two updates, first it made him a hairy cat, but after complaints they changed him back to a hairless cat. Maybe that's why he's a floating head.

Just checked the game - none of my Zhents are missing their heads in the Thieves' Guild. Do you have coordinates I could use? Also Fist Ulthred looks just like how I left him - what's wrong with his skin?

[AlbertHeinous]

Don't call me Runt is a halfling that guards the entrance outside the thieves guild.

Fist Ulthred's dummy that dies in a cutscene, should have the same visuals as Fist Ulthred himself. According to the Dev notes in one of the lsf files.

[FloSharChosen]

A few notes:

Don't-call-me-Runt (Zhent guard at thieves guild entrance)
Character Visual ID:19821518-906c-a9bb-5b59-4cb850626d4c
Is missing his head
I replaced (f7800ea5-8415-4f1c-e3ae-0784d6468afaw)
With: (87fd844a-b72f-527a-41ec-df7653c8ea47)


Fist Ulthred
Character Visual ID:49a6a81d-9867-1fea-a2b3-3a9bc89c8494
Should have the same skin as (e491a48d-3570-ec40-0cf7-c2e16a720f13) as the Dev notes say, the latter is a backup dummy that dies in a cutscene.

His majesty has received two updates, first it made him a hairy cat, but after complaints they changed him back to a hairless cat. Maybe that's why he's a floating head.

Just checked the game - none of my Zhents are missing their heads in the Thieves' Guild. Do you have coordinates I could use? Also Fist Ulthred looks just like how I left him - what's wrong with his skin?

Can you made a tutorial on how to do it? I'm particularly determined to fix what's left of the kara-tur elves and halfelins.

[AlbertHeinous]

Can you made a tutorial on how to do it? I'm particularly determined to fix what's left of the kara-tur elves and halfelins.

SniperChris did a write-up earlier in this thread, that's how I learned it. Go check it out.


Note: if you are making an edit of this mod, the files you should edit are in the game's installation folder (after you've installed the mod) not in the unpacked folder created by the Modders multi tool.

You need LSlib and the Modders Multi Tool.
First you unpack and index the relevant files (English, Gustav)

Tip: create a save in game with the name of the NPC that you don't like, when you are near to them. Makes it easier to check the changes that you make.

In the localisation/English file you look up the name of the NPC, and copy the "Id" number associated with it.

The Modders multi tool index search wasn't really working that well for me, so I have to look the ID up manually.

In explorer search the Mods/ folder for folders named "characters"
These folders contain a .lsf file that has information about NPCs. You need to convert these files using LSlib, so you can open them in Notepad++, for example.

The parent folder of the characters folder is named after a location. Wld_main_a (wild), SCL_main_a (shadow cursed land), BGO_main_a (baldurs gate) and CTY_main_a (City) are the largest ones and most likely to have the NPC that you're looking for.

Search these files for the "Id"of the NPC, this should give you the charactervisualresourceid and the name.

Take this and use it to search the merged.lsf files located in the character visuals folders located somewhere in Public/ (you should also convert these to lsx, create a backup first)
The Gustav folder contains act1 and Gustavdev contains act 2&3.

Within the merged.lsx files you will find 02skin which determines skin color, and 03hair which is the hair color, further down you can find "hair and "head" which are the models used. Replace these with ones that you like.
Save, convert back to lsf. Done.


Once you've identified the models or Colors used that you want to replace, you can just search both merged.lsx files for every instance and replace those as well, no need to look up specific NPCs and the id's.

[FloSharChosen]

Can you made a tutorial on how to do it? I'm particularly determined to fix what's left of the kara-tur elves and halfelins.

SniperChris did a write-up earlier in this thread, that's how I learned it. Go check it out.


Note: if you are making an edit of this mod, the files you should edit are in the game's installation folder (after you've installed the mod) not in the unpacked folder created by the Modders multi tool.

You need LSlib and the Modders Multi Tool.
First you unpack and index the relevant files (English, Gustav)

Tip: create a save in game with the name of the NPC that you don't like, when you are near to them. Makes it easier to check the changes that you make.

In the localisation/English file you look up the name of the NPC, and copy the "Id" number associated with it.

The Modders multi tool index search wasn't really working that well for me, so I have to look the ID up manually.

In explorer search the Mods/ folder for folders named "characters"
These folders contain a .lsf file that has information about NPCs. You need to convert these files using LSlib, so you can open them in Notepad++, for example.

The parent folder of the characters folder is named after a location. Wld_main_a (wild), SCL_main_a (shadow cursed land), BGO_main_a (baldurs gate) and CTY_main_a (City) are the largest ones and most likely to have the NPC that you're looking for.

Search these files for the "Id"of the NPC, this should give you the charactervisualresourceid and the name.

Take this and use it to search the merged.lsf files located in the character visuals folders located somewhere in Public/ (you should also convert these to lsx, create a backup first)
The Gustav folder contains act1 and Gustavdev contains act 2&3.

Within the merged.lsx files you will find 02skin which determines skin color, and 03hair which is the hair color, further down you can find "hair and "head" which are the models used. Replace these with ones that you like.
Save, convert back to lsf. Done.


Once you've identified the models or Colors used that you want to replace, you can just search both merged.lsx files for every instance and replace those as well, no need to look up specific NPCs and the id's.

Thanks you, I will check that asap. Do you have a list of NPC? (I have begun my own but I don't have finished the game yet).

[agentorange]

because its good

Enjoy it now. You'll regret it when you are judged.

Judged for?

being a homo. "no god im not a homo i just played this game filled with homos where homos have homo sex with animals."
these mods are the equivalent of sabbath refrigerators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_mode

[SoLong]

these mods are the equivalent of sabbath refrigerators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_mode

This sounds exceedingly silly tbh. Sabbath ovens?

[Boontaker]

Enjoy it now. You'll regret it when you are judged.

Judged for?

being a homo. "no god im not a homo i just played this game filled with homos where homos have homo sex with animals."
these mods are the equivalent of sabbath refrigerators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_mode

Ooh that's not a good angle for argument, live in a country with abortion? Pay taxes? You're going to hell. Live in America where satanic idols are being built in front of court houses? Oops you participated in society, you're going to Hell. Watched a movie made by Hollywood? A place so full of pedophiles young actors and actresses kill or maim themselves to escape, straight to hell you pedophile supporter.

Just admit you suck at any game that's more complicated than Mario kart. You'll get more support for being honest.

[AlbertHeinous]

Thanks you, I will check that asap. Do you have a list of NPC? (I have begun my own but I don't have finished the game yet).

I have a list of the ones I'm working on. Don't think it includes a lot of Kara-Tur elves and halflings though.
I just wrote down the names of the ones I didn't like on my playthrough.

I'll put up my edit soon. There's just a few more I need to find and edit. A handful eludes me.

I'll send you my list

[orinEsque]

@Reichspepe Don't hate the Nightsong. We all thought she was cool as hell when we saved her and she started speaking in archaic English like Thor from the comics. We only started to dislike her when her first priority after defeating Ketheric Thorm was announcing to the world how much she wants to eat box. If that singular cinematic could be deleted (she never mentions it again), she would be a great character. I tried to do this in the mod, and succeeded in eliminating almost all of the lines, but couldn't eliminate the last line about "taking succour from each other's bodies." I am hoping someone else here will be able to help me with this going forward.

About Aradin's gang - I have never actually seen that fight and did not know it existed until you told me just now.

If only I could turn Isobel into a man. But... straight or gay. Nobody shoos me away to have sex in my own fucking camp!

[orinEsque]

I would like to highlight two children who has the wrong body and hair.
Zerillo in Lower City should be a girl to match the voice and context
Ch'kk'ch should be a boy to match the voice and context.

[agentorange]

Judged for?

being a homo. "no god im not a homo i just played this game filled with homos where homos have homo sex with animals."
these mods are the equivalent of sabbath refrigerators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_mode

Ooh that's not a good angle for argument, live in a country with abortion? Pay taxes? You're going to hell. Live in America where satanic idols are being built in front of court houses? Oops you participated in society, you're going to Hell. Watched a movie made by Hollywood? A place so full of pedophiles young actors and actresses kill or maim themselves to escape, straight to hell you pedophile supporter.

Just admit you suck at any game that's more complicated than Mario kart. You'll get more support for being honest.

You're retarded kid. You can live in a country with abortion and choose not to take part in abortion and even fight against its acceptance. Taxes are a different issue since you are literally forced, now at gunpoint, to pay them. As for homosexual games? Are you forced to play them? No. You can choose not to pay for them, not to play them, and you can fight against their acceptance. Instead you are addicted to your entertainment so you give in and play these gay games.

Also big LOL at the idea that CRPGs are somehow a challenging genre, especially modern CRPGs made by Larian. Mario Kart is harder and more skill based than the average CRPG. CRPG is a genre for idiots because you can always look up some build guide to make some OP character and save/reload your way past every single encounter.

[FloSharChosen]

@Reichspepe Don't hate the Nightsong. We all thought she was cool as hell when we saved her and she started speaking in archaic English like Thor from the comics. We only started to dislike her when her first priority after defeating Ketheric Thorm was announcing to the world how much she wants to eat box. If that singular cinematic could be deleted (she never mentions it again), she would be a great character. I tried to do this in the mod, and succeeded in eliminating almost all of the lines, but couldn't eliminate the last line about "taking succour from each other's bodies." I am hoping someone else here will be able to help me with this going forward.

About Aradin's gang - I have never actually seen that fight and did not know it existed until you told me just now.

If only I could turn Isobel into a man. But... straight or gay. Nobody shoos me away to have sex in my own fucking camp!

I think it's easier to turned Nightong into a man.

[FloSharChosen]

being a homo. "no god im not a homo i just played this game filled with homos where homos have homo sex with animals."
these mods are the equivalent of sabbath refrigerators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_mode

Ooh that's not a good angle for argument, live in a country with abortion? Pay taxes? You're going to hell. Live in America where satanic idols are being built in front of court houses? Oops you participated in society, you're going to Hell. Watched a movie made by Hollywood? A place so full of pedophiles young actors and actresses kill or maim themselves to escape, straight to hell you pedophile supporter.

Just admit you suck at any game that's more complicated than Mario kart. You'll get more support for being honest.

You're retarded kid. You can live in a country with abortion and choose not to take part in abortion and even fight against its acceptance. Taxes are a different issue since you are literally forced, now at gunpoint, to pay them. As for homosexual games? Are you forced to play them? No. You can choose not to pay for them, not to play them, and you can fight against their acceptance. Instead you are addicted to your entertainment so you give in and play these gay games.

Also big LOL at the idea that CRPGs are somehow a challenging genre, especially modern CRPGs made by Larian. Mario Kart is harder and more skill based than the average CRPG. CRPG is a genre for idiots because you can always look up some build guide to make some OP character and save/reload your way past every single encounter.

Well, CRPG is the backbone of the European and Western soul in video games. This is rooted in medieval and dark fantasy, and in our deeply-rooted imaginary identity.
Without getting too elitist, it's clear that this category attracts intellectual gamers who like to read, think and reflect on a complex game/combat system.

This has always been the case: arcade games, sports/car games and free-to-play console games have always been more popular with the proletariat.

No judgement, only facts.

[Boontaker]

being a homo. "no god im not a homo i just played this game filled with homos where homos have homo sex with animals."
these mods are the equivalent of sabbath refrigerators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_mode

Ooh that's not a good angle for argument, live in a country with abortion? Pay taxes? You're going to hell. Live in America where satanic idols are being built in front of court houses? Oops you participated in society, you're going to Hell. Watched a movie made by Hollywood? A place so full of pedophiles young actors and actresses kill or maim themselves to escape, straight to hell you pedophile supporter.

Just admit you suck at any game that's more complicated than Mario kart. You'll get more support for being honest.

You're retarded kid. You can live in a country with abortion and choose not to take part in abortion and even fight against its acceptance. Taxes are a different issue since you are literally forced, now at gunpoint, to pay them. As for homosexual games? Are you forced to play them? No. You can choose not to pay for them, not to play them, and you can fight against their acceptance. Instead you are addicted to your entertainment so you give in and play these gay games.

Also big LOL at the idea that CRPGs are somehow a challenging genre, especially modern CRPGs made by Larian. Mario Kart is harder and more skill based than the average CRPG. CRPG is a genre for idiots because you can always look up some build guide to make some OP character and save/reload your way past every single encounter.

"I'm exempt from my own argument, because I won't go live in the woods"

Damn you genX faggots really are the goodest goyim aren't you? You have successfully "Not my problemed" the western world into hell, and now you lash out at anyone who tries to enjoy living in your mistake.

I don't care enough to look if you were slurping up the starfield slop like all the other oldies in this forum but I'll take that bet.

[agentorange]

Ooh that's not a good angle for argument, live in a country with abortion? Pay taxes? You're going to hell. Live in America where satanic idols are being built in front of court houses? Oops you participated in society, you're going to Hell. Watched a movie made by Hollywood? A place so full of pedophiles young actors and actresses kill or maim themselves to escape, straight to hell you pedophile supporter.

Just admit you suck at any game that's more complicated than Mario kart. You'll get more support for being honest.

You're retarded kid. You can live in a country with abortion and choose not to take part in abortion and even fight against its acceptance. Taxes are a different issue since you are literally forced, now at gunpoint, to pay them. As for homosexual games? Are you forced to play them? No. You can choose not to pay for them, not to play them, and you can fight against their acceptance. Instead you are addicted to your entertainment so you give in and play these gay games.

Also big LOL at the idea that CRPGs are somehow a challenging genre, especially modern CRPGs made by Larian. Mario Kart is harder and more skill based than the average CRPG. CRPG is a genre for idiots because you can always look up some build guide to make some OP character and save/reload your way past every single encounter.

I don't care enough to look if you were slurping up the starfield slop like all the other oldies in this forum but I'll take that bet.

You just lost this bet, so pay up. I will take a gift copy of COLONY SHIP on Steam as payment, thanks.
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edit: I guess I can't link to only my starfield thread posts but you should be able to search for starfield in the "search these results" bar and all my posts in the starfield thread will come up

[Faceless_Sentinel]

As for homosexual games? Are you forced to play them? No. You can choose not to pay for them, not to play them, and you can fight against their acceptance.

You kinda forced to play them, because the is no other (non homosexual games) games left (even other forms of cheap entertainment are full of this scum).
Fight against them is also impossible because cancel culture leaves you without work, salary and livelihood if you say something against their agenda.
Not paying for them is a good argument, but then regional problems begin, such as Internet providers monitoring clients and reporting to the police as soon as you download a pirated game.
So the only thing you can do is to pray that some modder will do a mod that clear game of this curse and you find a way to pirate game safely.

[SenaTTK]

Weird, after the last hotfix this doesn't work for me anymore. Extracted all the files to the Data folder as instructed and the characters are back to their default looks. Haven't installed any new mods.

[Edit] Forget it. I managed to fix it. Great mod by the way!

[SniperChris]

Weird, after the last hotfix this doesn't work for me anymore. Extracted all the files to the Data folder as instructed and the characters are back to their default looks. Haven't installed any new mods.

[Edit] Forget it. I managed to fix it. Great mod by the way!

What was the issue?