East Asian Beautification | Eastern Culture Personality Animation Rework
This mod only changes personality idle animations, such as idle animations related to boldness, compassion, greed, callousness, honor, and similar personality traits.
It does not modify culture, clothing, portrait DNA, events, balance, special display animations, or any other content.
It is intended for players who simply want characters of Eastern cultures to use the western/default personality idle animations.
Compatibility:
This mod modifies gfx/portraits/portrait_animations/animations.txt.
Therefore, it may conflict with other mods that modify portrait animations, idle poses, or character display animations.
You may try placing this mod below those types of mods in the load order.
Since this mod was made with the help of Teacher GPT, I do not have the ability to further improve it or make it compatible with other mods. We will just have to take things one step at a time. (
Rambling:
It turns out that the new animation set made by Paradox for Eastern cultures in the All Under Heaven DLC, especially the animations tied to specific personalities, does not conform to even the most basic sense of aesthetics. Nor does it properly reflect the characteristics of Eastern cultures. It is, in my opinion, a complete failure. The only thing it brings is awkward animation for Eastern characters and a constant sense of discomfort for the player. This change should never have existed in the first place.
What is frustrating is that such a serious issue affecting the gameplay experience has received very little response so far. Some people have even mistakenly attributed the problem to makeup, even though makeup is definitely not the main reason why East Asian characters look bad. Fortunately, not everyone has failed to notice it. A few visual overhaul mods have changed the idle animations of Eastern cultures, and several people in the community have expressed similar opinions.
However, existing mods tend to have a side effect: while they improve Eastern idle animations, they also assign the original Eastern animations to western characters. This creates a dilemma where either one side looks bad or the other side does. Clearly, the best solution is for both Eastern and western cultures to use the original default personality idle animations. This is the idea behind this mod.
As the saying goes, the beginning is always the hardest. Having the idea was one thing; lacking the technical ability to implement it was another. In fact, the technical requirements for this idea are not very high. For the half year since the DLC update, I had been hoping someone would implement this approach, but unfortunately no one did. For this reason, I would especially like to thank GPT for providing technical support. The entire contents of this mod were generated by GPT. Without GPT, this mod would not have been possible.
I hope this hard-won yet simple mod can run properly and survive future version updates. But what I hope for even more is that Paradox will officially revise the current Eastern animation set. It is simply too ugly to tolerate.
Required DLC:
These DLC should be installed in order to use this item.
Crusader Kings III: All Under Heaven
