Radiant Additional Head Shapes
This mods will adds a new array of 32 head shapes while also fixing a few hair compatibility issues with some of the vanilla’s. I don’t advise to run it with other head shape mods firstly because you will probably drowning in a sea of choices, the annoying kind. Secondly because very similar heads to other mods have been re-created from scratch to give you the most complete setup possible and you might end up having somekind of duplicates if you still want those other mods active.
Last updated on 14/09/2024
First of all I was inspired by the mod creator Devi with his mod "Devi’s Pretty lil Heads" who already made a solid work for us. For the first part, I tried to recreate heads very similar to what his mod has to offer (which represents 1/4 of this mod content). Why didnt I let both mods working as a pair? Because a good number of them were glitching with some vanilla and modded haircuts : the layers sometimes not being able to pile on the right reference points creating hair floating in the air or head parts not covered (which should have been). I think that’s because for some of those he created a new head size between male and female skull that don’t really fit other assets. Then I thought if I had to remove his mod I would be frustrated of not having his good ideas around anymore, so I recreated his best designs from scratch. Those new assets ending up to be only slightly different from his but this time with a fix that prevent them to conflict with other assets.
That being said the biggest part of my mod is indeed to add plenty of new choices, more freckles kind because I saw they were popular, heads with scars, other heads with more exagerated features (fat/thin), some with moles and finally some with new skull frame (forehead/chin/cheekbones). All of them have been tested with most of vanilla and haircut mods available. Although I (very) highly recommend to use my upcoming hair fix mod that will allow some haircuts to looks better with thin/osseous heads preventing some hair parts to float behind the head.
Lastly, I made a repair to fix some vanilla’s heads. A few among the batch had some slight outline mistakes, some other had sloppy "shade" textures and more rarely a couple had incompatibility with short haircuts. I didn’t removed any of them or altered their overall design.
Before you ask, no I won’t make this mod compatible with 10000 faces of wildermyth. Tested it out for quite some time and I didn’t like it, especially the eyes with white sclera which I thinks not only being a bit a sloppy work, it breaks the general game’s art direction. Also it is already conflicting with some of my future mod ideas. Despite of that my mod is indeed compatible with most of the rest, for instance the popular "Fresh Faces" mod.
To Devi and his cool mod "Devi’s Pretty lil Heads" that gave me the initial idea and motivation. Even if you don’t use his mod anymore, please don’t unsubscribe but desactivate in-game instead so he keeps his numbers.
You can find all my mods by searching "Radiant" in steam workshop, nexus, or civfanatics, which is a recurrent word in all my mod’s tittles.
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