This Mod expands the colorful skintone selection by adding lighter and darker shades to Vanilla skintones, as well as a variety of new options. This version focuses on Fantasy skintones.
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Astralities' Fantasy Skintone Expansion - CHT and CHS Translation
Changelogs
Version 1.2
Minor Fixes.
Version 1.1
Added 223 skin tones.
Version 1.0
Initial Upload. Added 486 new skin tones.
Astralities' Skintone Expansion ✧ Fantasy Skintone Version ✧
This mod extends the fantasy skintones available in Vanilla BG3 by adding both lighter and deeper tones to all Fantasy skintone color families featured in the game. It also adds a number of additional options.
The expansion includes 4-6 lighter and 4-6 deeper tones for each of the mentioned color families.* Lighter tones, deepest to lightest: pale, fair, faint, palest, barely, touch of Deeper tones, lightest to deepest: deep, rich, vivid, deepest, potent, fully
*The amount of tones added per color family varies based on the vanilla tones already available & how the colors performed at lighter and deeper tones. For certain colors, further expansion was possible; for others, adding further tones might have severely skewed the color, created significant overlap with other shades, or resulted in (unintentionally) splotchy complexion.
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New Color Options These colors are custom colors not based on existing CC colors.
Gemstone-inspired Colors More saturated vivids with (mostly) monochromatic accenting. 4 shades: diffused, bright, luminous & brilliant
D&D-inspired Colors Shades inspired by creatures & characters from D&D and BG3. 5-10 shades depending on color
Green Hag | Gingerly | Bugbear Glacier Bear | Drow Skin | Goblin Tan
Semi-Natural Colors Shades inspired by semi-natural options from Vanilla BG3 - Dryad, Marid, Fey & Decay. 10 shades per color
Frostbitten | Mindflayed Drowned | Corrupted
Neutral & Semi-Neutral Colors Grey, Black, White and adjacent colors. 20 greys, 6 black & adjacent, 8 white & adjacent
Rain Cloud - 20 shades of mostly monochromatic grey
Raven Black | Licorice | Midnight Elderberry | Black Olive | True Black
Rimefrost | Alabaster | Boneshard Vanilla | Pearl | Himalayan Salt Spearmint | True White
Tiefling-inspired Colors Skin tones inspired by the subraces added by the Tiefling Compendium When using both together these skin tones will complement each other - there will be no duplicates 204 total skin tones covering a wide array of shades, 5-15 shades per color
Miscellaneous Miscellaneous tones created for this mod 7-12 shades per color
Sea Nymph | Wine
All colors included in this mod are available for viewing in the images tab. Colors are shown without added lip color and very minimal eye makeup (basic eyeliner in black).
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Installation
- Download this mod - Unzip the archive & drag the .pak file into your mods folder - Launch BG3 Mod Manager - Drag this Mod from the "Inactive Mods" to the "Active Mods" tab - Click "Save Load Order to File" - Click "Export Order to the Game" - Launch your game and find these colors in the Skin tab in CC!
If you are entirely new to modding BG3, have a look at this video guide instead.
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Requirements
I recommend using Improved UI & BG3 Mod Fixer alongside this Mod. I have not tested it without these mods, so I can't guarantee this mod will function as intended without them.
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This mod functions normally alongside other mods that add more colors to CC.
Besides color mods, this mod should also function properly alongside others that modify CC, such as those that add new hair styles, faces, or tattoos. But I have not tested every mod like this out there - if you stumble across any compability issues, please let me know and I'll see what can be done.
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CC Mods featured in Screencaps Please consider checking them out!
Padme4000 for their incredibly useful guides Norbyte for lslib & ShinyHobo for the BG3 Modders Multitool All the silly little modders in the Down by the River Discord who kept me sane ♡