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...Ok actually, on further testing I don't think he was De-Grinched for Patch 7. Am leaving this up for clarity and to give people an easier way to find Astarion's backup meshes. Put That Grinch Back Where He Came From, Or So Help Me, but only in the event of De-Grinching emergency. Get your backup meshes for Astarion here.
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HI IM REALLY TIRED AND MAY HAVE BEEN FOOLED BY LIGHTING/SHADER ISSUES
Ok, yeah, I'm now pretty sure he wasn't De-Grinched in Patch 7. This page is now just a place to keep Astarion's Patch 6 backup mesh + rigs! If he was De-Grinched for you, try troubleshooting lighting issues/shaders/if its changes in the dialog files itself, or mod issues first! And if you're still having issues, try these backup files.
Made for Patch...Uh.
And uh, I do feel partially responsible for that 😅 But, hey. I'm making amends.
I'll be honest, though, while his mesh does seem to have been fixed up a bit, some of the more dramatic changes to his expressions might actually be them just, editing the dialog itself, and using a different expression rig entirely. A lot of the changes to his expressions were pretty subtle! But they are there, and you can see one example in the mod page images, thanks to Aimryax.
I can't guarantee this will bring back all the grinch expressions, because it only affects the meshes, and won't help if the expression rig he's using in a scene was changed in the dialog files.
But it will restore his Pre-Patch 7 rigs, model, and wrinkle map, bringing back the original expressions themselves, just not where they're used. The .zip file also currently includes some loose .lsf.lsx files containing data for his rig and animations. These are unpacked files that don't do anything atm, and they don't seem to be necessary. I'll probably remove them sometime in the near future, but I'll be honest, I'm exhausted.
And because of that, there's also a note in the .zip about the rigs themselves that's a bit outdated (it talks about how you shouldn't put these in your game unless Larian changes something, and, well, it seems like they did!). When I have the energy I'll probably update that, but for now, just ignore it.
These backup files were actually already provided on the original De-Grinchifier page, but I thought it'd be helpful to have them on their own page, so people could find them easier. That's all this is, really.
The De-Grinchifier will probably stay up, for anyone who prefers that look for him.
EDIT: I just realized I literally extracted most of the dialog files from Patch 6 in anticipation of Patch 7. I could probably just package up some of the scenes that got De-Grinched from Patch 6 for you all, since it does look like, again, the more dramatic changes were them swapping in different rigs. I've got a ton to do, so I'm not sure when I'll have time to test that out for you, but be on the lookout for that.
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Install by dragging the Generated and Public folders in the .zip file into your BG3 Data folder.
A note: he shares his wrinkle map with Shadowheart, and a lot of other female characters in the game.
If you have another mod changing wrinkle maps, don't let this mod overwrite it!
This mod will also conflict with other mods editing his head mesh and expression rigs.
To uninstall, delete the loose files added by the mod from your Data folder.
Let me know if you have any issues! I'm going to go take a nap.
Take care, everyone, and get some rest if you need it. Good lird.
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...While you're here, please check out these resources I've compiled.
[/b]I do link them on pretty much all my mod pages, but considering everything going on in the world, I wanted to highlight them. Please, do what you can to help, and take care of yourselves, ok?
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