@Dweller Beyond the Threshold then I hope you do indeed! I much prefer CK2's style over CK3 :)

@ValTheGreat the mod author said he probably won't be updating this mod anymore which is understandable since there's a similar mod for CK3 now. I might add the new characters from season 2 of HotD after finishing it If the show gets me wanting to play it again (which is what got me to do the season 1 portraits lol) but dunno for now.

I sincerely hope you will keep updating this with new House of the Dragon portraits!

Re-updated link with Lissimo's working More Bloodlines patch. I haven't tested this myself, so I can't provide support for it, but hopefully that works. As always, start a new game if it doesn't work as portraits are assigned on a new game start-up.

Hi, Lissimo. Good to hear from you again :)

I've updated the link, but the link is broken with an error 400 code. If you can fix the link or provide a different one, I'll update as needed.

I don't really update this mod anymore with CK3 being out though. Plus, I fear for the future of Game of Thrones when GRRM still hasn't finished Winds of Winter, they cancelled the Jon Snow spin-off, and House of Dragons is fine but I want to see them finish it. Steam analytics show there's not many eyes on my mod, so not really worth my time. Feel free to make any changes to my mod though.

@ReMyDy: A small wish from me when you next time update that mod (maybe after the next HotD season): Dynamic portraits for Alicent and Rhaenyra (maybe others), and the family of Sarwyck (https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/de/wiki/Haus_Sarwyck , if you need pictures provided, just tell me how they should be formatted) from the Game of Thrones RPG (btw., a really good game! ... with aweful graphics...)

Hey there, here is my Mod Update, which combines More Bloodlines with the Portrait Replacer. When a new version of the portrait replacer comes out, I will patch that mod again. I hope ReMyDy will read my post and update my version. @ReMyDy, you can than delete my comment here! Link to Portrait Replacer + More Bloodlines: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/kosmnyjrzettfpzeg2ajw/AOVaW0uEd_f9atuMJMFAYcQ?rlkey=5incdo1pkcbcjkm6r0ih7xy7e&dl=0 (Note this is not a modmod, use either ReMyDy original or my combined version!)

I would legit pay you to add dynamic portraits as they age to Alicent and Rhaenyra like you did for Daenerys lol

Hey, is there an updated version for more bloodlines?

your map mod??

Or perhaps @Lissimo will return with an update? I would be so grateful for that too :)

Unfortunately it didn't work, but I wish to use them together so badly I will see if I can figure it out myself. I have never modded before so wish me luck lol thanks again for making this

@ alchemistre
Lissimo helped create a Bloodlines compatible version of it. In the description, give it a try, although I never tested it myself. All the required files are already included, so just run it straight out of that folder with nothing else.

Hi, thanks so much for this! Especially adding the prequel. Is it compatible with the More Bloodlines 3.0?

@ friendly player
Correct, you found the right approach. If you console command in a portrait on top of an existing portrait, then what you're doing is adding a second layer to the character's portrait, but only one portrait layer is visible to the player at a time. Depending on what portrait you're adding will depend on what portrait wins precedence over the others based on the order CK2 loads in the graphics.

With that in mind, you were correctly adding in the portraits earlier... they were just loading BEHIND the portrait that was winning precedence. Simply remove the portrait layer above the portrait you loaded in and you're good to go, but I prefer removing a portrait first and then adding a portrait after. Consult my img chart on the Steam page or in the file directory for a chart of all the trait codes.

Ok, found out how it works. You need to remove the portrait first and then add a new one. I don't know why only Cersei's portrait replaces existing portraits but i guess that is just her privilege as the Light of the West.

So, to change the portrait ingame of say Shireen, first remove_trait shireen 9096 and then add_trait elia 9096 or whichever portrait you want. Hope it helps!

Hey, thanks for the mod! It works great. I am however unable to change the portraits in game using portrait traits as you have specified in the mod description. I am running a bunch of other mods but none that change portraits. I have tried starting a new game and have tried closing and starting the game again. Hope you can help!

ETA: I tried it a bit more and it turns out i can only edit portraits if i change the portrait to Cersei and no one else. Alive or dead, male or female doesn't matter. I can't change it to anyone else's portrait. I can only make Stannis and Shireen use Cersei's portrait, which is frankly hilarious
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Since Dacey Mormont is not one of the characters I modded in, you need to first find her char ID in the history files, and give her code block a portrait trait. Give her one of the empty portrait traits, such as:
add_trait portrait408

Then, open remedy_portrait_swapping16.dds (if using portrait408) and place your portrait overlapping portrait408. You can just have the image as a square, since the dds contains a hidden alpha layer that automatically makes it a circle. Save the dds with the settings DXT5, ARGB, 8bpp, interpolated alpha, 2D texture, and no MIP maps.

Load into CK2 so the files load in. Start a fresh new game so the game loads the history files. It should work.

To ensure no other mods are conflicting, disable as many mods as possible while testing.

Hey remedy I just spent a few hours trying to add a custom portrait but I can't get it to work can you give me some more step by step info or if I send you a portrait can you help, I just really want to edit dacey mormont lol

thank you very much for the Dance of the dragons update, truly appreciate it.

You can use your version and overwrite all files with those, which are in my current version and so create a new mod (name it accordingly)! Just as you like! I also prefer overwrite, but I am a modder myself and you and other modders can more easily see, what I have changed (maybe not enough? For me it works, but modding... is complicated).

Okay, thanks.

So are you saying your files don't work when merged with my mod? I'd rather the patch be merged with the mod so a user doesn't have to download two separate sets of files.

I just now updated it with a merged version using your files. Try that and see if it works. If not, I guess we have no choice but to make the downloads separate.

Ah and yes, please delete the old files, I have uploaded before, this will only be confusing.

Hey! Me again! Here is now a better version of the More Bloodlines Submod (MBS). This is now a Modification of your mod, only consiting files, which I were really changed: Almost all Character Files and the Tower of Joy Event file. This is now a real Mod.mod. So yours is necessary and this one will be attached! Btw, in future, I will also include the House of the Dragon submod, as that one and youres really fit to eachother :-) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KpYeIzr19EgmM8sRtNL5BlmGSkJgZ3DX?usp=share_link

Awesome, thank you for the confirmation. :)

It is indeed working now, thanks!

No changes were needed on the direct DL version. Only the Steam subscription was broken, so no need to redownload if you're on the direct DL version.

I've now updated the mod to fix the subscription and tested it.

If it's not working, then unsubscribe, resubscribe, exit Steam, and reenter CK2. You'll need to start a new game for the fix to apply the portraits, or an existing game when the portraits were already working.

@ Lissimo
Okay, thanks for noticing that. Yea, just send me the files and I'll update the link in my mod's description.

@ Melas
@Auriuz
I'll take a look tonight. I think Steam is cutting out some code in the .mod file that's causing the dependency to break. I tested the downloaded version and that works, so either use that or I'll work on the subscription version later tonight.

@ReMeDy The mod doesn't work for me either. You wrote something about the subscription, so I'm guessing that's the culprit :/

@Melas: Do you use other mods as Congenital Overhaul, or the nice 'House of the Dragob' Submod?

@ReMeDy, thanks and no worries, not only I teste it quite a lot, I will also play it in future more (my biggest fear would be missing portraits). Just one thing I have to Check is the naming of the mod (I renamed the zip file so that you see that it is different), I suggest to name it as the dependency file. I think I will make a "Patch" - Version, so a file, which will be attached to your file, with a dependency file to your original mod (right now it is a replacement). I will notify you here, when I am done and when I see any Bugs. Your mod is btw one of the easiest, except for one issue when I want to create my own Charakter. But this can be avoided.

@ReMeDy no, still no portraits are working :(

@ Lissimo
I attached your "A More Bloodlines" mod in the description. I'm just going to trust it works as I don't have your mod dependencies to be able to test it. Thank you for the sub-sub-mod :)

@ Melas
Oops, yea you must have been using the subscription version, which I can confirm was broken. It should be fixed now. Let me know if you're still having issues.

@ SilverLilac
The only thing I can think of is my mod uses almost a carbon copy of the game's default History files, so it's possible your mod setup (of various other sub-mods most likely) was depending on default History files to work. In any case, I'd just download the version 8.2 backup in the description link. It won't have the prequel TV portraits, but at least the mod will work with your setup.

the portraits dont work for me anymore. help please.

@ReMeDy: Thanks! Here is the link for my submod: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KpYeIzr19EgmM8sRtNL5BlmGSkJgZ3DX?usp=sharing hope the download works, if not, just write it. You can then delete my comment, when you have the data. I have created one dependency in the mod file and as written in my other comment, I have adjusted the "tower of joys" event in the event file as well as ALL files in: history -> characters. All other files are untouched as I could not see an overlap to "A More Bloodlines Submod". Note, as I have Zings Bugfixes installed, the, this version is also compatible to Zings Bugfixes :-) As I am not sure how you would provide the MBS version, the other files still remain. So you can just provide the whole files as MBS version, or delete everything except the named files and create a submod.

@ReMeDy
At some point last year there was an update to the base mod or something that no longer allowed sub-mods to work. After deleting and redownloading different versions of the mod and the sub-mods I was trying to use eventually I found a random post that lead me directly to your AGoT Portrait Replacer mod. Normally I don't bother with aesthetic mods, but for some reason it connected with all of the subs, not only the sketchy cheat one. I know that this makes no sense, but it worked like a charm.

@ Lissimo
Yea, for sure. Send me a link and I'll create a link in the description. Make sure it has the most recent 8.3 changes to it from Nov 16th, since ver 8.3 has edits to the History file to accommodate the TV prequel portraits.

@ SilverLilac
I'm unsure how that would be the case. The only things ver 8.3 did was update some of the existing portrait files. This mod is only a graphic portrait insert mod. It's possible you're confusing my mod's history files with another sub-mod, as only one set of History files can win precedence over the others when there's multiple mods loaded.

Hey there, I made an update for your mod, so that "A more bloodlines submod" will not be overwritten. Files I have adapted: all files in Histpory --> characters, as well as the "Tower of Joy" event file, More I have not found. Are you interested in that?

With the new update I am no longer able to have other mods work with it. Previously it was only the presence of this mod that allowed them to work in the first place.

Thanks for the update was very happy to see Rhanerya as Emmy and everyone else.

Thanks for incorporating the HotD portraits into your wonderful mod!

VER 8.3 UPDATE:
- Added AGoT prequel TV show portraits (special thanks to UnhappyLawbro for all this!)

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I have not tested this update as I no longer have CK2 installed, so please report any issues asap.

This update will not conflict with existing save files, as it doesn't change the trait names, but it does overwrite a few existing portraits, so if you'd rather reverse this change, please rollback to the direct DL ver 8.2 files.

Most of the new prequel portraits will only be automatically applied on a new game. If you want to use them on an existing save, please manually add them as traits via the in-game console command.

Please consult the updated img chart in the files or Steam gallery for updated pictures.

Yea, I can do that. I'm not in a position to test the files as I no longer have CK2 installed (I moved over to CK3), but I'll trust they work.

Of course I'll credit you though. That'd be silly if I didn't, lol.

Thanks a bunch man! If I end up doing it successfully, would you be interested if I send you the file and you can incorporate it into your mod? I don't really care about credits etc, but I think there might be people who would like this inclusion after watching HotD and feeling like playing the game.

Before doing any of the below, I recommend loading into a game, open charinfo in console, and in a separate notepad file, type out the ID #'s of all the characters you're interested in replacing. It will make ctrl+f searching for the characters in their history files easier.

Don't rely on their names. That will get you into trouble, lol. Some characters share duplicate names, and family names are even more of a mess. ID #'s are more reliable.

Some of the Targaryen's are already coded in, so for those you can directly replace their gfx in whatever .dds file they're in and my mod does the rest. Most are in remedy_portrait_swapping10 and swapping11.

Any character not included takes more work. You'd need to insert them into any of my empty .dds slots (ex. in remedy_portrait_swapping13.dds) then, you need to open whatever History file of whatever characters you want to replace their portrait for and assign them a trait matching the name of the portrait you gave the graphic to. Look at my History files as a reference.

To make it easier, I wouldn't bother renaming the portraits (ex. portrait316). If you do, the mod gets confused unless you go thru some extra coding steps.

Basically, characters need traits with portrait names, and those portrait names need to match the gfx slot you inserted the graphic into.

Hey man, thanks so much for your amazing mod! I'm looking to replace the Dance of the Dragons characters with the HBO HotD show. Is there a way for me to add those like your existing ones so I don't need to use console command to summon them in-game since there would be quite a number of them?