Historical Portraits
Modding Historical Portraits, Historical Speeches & Songs Decision, Historical National Focus Dates, and several other mods of the collection during the last six years…and for the years to come. A big thank you for your support!
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✪ This mod replaces portraits of historical characters by black and white photos. Secondly, for aesthetic reasons, it gives a black and white portraits style to generic and random characters.
☛ Currently, the mod contains about 3600 unique photos. Beyond all, and its one of the main interest of the mod, several hundred historical characters with generic portraits now have now their true faces!
☛ This mod brings a unique photo for a character in these both cases: with or without the DLC.
I explain, in vanilla, if a character with a generic portrait exists in the base game, and if he also exists in DLC files but with a unique portrait, players who own the DLC have the unique portrait for him, and non-owners have the generic portrait.
Historical characters with generic portraits
Generic and random characters
✓ Photos for all
✓ Photos for all
✓ Black and white portraits for all
I try to match the 1936-1945 period (as long as I can find quality photos).
For example, you will see that the French democratic leader, Edouard Daladier, looks in my mod a lot older than he does in the vanilla game (his picture was inspired by a photo taken in 1927 – the photo I found was taken around 1938).
*Photos for leaders of the decolonized countries match the independance date (as for Western Sahara with his leader born in 1948 – Paradox chose leaders on the same criteria).
**If I can’t find a photo for a vanilla character who has a unique portrait, the mod uses his portrait in black and white.
complete
- ★ Portraits for all historical leaders.
- Black&white portraits for all random leaders.
complete
- ★ Portraits for all historical generals and admirals.
- Black&white portraits for all random generals/admirals.
Work in progress. Current content: France, Germany, Soviet Union, Britain, USA, Italy, Japan, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, the RAJ, Netherlands, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Nationalist China, Communist China, Manchukuo, Shanxi, Xibei San Ma, Sinkiang, Yunnan, Guangxi Clique, Ethiopia, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and some advisors in several other countries.
- ★ Portraits for all historical advisors (work in progress).
- Black&white portraits for all generic advisors.
complete
- ★ Portraits for all historical operatives.
- Black&white portraits for all random operatives.
N.B: for the list of missing photos and innacurate photo periods, read the related topics.
⚠ Imprisonned soviet advisors have vanilla portraits in black and white style, because I don’t know how to integrate prison bars directly on photos.
⚠ There is no small portrait for generals/admirals who are generated through national focuses, events, decisions and those who are coded only in history/countries files. If Paradox will decide to update the game files and creat a character code line for them (into the "characters" file), it will be possible to implement these photos.
Example: Pranas Saladzius (Lithuania) and all generals of Pakistan.
– Historical Leader Replacements [HP version]: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2051666898
– Historical Leader Replacements [vanilla portraits version]: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1903883019
– Historical Portraits & Expert AI compatibility [submod]: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1880087214
Historical Portraits is partially featured into Eight Years’ War of Resistance with more than 570 portraits from it!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2828712151&searchtext=eight+years
Enjoy immersion in game!
For more historical mods, check out our mods here :
Historical National Focus Dates: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1730960552
Historical Speeches & Songs Decisions: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1730683832
I’d like to thank:
– @the♥♥♥♥sofhazzard, who helped me to understand how to modify portraits files and how to use photoshop for it.
– @LoupVert [11RDP] who helped me to update perfectly the mod to the 1.6.2 version and for dozens of bug fixes.
– @MouToN, who helped me to understand how gfx, pictures and portrait-path files work.
– @CaesarVincens who helped me to understand how to modify advisors icons.
– @laceleste for his kind support.
– @BsBellamy who reread, translated and corrected mod’s presentation texts.
– « L’Ecole Supérieure de Guerre » (French Superior War School) who sent me a photo of the General Pierre Paul Etienne Alombert Goget from the general career’s own file, kept in the « Service Historique de défense » (Historical Service of Defense).
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
