Description:

A prefabricated mod to change Geralt’s appearance for the game The Witcher 3, incorporating all the best that can be found on the Nexus, with improvements and corrections.

Many thanks to DJ_Kovrik, who helped me understand the modding of The Witcher 3. Without him, I would never have done it!

More details:

Having gone through all (absolutely all!!!) mods for changing Geralt’s appearance that are on the Nexus, I regretfully noted that none of them fully satisfied me. Yes, there are some very good ones, but either they did not include everything that I would like to see in Geralt, or they turned out to be incompatible with others, which had something else that I liked, or there was something in them that I didn’t like. I wanted to change it myself. So I got excited about the idea of ​​​​creating my “ideal” image of Geralt, a “true witcher”, combining in one mod all the best of all existing mods for the appearance of GG. Of course, this is purely my personal vision of Geralt, nothing more. The result is up to you to judge)

Below are the mods I used and what of them was included in the final version.

Lore-friendly Witchers is a mod taken as a basis. Chosen because, in my opinion, it has the optimal balance of skin pallor between vanilla and some other mods that make Geralt too pale (for example, White Wolf From Rivia). True, I didn’t like the too bright scar, too light eyebrows and too dark stubble, besides, this mod did not have textures for all add-ons, but it was the only one that was compatible with the next mod, which I really wanted to include in the build. As a result, only the skin remained from the Lore-friendly Witchers))

Chest hair for Geralt - the hair on Geralt’s chest. I used the version with white hair, because, in my opinion, it is more appropriate, due to the fact that the witcher lost his pigmentation due to mutation. It is logical that this applies to the whole body)

Geralt Weathered Face - an excellent mod that makes the skin of Geralt's face weathered, containing only facial normals and compatible with any textures, had only two drawbacks. First, the author, probably inadvertently, duplicated Geralt’s ears with an offset to normals, which was not displayed very correctly in the game; and secondly, the line of alignment with the body was not worked out, becoming very noticeable. I had to fix everything myself. By the way, I cut out the ears from Seasoned Witcher))

Seasoned Witcher - initially, according to the screenshots on the page of the original mod on the Nexus, I really liked this mod, but in the game Geralt looked, in my opinion, very scary... Too much pale skin and an overly prominent facial normal map, which gave Geralt the appearance of a heavy drunk. But there is a wonderful map of body normals, making the GG’s torso even more prominent than in the original game, and wide bushy eyebrows instead of even ones, as if plucked, original, and neither white nor black, but moderately gray. This is what I took for my mod, plus the scars on the neck from the striga, which seemed quite appropriate to me.

Geralt HairWorks Colors and Styles is a wonderful and very popular mod. Two optional files GeraltHairWorks_realBeard and GeraltHairWorks_realHair (full_all-Hairs version) are taken from it. Hair and beard become much more realistic!

My own changes and improvements:

Eyes. I made the pupils narrower and “softened” the outline of the pupil and iris. I “extended” the scar on the witcher’s face below the eyebrow, and added scars from the striga to the neck. I made the neck seam as invisible as possible - now it is practically invisible even if you bring the camera close, and also fixed the problem described in the Less Stache Geralt mod, but for my own mod.

Next, I didn’t like the original yellowish tint of Geralt’s hair and beard. It seemed that this was not gray hair as a result of a mutation, but natural “blondness”. I tried to give them a cooler platinum tone, while also changing the color of the stubble and hair roots. I also completely replaced the texture of the “under-hair” part of the head, because... during the rain or after swimming, when her hair became wet and she became visible (as the camera approached), she was in sharp dissonance with the color of her wet hair. Changed hair color for all hairstyles - both vanilla and from add-ons (just different texture files are responsible for them).

In addition to what was described above, there are many other, smaller changes, which I will not describe. And, of course, I combined and adjusted all the elements from the mentioned mods, and also made the changes necessary for versions 1.30 and 1.31 GOTY.

Attention!

Changing hair color will only work if Hairworks is enabled.

When creating screenshots, I deliberately did not use any reshades. Keep in mind that if you have reshades installed, Geralt may look different than in my screenshots.

Requirements:

The Witcher 3 version 1.30 or 1.31 or 1.31 GOTY

Installation:

Just unzip the archive and put all its contents in the mods folder in the root folder of the game. If this is your first mod, then create a mods folder yourself.