Historical Portraits

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1. Introduction

✪ This mod gives black and white photos to historical characters. Secondly, for aesthetic reasons, it gives a black and white style portraits to generic and random characters. ☛ Currently, the mod contains about 5600 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.

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VANILLA

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HISTORICAL PORTRAITS

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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. ***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.

2. Mod’s architecture

[h1]LEADERS[/h1][i]complete[/i]

• ★ Portraits for all historical leaders.

• Black&white portraits for all random leaders.

[h1]GENERALS, ADMIRALS and SHIP CAPTAINS[/h1][i]complete[/i]

• ★ Portraits for all historical generals and admirals.

• Black&white portraits for all random generals/admirals.

[h1]DIVISIONAL COMMANDERS[/h1][i]work in progress[/i]

[h1]ADVISORS[/h1][i]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, Slovakia, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Nationalist China, Chinese Soviet Republic, Chinese warlords countries, Manchukuo, Menjiang, Philippines, Ethiopia, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Austria, Belgium, Belgian Congo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Dutch Indies, Siam and some advisors in several other countries[/i].

• ★ Portraits for all historical advisors.

• Black&white portraits for all generic advisors.

[h1]OPERATIVES[/h1][i]complete[/i]

• ★ Portraits for all historical operatives.

• Black&white portraits for all random operatives.

[h1]SCIENTISTS[/h1][i]complete[/i]

• ★ Portraits for all historical scientists.

• Black&white portraits for all random scientists.

N.B: for the list of missing photos and innacurate photo periods, read the related topics .

4. Current version and compatibility

✓ Compatible with 1.19.3 and with all DLC
✓ Works also without DLC
✓ *If you want to make it compatible with Expert AI 4.0, use this submod: Historical Portraits & Expert AI compatibility [submod].
✓ Historical Speeches & Songs Decisions and Historical[A] National Focus Dates, Large Portraits for Trait Tree Window

~ Partially compatible with Krieggerz World War II, Add Generals Historical
× [b]NOT IRONMAN COMPATIBLE[/b]
× Known incompatibilities:
× total history changer mods like Road to 56, BlackICE, Expert IA*, Europe in Flames:AGORA[BETA], New ways alpha, Darkest Hour - Open BETA, -Operation Overhaul-, End of a New Beginning - Official Edition.
× Beautiful States, Satisfying States, Pulchritudinous States beta, Ultra Historical Mod - Realism Overhaul, Sub-Ideology Rework for Vanilla, Total War mod, Winter Wars: A Scandinavian Expansion, Advanced Buildings & Industry, Turkey Details.
× Any other mod that modify portraits and history/countries files.

5. FAQ

See the dedicated page

6. Time capsule

I think it is important to archive the versions of the mod that were used for the older versions of the game. Since I have published it, I see people that play with previous versions. You can found it here: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/960885363/3203748171375855281/ Keep in mind that I won't make any support for it.

7. Submods

• Historical Leader Replacements [HP version]: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2051666898

• Historical Portraits & Expert AI compatibility [submod]: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1880087214

8. Integration into other mods

Historical Portraits is partially featured into Eight Years' War of Resistance with more than 570 portraits included. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2828712151&searchtext=eight+years

Historical World War II Featured into this amazing compilation of many mods. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3504138833&tscn=1754344891

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If you want to play with more historical generals and admirals, check out the mod of @Praday https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3374729360 ⚠ This mod replaces several photos of mine.

Credits for all mods: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/960885363/4339860800345436153/ Particulary for this mod:

• @the♥♥♥♥sofhazzard, who helped me to understand how to modify portraits files and how to use photoshop for it.
• @Claude 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 a lot of mod's texts. He is the co-creator of Historical Speeches & Songs Decisions series!
• « 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).