AGOT Portrait Overhaul (Updated 2/3/2023)

It's almost certainly a MB 3.0 thing, but it's as if the bastards' surnames had disappeared, if you don't legitimize a bastard, he automatically gains the surname of the other house, it's as if, for example, Ned didn't legitimize Jon, but he is the son of a lowborn mother, instead of carrying Snow as his surname he will not carry anything, and if he were the son of a noblewoman, Ashara for example, he would automatically carry the surname Dayne if it is not legitimized by Ned.(but I love the fact that bastards can maintain bloodlines)


Regarding suggestions for the characters' appearance, give Edmure Tully the "fiery red beard" as it is described. Playing as Jon in "A Feast for Crows" Stannis offers Val as a wife to Jon, but Val still doesn't resemble the Val described in the books, having brown hair instead of her "dark honey" blond, there are a lot of cool arts of her.

Yea, I think the surnames vary depending on if their father "recognizes" them as their bastard/or knows about them at all (if not, they will take the female noble last name, or none in the case of lowborn women), legitimizes/or not, cadet etc. Something really strange I noticed: new "secret bastards" that occur in-game will still sometimes look like their non-bio noble 'father' - even up to the point of matching his GFX culture (when neither of their real bio-parents are that GFX culture LOL).  

Awesome, love the insight on the characters - will look up some book descriptions and fan art for Edmure Tully and Val! Let me know if you have any other insights. :-D

Thanks. Don't worry and take your time. We will wait as long as you need. It's better make it right than quickly.

I really liked these new DNA/Portraits, especially Val and Sylvi changes! Mance Rayder looks really cool, and there really isn't much description about Dalla other than her being pregnant, but the portrait is very good.

Sylvi and Cotter are names I definitely wasn't expecting to read, I played the Telltale game a long time ago and it unlocked old memories (I think Sylvi is just albino or suffers from something that affects her hair pigmentation, but we will never know the truth LMAO), they're not particularly important characters, but if you're interested take a look at the other characters in the Telltale's game, the houses Forrester and Whitehill and the Glenmore siblings for example.

About the changes you made to the Boltons, I tested to see what Roose's children would be like, some of them inherited his eyes they looked really cool with them!

I took a look at the wall looking for Cotter(I forgot he wasn't there yet) and noticed that Jorah doesn't appear as the son of Lord Commander Jeor, Jorah only has his mother in the family tree, in terms of appearance, if I'm not mistaken, both have a beard and a balding hairstyle in the books.

I think there really is a bug in the bastard system, if you don't legitimize the bastard, regardless of whether you acknowledge or denounce the child, they are born with the mother's surname and dynasty(they shouldn't because they haven't been legitimized by the other house), they are not born with "Snow" or "Flowers how they should for example, even in Jon's bloodline it says Jon "Stark" and when you look in the "court" tab of the night's watch he also appears to me as Jon Stark instead of Snow(but his name on the portrait is Jon Snow), the Sand Snakes also appear in the tab court with the surname Martell instead of Sand, I think it is related, make a test in-game when you have time and I think you will understand It's a little confusing to explain.


 

There are a few suggestions for future updates:
1. View error.log and use Audax.Validator - typos, syntax code errors with each update more and more. And of course they matter, some events don’t work, some portraits are incorrect
2. PO Base\landed_titles\essos_titles2 and essos_titles3 - it's a bad idea.
All you have to do is:

allow = {
hidden_tooltip = { NOT = { culture_group = winter_group } }
capital_scope = { kingdom = { title = FROM } } #prevent early forming
}

dothraki="Qevir Dorvi"
Harro-Dothraki="Qevir Dorvi"
Rovo-Dothraki="Qevir Dorvi"
#dothraki_domain_culture="Qevir Dorvi"

The game certainly supports that a number of cultures have unique title naming
And all these changes should be in just one original essos_titles
I remember some submod using the same method, but it’s a bad example for modding
3. New cultures - another bad idea. All events, decisions and others work only with "dothraki" culture.
And for new cultures you have to correct the entire game code, a good example will be Congenital Overhaul he just added new traits and for this reason had to make its changes in more than half of the original mod files.

And the question: Have you asked the author about his work for his next update? Quite a lot was ready-made. And should we believe that Choochoo will return to Portrait Overhaul or not?