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James's Korea Uniform Pack

James's Korea Uniform Pack ((J)KUP) is a mod that aims to add historically-inspired uniforms to Korea. Watch as the Joseon Army evolves from traditional clothing to a modernized fighting force with a carefully crafted set of uniform assets and customized logic driving an immersive experience throughout the game.

KUP users will find that the soldiers, officers, and commanders of Joseon will now be wearing custom clothing based on historical 19th-century Joseon military attire designs. After researching General Staff or Percussion Caps, the army uniforms will change to use the black-and-red uniforms of the Chingunyeong (친군영), a part of the Joseon Army that historically was at the forefront of military modernization efforts.

Upon proclaiming the Empire of Korea, the uniforms will become modernized, with the army adopting the iconic black-and-red coats and kepis and the navy adopting clothing loosely based on surviving Imperial Korean Navy photographs. After researching Bolt-Action Rifles or Trench Works, the army uniforms for officers will change slightly, exchanging their kepis for peaked caps. The uniforms will change one more time for the army upon researching NCO Training and for the navy with Aircraft Carriers or Battleships to adopt a more modern style inspired by uniforms from the World Wars and Korean War periods, which includes helmets!

Seasonal uniforms are available, primarily for officers, where the uniforms can change color or design based on the current month in the year and technological progress.

I am not a historian or native Korean. I am an American-born Korean-American who has a casual interest in Korean history. I do not have very authoritative sources nor do I have the motivation or means to track such things down. I also have very minimal (if any) 3D modeling experience, so the assets available are limited to what's provided in the base game, whatever I can derive from vanilla assets, or by other community members. The content in this mod is meant to be historically-inspired, but not a 100% historically-accurate depiction of the uniforms in Korea's military history, similar to vanilla Victoria 3 content.

KUP requires the Community Outfit Mod as a dependency! You must install both for KUP to function correctly.

KUP is made to be interoperate seamlessly with Western Clothes: Redux and East Asian Clothes Patch.

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KUP defines all its content in its own files, so it should be compatible with most mods.

However, the following things may cause conflicts:

• Overwriting the vanilla models or textures for Korean male clothing or European male military clothing
  
• Providing non-vanilla models or clothing definitions for Korean military pops & characters

Any mod that does any of the above may require a compatibility patch for both to function correctly.

Community Outfit Mod is a required dependency. There are no requirements regarding where KUP and COM need to be placed relative to each other in your playset; both mods just need to be enabled.

The positioning of KUP with respect to other mods should not matter, except in the case of certain compatibility patches.
Follow any instructions provided by compatibility patch mods.

If you are having issues with other, unrelated mods, place KUP lower (towards the bottom) in your playset.

This mod does not rely on any DLC features, so you should not need any DLCs.

• James's Korea Flavor Pack
  
  
• Miss Animation Mod
  
• Western Clothes: Redux
  
• East Asian Clothes + East Asian Clothes Patch (EACP is required if using EAC)
  
• James's Pop Clothing Tweaks
  
  
• Japanese Uniform Pack
  
• Chinese Modern Uniforms

• You MAY include this mod in Workshop collections or modpacks of separated mods.
  
• You MAY NOT include this mod as a part of larger mods, except in the sole case of creating multiplayer mods for personal use.
  
• You MAY translate this mod into other languages.

• Part of the mod icon comes from art commissioned from the amazing UniTaka / RizkT511
  
• Based on information from Uniforms of Old Korea and various artworks by PzKpfwI
  
• Several models are sourced from the Hanyang Time Machine Project (한양도성 타임머신)[dh.aks.ac.kr] by the Center for Digital Humanities at the Academy of Korean Studies (한국학중앙연구원 디지털인문학연구소). Imports of these models were done by myself.
  
• Heat Of Fusion on Sketchfab for the Dujeong-gap model[sketchfab.com] – retexturing work was done by myself.
  
• Lord R for technical assistance
  
• Miss Duce for the sailor cap asset & assistance with the asset creation process
  
• UlfDerDritte for the Adrian helmet asset

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