For some reason, I cannot disable this mod from my modlist, the game will always crash even if I start a new game. Is there a way for me to fix this? Because right now this mod is in conflict with Manaflow Ankaris mod, causing the Melanesian people to be invisible.

Don't think the mod is working correctly on the newest update. Can't really see any of the unique phenotypes, especially for Spanish and Italians.

@LuLq It should be 1.9 compatible, but I will soon add an update so that the launcher doesn't freak out

@LuLq so far yes

Works fine on 1.9?

@dissatisfieduser Cool! Feel free to merge it or use it as a dependency.

Hello, I'm working on a modern age total conversion mod and want to incorporate your mod.

the change notes button is right there bro

what did the new update add?

I apologize for the wait, but I had some end-of-year stuff to handle. The fix should come very soon (I hope)

mr, neomexilio, are you planning to fix the data error?

update: I'm at my windows PC and it's the same, it still says parsing metadata failed

I'm on mac and I can't use this mod because it says parsing metadata failed

If you plan on adding Melanesians, remember that they are the only non-whites on the earth capable of having natural blonde hair ! Watch out for people telling you that's inaccurate; I was once one of them!

There is a problem with the data, how to solve it?

@Lord R
Thanks! I've decided on giving everything a look-over before adding Native Americans. Getting out the rough edges before adding more.

The revised ethnicities look fantastic!

I finished adding ethnicities to all cultures in the old world, BUT they are subject to changes. The next update will be said revisions or native american ethnicities.

But again, it is quite impressive what you already did and I'm looking forward to what you will do in the future :)

@NeoMexilo: No worries! I tried tweaking them for Morgenröte but it is really hard to get them to not look uncanny...
I think the easiest but most exhausting way would be to create a lot of ethnicities with faces that look okay and have slight built in variation to them. But as I said, that would be a lot of work.
I think hair, skin and eye colors already make a huge difference for Europeans though. Like Nordic people having more blonde hair, etc.

@Lord R
Yeah, I also was thinking about how to add more diversity without it making combinations that look uncanny.
But you got a good point, I'll try to revise the facial diversity. I was a minor debate i was having, but figured actually finishing the rest of the world was more important at the time.

(Also, the waluigi thing is because Mediterranean was the first one I made. I had limited experience with the portrait editor beforehand, so they ended up kinda funky looking lol)

So I have been looking into your files and tested the ethnicities a little bit in the portrait editor. I noticed that the people now look very similar which is especially interesting with the mediterranean ethnicity as those people kind of look like Waluigi.
I think you might have limited variety too much in you ethnicities which leads to people looking very similar in one ehtnicity template. I think it might be better to add more variety in the genes like vanilla does it.
Another cool thin that I just tested with Morgenröte is to also add ethnicities to limit facial hair. E.g. I added one ethnicity without facial hair, one with shorter beards and one with bigger beards to the alemannic culture to basically repreduce the people living on the countryside as well as the people living in the cities. And to not get weird combinations like a huge beard without a mustache, etc.

Why are you guys replying to the obvious troll? 😅 Just report them and move on

They sound like those racist trolls who would false flag as another culture just to make that culture look bad (making unsubstantiated accusations against the modder, cultural gatekeeping and saying Europeans are effectively one ethnic group should clue everyone in)

@JJ are you saying if a south Italian and a Nordic guy stood next to each other, you wouldn't be able to tell which is which?

Nobody is "taking the piss", using discredited and unproven "phenotypes" like "Adriatic" and "Alpine" is concerning to say the least. More importantly, we do know with current research that Europeans have such low levels of genetic diversity, they can be considered effectively a single ethnic group. Even phenotypically, there's not as much diversity compared to Africa or Asia.

Anyway, I understand the mod creator will choose to inaccurately generalise Africa and Asia and focus on Europe.

JJ here is too retarded to comprehend the idea that modders are, in fact, unpaid and generally only working out of passion and is unable to understand that sometimes people want to share a product with partial coverage and release updates later, please cut him some slack 🙏

@JJ Hello, as a fellow American imperialist pig for gatekeeping other cultures, can you teach me your ways? I highly appreciate it if you do

jj u gotta be takin the piss

Doesn't mean you're African-American

A generalisation unless it's Europe, where you've somehow created multiple phenotypes in Western Europe, when there are obviously far, far more phenotypes in Sub-Saharan Africa.

God forbid i use my native dialect 💀 (I'm not white)

Also, I have already stated this mod is a huge generalization, because if it wasn't I'd be working on this forever

First of all, don't use "bruh" that's AAVE

Secondly, I seriously doubt you'd be able to even accurately complete 1 country in Sub-Saharan Africa correctly in a "couple days". The Old World is Afro-Eurasia.

Ideally I want to wrap up the Old World in said update

In other news. I plan to drop an update to this in a couple days (early January give or take)

Oh my gah, it's Lord R Mörgenrote

Cool Mod! I'm looking forward to playing with it!

or you could add a pop called "white brazilian", if you also plan on adding pops into the game.

You could change the brazilian phenotype, cuz the vanilla one is pretty innacurate, not totally innacurate though. Brazilians are very diverse, but overall half of us are white and the other half is mixed (like depicted on vanilla). My suggestion: Keep one of the people mixed and change the other one to mediterranean white.

@NeoMexilio Yeah Mr Modder, how come your unfinished mod didn't ship with every phenotype on the globe huh?? smh my head my head 😤 /jk

On a more serious note, great mod! Does it conflict with any other mods (like say clothing mods)?

This mod just isn't finished yet bruh

Even within Ethiopia, there are Amhara with golden brown skin, hook noses, small-medium lips

then you've got the Somalis in eastern Ethiopia with dark skin or (sometimes) golden brown skin, thin small noses, medium lips and wavy/lightly curly hair,

then you go to southern Ethiopia like the Mursi with dark skin, wide noses, full lips and Afro-textured hair

And that's 1 country in Africa.

Ethiopia has almost as many official ethnicities (over 80) as the whole EU (87)

Of course, ignore the most genetically, ethnically, phenotypically diverse region on the planet (Sub-Saharan Africa)

If they tried to add enough accurate phenotypes, there'd be more in Africa than anywhere else

nice!, looking forward to see how you deal with the ethnic chaos that is brazil lol.

Thanks for the suggestion, I apparently just forgot to add brown hair to Germans lol

I think you should adjust the hair and eye color of the "germanic" ethnicity, since this mod makes almost all of the Germanics blonde and blue eyed, which should probably be more common in the "ugro slavic" ethnicity imo.

This is really cool! Makes each region feel a bit more unique :)

Thank you :)

Some sources I was finding were from the eugenics era of anthropology... had to dodge those

ahhh, yes... racism at last in Victoria III