You don't have to reinstall after editing files.
Making your own mod for customized files is a good way to keep them safe from updates.

Thanks for the quick response. Hmm, I can't get it to work then. Could you possibly let me know which lines I'd need to change? I searched child and changed NOT to 14 but I assume there must be something else.

I've changed the defines.lua in the CK Base files already, but no affect.

If you've changed the first item from property 17 it's right. Are the changes actually saved in the mod? Zipped mods are harder to edit this way.

Yeah I had changed that section but no affect. Changed it to just random numbers, lol and no affect still. The mod isn't zipped though, it's just in a folder? Pretty sure I followed the instructions.. Unzip the mod and run the shell installer (Mac) and have just used I from there, no problems with the mod in default settings at least, it's great! :)

If you want to change to workshop version to a directory, edit the betterlookinggarbs.mod file and replace the archive line with path="mod/betterlookinggarbs".

So the .mod file should look like this..

name="Better Looking Garbs"
path="mod/betterlookinggarbs"
dependencies={
"Cultural Cities Remix"
"Rex Teutonicorum"
"A Game of Thrones"
}
tags={ Graphics Portraits }
picture="betterlookinggarbs.jpg"


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Sorry if I'm being incredibly dense and misreading, though that didn't work if it's what you meant. Just turned the mod off altogether.

That's if you've extracted to mod/betterlookinggarbs. Or use the original archive version and replace the portrait_properties file in there.

Yup, and tried that as well. When I compressed the folder back into zip, the game wouldn't read it for some reason. I'd made a copy and just placed it back and it's working as before anyway.

It's not the most gamebreaking thing in the world so for now I will leave it before I yank my hair out :D

Thank you for clarifying what need editing, I will have another try soon, and thanks for the mod, it's awesome! And clearly took a crazy amount of work. I use I with WTWSMS too and it's perfect with that.