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More Generic Portraits

*** IRONMAN / ACHIEVEMENTS COMPATIBLE ***


The goal here is to add a little diversity by creating new portraits for randomly generated leaders and commanders, and by replacing some of the vanilla generic portraits for leaders, which are the same model with 3 differents suits (based on ideology), by 3 new models.

As a "bonus", I have added few unique portraits for characters created by the game which are assigned a generic portrait used by nobody else (and which can't be given randomly).

I also gave the South American portraits for Egypt and Libya (like Turkey in the base game), African portraits for Haiti and British portraits for Commonwealth countries (except independent RAJ, aka India).


Here how it works:

Generals, field marshals and admirals already present at the begining of the game and without a unique portrait have a generic one chosen from the few ones of the base game. This is hardlinked in .txt files of the /countries/ folder and I don't want to touch it, because it reduces compatibility with other mods and disallows achievements. The newly appointed commanders have a portrait randomly chosen in the full "roster" which is all portraits from the base game, the free dlc and this mod.

Leaders created in .txt files of the /countries/ folder have also a generic portrait which is hardlinked to a picture from the base game. Most of them are one of the three leaders based on the same model wearing different suits, depending on the ideology (red tie for communism, bow tie for democracy, leather coat for neutrality and fascism). In the illustration picture above, for European leaders, they are the portraits crossed in red. With the mod, this only model is replaced by three different ones, in the illustration: Jean Gabin, Humphrey Bogart and Bela Lugosi.
Only newly created leaders will be given a portrait from the full roster (including free dlc and this mod). This happens when an existing leader "expires" (some have an "end date") or when, in a country, a political party rules, but hasn't any existing leader, which causes the game to create him. You can find the list of these parties without leaders in the wiki:
http://www.hoi4wiki.com/Political_Parties_and_Leaders.
They are the ones called "unidentified leader".


Features:
- 3 new different portraits for European and Asian generic leaders (also for North America and Australia which use the same portraits as Europe);
- 3 more generals and 3 more admirals for England;
- 2 more generals, 3 more admirals and 3 extra political leaders for Europe;
- 2 more generals, 2 more admirals and 2 extra political leaders for Asia;
- 1 more general for USA.

Uniques portraits for:
- Maurice Thorez, France;
- Muhammad Naguib, Egypt;
- Pierre Gemayel, Lebanon;
- Onn Jaafar, Malaysia;
- Idris Senussi, Libya;
- Faisal II, Iraq;
- Abdullah bin al-Hussein, Jordan;

The current version also includes pictures that still need some graphical editing but are currently used as placeholders:
- 2 more generals for Germany;
- 1 more general for France.


As there are very few independent African countries, I will probably next focus on South America (3 substitutes for El Generico, generals and admirals). India and Pakistan also only have 2 generals and no admirals.

If you have a paradox account, you can visit this thread https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/some-generic-portraits.1044318/, where I post portraits before publishing them in this mod.


Remarks:
- I have not tested extensively before publishing, so feel free to report any bug.
- More explaination on why giving unique portraits to leaders and generals disallows achievements here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/mods-which-give-unique-portraits-to-leaders-and-commanders-should-be-ironman-achievements-compatible.1046215/. You can also use this link to support my suggestion to Paradox to revert this.