Without spoiling much, there is a moment in Baldur's Gate 3 where Shadowheart decides to make a symbolic gesture and change her hair style. I thought the change didn't go far enough, so I research how to replace her hair style until we get a proper character customization in-game.

1- Download the files from this folder: https://github.com/SkyrimLL/BaldursGate3/tree/main/ShadowheartAltHair

2- Copy the file 'CharacterCreationSharedVisuals.lsx'

Put the file in this folder:

Steam\steamapps\common\Baldurs Gate 3\Data\Public\GustavDev\CharacterCreation

It is all you need to customize her hair style.

The structure of the file refers to two changes - one 'good' and one 'evil':

Good

<node id="CharacterCreationSharedVisual">
     <attribute id="DisplayName" type="TranslatedString" handle="h97c322b2gce3bg41a2gb850g978db2a4ef4b" version="1"/>
     <attribute id="SlotName" type="FixedString" value="Hair"/>
     <attribute id="UUID" type="guid" value="e05b0f79-d3af-41eb-b0b2-1164b6f0debf"/>
     <attribute id="VisualResource" type="guid" value="fc10a6df-b9f3-79f3-eacc-b7fa7c27690a"/> 
</node>

Evil

<node id="CharacterCreationSharedVisual">
     <attribute id="DisplayName" type="TranslatedString" handle="h6b1dd2bdg5a14g4da4g8b18gcaf503a53621" version="1"/>
     <attribute id="SlotName" type="FixedString" value="Hair"/>
     <attribute id="UUID" type="guid" value="c7f78eb7-6858-4f02-836b-d8c8b56c34fc"/>
     <attribute id="VisualResource" type="guid" value="ce0bd2bc-aa50-13d6-ac50-5a5da4e6f38e"/> 
</node>

Replace the value of attribute id="VisualResource" type="guid" value="...replace this ID..."

Here are some IDs I tried:

Origin

• bf6ea9d0-db38-d44c-8cbd-12e6aca03044 - Gale
• 12b9f717-05cc-71de-49ba-99650936e13c -
• ce0bd2bc-aa50-13d6-ac50-5a5da4e6f38e - Shadowheart
• 3492595f-9e1c-0047-8b0e-cba7761c338c -
• 29758028-6a43-03fd-a151-dc3ae251270f -

Human size

• 361315b1-cb61-2ebb-0d3e-241bac8519f8 - Very short hair curly - HAIR_HUM_MS_Afro_Short_A
• cb29b021-41ac-0df2-1199-9bb43ba09961 - Gith Voss hair
• 52c0c9e5-208d-f3ec-fce0-ccafed028a2a - Druid Kagha hair
• 900d0038-2bc2-3377-6cd1-a16c31dea110 - Short bun, Mawhawk top
• 841c4933-cdce-ae88-fdda-9347d1fc0b48 - Shaved, Mawhawk top
• a7104e13-3acf-cbdd-c489-5bb148a7e043 - Twin buns, Twin pigtails
• 588b3a58-bcf1-b2be-ba70-98bc821c64d3 - Long, simple ponytail - HAIR_HUM_F_Straight_Long_C_Spring_Base
• 96a2fca5-d197-dc1b-f902-937bd27e7c9c - HAIR_HUM_F_Orin_Base
• 431a177b-bfc1-9b81-fd06-77152f1cfe2f - Big ponytail, side braid - HAIR_HUM_F_Straight_Long_B_Spring_Base
• bb546c74-6f66-7467-effb-99d66b559695 - Short, bob cut - HAIR_HUM_F_Straight_Short_G
• fc10a6df-b9f3-79f3-eacc-b7fa7c27690a - Long, over face - HAIR_HUM_f_straight_long_d
• 7e3213ea-5021-9afd-59a5-721ba664894e - Simple Fighter pony tail
• 328ac047-457b-298e-de73-bf50456c1af3 - Bushy Fighter pony tail

3- If you want to change the hair style to something else, you will have to install modding tools and extract files from the game.

Follow instructions here: https://github.com/ShinyHobo/BG3-Modders-Multitool

You will need to download and install this library first: LSLib 1.15.9 (or higher)

Once the moddings tools are installed, you will have to select the paths to your game, your Larian Studios folder under your documents folder, and the path to the 'divine.exe' files from LSLib before you can run anything.

Follow the instruction to extract the .pak files and create an index, then look for this file in your ExtractedFiles folder (where you installed the modding tools).

**Shared\Public\Shared\Content\Assets\Characters[PAK]_Hair_merged.lsx **

This file includes the mappings between the files names for the hair meshes and their internal ID. For most of the Hair references, you will need to use the value of 'ID' For complex hair with physics animation, you will need to use the value of 'PreviewVisualResource' (there is also an ID for these type of hair but it doesn't work).

Use the main package from this mod:

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