Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Modding My First Head Mesh!

Of course, there is only one other classic character that absolutely should have returned in BG3:



Besides Dynaheir, Aerie is the most important character in the series to Minsc & Boo. And, lets face it, she'd be right at home among the crew of abused, traumatised, and melodramatic misfits in BG3. Although for her of course that was all a long time ago now.

I'm not bothered about trying to make her look exactly like her BG2 portrait. What I did was take Minthara's head mesh and basically just made the chin smaller, mouth narrower, and the eyes bigger and more angled. After following tutorials online and creating a custom skeleton etc, I did still have the problem of her blinking looking weird and eyes constantly popping out of the head. Eventually I figured out that what I had to do was export the mesh from Blender as a DAE, then convert it to a GR2 with with lslib. I don't why that fixed it, but it did.

And then while I was at it I added Baervan as a deity and then her face tattoo (for the later I made a copy to apply just to this mesh, rather than overwriting any default ones).

So anyway, the rest of this was me creating a Tav and running through the tutorial, just to make sure it all works.

Obviously I could start Aerie as either a level 1 Wizard or Cleric. On this occasion I went Cleric, but not quite sure what domain to choose. Nature would be appropriate for Baervan, but we know Aerie is supposed to be multiclassed to Wizard, so maybe Knowledge? Or would that be redundant if you're going to dual her to Wizard anyway? Anyway this is just a test, not a playthrough, so I didn't think too hard about it right now.

For hair, the River Shaman style is probably closest to her old style, but I didn't like how it looked. If it was a little fuller and the hairline a bit lower, maybe. I'll think about some modded hair at some point (and at some point, if I want to make her an NPC, I'd have to customise her body so she has the scars on her back where her wings were). Anyway, why would she have the same hairstyle for a hundred years? Lets give her a bit of a cut.


Oh yeah... forgot about this nonsense. I suppose when Aerie thinks of a Guardian there's a good chance she'd think of Minsc. But it could also be her mother, or Quayle, or even Haer'Dalis. Really anyone she was ever close to. In the end I thought I'd have a go creating Imoen with just the vanilla stuff:


The brows are wrong, and IIRC correctly Imoen's scar was over her left eye. But whatever.


Hmmm... I think she values freedom too much to do that to any creature (this might just be a test, but I'm going to roleplay properly).


Honestly, she's had worse falls.

That does not look like someones first head mesh ?

Do you mean first head mesh for BG3 ?

I dont think Aerie will still care about a shallow and selfish person like Haer'Dalis at this point anymore. She has 100 years life experience over the Aerie wie meet in BG3.

For BG3, yes. Aerie is still one of the first characters I try to create in games that have more in-depth face editing, or for various figures in Poser and DazStudio (hence why I have a lot of fanart of her). Although that's a little different as it's mostly using sliders and dials to adjust parts of the face rather than sculpting the head directly.


True, but he was her first love, or at least first person she thought she was in love with, and I don't think she'd feel he was ever really unkind to her. Maybe he didn't really listen when she tried to say what she wanted. Mostly they just didn't have compatible philosophies, since he believed in hastening the entropy and decay of the universe, and she's very much in favor of life.

I made a tiny bit of adjustment to the eyes, and uploaded it to BG3 Nexus if anyone wants to test it out for themselves:

Wingless Wonder

Although one thing I just remembered I forgot to do is generate a thumbnail for character creation. The head icon will just appear as a '?' labelled JPC_Aerie. I'll get round to it sometime.

Updated again.

I made the whole face slightly longer, really just so it looks a little better in proportion to the rest of the body. And I adjustment the piercings a bit so they'll fit a little better now. I wasn't really planning on giving her any, but maybe a few small feathers dangling from her lobes would be cute.

I think that's probably about it for the face shape though.

Wingless Wonder on BG3 Nexus

That requires that you actually put Haer'Dalis into your group.

Also true. I would probably just assume most of the NPC interactions in base BG2 did happen at some point in some form, like her becoming Minsc's witch and having an albeit brief relationship with Haer'Dalis.