Highlights from the Path: Mods

[Alicja.]

This May we celebrated two anniversaries: 10 years since The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings was released and 6 years since The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was released. We decided to use this occasion to celebrate YOU — our community and your amazing creations!

Last, but not least, let’s see some cool mods made for The Witcher games!

1. The Witcher Overhaul Project

High Definition textures for The Witcher.

2. Rise of the White Wolf Enhanced Edition

This Witcher mod includes redesigned interface, retextures for various characters, new Witcher armor, new cutscenes with Dandelion and more.

3. Masquerade

A detective noir story mod for The Witcher!

4. Better Texture Environment

Modifies environment textures in The Witcher 2: Assasins of Kings.

5. Lykaon

This unfinished story mod for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings features several hours of unique gameplay and dialogue. It was created by Philipp Weber, currently our Acting Lead Quest Designer, who was whisked away by CD PROJEKT RED before he could finish the mod. One of the quests planned for the mod that never saw the light of day ended up in Blood and Wine expansion of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Which one, you ask? Here’s a hint: Beauclair, an inspired artist, and Geralt in the nude!

6. Farewell of the White Wolf

Farewell of The White Wolf is an imaginary epilogue of the The Witcher series. Made on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings engine, it tells the story of Geralt and Yennefer’s wedding.

7. High Quality Faces

Adjusts the quality of faces for characters in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

8. Beautiful Grass

Changes the grass types and textures for White Orchard, Velen, Skellige and Kaer Mohren in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

9. Phoenix Lighting Mod

Adjusts lighting in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

10. The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project

This grand project alters the graphics of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by reworking models and textures to be more detailed, while preserving the original game style.

We only picked 10, but that’s not all of them — if we were to include more this post could go on forever! We see and hear you so if you’d like to share your creations with us, be it mod, cosplay, fanart, video or anything else connected to The Witcher games, send it to us via email: fanart@cdprojektred.com and we might feature it on our social media channels.

 

[Riven-Twain]

I'm pleased to see these! A most interesting selection. I even recognise a few familiar names from the Forums: @eLeRs , with the intriguing Masquerade; @Benzenzimmern , the inimitable quest designer; @PATROL and his friends, who crafted Rise and Farewell of the White Wolf; @Holgaroni (Holgar96), with his popular 'High Quality Faces'; @Mishikedman , with the attractive 'Phoenix Lighting Mod'; and, of course, @HalkHoganPL , with his HD Rework, whose long-running project many have followed with keen interest.

Congratulations to all, and thank you for your dedication and hard work!

 

[Riven-Twain]

Here's another mod which may be worth mentioning again, upon this occasion:
The Witcher Prologue Remastered

 

[Draconifors]

Interesting choices for picks.

I only know half of these and am familiar with none.

 

[Mishikedman]

Thanks guys i am honored to be on this list. Thank you Alicija and CDPR for this honor and for giving the world one of the best games of all time. Also if it's ok i would like to add to your list, some fantastic mods:
First let's not forget people that give us some cool tool's to work with like Sarcen and WolvenKit team;
Gameplay: W3EE by ReaperAnon or Ghost mod by wghost81
visual: All mods by Hyadum27 (clouds, lightening and sign fx) also
some alternatives to my mod : Immersive lighting mod by R0X, and many more that will come soon;
reshades: by Marinko and Rudy.
There are bunch of mods and cool people i would like to list here but this is already a long post. Cheers all.

 

[akynamatatapost]

These are probably not exactly "mods", but thanks to these tools, the Witcher 3 project is still alive and evolving.

- WolvenKit version 0.3.1.0 from 21 august 2018 - is an incredibly powerful and magical tool! Very stable (not a single crash in 3.5 years) and very user-friendly, the father of almost all mods for The Witcher 3.

- Storyboard UI - an unexpected, secret door to the universe of The Witcher 3 ... hundreds of comics, millions of screenshots, thousands of videos were born thanks to this fantastic tool.

- radish modding tools - our "A New Hope" - this mysterious, mystical instrument has breathed new life into the tired body of the Witcher 3 world. Already 5 (five) completely new, full-fledged storyline DLC have been created by fans and enthusiasts!

- ModKitchen - do you need to extract a model or texture from the game? Having trouble using the command line? Maybe you are interested in a 3D model in mod and you want to return the mesh file to the FBX format? Then you need a "ModKitchen" - everything is simple and convenient in it!

- W3Oven v.0.7.b - is a tool that made working with textures easy and enjoyable!

 

[Riven-Twain]

9. Phoenix Lighting Mod

I'd glanced at the predecessor of this one, some while back, when it was still in the works, but largely haven't used lighting mods; however, I'm trying out Phoenix in my current play-through. So far, not bad -- not bad at all.