Let's Add Variety to the Game: Review of Texture Mods and Skins for 'The Witcher'
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Once I suddenly realized that I was tired of playing 'The Witcher'. After six months spent with the game, everything had become somehow familiar, mundane, even boring. However, I absolutely did not want to part with the world and its inhabitants that I had come to love. I started thinking about ways to diversify my favorite game. How? Naturally, with the help of mods. The time spent searching for something interesting was not wasted, and I was pleasantly surprised by the amount I discovered. Now, I just had to make a choice. While I methodically tested the effects of various mods on myself, the thought occurred to me to prepare a review of the achievements of witcher modding. Since most of the mods I found turned out to be, in essence, texture and skin mods, I decided to tackle this category first. For completeness, several mods that do not actually relate to the mentioned categories were included in the review.

**Note**. Almost all the mods discussed below have been tested by me. The effects of their installation were tested on the game version 1.4. All screenshots, except for those specifically mentioned, were taken by your humble servant. I tried to pick adequate Russian equivalents for all English names.

So, for simplicity of perception, we will divide the variety of mods discussed here into several groups.

1. Mods that make more or less significant changes to the user interface and Head-Up Display

1.1. The Witcher: Inferno Edition changes the original color scheme of the user interface and HUD to black-gray-orange. As the name suggests, fiery flashes become the dominant theme of the new style. Changes affected all sub-screens, buttons, menus, etc., from the Equipment panel menu to the main menu. However, the mod does not go further than redesigning the user interface. The appearance of characters, objects, and landscapes remains untouched.

1.2. The Witcher: Black Edition changes the original color scheme of the user interface and HUD to black-gray-red, making the already far from cheerful atmosphere of the game even darker. Just like in the case of Inferno Edition, changes affected all sub-screens, buttons, menus, etc. The color of the game HUD was changed to dark gray, and during battle, it is additionally highlighted in red (in the original version of the game, the red glow of the HUD was not so strong).

However, the visual effects from the installation of the mod do not end there. Unlike Inferno Edition, Black Edition makes tweaks to the appearance of some characters. The developers decided that there were too many red-haired ladies for one Witcher and boldly