Portrait Packs

Separate packs seems like a good approach. If there's a limit to the number of portraits, presumably we can switch portraits between the packs themselves.

 

I'm in favor of maintain width and crop height. At least for that picture

 

I use Adobephoto and I make mostly the facial aspects like the ToEE ones. Unless they got nice boobs, then there's some cleavage. Nothing to ruin the teen ESRB rating tho. The IWD stuff needs cropping and resizing, but they look nice when you're done.

 

For those of you struggling to do your own photos but can't afford or understand Photoshop, try Paint.net. http://www.getpaint.net/ Much more intuitive than GIMP.

 

OK, I found the just now but hadn't had time to sift through it and pick the BG portraits. If that's a problem I'll post another file in
the future.
http://www2.zippyshare.com/v/90012554/file.html

 

As far as I know, it doesn't support alpha channels - ToEE demands one.
Also, no batch commands (which make life a whole lot easier).

 

The Royo steelwraith collection, BG and Iwd are still in the SP Toee section. I've got them all in MyDocuments. The Royo collection is great, Toee compatible and ready to install. I've been using Royo04 for Fruella for years. Royo03 would be great for Meleny. Really nice pics

 

Ah but it does. I could never get my portraits to work using GIMP and no way was I buying photoshop just to get my own portraits for ToEE but this is very easy.

Make three pre-sized .JPG's of your chosen portrait (big, mini, and small sized.) Open "CustomPortrait_BIG" Smiley face pic, under the Layers tab hit "Import from File" and choose your big .JPG. Under the Window tab there is a box for a Layers window that when activated will show both the smiley face and your .JPG; as well as some controls. Select the smiley face and hit the "X" or "delete" key, then Save As, filename.tga, and the big pic is done. For the Mini and Small ones you will have to reduce your presized .JPG's by one pixel on each side after or before deleting the smiley face; just grab the top, bottom, and sides (I always delete the smiley face after I do this re-size to make sure I get it right.) For the grey mini and small portraits go to the Adjustments tab, click "Black and White," then Save As filename_grey.tga.

Takes maybe five minutes per pic from sizing the .JPG's to entering them into the portrait.mes and portrait folder. No Photoshop needed... and best of all it's free.

 

I noticed the packs CTB did are available for download from the Negative Energy thread. It still works. The Royo, BG and IWD stuff is in there. Big file, like 60MB, but there's lot of pics in there.

 

Can the various portrait packs being discussed be made part opf the FE, presumedly as a drop down or option bar?

FE then can change the portraits automatically, while booting the game, according to the users choices.

This way we can have a good number of various portrait packs available at a click.

Even if it were possible, I believe changing portraits in the middle of a game, in this particular FE scenario, shouldn't be allowed. Chose your portraits one time, per game, per se.[

 

Just dropping in to say that I really couldn't care any less about the portraits. I'd prefer more time spent on streamlining things that already exist or perhaps more custom storyline or new models/skins or really just anything having to do with any other aspect of the game, except for maybe the font size and color. I would be happy if the class name was in each portrait box, like fighter, cleric, barbarian, wizard. etc.