Portrait Packs

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  1. Sitra Achara

    Sitra Achara Senior Member

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    Gaear, re: using the addon feature for portraits -

    Bear in mind that there's a one active addon limit. I'd like to hope we don't introduce bugs and such in the future, and thus don't require x.x.1 patches, but you know how it is :)

    Ideally, we'd have a graphical UI that lets you pick and choose portraits and compile a custom-made portrait.mes file. Unfortunately we don't have too many real programmers with lots of spare time here anymore...
     
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  2. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    Hm, I didn't know about the limit. We'll just have to do it the old-fashioned way then and have players install the packs manually. No big yanks, as they say.
     
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  3. Ranth

    Ranth Established Member

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    Unless we can integrate portrait options into TFE. I was thinking something similar to max level options.
     
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  4. VentilatorOfDoom

    VentilatorOfDoom Member

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    your yawn-emoticon regarding this pressing issue has been noted gaear
     
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  5. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    Hey, it's VentilatorOfDoom from the Codex!

    The portrait packs indeed can't really be thought of as a pressing issue, but the yawn was mainly for the familiarity of uninformed complaints coming from the Codex.

    "They modded portraits.mes so heavily that it doesn't work anymore!!!" :dizzy:

    That would be a question for Agetian, but imo this is all just throwing a bone to the 'public,' not a primary thrust behind our modding efforts.
     
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  6. Emirkol the Chaotic

    Emirkol the Chaotic Proud Polytheist

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    Hmm... OK, if the big guy's already got that implemented, could it be used for portrait packs or am I still missing something?

    Acknowledged. Scry's trying to send them over to me as we speak. I'll get ahold of you for further sending instructions once received.
     
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  7. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    Well yes, except that they could only be used for portrait packs if there were no other add-on packs in use. So basically no.

    ~

    Letterbox!

    The BG portraits tend to be more up-close than the IWD ones, which makes the faces already front and center:

    zample_2.jpg

    We still need tp crop the images though in order to meet ToEE's apsect ratio. Guess what? We can handle this in one of two ways!

    Crop the height and maintain the width, for maximum face:

    zample_5.jpg

    Or letterbox, where we retain all of the original image but place it in a box that fits the ToEE aspect ratio. Less face, more black bands:

    zample.jpg

    Game size of both:

    zample_3.jpg zample_4.jpg
     
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  8. Shiningted

    Shiningted I changed this damn title, finally! Administrator

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    Why is she holding her arms up? She looks like she is posing in a swimsuit - thats just weird :dizzy:
     
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  9. Ax Thrower

    Ax Thrower Blood Lust

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    She is holding a mace or some type of weapon... you can just see the shaft behind her head
     
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  10. erkper

    erkper Bugbear Monk Supporter

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    With this particular portrait, I don't really like either cropping style...

    But I would go with maintaining the width and not the black borders as a general style.
     
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  11. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    I don't like the black bands either, but the question of her raised arms is a good example of the problem: with the ToEE aspect ratio cropping, it'll be even less clear what she's doing.

    BTW ... Royo is starting to creep me out. It seems that most all of his pictures feature a mostly naked woman with heaving breasts being mounted by a demon or some damn thing. Which, btw, leads me to ask: how are we with naked for the portrait packs? We could isolate the images to the face to conceal Royo nakedness (which would be most of the time), but that sort of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?

    My own opinion, after some consideration, is that we should retain the nudity (because that's what Royo's all about), and if we're worried about appearing to be purveyors of smut, simply call the portrait pack "RoyoPack(nudity)." That way, if junior is playing ToEE and Mommy is supervising his play, she'll know without having to be a detective that Royo is not for him. But adults who actually want that stuff can still have it. And it's an elective add-on anyway - we're not peddling it in the Co8 mod itself.

    I vaguely recall a very bitter thread sometime in the past where the topic of nudity was discussed, so please don't start arguing that again here. Just yea or nay and diplomatic reasons why.
     
    Gaear, Oct 9, 2009
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  12. GuardianAngel82

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    I told her to "Get her hands up!".

    And she said "You mean like THIS?".

    Then I woke up naked with a splitting head ache... :dizzy:
     
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  13. wizgeorge

    wizgeorge Prophet of Wizardy

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    The Royo pack, steelwraith, at SP doesn't have the nudity and boobs. Already cropped and sized ready to go. Exp: Royo04(MyFruella).
     

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  14. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    Doesn't have boobs? :blink:

    I know that the SP pack has no nudity, but some of those pictures are head-cropped like I described above. Also, there are a variety of other Royo images available (most of them seemingly nude), and there's no need to limit the pack to 36 images. (The IWD pack will have 83. The BG pack will have 48.)

    And like I stated above, I want to start with fresh (not treated by others in unknown ways) source material, so they're being redone anyway.
     
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  15. wizgeorge

    wizgeorge Prophet of Wizardy

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    Sounds good to me.
     
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