Additional Portraits (CLOSED)

**Vindahl** · June 22, 2008, 11:32 AM

VERSION 2.

This is a small mod, that adds a lot of new portraits to the game...
There really isnt much to say, else than, try it out, and see if it is something you might like...

For the new Version 2., the following thing has been added...
- Portraits in both a Young and a Old version

The mod is also save-game comfortable...

Here are a couple of screenshots...

You can no longer download this mod

To install you just place the files in your original M2TW folder... Some of the files need to go into the original data folder and some will have to end up in the SS folder...
You can easily remove the files again, if you dont like the mod...

Credits go to y2day

**y2day** · June 22, 2008, 11:53 AM

Thanks Vindahl for fixing these. Alot of work for some portraits, but they look great. +rep my friend.

Anyone that downloaded portraits from my Unit Card thread or the Y&Y VIP download Vinddahls fix and give him some rep. It was alot of time consuming work to fix these.

**MightyMak** · June 22, 2008, 12:16 PM

I'm definitely liking these. I was getting tired of seeing the same 10 portraits. +rep

**Brewskii** · June 22, 2008, 09:45 PM

very nice, but one question, did you make new potraits for all factions?

**Vindahl** · June 23, 2008, 02:38 AM

Originally Posted by brewskii

very nice, but one question, did you make new potraits for all factions?

Yes, Every faction has new portraits... They are divided, like a lot of other things, into 4 cultures...
Eastern Europe has gotten their own, which means that the eastern factions share these new "eastern" portraits...
Middle East has their own portraits, and this is then all the arabic and turkish factions...
And the same thing goes for the Northern and the Southern Europe... It works both in the late and in the early era...

**DenniZ** · June 24, 2008, 11:58 AM

thanks man +rep

**ignasigh** · June 26, 2008, 09:26 AM

Hi

Great looking portraits!! Will you release the "old" & "young" version? It will be greaT!

**Vindahl** · June 27, 2008, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by ignasigh

Hi

Great looking portraits!! Will you release the "old" & "young" version? It will be greaT!

Hi... Glad you like them...

I have for fun tried to manipulate one of the portraits, VERY QUICKLY from young to old... As I only have these pics in one version I have to create the old/young opposite by hand...
It's something I can try to pull, it will take some time though...?

This is not a very detailed try to make him look old, I just did this very briefly to make an examble...

**y2day** · June 26, 2008, 11:29 AM

Old and Young portraits are possable. Maybe not with these portraits but with new ones. I found a tool that can create them. Thinking about doing some for future VIP release.

**ignasigh** · June 27, 2008, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by y2day

Old and Young portraits are possable. Maybe not with these portraits but with new ones. I found a tool that can create them. Thinking about doing some for future VIP release.

So...am I VIP???

Another question, can you update female portraits too? I find some of them really annoying. Children portraits are good for me.

**y2day** · June 27, 2008, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by ignasigh

So...am I VIP???

Visual Improvement Pack or VIP, check it out here.

**Master Zuma** · June 27, 2008, 11:49 AM

Nice!!!!!!!!

**Vindahl** · June 27, 2008, 12:04 PM

And here is an examble of an old portrait, which I try to make "young"...

I think I will try to work a little on this an make this portraits... As I said earlier, it will take some time, but I will try to make it fast and still good-looking...

As far for the Princesses portraits, I have worked on my own game just to fix the problem with dead princesses still showing as a colored picture, and I think I have solved that, but it is a lot of programming, and that is not my strongest side, so I will not make any new portraits for princesses in the near future... But I'll concentrate on these "old/young" portraits instead...

**ignasigh** · June 27, 2008, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by Vindahl

And here is an examble of an old portrait, which I try to make "young"...

I think I will try to work a little on this an make this portraits... As I said earlier, it will take some time, but I will try to make it fast and still good-looking...

As far for the Princesses portraits, I have worked on my own game just to fix the problem with dead princesses still showing as a colored picture, and I think I have solved that, but it is a lot of programming, and that is not my strongest side, so I will not make any new portraits for princesses in the near future... But I'll concentrate on these "old/young" portraits instead...

You're great

I'm not trying to offend female characters

but they are not as important as males are, so it's enough changing males

**Vindahl** · June 27, 2008, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by ignasigh

You're great

I'm not trying to offend female characters

but they are not as important as males are, so it's enough changing males

Thanks...

Yeah, I get you, male characters are more "central" in the game... It's just the way the game is made...

I tested the new young/old portraits, and they work fine... So, the technically is ok now... I go to work with the graphic part then...

**Vindahl** · June 28, 2008, 12:08 PM

---UPDATE---

So... I have used the last two days to change these portraits into versions of both old and young... I tested it, and it works fine...
I uploaded a new version of this "mod", called it Version 2.
You can find it at the first post...
Enjoy...

**y2day** · June 27, 2008, 12:00 PM

That looks great Vindahl. Very good for just real quick

**Master Zuma** · June 29, 2008, 07:45 AM

awesome +ep

P.S.
Can i use it in Zuma mod 3

**Vindahl** · June 29, 2008, 08:12 AM

One small thing anoys me though... These new portraits take some of the old ones' places in the game. There still is some of the old ones, but still, not them all... I would like to have both old and new ones availeble...
So, I tried to change the "numbers" of these new portraits to extend the origanally ones, isntead of overwriting them... However, that resulted in that the game could not understand and would not use any of the new ones...
I guess that it has somethign to do that the game is scripted to only use portraits with a "number" between 000 and 110!

I am no programmer, so I like to ask any of you intelligent people who might know how to change the script so that the game will read all portraits... In other words, to change the numbers to something like 000-300 so we can have all portraits availeble?
Hope you understand what I mean... So if you can help, please let me know, so we can change this add-on to everyones best... Thanks!

Originally Posted by Master Zuma

Can i use it in Zuma mod 3

Well, I guess so... I doent think I have it myself, but unless Zuma Mod 3 also has something which changes portraits, I doent think there is a problem! I actually think it can be used in all mods!