portrait reference files

**Ahlerich** · February 23, 2010, 09:11 AM

i wanna make custom portraits for european generals

which text files relate to the portraits..

in other words which diles do i have to edit to reference to my new portraits?

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**Agis Tournas** · February 23, 2010, 10:02 AM

If you want to use custom portraits you have to do the following:
1) Go to Medieval II Total War\mods\DLV_ext\data\UI folder
2) Look for custom portraits folder. If there not such a folder create it.
3) Copy there your custom portraits (one for young, one for old and one for dead)
4) Open the descr_strat.txt and next to the character you want to use the custom portrait, add the custom_portrait XXX code
You are ready to use your custom portraits in-game.
Cheers
Agis

**Ahlerich** · February 23, 2010, 10:12 AM

excellent, thx a lot!

**Agis Tournas** · February 23, 2010, 10:18 AM

You're welcome, my friend
I am glad that I had been useful

**bardock85** · February 26, 2010, 04:17 PM

To Agis,

What do you mean by custom_portrait "XXX" code, what is the "XXX"?

**Agis Tournas** · February 28, 2010, 05:02 AM

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--- PHASE I
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Locate the Medieval II Total War\mods\DLV_ext\data\UI\ folder
Create a folder named custom_portraits
Let's say you want to make custom portraits for Emperor Manuel I Komnenos
Create a folder named Manuel inside Medieval II Total War\mods\DLV_ext\data\UI\custom_portraits\
Place/create the following three files inside the Manuel folder:
- portrait_dead.tga
- portrait_old.tga
- portrait_young.tga

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--- PHASE II
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Locate the Medieval II TW DLV\mods\DLV_ext\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign\ folder
Open the descr_strat.txt file
Search for Manuel Komnenos and you will see the following lines:

Code:

 character Manuel Komnenos, named character, male, leader, age 45, x 369, y 165
traits Factionleader 1, GoodCommander 2, NaturalMilitarySkill 1, GoodDefender 1, Intelligent 2, ReligionStarter 1, CharacterAges 1, TurnsAlive 3, PresentAtGameStart 1
ancillaries crown_greeks, taticius

Add the following code to the first line: portrait Manuel
So the character Manuel Komnenos should look like this:

Code:

character Manuel Komnenos, named character, male, leader, age 45, x 369, y 165, portrait Manuel
traits Factionleader 1, GoodCommander 2, NaturalMilitarySkill 1, GoodDefender 1, Intelligent 2, ReligionStarter 1, CharacterAges 1, TurnsAlive 3, PresentAtGameStart 1
ancillaries crown_greeks, taticius

You are ready

ENJOY!

**bardock85** · February 28, 2010, 09:30 AM

Thanks Agis! But another question, Is this portrait change going to work for both Historical and Main Campaigns?

again thanks for replying

**Agis Tournas** · February 28, 2010, 09:59 AM

You're welcome my friend...
I haven't looked at it, but I guess it works for the Historical Campaign, too.

**drogoth232** · February 28, 2010, 10:33 AM

Its bardocks brother. He says thanks a lot. Even though for some reason we did this a gazillion times before it works this time... We would rep you if we could.....

**Black Knight** · October 22, 2010, 10:49 PM

I'm having a problem with princess portraits. I create a folder where I put the young, old and dead pictures. I add the lines to descr_strat... And it seems to work fine, but when I marry the princess to a general, the portrait doesn't appear in the family tree (the default "wife.tga" picture shows up instead). With princesses that have a random picture this doesn't happen.

Is there a way to solve this?