Change character portrait.

[+Marius+]

Greetings,

when i start the campaign my faction heir has a portrait that I do not like.
Is there a way to change his portrait before starting the campaign?

[Caesar Clivus]

This works for the campaign script but I assume it works for starting characters too.

1. Assuming you have already chosen the portrait you want to change him to, open SS6.3\data\ui\custom_portraits and create a new folder. Remember the name. You need 3 files in that folder:

portrait_young.tga
portrait_old.tga
portrait_dead.tga

2. Open up SS6.3\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign\descr_strat.txt
3. Find the character whose portrait you want to change. At the end of the first line you need to add ", portrait " and then the name of the folder you just created. So

character    Henry, named character, age 24, x 132, y 83, portrait henry_portrait

[+Marius+]

Thank you very much!

[The Source]

what about when we are dealing with vannila portraits?

[Drannon]

shouldn't matter the game tends to look for the custom portrait first, from what i have seen. As long as u follow Caesar Clivus's info on the matter it should work for vannila too.

[Caesar Clivus]

what about when we are dealing with vannila portraits?

It still works if you want to choose which vanilla portrait a starting character uses. However you need to unpack them first.

[The Source]

how do i do that?

[AJStoner]

The portraits are numbered, so just find the one you want to use and create a folder for it in data/ui/custom_portraits as Caesar Clivus explained in post #2. Use the same portrait number for the young, old, and dead folders.

The vanilla portraits are in data/ui/southern_european*/portraits. *Or middle_eastern if you are looking for those. The southern_european folder is the default location for ui items.

[Noobio]

talking of portraits...can someone link a resourse to custom-made portraits, if there is any ? be it vanilla-based or whatever ..

also, if someone knows of a resourse with crop-layers (in tga form, preferably) of hair-styles, beards and random faces to use for making these portraits, it would be the most helpful!

thanks