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Changing the Portrait picture

Heretik

Heretik

Privateer
Storm Modder
Hey guys

I know that I just keep asking more and more questions, but they keep coming up.

I have completed my first AOP skin, but I now want to know how to change your portrait (the picture of you in the upper left, and on the F2 Menu). I want to either do a painting of the character, or just take a screenshot to replace the strange portrait that was given to me. Thanks again.
 
The main portraits are under \RESOURCE\textures\INTERFACES\PORTRAITS\

Remember to make backups!

The file Face_0.tga.tx (Beatrice) Face_1.tga.tx (Blaze) under each of the folders for the different sizes 64, 128, 256. The last one for your health icon is under \RESOURCE\Textures\BATTLE_INTERFACE\PORTRAITS again face_0 or 1 depending on who you need. Just extract them using tx converter. I rename them by size and texture change to keep them organized i.e. face_0-64-BLKSHR.TGA for my newly made Black haired Beatrice using a Shirow painting for the portraits. Once your done just rename them one at a time back to face_0 and convert them back.

By the way, who did you make the new skin and portraits for? I'd love see any new skins and character models made for the game so be sure to post it.

I'll upload my package as soon I figure out how (Never done it before). Any sugestions on uploading?

Hope this helps.
 
Hey guys

thanks for the help windwolf7 - I am at a bit of a standstill though. I'm not using the Beatrice, or Blaze models, so the game seems to assign me a random picture as a portrait (you can see it from the in-game shot). Is there any way that I can make reference to the portrait from the model (like what I did with the HEX editor to refer to the body's texture)? I really don't know what to do because since I used the HEX editor to create an 'orginal' model (it's not actually original, but for the sake of not having my character show up everywhere I changed it) I will need to have it make reference to an original portrait somehow. This isn't as important on my computer I guess as if other people begin to use it.

As for the interest in the skins - wow - I'm excited that you guys are even remotely interested <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bounce.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":b:" border="0" alt="bounce.gif" />

I don't know how to use the lighting within the GM viewer, so they come out really dark, and unfortunately for some reason the screenshot (print screen) came out darker than when I play as well...

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/new_age_heretik/Skin%20Previews/CaptainRedsand3.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/new_age_heretik/Skin%20Previews/CaptainRedsand2.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/new_age_heretik/Skin%20Previews/CaptainRedsand1.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />



and then this one is before I darkened the jacket, and midway through the painting, but this is the skin itself (I dunno, it just felt like the blue was too blue for what I was going for, so I took the TGA and played with the hue/saturation)

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/new_age_heretik/Skin%20Previews/pirate_5copy.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />


As a final note:

I have been working my way through the game, and I have found myself a bit disoriented - so I started to draw a map with all of the islands that I have found so far. While the map is nowhere near complete yet, once I do complete it, and then paint it to make it look all purdy-like, do you think I should post the image?

OH! and when I do make the changes to the character portrait (which I should probably do right now, but I might opt to actually play the game a bit more) I don't know where, or how I would make my skin available to other people....
 
And here's a taste of what the portrait will look like (yeaaaaah... so the texture is supposed to be me.... but what else could I start with? who better to play as in a brand new game than yourself?). unfotunately, I really blow at painting, so we'll see how... err... 'creative' it comes out. hope you like it guys!


<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/new_age_heretik/Skin%20Previews/CaptainRedsand4.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
 
Excellent work on your skinning job, looks VERY nice.

Cap'n Drow
 
Thanks Thomas and Capn' Drow!!!!

That means a lot to me <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":woot" border="0" alt="w00t.gif" />
 
I'm pulling this info from CPT Blackfeet but

\program\characters\ characters_init.c ("open with wordpad")

example:

makeref(ch,Characters[1]); //Blaze Sharp
ch.name = XI_ConvertString("Blaze");
ch.lastname = XI_ConvertString("Sharp");
ch.id = "Blaze";
ch.nation = ENGLAND;
ch.model = "devlin"; // Is this where you changed the model it uses?
ch.sex = "man";

I'm sure if this will work but I recommend you rename your new model the same as blaze's and replace his texture with your new one. (So The game assumes you are using blaze) Be sure hex edit the texture name again. Then you can alter the portraits the way I instructed.

Try it out.
 
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nice very nice can you make it a download?

Reinder
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I will as soon as I'm finished painting the portrait, I deal with how I can get other people to use the portrait (I haven't tried windwolf7's suggestion yet... I need to finish painting it), and then.. well... once I figure out how to make it a download... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blush.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":eek:ops" border="0" alt="blush.gif" />
 
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nice very nice can you make it a download?

Reinder
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I will as soon as I'm finished painting the portrait, I deal with how I can get other people to use the portrait (I haven't tried windwolf7's suggestion yet... I need to finish painting it), and then.. well... once I figure out how to make it a download... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blush.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":eek:ops" border="0" alt="blush.gif" />
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Again, awesome work, Heretik. I'm looking forward to your release. You should also send it over to Cyberops so he can add it to the Supermod. **grins**

Cap'n Drow
 
WWWOOOHOOO!

I finished my portrait here she is:

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/new_age_heretik/Skin%20Previews/Redsand256copy.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

Now to start messing around with that HEX editor...
 
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