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Title: Portraits
Post by: darkphoenixII on June 28, 2007, 03:03:29 PM
   So I used IfranView to crop pics for character portraits, and saved them as tga. files in the right places, but in the game they just show up white. They all look perfectly fine in hero editors. What should I do?




                                           -darkphoenixII
Title: Re: Portraits
Post by: Lunarman on June 28, 2007, 10:21:24 PM
I don't know why but have you check alpha? What bit rating did you save it at? 32 is best.
Title: Re: Portraits
Post by: darkphoenixII on June 29, 2007, 06:35:55 AM
    I'm new to this stuff. How do I do that?
Title: Re: Portraits
Post by: Intensity on July 01, 2007, 07:03:55 PM
I find it easier to do the following-

open up an existing character portrait that works using paint.net or photoshop
then open up your picture that you want to make a portrait with using the same program.
Copy and paste that picture into the portrait, changing the sizes of your pic to fit it best.

Then save the portrait file into the character skin folder of your desired hero.

hope this helps.
Title: Re: Portraits
Post by: BatWing on July 01, 2007, 07:43:54 PM
Quote from: Intensity on July 01, 2007, 07:03:55 PM
I find it easier to do the following-

open up an existing character portrait that works using paint.net or photoshop
then open up your picture that you want to make a portrait with using the same program.
Copy and paste that picture into the portrait, changing the sizes of your pic to fit it best.

Then save the portrait file into the character skin folder of your desired hero.

hope this helps.

thats what i did to make portraits :cool:
Title: Re: Portraits
Post by: nite_stalker on July 03, 2007, 06:38:06 AM
You can find an excellent portrait tutorial at http://www.geocities.com/ff_portraits01/index.html which will walk you thru step by step on how to create a portrait. It also has many fine portraits created by Schlomo.
Title: Re: Portraits
Post by: laughing paradox on July 03, 2007, 03:44:38 PM
Whenever I had a problem with creating new portraits, it was because the size proportions were off. It has to be specific. I believe it's 128 x 64 pixels.
Title: Re: Portraits
Post by: Previsionary on July 03, 2007, 06:58:12 PM
It's actually 64 x 128. :P

Anyway, SHJ's tutorial, linked to by nite_stalker, pretty much details everything and offers a buch of images that you can use for portraits.
Title: Re: Portraits
Post by: Lunarman on July 04, 2007, 01:13:42 AM
With FFVTTR the portrait get's stretched so it's needs to be 64x128 in the file but 80x128 when you take the picture, if you get my meaning.
Title: Re: Portraits
Post by: Spring Heeled Jack on July 09, 2007, 09:55:04 AM
Wow. That site is waaaaaaay out of date! 2003!!