Quote Originally Posted by TheLastJanissary
I went to early heroes and changed the -1 and every other number too, but the portrait wouldn't change. His name however did, to Ismail and to Yusuf later on. The first number will change his name, but the spot designated for the portrait number will not change the portrait when I change the number. It might be a question of subdirectories, but I figure it should change it to something else, even if it's not what I want, when I change the number. Yet it always stays the same.

I don't want to change the entire portrait set for the Almoravids, because I like the one they have. I just want their starting King to have a black portrait. I've tried making new famous kings and shuffling every number around under the Almoravid famous kings section in Early heroes, but I get no changes. I'm assuming then, that they don't start with a famous king, but when I change the first number of SetStartLeader in Super Early startpos (which is suppose to coordinate with which famous king they start with) nothing changes. I'm baffled.
OK I don't know if this will work but it's worth a try. For whatever reason the Almoravid starting portrait is always the same. It is King68.tga in the muslim/king subdirectory. Maybe it's hard-coded. Change the name of this to the next in the list and add your new portrait to the subdirectory and give it the name King68.tga. If there's a limit to the number of files here the old portrait (or another) will have to be deleted. This workaround (if it does work) will mean you don't have to change any other file.