Has anyone successfully changed portraits??

[Dol Guldur]

It depends what culture is mapped to your RB faction. By default it is roman. SO RB uses Roman portraits.

If you want your RB generals to have the Roman rogue portraits then you just use them in the generals' folders instead - but all your other factions drawing off the Roman culture will also get them.

If there is a culture you are not using you could assign the RBs to that and then copy the rogues over.

The files are all in the UI folder of the pak files (or in the BI data\UI (which is not packed) folder for the new cultures).

[satanea juda]

hmm dam, i never thought of the cross reference of potraits, if the greek slot is open in bi i'm not using it so i can switch them to there?. is there a tutorial? I've done a bit of editing on portraits eg; charles manson, peter cushing, jim morrison, and few others, as random generels/rouges for my satanic faction.

thanks for the help, sorry for the hi-jack.

Sj..

[Dol Guldur]

When resizing a portrait to a card image one is left with an image that shows the same properties, apart from the dimensions, as the portrait.

However, some other step must be necessary in order to switch off the background (cards have a black background if you look in the fiiles, which is transparent in-game). Can anyone tell me what needs to be done to the portrait (something to do with the alpha layer I suspect) other than a resize in order to make it the same as vanilla cards?

I have PSP, but any instructions would be useful and most appreciated.

Thx.

[Dol Guldur]

I have located the error.

It seems that, although CA alpha-layered all the Barbarian and Eastern portraits, it neglected to do so with the Roman and Greek (have not tested others).

So before you go through the Roman and Greek portraits, picking and choosing, and renumbering over 478 images and then doing the same for the old portrait counterparts (let alone the rogues and civilians too!) do be advised that you cannot then resize them and have them look right in-game :(

Gah, another huge time-consuming task for me...