A question on swapping portraits

[Reenk Roink]

Hello,

I have a question on changing portraits of family members. I did a search, but really did not get the answer I was looking for.

What I want to do is change some of my family member portraits (Macedon) to other portraits of the same culture (I'd prefer if my bald general rather have a headful of hair).

This is for the beginning of a vanilla campaign (version 1.0).

I don't really know much of modding (only tinkered with the descr_strat and export_descr_units files a bit) so I would appreciate it if your directions were infantile .

Also, do I have to download a PAK editor to view the portraits?

Thanks in advance

[Reenk Roink]

No one can help?

[Atilius]

Reenk,

I think this is what you want:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=58887

If you're still stuck after looking through this, reply and I'll try to help.

[Reenk Roink]

Thank you for your answer, I'll try it out tommorow and see what happens.

Thanks again

[Hans Kloss]

I don't think there is any way of assigning certain portraits to family members as discussed in few other threads on this forum.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=51549


There is a way around it if you extract PAK files.You would need to start campaign and see what portrait has been assigned to your character.Take a screeshot of family tree or even better page with general's traits.Go to UI and find folders containing pictures of your generals.Here is where a tricky part starts: finding correct generals tga file- this is where your screenshoot taken earlier comes handy.If I remeber right there a least 100+ images to go through and some look very similar.All tga files have their numbers -in order to have different picture for your general you need to change the number, so your image has got the same number as portrait seen in campaign.I had my Seleucid character pictured as Eastern Diplomat,choice is yours.And finally you need to delete ui_0.pak file or new picture would not appear.

[Reenk Roink]

I don't think there is any way of assigning certain portraits to family members as discussed in few other threads on this forum.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=51549


There is a way around it if you extract PAK files.You would need to start campaign and see what portrait has been assigned to your character.Take a screeshot of family tree or even better page with general's traits.Go to UI and find folders containing pictures of your generals.Here is where a tricky part starts: finding correct generals tga file- this is where your screenshoot taken earlier comes handy.If I remeber right there a least 100+ images to go through and some look very similar.All tga files have their numbers -in order to have different picture for your general you need to change the number, so your image has got the same number as portrait seen in campaign.I had my Seleucid character pictured as Eastern Diplomat,choice is yours.And finally you need to delete ui_0.pak file or new picture would not appear.

Hello, thanks for your response, I tried this but the picture would not change. I changed both the old and young portraits, but the same picture remained...

When I deleted ui_0.pak, the game CTD'd...