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    Default Adding General Portraits

    Hi. I was wondering if there is anyway to add a edited General portriat to the game so it will show up on the generals portriat card? Is there anyone that can help me or tell me how to add the portriat?

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    Finder of Little Oddities Senior Member Makanyane's Avatar
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    Default Re: Adding General Portraits

    This should be in Modding Questions and not Modding Discussion

    You can alter the portraits with any image editing program that will open .tga files. If you are using Rome Total War you won't be able to see the portraits until you unpack the UI files from the .paks. For BI some portraits are visible in ui/culture/portraits file. Note that there are 6 portraits for each general, 2 different sizes, young, old and dead. If you alter one you should alter the same number file in the other folders so he is consistent.

    In RTW and BI you can not assign a specific portrait to a specific general but the game does seem to always use them in a pre-set order. so if you can work out which file is being used for the first general in descr_strat you can change that portrait.
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    Do you know of any programs that open tga. files?

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    Paint shop pro and Photoshop elements - reasonable price
    Photoshop full version - expensive
    Gimp = free

    probably a lot more that isn't a very high tech file type.
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    After I download one of those programs, What file do i open and waht do i do with it? (i am not the best at modding games).

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    I have another question, is it possible to put the portraits of Rome Toatal War into Mideval II toatal war?

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    Finder of Little Oddities Senior Member Makanyane's Avatar
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    Default Re: Adding General Portraits

    have answered other question in modding questions thread, you should be able to put RTW pics in M2TW. File structure is a bit different think M2 only has the larger size portrait files and doesn't use smaller 'card' ones. If you re-name the M2 portraits folder to something else, so you don't overwrite it, and copy the equivalent RTW one in that should work hopefully.
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    Thread closed and moved to Modding Questions. Please ask any further questions in the other thread.

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