Portraits

[darkphoenixII]

   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

[Lunarman]

I don't know why but have you check alpha? What bit rating did you save it at? 32 is best.

[darkphoenixII]

    I'm new to this stuff. How do I do that?

[Intensity]

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.

[BatWing]

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:

[nite_stalker]

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.

[laughing paradox]

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.

[Previsionary]

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.

[Lunarman]

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.

[Spring Heeled Jack]

Wow. That site is waaaaaaay out of date! 2003!!