I was using a custom portrait and dropping it into the Portraits folder doesn't seem to be restoring it.... do I need to rename the files somehow, or am I misunderstanding the instructions somewhere?
If I'm understanding correctly, it sounds like you're throwing the PNGs in the "Portraits" folder instead of the correct character's subfolder.
You have to drop the PNG files on: ...\Portraits\CustomNpcPortraits - "YourCharacterName"
And the name of the files itself needs to be "Fulllenght.png", "Medium.png" and "Small.png". For Companion and Player portraits you need all three of them and they need to be the appropriate size otherwise they do not show up in-game.
I`ve been using this mod for a while, years i think and i`m just about to start a lich playtrough, may i ask why ciar undead has the default ? portraits in his folder?
I just downloaded fresh to make sure I didn't make a mistake on my end and the folders are fine.
There's a separate folder in "Portraits" for Ciar - Undead which is empty (the game properly fills it out, in my experience; you can also manually put the PNGs there if it doesn't) and the Ciar folder shouldn't have an "Undead" sub-folder.
I recommend, if that's the case, to delete the Ciar folders and re-adding them using the newest version of the pack.
Thanks so much for this. Though need to ask this in advance if something breaks when I start messing around with adding other images, but where should the backup images be placed in order to fix them?
The "Custom Npc Portraits" mod is pretty straight forward; it creates folders with the character's name and picks up any manually put PNGs with the appropriate nomenclature ("Fulllenght.png" for companions and player - "Medium.png" for dialogue use - "Small.png" for turn-based combat) and if there is no images in the folder, it should default to vanilla behavior.
The main use for the backup is to give you the ease of manually copying the PNGs from it and pasting into the character's folder if for whatever reason "Custom Npc Portrait" is not defaulting to vanilla automatically (this mostly happens with the player's portrait).
All and all though, there's not much that can "break". At worse, you'll just need to manually move images around and all these images can be found in the the "Organized" version of my pack or here.
Although unlike the other translated packs I do know enough Spanish It would still be quite a lot of work to make one and maintain it, sorry ;/
If you correct the NPCs as you play your game feel free to private message it to me and I'll complete\maintain it for future updates, someone else can also do that and I'll happily aid but otherwise is just too much solo work.
i have a question: is the anyway to edit or change the portraits you get when u shift form as a shifter ? i want to keep my defult pic not the bad werewolf one we get in game
That's more a question for the author of Custom Npc Portrait, but just having a look at Ulbrig's folder there's a shifter sub-folder; check your character's folder after you've transformed them in-game, if no sub-folders are created then I'm not sure how you could go about it since I myself never played a shifter. If the sub-folder IS created, then just drop your 3 PNGs portraits in it.
Firstly, thank you for the pack, game wouldn't feel complete without it! Could you kindly add an optional pack that doesn't include the companion edits? I'd love to use a more vanilla version of the pack for a full first time playthrough and don't want weird oddities to occur if not using all your folders with certain companion portraits.
I made the "Organized" pack exactly for that, it separates everything into folders and subfolders allowing you to build the pack however way you like without having to go through each individual character (or spoiler yourself if it is your first time playing).
Download it and copy the "Portrait" "Portraits - Npc" and "Portraits - Army" from whichever of these you'd like. The "Vanilla Art Edits" are the edits i've made to companions and NPCs that already had a portrait, so just don't copy the subfolders from that and you are good.
If all you're trying to avoid are companion edits then just delete (or simply not copy into your game) the "Portraits" folder; "Portraits - Npc" doesn't have companions but it does have some vanilla edits (like Irabeth) so the organized version of the pack is a better option if you'd like to avoid those.
You can also manually delete the folders of the characters you don't want to pop up in your, Custom Npc Portraits should then load the vanilla portrait automatically if it doesn't find any added PNGs so nothing odd should happen.
Delete the ones you do not want and allow Custom Npc Portrait to restore them to vanilla by just loading in a save with said companions or you can manually add them by downloading this pack and picking the ones you'd like restored (in case the first solution doesn't work out).
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If anyone runs into issues let me know it in here.
You have to drop the PNG files on:
...\Portraits\CustomNpcPortraits - "YourCharacterName"
And the name of the files itself needs to be "Fulllenght.png", "Medium.png" and "Small.png". For Companion and Player portraits you need all three of them and they need to be the appropriate size otherwise they do not show up in-game.
There's a separate folder in "Portraits" for Ciar - Undead which is empty (the game properly fills it out, in my experience; you can also manually put the PNGs there if it doesn't) and the Ciar folder shouldn't have an "Undead" sub-folder.
I recommend, if that's the case, to delete the Ciar folders and re-adding them using the newest version of the pack.
The main use for the backup is to give you the ease of manually copying the PNGs from it and pasting into the character's folder if for whatever reason "Custom Npc Portrait" is not defaulting to vanilla automatically (this mostly happens with the player's portrait).
All and all though, there's not much that can "break". At worse, you'll just need to manually move images around and all these images can be found in the the "Organized" version of my pack or here.
If you correct the NPCs as you play your game feel free to private message it to me and I'll complete\maintain it for future updates, someone else can also do that and I'll happily aid but otherwise is just too much solo work.
Thank you!
Download it and copy the "Portrait" "Portraits - Npc" and "Portraits - Army" from whichever of these you'd like. The "Vanilla Art Edits" are the edits i've made to companions and NPCs that already had a portrait, so just don't copy the subfolders from that and you are good.
If all you're trying to avoid are companion edits then just delete (or simply not copy into your game) the "Portraits" folder; "Portraits - Npc" doesn't have companions but it does have some vanilla edits (like Irabeth) so the organized version of the pack is a better option if you'd like to avoid those.
You can also manually delete the folders of the characters you don't want to pop up in your, Custom Npc Portraits should then load the vanilla portrait automatically if it doesn't find any added PNGs so nothing odd should happen.
Anyway, any of these options work.
-Edit: It's up, tell me if it's still not working.