Nah you're no dumbass, I think in the past there was a root folder named "all Current Portraits" but I rearranged it so it doesn't exist anymore. If I ever update the pack again I'll make sure to rewrite the Read Me properly.
Basically though just after mentioning "All Current Portraits" it mentions three folders and those are "Portraits" "Portraits - Army" and "Portraits - NPC", they're the actual folders that matter so if you find those you're good.
This is incredible. Helps the immersion so much, and not with varying levels of quality or style like some other mods. Love how the portraits actually fit the game's description... I absolutely love it! I'm excited just to meet new NPCs now just because of this mod! It was so hard to connect with the characters when they had no portrait (which was a ton of them, unfortunately).
So just starting to try and use this, could you show how the paste structure goes? Or the file path? I'm a little confused? An example picture might help
If you go back to page 5 of comments and scroll down I've explained in detail how to install with a couple of screenshots to someone else, it might help you.
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.
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If anyone runs into issues let me know it in here.
Basically though just after mentioning "All Current Portraits" it mentions three folders and those are "Portraits" "Portraits - Army" and "Portraits - NPC", they're the actual folders that matter so if you find those you're good.
Although it is a diverse array of art I did go through a lot of work to try and match them in quality and style so It's nice that's appreciated
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!