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The Layonara Community => Ask A Gamemaster => Topic started by: Stephen_Zuckerman on October 24, 2007, 09:48:51 AM

Title: Trouble With Portrait
Post by: Stephen_Zuckerman on October 24, 2007, 09:48:51 AM: Well, I recently edited Pyyran's portrait (albeit rather badly), and when I tried tossing it into my NWN, the game protested and started crashing each time I tried to start it up. When I removed the portraits, it decided to behave.

Now, I have two questions/requests.

The first is, does anyone know what the problem here is?

The second is, can anyone edit Pyyran's standard portrait for me? It's in the pack, and called something like po_hu_m_Hagen. What I'm going for is much paler skin, grey eyes instead of blue, grey hair with a streak of white behind the right ear, and a starry night sky instead of the setting sun.

My hack job on the portrait might've looked alright in Medium and Small, but huge would've been ugly. And is.

Here's the link to my hack job. YouSendIt - Send large files - transfer delivery - FTP Replacement (http://download.yousendit.com/04C31D3D56CB2541)
Title: Re: Trouble With Portrait
Post by: Xirion on October 24, 2007, 10:53:16 AM: Have you tried to start a single player game witht hat portrait? Or when does NWN crash?
Title: Re: Trouble With Portrait
Post by: Stephen_Zuckerman on October 24, 2007, 10:57:34 AM: Hm. I don't rightly recall. Let me check.
Title: Re: Trouble With Portrait
Post by: Stephen_Zuckerman on October 24, 2007, 11:02:16 AM: Right. So, it crashes whenever I try to load the portraits in a new character or character I'm customizing.
Title: Re: Trouble With Portrait
Post by: Xirion on October 24, 2007, 11:16:13 AM: *curses at his computer* Somehow my programm isnt working anymore, so neither can I say much to this nor modify the image for you...

All I can say it seems you renamed the files corecctly and the format is right too... Sorry, try to get my other programm running :/
Title: Re: Trouble With Portrait
Post by: bytor on October 24, 2007, 11:30:05 AM: It seems to me NWN doesn't have much love for RLE compression in TGAs. Can you try saving the portraits without it?
Title: Re: Trouble With Portrait
Post by: Stephen_Zuckerman on October 24, 2007, 12:23:25 PM: ... How?
Title: Re: Trouble With Portrait
Post by: darkstorme on October 24, 2007, 12:36:50 PM: What'd you use to edit the files in the first place?
Title: Re: Trouble With Portrait
Post by: bytor on October 24, 2007, 01:13:23 PM: Should be an option somewhere. Gimp asks about it upon file saving, no idea about PhotoSuite... Anyway, think these (http://www.box.net/shared/s91mrp7z1t) should work.
Title: Re: Trouble With Portrait
Post by: Stephen_Zuckerman on October 24, 2007, 01:15:53 PM: Paint Shop Pro 8. I'll go in and fiddle with the file format.

Edit: Hey! You rock.
Title: Re: Trouble With Portrait
Post by: kenty191 on October 24, 2007, 03:07:59 PM: Yep it is to do with the compression I've had this problem before, but not all image editors have the option to change/remove it.