Tired of portraits not showing...

[Legacy_SuperFly_2000]

               Although it is cool that you can choose whatever portrait you want I think it is better if we could all decide on some portrait packs or similar that most could use.

Perhaps even something like a Community Portrait Pack would be cool hehe....

What I am talking about is high quality portraits that are somewhat coherent with the default game design (most PW portraits pack I've seen so far does not qualify in my personal oppinion.)

I think for us PW players to be able to see the portraits they need to be in our portraits folder (there are other ways but this is the most important one).

So...lets throw together a pack.

I know CEP released a lot of good portraits with one of the releases...don't remember exactly which one now....and also theese portraits did not come with later releases (or maybe they did but not as standalone files).

Then we have the Project Q portraits. They are good as well although not as many.

Any more high quality portrait packs?

Lastly I just want to tip everyone to use the unlocks for portraits and soundsets. Theese two cute 2da files that you put in you override will make it possible to choose from and NPC and monster portraits and soundsets as well as the normal ones. This is very good as theese resources are standard games resources and visible by anyone.

Now again...I know its coolz0r that you can use any portraits...but I really urge all players to really look at what is avaliable more in a "standard" way and then only choose a custom portraits if that is not avaliable for the enjoyment and ease of all.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Shadooow]

               Im the one that is very comfortable with default portrait selection actually, found out that every portrait packs on vault are trying to provide as much portrait as possible with no quality sorting.

Imo the less the better, the more general the better. Project Q did it alright.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_kalbaern]

               The problem with most portraits that folk download from NWN Vault is that no consistant naming conventions are used. I've long, long considered making a decent mega pack from my own Portrait folder but just haven't had the time. It'd be nice to have only male dwarf pics appear when I make one and female halflings when thats chosen, etc... .

A big problem would be getting folks to adapt it though. Most PWs would need to create an NPC or Convo so a PC could change their portraits to match the hak/override used. Even then, most players wouldn't care if it doesn't affect what they see on their own screens.

Even when a specific PW has a portrait pack they endorse, I've found that more often than not, parts of one PW's pack override anothers.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Karvon]

               Another problem is  some portrait pack authors do rename portraits which has led to having multiple copies of the same portrait in my collection.