Character Portrait Discussion

[*Naemi]

I can't see my portrait ingame. I use the same code as for other portraits, the others work, but not the new ones. (Halfling goes up to 54, but 55-78 are missing texture) Am I missing something ? Do I need to update a file somewhere ?

[*rapsam2003]

I can't see my portrait ingame. I use the same code as for other portraits, the others work, but not the new ones. (Halfling goes up to 54) Am I missing something ? Do I need to update a file somewhere ?

Not all of the Portraits submitted made it into the update, I'd assume.

[*Naemi]

I can't see my portrait ingame. I use the same code as for other portraits, the others work, but not the new ones. (Halfling goes up to 54) Am I missing something ? Do I need to update a file somewhere ?

Not all of the Portraits submitted made it into the update, I'd assume.

Well, none of them did for me. And they're in the photobucket list. So I imagine there's a bug somewhere.

EDIT : Oh nevermind, portrait.hak is updating now. :lol: Sorry about that.

[*Alersia]

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I thought we stay away from anime pictures?

[*PenguinNinja]

Since when? Lol. I see them all the time.

[*Sinlinara]

Well, sometimes the typical manga style is hard to separate from the personal styles of different artists and the manga style of art isn't even consistent between different artists.

This image in particular I think illustrates how hard it is to nail down any specific style of art.

[*PenguinNinja]

I assume he just didn't want a weeb-storm of anime pictures to flood the gallery.

[*Ceremorph]

Outright anime characters were disallowed, not japanese artists, if I recall Agony's wording correctly.

Well the two pictures Alersia poked at, those are not characters from animes. Those are pictures from the COVERS of an independently produced manga-style book that's not actually made in Japan. But more importantly, they were chosen because despite the art style, they're extremely high quality, whereas you are probably never going to find that sort of quality involving characters from well-known anime. Not to mention that so many are instantly identifiable as "famous" characters, and would fall into the same issue that submitting pictures of Driz'zt or Elminster would.

*Throws a little ball at the group of orcs.* Handmaiden Erinyes, I choose you!

On a side note, I think we're about to the point where, unless the pictures are aimed towards something severely under-represented in the gallery, people probably need to be submitting one or two they're interested in using for their characters rather than "here's 80 pictures of blonde female halflings I found this morning". Sure it's nice to have options, but when it becomes a three-hour chore to sort through all the pictures of halflings to find the one that fits best, things have gotten a bit out of hand.

[*Ceremorph]

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I thought we stay away from anime pictures?

There are already far more "anime-istic" pictures than those. Unrealistic or "chibi" would be bad, but simply deciding "the eyes are a bit wide and the chin is pointed" is a means for exclusion would be a bad place to start; I'll also point out that the first five pictures in that list are all the same artist, but . Particularly as I can point to quite a few we have in that are of lower quality than those.

[*Alersia]

*shrug* I somewhere read about picture rules in the orginal thread but I cant find it now.

If we allow them, iam fine. But be prepared for 200 new pictures :D .