Animated Portraits stopped working after 1.5.1 patch

[Corvus White]

The character I'm playing is animated, but everyone else is just Still. I tried turning the option off and back on, no luck fixing it.

[Morven]

Try disabling all your mods and see if it works. A mod is causing portraits to vanish in my save, they all reappear when I disable all mods, and I'm not which one; disabling the high-suspect mods didn't fix it, and I'm left with around 60 mods that could be causing it.

[Corvus White]

I always play without mods. =/

[arcain]

same for me! I dont use any mods. All animations und portraits are bugged. I will try to reinstall.

[Corvus White]

Let me know if that works please!

[Taro]

I have the same issue, where only my own portrait and every portraits of characters in the background (if 2 people displayed) are animated, but not the characters in the front. If I click on the character in the background (ex. the wife of a character), then the one that was not animated becomes animated because it's in background, and the one that is now in front doesn't work anymore.

Portraits in the Council tab are all animated.

No mods, tried to start a fresh game as well.

New edit, I found a strange thing. If I am on the Paper Map when I select a location, then all the portraits (Foreground and Background) are animated. It only works when on the Paper Map. If I am on the paper map and then zoom on the map while still displaying the portraits, then the behavior is bugged as described above again.

However, some characters seem to not be affected by this issue and are always animated, whatever the zoom level. But it seems there is a bug with the Political Map zoom level, which stops the portraits animation.

[GabWinter]

I disable all my mods and start testing one by one and all of them cause this.... it is crazy

[Morven]

Before you test mods one-by-one try disabling all mods to see if it fixes the problem, if it doesn't, then you don't have to waste your time testing each mod one-by-one because it means there's something wrong with vanilla, which seems to be the case.

[Corvus White]

@Taro, good find. Ya, once I zoom out far enough, people become animated. Edit: It is pretty annoying having to zoom out and double click on people to get them movin, hope it gets fixed soon.

[Morven]

For any gui modders or mods that have vanishing portraits:

The fix for vanishing portraits in v1.5.1 is to change "portrait_head_small_cached" to "portrait_head_small". It appears that "portrait_head_small_cached" has been depreciated and replaced in v1.5.1 with "portrait_head_small".

[KharnTheKhan]

Originally posted by Scorpbeast:

The character I'm playing is animated, but everyone else is just Still. I tried turning the option off and back on, no luck fixing it.

delete your appdata location for ck3? or the documents folder?

[rossobianco]

the issue seems to be connected with the character portrait pin on the map. Once this disappears, either by zooming or scrolling out, or by going from realms to duchy/kingdom/empire titles mode, characters are animated again.

[jerrypocalypse]

Originally posted by rossobianco:

the issue seems to be connected with the character portrait pin on the map. Once this disappears, either by zooming or scrolling out, or by going from realms to duchy/kingdom/empire titles mode, characters are animated again.

This is what I've noticed as well. Sucks, but nothing too crazy

[Morven]

Originally posted by rossobianco:

the issue seems to be connected with the character portrait pin on the map. Once this disappears, either by zooming or scrolling out, or by going from realms to duchy/kingdom/empire titles mode, characters are animated again.

v1.5.1 can't display the same portrait twice, the small portrait in the map pin or in a notification, and the main portrait in the character screen, without freezing both. Same animation freeze is affecting character portraits when the same character appears in a small portrait in a message in the Configurable News Feed mod (probably in vanilla messages too).

[Morven]

I've got a fix. I'll upload it as a mod and explain it there. I expect Paradox will have to do a patch very soon.

[Morven]

Fix is up
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2776769431

The problem is the game can no longer render two portraits at the same time, with one animated (the main character portrait) and the other unanimated (the map pin small portrait). The fix is to make the map pin portrait animated as well.

From \gui\map_icon_layer.gui

#Line 1280 Vanilla
			portrait_button = {
				parentanchor = bottom|hcenter
				size = { 80 100 }
				using = portrait_base
				portrait_texture = "[Character.GetPortrait('environment_head', 'camera_head', 'idle', PdxGetWidgetScreenSize(PdxGuiWidget.Self))]"
				mask = "gfx/portraits/portrait_mask_map.dds"
				effectname = "NoHighlight"

				using = Portrait_Background_Glows
			}

#Line 1280 Modded
			portrait_button = {
				parentanchor = bottom|hcenter
				size = { 80 100 }
				using = portrait_base
				portrait_texture = "[Character.GetAnimatedPortrait('environment_head', 'camera_head', 'idle', PdxGetWidgetScreenSize(PdxGuiWidget.Self))]"
				mask = "gfx/portraits/portrait_mask_map.dds"
				effectname = "NoHighlight"

				using = Portrait_Background_Glows
			}