Custom Race Images bug?

[spiralyguy]

I haven't played in a couple patches, trying it out again as of the 1.4 patch but am having some issues with custom races.

First, I can no longer select foreground/background/portrait images of the minor races, which previously were available by default. I found the images in the steam directory, but they are not .PNG and I don't really want to save-as.png each one of them.

Ok so then I decide to try to make my own images. However, it seems leader foreground and leader portrait are overwriting each other. I can select both and it appears fine, but when I hit save it will only show whichever was selected last. Hit edit and sure enough both portrait and foreground will show whichever one was selected last. I don't think I'm doing anything wrong, is this a known bug with 1.4? I can get them to be separate if I use video's for foreground/background, then the portrait applies just fine, but not when using images.

It wouldn't be so bad if the aspect ratios of foreground and portrait were the same but with one being 16x9 and the other 1x1 it's looking pretty ugly.

[spiralyguy]

Of course I figured it out shortly after posting this, but in case anyone else is experiencing the same problem...

Both images, despite being in different folders, had the same file name. Simply added _small and _FG to their names respectively and it worked fine.

[Rathnaga]

It's like they completely changed the way the portraits are loaded into the game, but didn't bother converting the existing images to the new format, if I'm understanding this correctly. All of the foreground/background images are currently in .dds format in the main client install folder. Yet when choosing to select a custom one in-game, it prompts you to choose a .png file in the My Games\GalCiv3\factions folder.

Could be a bug or an oversight...

[Rathnaga]

I took another look and it definitely seems like they are moving all of the custom race portrait/background stuff over into the My Documents folder, but either forgot to or simply didn't finish doing the backgrounds and foregrounds. I assume this was to have a unified location and filetype for images added through steam workshop and the default game ones.

On the upside, it looks like there are some new race portraits that I've never seen before.

[𝓐𝓭𝓐𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓪]

So. FIxes for this?

[dennisbuskenstrom]

I had the same problem, i exported (made copies of) the relative *.dds files to *.png files (do not rewrite the original *.dds files). It seems to work...
I think the files are located in steam\steamapps\common\galactic civilization III\gfx\factions\...

[Rathnaga]

Originally posted by AdAstra:

So. FIxes for this?

Either you move all the .dds images from the steam install directory over into the my documents folder and convert them all to .png, or you wait for them to fix it. Who knows when that will be?

Me? I just moved/converted the 2 images that I was wanting to use and left the rest alone.

[a0152570]

Good catch, just came across this and was about to investigate when i saw your post .. thanks
P.s. I copied your post to SD support to make sure they were aware