Personalised portraits?

[Dan]

Is there a way to create/use personalised portraits for leaders in the game? I'm working on an idea of giving every major power historical generals/admirals instead of generic ones, while I'm working on the events I had this idea and was thinking if it was possible/practical to do so.

[whatamidoing]

https://vic2.paradoxwikis.com/List_of_effects#define_general
Doesn't look like there's an argument for portraits there.

[Dan]

I see, but looking in the files there's a folder with the leader's portraits and in the OOB files there's a line for "picture" and in HFM for instance, there are some unique ones.

[whatamidoing]

If HFM is doing what you want to do, you should look at the mod files and find the relevant bits that you want to base your stuff off of.

[Dan]

The only thing I saw was the personalised portraits in the folder, but I don't know if it's possible to create/edit one.

[whatamidoing]

I'm assuming they're only used for the generals defined in the history files that exist at the start of the game. If not, idk, you'd have to dig through the mod to find out how it's done.

[Dan]

It seems so, I tested and with events to create generals the portrait the leader gets is always random. It seems that there isn't a way to choose specific ones for each general and that's a pity indeed. Knowing this kind of ruined my idea for a mod.

[whatamidoing]

The portraits are hardly a big deal to me, but then neither are historical generals. Kinda defeats the randomness of the game making you deal with the hand you're dealt as well as any leadership modifiers.

[Dan]

I'm not a big fan of "sandbox" games and that's why I usually play using HFM etc. I think immersion is a very important aspect of any historical game. That's why these things are important to me, but if you're ok with that that's ok for me as well, I just pointed out that's a pity for me as I won't be able to make the mod I had been thinking of. In any case I'm still working on the project of adding historical generals through events, but unfortunately I won't be able to give them historical portraits.