Custom Portraits?

[Bloodilicious]

I've been looking like crazy for custom portaits for Arcanum with little luck.
The ones I used way back seem to be lost or dead links.
For anyone else searching out there, these are the ones I found:

http://terra-arcanum.com/downloads/arcanum/doa/portraits1.zip

https://www.moddb.com/mods/hall-of-champions

Unfortunately I don't find these pictures appealing enough for me.
If anyone have other links to portraits that work, I'd love it if you shared your wisdom and knowledge.

Thank you for your time.

[Johnny Casey]

Considering the vast majority of people will have absolutely no idea where to even unpack these pre-made custom portraits, I think you'd know the answer already.

[Bloodilicious]

I have actually managed to learn how to make portraits myself, as well as how to make them work in the game.

I found the information here; https://www.gog.com/forum/arcanum_of_steamworks_and_magick_obscura/extra_arcanum_portraits_custom_made_by_leonidusx/page1

And in case the thread somehow stops working or gets deleted I'll copy the relevant information here.

This was written by Hammer49 on the gog forum.

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It's not too difficult to make your own portraits. You just need GIMP (freeware) or Photoshop and an image to work with. The instructions that tell you how to import custom portraits can be found in Arcanum/Documents/portrait.txt, and the portraits themselves must be stored in Arcanum/Data/Portrait (you may need to create the "Portrait" folder if it doesn't exist already).

For the portraits to be accepted, the following conditions must be met:
- the larger portrait must be 128x128 pixels
- the smaller portrait must be 64x64 pixels
- the portraits must be 256-color bitmaps (bit-depth: 8)
- the title of the portrait must begin with an appropriate prefix, such as HUM for human male, eg. "HUMcustom.bmp"
- the title of the larger portrait must end with the suffix "_b", eg. "HUMcustom_b.bmp"
- a message file (.mes) must be created in the "Portrait" folder which contains a list of user portraits. The following syntax must be used:
{1}{HUMcustom}
{2}{HUMcustom2}
{3}{HUMcustom3}
etc.
To create the message file, open a new text file and write your list, then save the file as "userport.mes" (making sure that "All Files" is selected in the drop-down menu instead of the default ".txt").

Again, I would recommend using GIMP or Photoshop to create the portraits. If you create 256-color bitmaps in MS Paint, the quality is severely degraded.

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I personally used IrfanView instead of GIMP or Photoshop since I found it way more user friendly.
It only took me a few minutes to learn how it worked and make my own portrait.
Hopefully this will help someone else as well.

[TeamMorden]

Incredibly helpful - your guide worked! I used MS Paint to crop and resize a base image, then IrfanView to save it in the appropriate quality and depth. Thanks again!

[frostyshad]

Interesting, I hope it will work.

[forkshovedspoon]

Necropost but maybe crop some of these? https://www.artstation.com/garyl22
Lots of AI gen stuff out now.