How to: Import your own portrait

[Balkoth]

Just in case you want to prepare ahead of time here's how to do a custom portrait:

https://owlcatgames.com/forums/showthread.php?4521-Custom-portrait-information&p=25970&viewfull=1#post25970

Hi all! About custom portraits. You can prepare three your own portraits with names: Small, Medium and Fulllength. All this images must be saved in PNG format with resolutions:
Small - width: 185px, height: 242px;
Medium - width: 330px, height: 432px;
Fulllength - width: 692px, height: 1024px;

You can use this templates https://imgur.com/a/gtkHk5J

The gameflow looks like:
1. Start New game
2. Choose "Create a new character"
3. Click on icon "Custom portrait".
4. Click on button "Open portraits folder". (It works for Windows and Mac)
5. Replace portraits in opened folder or change it in your graphic redactor.
6. Click "Refresh portraits"
7. Enjoy your own portraits.

Also it works for custom companions.

[Aedram]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Ashar:

Ursprungligen skrivet av Aedram:

Yo, can you change a default portrait to a custom portrait during the gameplay?

I was wondering this too. I thought maybe if we use a custome portrait, then possibly swap out the images in the custom portrait folder, keeping the same names, would the game then use those instead? or does the game make a copy of the portraits and keep them seperate?

Edit: Yup that worked, if you save and exit the game, rename the folder of anotehr portrati with the number you created you character with, it will swap the portraits over. Which is nice.

Yup that works if your character was created with a custom portrait, in this case all you have to do is update the images in the folder the game create, but what if you used one of the portraits the game offers you when you first started? Do the game create a portrait folder as well and you can change the image latter or you are doomed to stay with the game portrait for the rest of the game?

[Edit] Just asking 'cause I created a portrait for my aasimar paladin and didn't wanted to start again xD

[Ralli]

Guide doesnt work for me.
Maybe we need a Vid on Tube to make things clear.

[Eldritch God]

dont have a costum portrait button , help please.

Edit: Ok found it someone should mention that the button is only a tiny litle gold triangle under the vanilla portraits.

[CdrGrimReaper]

OK Here is how I got my Portraits to work,
1. Find a picture
2. Use a Picture editing software, Example: I use basic paint that comes with Windows OS
3. First save the picture as a png before editing
4. Depending on software modify the picture as needed to get three different pictures of three different measurements and three different names:
File Name / Label – Width, Height
Fulllenght – width: 692px, height: 1024px;
Medium – width: 330px, height: 432px;
Small – width: 185px, height: 242px;
The three files you should get would be:
Fulllength.png
Medium.png
Small.png
4. Go to Owlcat Games location in the Users’ LocalLow folder,
My pathway to the respected location as an example below:
"C:\Users\drbso\AppData\LocalLow\Owlcat Games\Pathfinder Kingmaker\Portraits"
5. Select an existing folder in the Portrait folder and open it
6. Delete existing files named Fulllength.png, Medium.png, & Small.png and then put the newly created images with the same names into folder.
7. Basicly thats the end of it other than playing the game and using your new portrait.

[FroBodine]

12 pages of responses and we FINALLY get a full, descriptive, step by step process.

Thank you very much, CdrGrim!! Much appreciated.

[CdrGrimReaper]

Not a problem

[CdrGrimReaper]

Side Note I made a shortcut to my Portrait folder for Kingmaker to simplify the process a bit

[Ashar]

btw, duno what sources your using for custom portraits, but i found wowheads dressing room site very handy, its got lots of options, races very much like the ones in pathfinder, with all clothing available, made some very nice looking gnomes.
https://www.wowhead.com/dressing-room

[L.Slinger]

I use random .png ( Google pathfinder png e.g ) and random backgrounds with pinetools.com overlays future to make good looking portraits.Really Easy to use too.

[Captain Forgenschweizer]

Is there no way to change your selection of a default portrait after you start the game? I just wanted to get started and look for a better picture later but there doesn't seem to be an option for it and I can't find where the default portraits are saved to overwrite it.

[Star Paladin]

As a tip to help those making portraits: The small photo should actually be of the character's head only, and even that will be cut off a bit around the edges (take a look at the NPC heads to see a comparison). The medium portrait should be from the waist up. The Long one from head to toe (not possible on some portraits).

If your photo is too big or too small to make the correct dimentions when cropping (which will be the case with most pictures) you will need to resize the picture before cropping. Depending on the untility your using, the cropping tool (rectangle) should be transparent, and when you enter the dimentions needed for each size, it should be movable so you can adjust it to see how you want to crop.

Lets do an example with the small picture: You set your cropping tool for 185x242, but when you move the rectangle over the picture's head, it's either cutting off half the character's face (the picture is too big), or it's showing the head, neck, and chest (the picture is too small).

What you will have to do (and you'll have to use estimates here), is resize the photo by about a percentage equal to the difference in size. So it the character's head/chest is showing in the small rectangle, you probably need to increase the picture about 60% (make sure aspect ratio is toggled on). If it's not right, undo, and resize again accordingly.

The good news is, once you resize the picture for the head shot, the other two size shots are usually the correct size too now.

Bad news is, if you have to resize up, the picture may get blurry. Sizing down usually works ok.

[Усы Л. Каневского]

I have screwed up big time assigning same portrait folder to two characters so they essentially look the same now. Is there any way to reassign the portraits to characters or do I have to restart the whole game now?

[Ashar]

If you assigned custom portraits, you can always edit the save file, and change the line refering to the portrait folder. The save files can be opened with winrar, then you want to edit both header and party json files. Its a bit fiddly, i can do it for you if you want, just upload your save, and i can sort it for you, just gimme the name of the folders that your using.

[Entropy]

"Also it works for custom companions."
Is this assuming your main character does NOT use a custom portrait? Because I cannot figure out how to do it for a companion, without messing up my main character. Please advise.

[CdrGrimReaper]

You can have more than one custom portrait at a time