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Jikerfish

9 Nov, 2020 @ 5:47pm

Help making custom portraits

This thread is for help with custom portraits.

There are two portraits "portrait.dds" and "portrait_large.dds". "portrait_large.dds" is only seen in the equipment customization screen and must be 536x464. "portrait.dds" is shown next to the trooper's name and must be 80x80 (circle with a diameter 80 pixels). All portraits must be vertically inverted and saved as "BC2 (linear,DXT3)" dds files.

Add your texture's path to "DoorKickers2\data\units\human_identities.xml"

Note: I'm using "paint.net" for .dds files and "Notepad++" for .xml files

Original topic:
So all the default portraits are inverted vertically, this is due to the way OpenGL handles dds files as explained in another discussion. So I tried making a custom portrait
in Paint.net by inverting my image the same as the dds files in game, and it worked, it's right side up in game. My problem is that the transparent parts of the small portrait appear black in game. Is there a way, on my end, to fix this?

Last edited by Jikerfish; 21 Oct, 2021 @ 3:14pm

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Tomoko Kuroki has Door Kickers 2

9 Nov, 2020 @ 7:28pm

I'm having this issue too.

Tomoko Kuroki has Door Kickers 2

10 Nov, 2020 @ 11:52pm

To elaborate, here's a screenshot showing the problem
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2283640834
The custom portrait is the same size as the premade ones, has transparency, etc.

Vulpe Nebuna [developer] 11 Nov, 2020 @ 12:11am

Ok I've paged our art director to come to the rescue :)

Vulpe Nebuna [developer] 11 Nov, 2020 @ 4:49am

Does this help? https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9t0jfxkouco4l1t/AADkSepaup33zoyQkB2_vuPna?dl=0

Jikerfish

11 Nov, 2020 @ 6:55am

Originally posted by Vulpe Nebuna:
Does this help? https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9t0jfxkouco4l1t/AADkSepaup33zoyQkB2_vuPna?dl=0

I put my portrait in the layers that said "put your portrait here" and I had to flatten the psd to make it a dds. Once done, it looks the same as my normal dds file and the game still has a black square behind it.

Last edited by Jikerfish; 11 Nov, 2020 @ 6:55am

Tomoko Kuroki has Door Kickers 2

11 Nov, 2020 @ 8:47am

For those more inclined to Paint.net like me, I made a visible 'Crop Circle' for the small portraits to be sure you don't go outside the lines.
https://i.imgur.com/WMTLbkn.png

Julius85

11 Nov, 2020 @ 8:51am

using paint.net will make the rest not a transparent surface but a emtpy one showing it black in the game i personally prefer gimp to edit the imagine files here anyway

Last edited by Julius85; 11 Nov, 2020 @ 8:52am

Tomoko Kuroki has Door Kickers 2

11 Nov, 2020 @ 9:02am

Oh, that could be the problem. I'll see if it works in GIMP and get back to you.

Jikerfish

11 Nov, 2020 @ 9:57am

I found a fix. When saving the dds file in Paint.net, set it to "BC2 (Linear, DXT3)" in the save settings.

Tomoko Kuroki has Door Kickers 2

11 Nov, 2020 @ 10:48am

That works, awesome!

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Vulpe Nebuna [developer] 11 Nov, 2020 @ 10:52am

Would love to see what you guys did with the portraits :)

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Tomoko Kuroki has Door Kickers 2

11 Nov, 2020 @ 10:56am

Originally posted by Vulpe Nebuna:
Would love to see what you guys did with the portraits :)

https://imgur.com/a/Ar31uHd
The character's name is Peanut, and so was the generated trooper, so I figured I'd make her first.

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Jikerfish

11 Nov, 2020 @ 11:33am

I wanted to see if it was possible before getting serious so I made these:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2284114444

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2284114285

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Howkin__

11 Nov, 2020 @ 12:11pm

I hope portraits will be moddable so that we can get stuff like this

Originally posted by Jikerfish:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2284114444

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2284114285

#14