Importing Portraits

[Mistindantacles]

I have a question about importing character portraits into the Host Client. I followed a tutorial that I found on YouTube, basically moving the portraits into the portraits folder in the Application Data folder of FGII.

However, no one else ses them; they only see the 10 or so default portraits that come pre-loaded.

I even then tried to makes sub-folder in the portraits folder similar to the tokens folder, making a "shared" sub-folder, but to no avail.

I am not sure this makes a difference, but would running the free client not allow them to see the portraits I downloaded? I am running the an Ultimate Licencse version.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

[JohnD]

Portraits are on each individual user's computer - only shared when someone selects one for their PC - then everyone will see it (but the actual portrait still only stays on the user's machine).

If you want everyone to have access to the same portraits, you'll have to send them.

[Mistindantacles]

That's what I was afraid of. But thanks!

[Trenloe]

If you, as the GM, need to apply a specific portrait to a PC you can log in as a player to your GM session - start another version of Fantasy Grounds on the same PC and join the game with a server address of localhost. You can then select PCs and select portraits for them from your portraits folder. These will then be tied to the PC and will be their default portrait. Just remember to release the PC from your test player so that the real players can select the PC when they log in.

Probably not what you're looking for exactly, but it is an option...

[Blackfoot]

One thing to be careful of.. when a client first loads a character with a portrait off the host's machine 'sometimes' they take a few seconds to download and appear to be 'blank' to the client. I've run into this situation quite a few times where the player loads a default picture because they didn't realize they had their image already loaded by the GM.
A word of warning can avoid some confusion here.

[Mistindantacles]

Some good advice. Thanks, gents.