No Portrait Button?

[grot]

When I log into my own session and select a character, I can grab a local character portrait from the portrait screen just fine.

But in the GM mode, there isn't even a BUTTON for portraits?

This is just a dirt standard install. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Any ideas?

[Griogre]

The GM does not have a Portrait button. Portraits come from the clients - it is the only data item that does that exclusively.

I'm not sure why Smiteworks did it this way. As a practical matter if you want a GM character to have a portrait the easiest way to do it is start the server and then start a different instance and connect with it as a player and pick a portrait. You could also rename a portait to match the charater's ID and drop it in the portraits folder of the campaign but it is probably faster to do it the other way.

[grot]

OK, so the client machine would need to have all the portrait pictures then...

[Sigurd]

Yes to access a portrait picture the client has to have the portrait. I think the prefered format is 63x63 png.

(corrected as per Griogre)

By default the location on WinXP is:

C:\Documents and Settings\<USER>\Application Data\Fantasy Grounds II\portraits


Where <USER> is your log on name. The drive letter might change if you are dual booting etc....

Sigurd

[Ram Tyr]

Unless I misunderstand the question...and just because the question uses "all"...

Not ALL of the pictures. The client supplies the portrait for that/those PCs to the host, which then shares them with other clients. So, I have my character's portrait and Sigurd has his character's portrait, and everyone sees all the portraits shared through the host server. Otherwise, what Sigurd said.

Later.

[Griogre]

Yes to access a portrait picture the client has to have the portrait. I think the prefered format is 52x52 png.

The included portrait's are 63x63. Portraits scale automatically, though so as long as it is square you shouldn't get that much distortion.

[Foen]

BTW, the default for Vista users is:

C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\Fantasy Grounds II\portraits

And the AppData folder is hidden by default.

Stuart
(Foen)

[MrJamela]

This is really an odd design decision.

Why wouldn't I want to add portraits to NPCs?

Is this something they can fix?

Jaime

[Foen]

NPCs can have tokens (which is all a PC will see of an NPC most of the time), just drop them onto the space at the top left of the NPC sheet.

Cheers

Stuart

[Griogre]

As Foen said the players never see the NPC's portraits they just see the NPC's token on the map. If it is important to show them a better picture you can just share and image of the NPC with them.

WIth that nick, is that you Jamie?