Big Portraits

[Zarestia]

If you want support for a ruleset, just DM me or write a post below.

Forge: Link (https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/647/view)

This extension modifies the top of the character sheet to show a bigger portrait. Thus the character sheet needs to be a bit larger.

https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/images/5c96dda51d74524446ad85957488b5d0.png

The portrait size in the chat is also bigger as is the size the top left portrait when a player selected their character.

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General Tip (independent of this extension and not needed)

For the best possible quality of tokens on a map, do the following (once per character in combat tracker - needs to be redone if character is readded into combat tracker)
1. Open the Assets
2. Navigate to the portrait
3. Drag the portrait onto the token field of the character on the combat tracker.

See this image for a clarification:
https://i.imgur.com/CFpv5bW.png

[MeAndUnique]

Great idea, thanks for sharing!

Also, fwiw, if you want the better token quality to persist between CT removals and additions you can also drag directly to the token field on the character sheet.

[Zarestia]

Great idea, thanks for sharing!

Also, fwiw, if you want the better token quality to persist between CT removals and additions you can also drag directly to the token field on the character sheet.

Oh yeah, true. I've set the token to invisible for my own campaign so that didn't occur to me :D

I've created a repo for this extension. You can find the extension code on my GitHub page (see link in signature).

[vaughnlannister]

Hey,
Cool extension :)
Any plans for an option, for the bigger portrait to be only visible on the main page?

[Zarestia]

Hey,
Cool extension :)
Any plans for an option, for the bigger portrait to be only visible on the main page?

Thanks. That is not really possible because the portrait is not part of the main page.
From a code perspective, everyhting above "senses" in the screenshot in the first post is it's own page, Main, Skills, etc. are just subpages which are below the portrait window.

I hope that makes sense. :)

[vaughnlannister]

Ok gotcha :)
Thanks for explaining.

[Bonkon]

Good Day Zarestia :)
I just used this with my group tonight and they all loved it. I did note one thing, when a smaller portrait is placed on the sheet you can still see portions of the white background and some of the "Click to add" behind them. Is there a way to just leave the portrait section blank, or do I need to figure out a way to increase the size of the portrait? :)

[Zarestia]

Good Day Zarestia :)
I just used this with my group tonight and they all loved it. I did note one thing, when a smaller portrait is placed on the sheet you can still see portions of the white background and some of the "Click to add" behind them. Is there a way to just leave the portrait section blank, or do I need to figure out a way to increase the size of the portrait? :)

Thanks.
Smaller portraits scale just fine for me. Portraits need to be a square so take a look at your image aspect ratio.

[Bonkon]

Good Day Zarestia :)
Thanks for the quick response! :)
It was odd, if I used the jpg I had saved in my portraits folder (which actually showed the words sticking out), I would see the words sticking out on the character sheet. I downloaded the same jpg from the internet and used that one and it was fine. :)

[shoebill]

Hi Zarestia,
Thanks for creating this, I really enjoy how the character sheet looks now.
Can you make your extension compatible with 5E - Death Indicators (Extended) FGU? When both extensions are used, the Name field overlaps the big portrait, probably because the Death Token occupies some space at the end of that same row.

Here is the link for the Death Indicators extension: https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/8/view

[Zarestia]

Hi Zarestia,
Thanks for creating this, I really enjoy how the character sheet looks now.
Can you make your extension compatible with 5E - Death Indicators (Extended) FGU? When both extensions are used, the Name field overlaps the big portrait, probably because the Death Token occupies some space at the end of that same row.

Here is the link for the Death Indicators extension: https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/8/view

Nice to hear shoebill and thanks for the information. I've taken a look at the Death Indicators extension and saw a multitude of extension compatibility checks and hard overrides for the name & token fields.
I'll get into contact with the author.

[Gezzer]

Found a problem with Polymorphism Extension as well. Same issue with some of the fields overlapping. Sent author a message on the issue.

Edited to add:

Also found same problem with the Mad Nomad's Player Journal 2.

https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/628/view

If I can make a suggestion. How about giving us an option in the settings where we can turn off big portraits on the character sheet but still have it enabled in chat and the top left until you get a chance to deep dive in to what's causing the issue.

[Zarestia]

..- until you get a chance to deep dive in to what's causing the issue.

Authors of paid extensions are free to implement solutions in their not to me visible code or send me compatibility code.
Because the portrait on the charsheet is the main point of this extension I will not create an option to turn it off.

The DI extension will get a compatibility patch after the ruleset updates in 2-3 weeks.

[Gezzer]

Authors of paid extensions are free to implement solutions in their not to me visible code or send me compatibility code.
Because the portrait on the charsheet is the main point of this extension I will not create an option to turn it off.

The DI extension will get a compatibility patch after the ruleset updates in 2-3 weeks.

Okay... it's your product so I guess you can do as you like. Shame really guess I won't be using it then..

[damned]

Okay... it's your product so I guess you can do as you like. Shame really guess I won't be using it then..

It is not practical to code all extensions so they work with all other extensions. There are too many variables and too little reward for the effort.

[MeAndUnique]

Okay... it's your product so I guess you can do as you like. Shame really guess I won't be using it then..

At the end of the day when two extensions are in conflict, if one developer is preventing the other one from looking at the code without paying, it is unreasonable to expect the second developer to be responsible for taking point on any conflict resolution. If the first developer wants to collaborate, awesome, that is one of the best parts of the Fantasy Grounds community. If they don't then unfortunately is comes down to the user deciding which extension adds more value to their game. Though painting the second developer as the bad guy in that case is perhaps somewhat unfair.

[Gezzer]

I get that. Please don't state the obvious. It only makes you both look condescending. As for painting the developer as a villain, I did no such thing! They had already responded to another post stating they would look into similar issues, and I simply was informing them that there were issues with other add-ons. I suggested that as a stop gap measure they could disable the portion that created the large portrait on the character sheet and IMHO got a pretty rude response back. So I responded in kind. Please crawl back under your respective rocks, I have no intention to continue this, and suggest you do the same.

[Zarestia]

I get that. Please don't state the obvious. It only makes you both look condescending. As for painting the developer as a villain, I did no such thing! They had already responded to another post stating they would look into similar issues, and I simply was informing them that there were issues with other add-ons. I suggested that as a stop gap measure they could disable the portion that created the large portrait on the character sheet and IMHO got a pretty rude response back. So I responded in kind. Please crawl back under your respective rocks, I have no intention to continue this, and suggest you do the same.

I wasn't trying to be rude and solely stated that I won't literally double the codebase just to be able to deactivate 80% of the extension.
I have no monetary interest in my work, I do it first and foremost for my own campaigns and out of passion, no one is obliged to use it.

I don't see why the two mentioned extensions should have a problem with this extension from the youtube videos they provide. I can maybe guess one possibility but wihtout access to the code I can't do anythng about it.

If you still want the slightly bigger chat and topleft portrait, you can try the extension attached.

[SilentRuin]

TEST will force a redesign of the character sheet for anyone using that area. Death Indicators has been rewritten and will no longer conflict in TEST. Polymorphism is a specialized window that triggers off another sheet - that has also been rewritten due to TEST changes. Anything I put out is visible in the code - paid of free - and I tend to put everything based on a common anchor (contentanchor, rightanchor, etc.) relative so that we can all play nice. Still, conflicts happen and sometimes can't be avoided even with generic safe coding.

[Zarestia]

v1.1 is live in Forge!

Nearly a complete rewrite of the extension to compensate for the July ruleset updates.
I have tested with the up to date Death Indicators extension from SilenRuin and everyhting looks fine. Huge thanks to them.

If you find any issues please report in this thread with as much information as you can. Thanks.

[DunMas]

Hello! Loved your extension when playing 5e. Would it be too much trouble for it to be made compatible with Pathfinder 2e as well?

[Zarestia]

Hello! Loved your extension when playing 5e. Would it be too much trouble for it to be made compatible with Pathfinder 2e as well?

I can take a look this month. Got some other things to fix first though. I'll post when it's done.

[Zarestia]

Hello! Loved your extension when playing 5e. Would it be too much trouble for it to be made compatible with Pathfinder 2e as well?

For whatever reason I thought you wrote 2e as in D&D 2e and I looked through that :D
At least I can say now, that D&D 2e differs in its approach to the charsheet header from CoreRPG and I'd like to not fiddle in there with an extension. If celestian ever decides to go the CoreRPG approach I'll gladly support the ruleset.

PF2e also differs in its approach but in a more manageable way in which I should be able to include my stuff relatively okay.

[Zarestia]

v1.2 Support for PFRPG2
(https://github.com/ZarestiaDev/Big-Portraits/releases/tag/v1.2)
Added

Extension icon (contributed by SirMotte, thanks!)
Support for PFRPG2 ruleset


I have tested some characters in PFRPG2 and haven't encountered any issues. As I have not played this ruleset extensively in the past, there could still be some, unknown by me, interactions.
Please report any issues you may get.

[DunMas]

I have tested some characters in PFRPG2 and haven't encountered any issues. As I have not played this ruleset extensively in the past, there could still be some, unknown by me, interactions.
Please report any issues you may get.

Cheers! I'll be sure to report anything I see

[Zarestia]

v1.3 Support for CoC7E (https://github.com/ZarestiaDev/Big-Portraits/releases/tag/v1.3)

Added

Support for CoC7e ruleset


I don't know the ruleset that well and had to rewrite some minor stuff. If you get any errors or something doesn't work, please let me know.

https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/images/63c86a9399826a27a01db80bab34e54e.png

[Zarestia]

v1.4 Ruleset updates (https://github.com/ZarestiaDev/Big-Portraits/releases/tag/v1.4)

Changed

2022-11 Ruleset updates

[Zarestia]

v1.5 Feb-2023 ruleset update (https://github.com/ZarestiaDev/Big-Portraits/releases/tag/v1.5)

Changed

Migrated getDatabaseNode() to DB functions

[Zarestia]

v1.5-hotfix1 Default desktop portrait size (https://github.com/ZarestiaDev/Big-Portraits/releases/tag/v1.5-hotfix1)

SW implemented new 100px*100px desktop portrait size. There's no need to overwrite this anymore :)

Changed

Use new default desktop portrait size

[Milke]

This looks cool. Any way to get it for PF2e?

[Zarestia]

This looks cool. Any way to get it for PF2e?

If you mean Pathfinder2e, that's already supported (PFRPG2 is the ruleset name in the ruleset code).

Forge has a screenshot for PF2e.

https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/images/62aa95cb57330f993bc99546362a41b8.jpeg

[Milke]

Oh. I didn't see it listed. Derp.
Wow. This is too cool! I didn't even have to do anything. I just logged in and the portraits on the sheets were already big.

[Zarestia]

Hmmm... I just saw a new bug with having now too big portraits in the character list.

I'll look to fix this asap.

[Xerophilex]

Love this extension and use it for my 5e games. Would it be possible for it to be compatible with the FFG Star Wars ruleset and its associated Star Wars theme?

[Renrenbonbon]

Hello, great work first of all. I am having an error while playing with CoC7E. It goes like this:

This I get twice in a row whenever I open a character sheet or make a new one:

Script execution error: [string "C:charsheet_overview:maxhp"]:19: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil)

then I get this one :

Handler error: [string "C:charsheet_overview:maxhp"]:19: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected,got nil).

I do not know if you are still working on this. I am running only a theme and this extention.

[Zarestia]

Hello, great work first of all. I am having an error while playing with CoC7E. It goes like this:

This I get twice in a row whenever I open a character sheet or make a new one:

Script execution error: [string "C:charsheet_overview:maxhp"]:19: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil)

then I get this one :

Handler error: [string "C:charsheet_overview:maxhp"]:19: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected,got nil).

I do not know if you are still working on this. I am running only a theme and this extention.

Sorry for the late reply, I was traveling the country.
The ruleset was updated, I'll have to take a look.

[Renrenbonbon]

Perfect. Thank you sincerely for your efforts.

[Zarestia]

Hello, great work first of all. I am having an error while playing with CoC7E. It goes like this:

This I get twice in a row whenever I open a character sheet or make a new one:

Script execution error: [string "C:charsheet_overview:maxhp"]:19: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil)

then I get this one :

Handler error: [string "C:charsheet_overview:maxhp"]:19: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected,got nil).

I do not know if you are still working on this. I am running only a theme and this extention.

I'm getting this error without "Big Portraits" loaded when creating a new character as well. Can you check whether you get the error with just the ruleset?
If so, please post here https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?69887-Official-Call-of-Cthulhu-7th-Edition-Bug-Report-Thead/page21

[StickClip]

Hi,
Really enjoy this extension for my games.

So I'm getting this same error playing Call of Cthulhu with the Big Portraits extension. Without the extension, I do not get the error. It happens when I create a new character. I disabled all my extensions, and readded them one-by-one, until adding Big Portraits, and then the error reoccurred consistently for me at least.

[geewaagh]

Any chance on getting this to work with AD&D Classic 2e? I used this in 5e and CoC and kinda addicted. Going to be playing AD&D and would love to see this work with it.

[Zarestia]

I'm really short on time sadly (moved in country, new job etc.).

For now, only 5e was patched for the recent UI updates.

[Weeg]

This extension does not seem to be working in 5e any longer either. The scaling is all wonky.

[Agamon]

This extension does not seem to be working in 5e any longer either. The scaling is all wonky.

Might be a problem with the themes, because it works fine on default...

[Agamon]

I'm told this is an extension issue. It's working fine on default theme, but portraits are small and square in the Winter theme I'm using.

[GKEnialb]

It likely is a conflict between the theme and this extension and can only be solved by modifying the theme (unless changing the load order of Big Portraits to something higher than the theme would solve it). If your theme has its own portrait.png and portrait_mask.png, it's going to give you the behavior you're seeing. If you're comfortable with extensions, you can unzip your theme, replace those two files (found in graphics/portraits) with images of 148x148 pixels (I've attached the ones from Big Portraits), and zip it back up and you'll be all set. At least that's what I did to fix the same issue with the theme I use (Baron) - there may be other ways of resolving it.

[anstett]

With animated portraits coming in the next update will be nice to see this extension working with those.

[Agamon]

I brought it up in the house of healing, because it logically made sense to me that it was likely a theme issue (I'm using FG's Winter theme), but there I just get a flat, "This is an extension problem".

[GKEnialb]

Oh, so it's a purchased theme. Probably can't change that, then. The good news is that I changed the load order of Big Portraits to 2550 and tried out a couple of themes and it all seems to work fine. Hopefully Zarestia can try that out and update the theme officially, but until then, you can just change


<loadorder>50</loadorder>

to


<loadorder>2550</loadorder>

in extension.xml of Big Portraits and you should be able to use it with your theme. If you're not comfortable changing extensions, let me know and I help (just don't want to post a change to somebody else's extension).

[Zarestia]

Oh, so it's a purchased theme. Probably can't change that, then. The good news is that I changed the load order of Big Portraits to 2550 and tried out a couple of themes and it all seems to work fine. Hopefully Zarestia can try that out and update the theme officially, but until then, you can just change


<loadorder>50</loadorder>

to


<loadorder>2550</loadorder>

in extension.xml of Big Portraits and you should be able to use it with your theme. If you're not comfortable changing extensions, let me know and I help (just don't want to post a change to somebody else's extension).

Thanks for the reply and help. :)
I already changed that two days ago but forgot to upload to the Forge ...

@the others: Please try again after updating.

[GKEnialb]

Awesome. My players love this extension!

[KlatuB]

I love the bigger portrait the extension gives, but the recent FG update (19, I believe) messes with the PF2e character sheet, any chance of getting an update.

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=59367&stc=1&d=1701049502

[Redemption77]

The most recent core update made it where the Big Portraits wont allow the characters to be loaded period. HOpefully it gets updated

[DunMas]

giving a bump because I would love to be able to use this again. :)

[Egheal]

Indeed, this extension is a must, the portraits are waaaay too small on the character sheets without it.

[Romanus]

My players are big fans of this extension. They keep asking if/when it will come back. Hoping for an update.

[Zarestia]

I'm sorry for the delays and really happy that this extension is getting so much love. I'll post an updated version later today/tomorrow.

[Zarestia]

A fix for 5e was just uploaded to the Forge. I'll fix the PF2e implementation probably tomorrow.

[Egheal]

Thanks Zarestia!
It is working nicely!
I see a problem though: the portraits on the upper left corner are slightly on top of each other (Due to the bigger size of the portraits compared to the round version of vanilla FGU).
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[Zarestia]

Thanks Zarestia!
It is working nicely!
I see a problem though: the portraits on the upper left corner are slightly on top of each other (Due to the bigger size of the portraits compared to the round version of vanilla FGU).
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Hmm, that shouldn't be. I'll take a look again, thanks for the report.

[Egheal]

If it can help you, I see a slight zoom effect applied to the portraits in the upper left corner vs the intended portraits.
Here on a CoC campaign, but it is the same in D&D5.59673

[Zarestia]

5e and PFRPG2 should now work as per my testing. v1.7 is now live via Forge.
For CoC7e I'll have to contact the devs to get access to the newest version.

[Egheal]

Thanks a lot Zarestia. I hope that CoC7e devs will grant you access. Your extension need to be generalized to all rulesets by SmiteWorks (at least giving the choice between the two options).

[DunMas]

PF2e is working great. Many thanks to you

[Agamon]

Thanks for the update, love this extention!

[q00t]

Also my groups thanks for this extension, it went down really well ; we've been using it with CoC7e, so we've got our fingers crossed that they give you access too.

[Zarestia]

Pushed a fix for CoC7e.
Please test it as I had to work with my old version and screenshots provided by you guys but I think it should be good.

[Egheal]

Yes, it works perfectly, big thanks to you Zarestia!!!
look at this beauty: https://1drv.ms/i/s!Aq94oZ32i0Fzj4ZXEEkX67SDMAEXow?e=H9Qgfv
https://1drv.ms/i/s!Aq94oZ32i0Fzj4ZY9FFG07PmL-zdZw?e=henu1n
(sorry, it seems that I can't insert images properly).

[Egheal]

By the way, I wouldn't mind buying those gems as per ruleset basis. It would be great to see this on more rulesets but you need to be rewarded for such a nice work.

[q00t]

Can also confirm, its working, thanks! As an aside, I like to use the FG Wood theme, but the CoC character sheets gets chopped ever so slightly on the right because of the tabs - using your big portraits also fixes that theme issue which is nice!

[fogcutter]

Howdy,

Love this extension! I'm having an issue however with the Inspiration bubbles. When I use the Big Portraits extension I can ADD inspiration but I can't un-click the bubble once a player has used their inspiration dice. Note: I'm using the option to have TWO inspiration bubbles instead of the standard which is one.