Square portraits into round holes!!

[gamersquest]

Quick question - I have uploaded some new portraits for a campaign I am about to start - however when I view them in FGII they still appear square within the round portrait image - if that makes sense - how do I get them to fill the circle and not show a white boarder - this happens regardless of the image size I upload?

TQ

J

[Stuart]

RPTools has a variety of free applications, one of them will resize your portriats and crop them into circles - also adding a variety of borders.

https://www.rptools.net

[gamersquest]

Thanks Stuart - it works a treat ..... except - I'm still getting my portraits placed inside another circle when uploaded into FGII - any idea it's really frustrating :-)

[Stuart]

FGII will resize your circle to fit, including the border. A fix here will involve using something like Paint or GIMP to remove the border. I dont think Token Maker has a "no border" option. Sorry.

[Spyke]

There's a note on this in the user guide (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/userguide/identities.xcp).


It is recommended the size of the image be no more than 100 pixels in either dimension. Square shaped images are recommended to prevent distortion of proportions.
I remember this caught me out for a while. I now crop portrait images to squares with no border, and make a separate token image using TokenTool as a circle.

Spyke

[gamersquest]

I'm so sorry to be a pain here - but when I crop to a square - it appears as a square within the FGII portrait circle - if I use Token Tool - it then appears as a circle within the FGII circle - all I want to do it import portraits that will fit within the FGII portrait circle - lol - so frustrating - I'm sure it should be simple - could it be the ruleset I'm using affecting things?

[Spyke]

Which ruleset are you using?

Do you want to attach an example of one of your problem portraits? (We might have to wait awhile for the file to be approved.)

Spyke

[gamersquest]

Hi Spyke

Well with thanks to you both I think I've sorted the problem - I've read lots about the images having to be 60x60 - this leaves the gap - by increasing to 100x100 solves the problem - thanks again for all the help - such a stupidly simple solution - doh!

[Spyke]

Good; glad it's working. :)

Spyke

[Stuart]

What "he" said :p

[Griogre]

I think the minimum size is 63x63... that's the portrait mask size in the d20 ruleset - I assume its the same in the foundation one. I always crop my character portraits to 64x64.

[Foen]

The portrait 'natural' size is 63x63: anything bigger is resized down. I've never tried anything smaller, but it may be you have stumbled upon the result.

Cheers

Foen