Portraits were better in Beta. Your design is ridiculous.

Portrait to win commendation system.

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Originally Posted by Xerkrosis

I very much dislike my portrait reversing to the default one, just because I decide to have another glam. Why can't the portraits adjust to that, I'm just now wearing something different? Either display my new glam, or show what's saved. Not like it makes any difference.
Portraits are way too sensitive. Hide head => breaks, upgrade legs => breaks, sneeze at it => breaks.
Beta was much better.

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want me to make it worse?

change materia melds => breaks...

Portraits are such a pain…how did they get something so bad to behave even worse…

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Originally Posted by Vanitax

want me to make it worse?

change materia melds => breaks...

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You've got to be kidding me....

I'm not having these problems :p

i thought i was just stupid -- and i may still but but for other reasons but -- it seems that whatever system they've gone with has been an abysmal mess for everyone.

i thought i could just... set a single pose and then it'd change it based on my glam and then have a checkbox for whether or not i want a particular class to use its own glam. not... whatever this nonsense we've been given. wtf.

I like the adventurer plate stuff, but this instanced portrait thing is just annoying to deal with so I haven't bothered with it much.
But then again, I'm too dumb for stuff like this...

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Originally Posted by Deveryn

I'm not having these problems :p

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Maybe because you don’t seem to change your glam or simply put your hat away every two minutes xD

If it's gonna force my default gear, I guess I might as well use this instead of my usual Pokemon trainer portrait.

https://i.imgur.com/ccJWbCF.png

Just came back to the game after awhile, what are portraits? What's the point of them?

I've seen them pop up and annoy me but like whats the point?

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Originally Posted by GeorgieGorge

Just came back to the game after awhile, what are portraits? What's the point of them?

I've seen them pop up and annoy me but like whats the point?

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you can turn it off in the options.
In short it's just a Card/Identification/Presentation of your character to who ever is in your duty that supports it.

So like the adventplate, but it's only the image.
Had they gotten this right, there would be really no excuse for anyone to NOT have it.
But as it is. it's a real pain, even for those who would do it constantly/persistently/with effort(outside of the RPworlds).

Practically just like locked glamour, it shouldnt work that way.

So much pains.
[though not as much as it would be for the Fantasia Addicts. But on that note, someone not having a adventplate set up is just as annoying]

I really don’t understand what they are thinking with it being tied to your gear sets

I don’t know why you can’t just have a universal one

The menu and system is needlessly complicated and restrictive

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Originally Posted by GTK0HLK

you can turn it off in the options.
In short it's just a Card/Identification/Presentation of your character to who ever is in your duty that supports it.

So like the adventplate, but it's only the image.
Had they gotten this right, there would be really no excuse for anyone to NOT have it.
But as it is. it's a real pain, even for those who would do it constantly/persistently/with effort(outside of the RPworlds).

Practically just like locked glamour, it shouldnt work that way.

So much pains.
[though not as much as it would be for the Fantasia Addicts. But on that note, someone not having a adventplate set up is just as annoying]

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Thanks for your explanation.

However with all the stuff wrong with this game, they add so many useless features. I don't need to see what someone's character looks like, I can just look at them lmao.

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Originally Posted by Saraide

I said it before: the weird thing is the system already can work simply off of the pose and apply whatever glam you are wearing. It just doesnt use this to work properly. If you have a working portrait, change your glam, update your gearset and then look at your portraits it shows you a preview of how that portrait would look with the updated glam but you still have to hit save on the portrait aswell. It's just doesnt function for 0 reason.

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My gut feeling is that saving the portrait actually saves it to the server, and that there's a sanity check of "does the checksum for the gear in the portrait match the checksum for the gear you're wearing" (basically the same check that turns the Update Gearset button active on the character panel), and if it comes back with "nope" it then probably uses a default portrait.

Which... I get the design. I do. I understand why it would be that way, from a development standpoint.

But it is super annoying in implementation nonetheless, and I feel like most of my personal annoyance could've been avoided by just... using the stored portrait 100% of the time, even if your gear/glamour has changed.