Portrait System - Can you please just do this?

I am making another thread because I want this picture front and center, as a suggestion, rather than just talk about how I don't like it. Which I have also done.

I don't mean to come off as rude or anything but the protrait system is just bad. So I made a picture of what I want to see personally. I hope the devs see this and can do something similar or revamp it. Because besides the adventurer plate I am abandoning the system.

I love the concept, but not with the current implementation. So here you go, I think this is way better, and forgive me for my hubris if you think I'm full of it.

Please fix, and when these are set, please don't reset them, when I change job or go do some other activity (For a fantasia I understand no worries):

http://i.imgur.com/x5Bk9h5.png

I just want a one size fits all regardless of job portrait that I don't have to set per gearset and get the hell rid of this error nonsense. I don't WANT to update 17 portraits when I Fanta ffs

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Originally Posted by Imora

I just want a one size fits all regardless of job portrait that I don't have to set per gearset and get the hell rid of this error nonsense. I don't WANT to update 17 portraits when I Fanta ffs

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Yes exactly, I want the default portrait be default on everything, including the adventurer plate. And then if you wish you can assign other portraits to specific gear sets. That’s it. That’s all they had to do. I don’t get how they came out with something vastly more complicated and that probably took more work to do.

I agree. The current iteration of portraits is wacky.

This image is pretty much how I wanted the system to be. I want the sub-menu to when you select a saved portrait be like this:
1. Edit
2. Link Portrait to gearset
3. Apply Portrait to Adventurer Plate (if you decide to use a different one that isnt linked)
4. Apply Portrait as Instance Portrait (same as 3)
5. Delete Portrait.

and just have the little Instance portrait toggle on/off button at the bottom right side like how we have to just automatically make whatever portrait we have that's linked to our current gearset BE the same for PvP and Mahjong or whatever.

I want that stick figure as a portrait :D:D:D

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Originally Posted by VelKallor

I want that stick figure as a portrait :D:D:D

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xD Stick people OP.

Reviving this on the off chance a dev sees it and wants to fix their system. And please either auto update gear so it doesn't revert back to default or leave the portrait as is and let people look different than their portraits. When people show up to places others don't assume they'll look exactly the same as their profile picture or in this case business card picture.

Some limitations like fantasia or hair change may make sense. Clothes? no.

They should also just allow us to default a specific portrait regardless of job, glamour, etc.

I'm not even sure what you're trying to accomplish with your illustration, OP.

I just want to take a snapshot, and option comes to set as portrait [for duties], click yes, and done.

Essentially you can create several portraits and have a default one that plays on all the time in case you don’t have one set for misc jobs, but if you want to have a different portrait to your default one for a particular job you can just link it to said gearset. That’s it.

And it shows regardless of whatever you are wearing.

Edit: it looks messy as a means to show what you can do, such as renaming the portrait, link to a gear set, assign as default.

I just want to be able to use the portrait of my adventurer pass for instances. I dont care if it does not match the glamour I have on right now or the job. I just want something nice to show without having to do that for every single job or new glamour...if that is not possible in the future that system is dead for me.

I dont want to restrict myself in my glamour just because it would otherwise break my portrait I have chosen for that job...

I support this because atm it is a pain the arse. I would love to do a nice portrait pic and wear whatever and then have it show...I do not need one for each job and to be restricted to having to wear the same outfit for the job if that makes sense. I just want to do a nice picture and then use it all the time.

I just want it to automatically update every time I change my gear.

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Originally Posted by Pratini

I just want it to automatically update every time I change my gear.

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This. Just automatically update the gear, hair and race. Portrait should be about the pose, background and frame, not a photograph you need to edit every minute.

I think a problem they created for themselves is linking portraits to gearsets instead of jobs. What if you switch out several pieces or the weapon? Is it still the same gearsets? You can still update your "current" gearsets even though you changed jobs with the weapon. I think they should let you select what job uses which portrait and also select a default portrait for all jobs that aren't assigned to a portrait. The portraits themselves should always auto update if you change gear.

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Originally Posted by Alleo

I just want to be able to use the portrait of my adventurer pass for instances. I dont care if it does not match the glamour I have on right now or the job. I just want something nice to show without having to do that for every single job or new glamour...if that is not possible in the future that system is dead for me.

I dont want to restrict myself in my glamour just because it would otherwise break my portrait I have chosen for that job...

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Same, the adventurer plates are basically our introduction card/IDs, so they should be our "main" display anyways, and have the alternative portraits as an option for those who do want to create multiple ones based on job or role. The system is backwards.

The image is an odd way to do it, but yeah, it should basically be the exact same system as glamour plates. You could make one for every set if you wanted, or you could take one portrait and link it to multiple sets. If you wanted to stop using it, you could just unlink it to use the default or link a different one to use that instead.

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Originally Posted by Pratini

I just want it to automatically update every time I change my gear.

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I mean, it goes without saying that this is what everyone was expecting of the per gearset portraits system. I really have no idea what their UX teams are thinking sometimes. Sometimes they make their systems rather simple to use and understand, and sometimes they're just so convoluted and tedious that I don't even want to use them anymore.

I see 99% of people with default portraits in duties because of this. Don't they have some kind of statistics system that shows them that most players have out of date portraits? It should tell them that something is clearly wrong with how it's implemented right now lol

It would be so much better, if portraits could just not care about my current gear or job.
There is no real reason why they have to care in the first place. It's just pictures of my character doing a pose and wearing specific gear.

What good does it do to force me into wearing the portrait's glamour for all eternity, just because I wish the portrait to look a certain way?

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Originally Posted by Imora

I just want a one size fits all regardless of job portrait that I don't have to set per gearset and get the hell rid of this error nonsense. I don't WANT to update 17 portraits when I Fanta ffs

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Honestly all they need is for it to default to the adventurer plate if there's an issue with the job portrait.

The beta version worked better than what we have now. Portraits break for no reason most of the time. I spent all day on my SAM with portrait working just fine, I go AFK 1 hour, next dungeon in, and the portrait is broken. No warning, no yellow triangle, I didn't change glams. At the moment it's really bad system.

The system is built like an overlay, and just tied to gear sets to execute the stored plate/gear set picture. This approach is kind of like let's just get this out there and make it workable.

Would probably have to overhaul much of this system to really integrate it further because they don't like the idea of showing a toon with gear in a duty intro that isn't on the job they are playing.

it's all for cosmetic purposes anyway we shouldn't have to re-do them for every class, that's obnoxious and tedious