Instant Portraits

So I thought I had the applying instant portraits process down, but I still get the surprise default portrait at times. It's got me going in unsynced dungeons just to make sure they apply properly, but it's a hassle.

Has anyone found an infalliable way to apply them correctly?

Why can't they just decouple Instant Portraits from your glamour dresser and simply have them reflect your current job's glam? It would be so much simpler and reliable.

Heres some few absolute checks.

1. Make sure you hit the gear update button on your character sheet

2. If youve assigned a glam plate linked to your gearset, make sure all the glam items work for it.

3. Always make sure to hit the update gearset and portrait if you see a yellow triangle symbol.

4. If all else fails, delete the gearset and remake the portrait again and do the same checks as listed above

Yeah its a real pain sometimes. I hope they fix this system some day.

A bit long winded but.. this works 99% of the time if for some reason it's not working.

1) Remove a piece of gear
2) Update gear set
3) Open Portrait
4) Edit + Save
5) Put piece of gear on
6) Update gear set
7) Open Portrait
8) Edit + Save

Done.

This is what I do when the "normal way of how it's supposed to work" just doesn't work.

I turned that trash off.

If you at any time take off your helmet or put it back on this will break your portrait. If you dye the item, cast a glamor over it, remove it or if it's a tome item and you've upgraded it these will break your portrait. I.E if you went and upgraded the Lunar Envoy's Justaucorps of Healing to Augmented Lunar Envoy's Justaucorpe of Healing even though the outward look of it hasn't changed the item tag in the game files has. Just pretend it is a more finicky version of the Fashion Report.

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Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur

Heres some few absolute checks.

1. Make sure you hit the gear update button on your character sheet

2. If youve assigned a glam plate linked to your gearset, make sure all the glam items work for it.

3. Always make sure to hit the update gearset and portrait if you see a yellow triangle symbol.

4. If all else fails, delete the gearset and remake the portrait again and do the same checks as listed above

Yeah its a real pain sometimes. I hope they fix this system some day.

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Yeah that was my checklist as well. Still get the issue sometimes. I Also delete the gearset and remake it when I can't figure it out, but that's also a hassle.

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Originally Posted by Caddo

A bit long winded but.. this works 99% of the time if for some reason it's not working.

1) Remove a piece of gear
2) Update gear set
3) Open Portrait
4) Edit + Save
5) Put piece of gear on
6) Update gear set
7) Open Portrait
8) Edit + Save

Done.

This is what I do when the "normal way of how it's supposed to work" just doesn't work.

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Basically doing the check twice, by truly refreshing the gearset each time? I'll try that. Thanks!

If not hotfixed by now...I wouldn't think it ever will be.

It's funny watching the portrait system from the sidelines and seeing people post long winded multistep explanations like it's some kind of raid mechanic.
I figure it's not long until we see people make raid plans for the dumpster fire that is the portrait system.

I have abandoned the system. I thought the idea was neat though. If they fix it I will start using it. If they can't be bothered to see it's a problem I also won't be bothered to deal with it.

I turn visor off and on (or on and off), save gear, go to portrait and edit/save. Works every time.

Yeah, I thought I was spared those errors when I was saving gearsets and re-editing Portraits after the smallest of changes like Materia extraction or getting a new item > saving the new set > changing away and then back to the set to reapply the Glamour Plate... Then I started getting errors at the start of instances anyway, on Jobs I hadn't even played on for a hot minute until then. This game, I swear. :D

so far, as long as I update the gear set.
The portrait works fine.

It is pretty easy to fix. Any change you do just update gear set then go to portrait edit/and save.

It’s annoying how often I need to edit/Save. It should update automatically to your new gear or just keep the photo from what you wore at the time of the portrait.

Other than that I do love this feature and now commend my favorite portrait each group rather than default to tank or heals, absent someone being exceptional or the most fun socially.

Something else I'd like them to do, but I don't imagine many people care about: Stop having it automatically adjust the availability @ time pips based on DST/ST. It's annoying to have to shift them.

I tend to forget to edit/save my portraits and only end up remembering when I see it in the duty I join, but I feel like they might end up implementing it eventually that it would automatically save, but idk.

Sometimes there is a bug where you update your gear and when you go to portrait you do not see /!\ next to it and you can't edit it but if you don't edit it it will go back to default portrait whenever entering duty.
Whenever it's happening I'm importing the portrait either from adventurer plate or another job who has the same setup.

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Originally Posted by Sesera

Sometimes there is a bug where you update your gear and when you go to portrait you do not see /!\ next to it and you can't edit it but if you don't edit it it will go back to default portrait whenever entering duty.
Whenever it's happening I'm importing the portrait either from adventurer plate or another job who has the same setup.

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You get the error due to the weapon being different. Depending on the last time you updated your adventure plate the gear shown in the portrait for the plate could have changed since then.

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Originally Posted by Caddo

A bit long winded but.. this works 99% of the time if for some reason it's not working.

1) Remove a piece of gear
2) Update gear set
3) Open Portrait
4) Edit + Save
5) Put piece of gear on
6) Update gear set
7) Open Portrait
8) Edit + Save

Done.

This is what I do when the "normal way of how it's supposed to work" just doesn't work.

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Pretty much this. I think the only thing I do different is:
- Remove a piece of gear
- Update gear set
- Put back on that piece of gear
- Update gear set
- Open Portrait
- Edit Save

I haven't seen those extra steps needed, but there might be corner cases. Frankly, I wish I could just macro all of that in the game.

My portrait likes to randomly break for no reason. I can be on the same class, same gear, no changes to glamour, materia, or repair. It'll be working fine for the first few roulettes and then all of the sudden it reverts to default. I'll check the menu and it won't have the warning symbol beside it to say it needs to be updated. I'll try to edit it and change the expression or something, go into a duty and it'll still be broken. I have to completely reset it to default and upload the settings from a different class for it to be fixed.

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Originally Posted by SassyAssassin

I turn visor off and on (or on and off), save gear, go to portrait and edit/save. Works every time.

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That's a great tip in case I forget a step and show up in raids with no pants!

Sometimes I'll not figure out what in the eff broke my portrait even if I didn't really change anything. I go in, hit the arrow for the next background, hit the back arrow for the background I was using, save. Makes it easier. It's such a pain if I forget to do that.

Agreee! Just have the 'default' be a general portrait with whatever you're wearing right now.

SE: They sure love the new portrait system. I'm going to make them love it even more next update.

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Originally Posted by Caddo

A bit long winded but.. this works 99% of the time if for some reason it's not working.

1) Remove a piece of gear
2) Update gear set
3) Open Portrait
4) Edit + Save
5) Put piece of gear on
6) Update gear set
7) Open Portrait
8) Edit + Save

Done.

This is what I do when the "normal way of how it's supposed to work" just doesn't work.

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This is what I end up doing most of the time. Haven't failed me yet

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Originally Posted by Petite

So I thought I had the applying instant portraits process down, but I still get the surprise default portrait at times. It's got me going in unsynced dungeons just to make sure they apply properly, but it's a hassle.

Has anyone found an infalliable way to apply them correctly?

Why can't they just decouple Instant Portraits from your glamour dresser and simply have them reflect your current job's glam? It would be so much simpler and reliable.

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Don’t glam accessories. That’s what I’ve done and it’s worked like a charm.

I just turned all the sets to Instant Portrait: Off, and it just displays what I'm wearing as that set at the time. No screwing around with it.

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Originally Posted by Lium

Don’t glam accessories. That’s what I’ve done and it’s worked like a charm.

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As somebody who often incorporate those accessories slots... I cry to admit that this would've fix about 1/4 of times I went inside duties with broken portrait. :sob:

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Originally Posted by Caddo

A bit long winded but.. this works 99% of the time if for some reason it's not working.

1) Remove a piece of gear
2) Update gear set
3) Open Portrait
4) Edit + Save
5) Put piece of gear on
6) Update gear set
7) Open Portrait
8) Edit + Save

Done.

This is what I do when the "normal way of how it's supposed to work" just doesn't work.

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I mostly do the same thing except I just toggle the weapon. Before I do that, I queue for satasha unsynched, if my portrait is how I want, I don't need to fiddle with it anymore and leave. Its like holding up a mirror.

It is so scuffed. I didn't change a single piece of gear on my WAR and just retrieved spiritbonded materia and it loaded up the default portrait. The next time I went into an instance I edited the portrait beforehand and it still reverted to the basic. Like God damn.

My Wife cant even use instant portraits. When she opens the Portraits window, it is blank with nothing to click on.

That said, you are NOT under any circumstances allowed to change the tiniest bit on your Gear or it all breaks.

I'm sick to death of the whole ego trip broken vanity card system. It's so convoluted the average person needs an instruction manual or a personal session with an IT specialist to get it to work.
If I could figure out how to disable it, I'd do that in a hot second.
This is all I ever get from the whole stupid mess:

[8:18]Adventurer plate could not be updated due to invalid data. (5)
Please try restarting the application after checking your current play environment.
[8:19]Adventurer plate could not be updated due to invalid data. (5)
Please try restarting the application after checking your current play environment.
[8:20]Of the 12 parties currently recruiting, all match your search conditions.
[8:22]Adventurer plate could not be updated due to invalid data. (5)
Please try restarting the application after checking your current play environment.
[8:23]Adventurer plate could not be updated due to invalid data. (5)
Please try restarting the application after checking your current play environment.
[8:24]Portrait set as instant portrait.
[8:25]Adventurer plate could not be updated due to invalid data. (5)
Please try restarting the application after checking your current play environment.
[8:27]Adventurer plate could not be updated due to invalid data. (5)
Please try restarting the application after checking your current play environment.

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Originally Posted by Petite

It's got me going in unsynced dungeons just to make sure they apply properly, but it's a hassle.

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It should show in the portrait menu, the [!] symbol if your current gear doesn't match the saved portrait. Save it again and it should be all good.. until next time you change something.

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Originally Posted by Araxes

That said, you are NOT under any circumstances allowed to change the tiniest bit on your Gear or it all breaks.

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Or it doesn't break when you expect it to. I made an update to my healer gear, which caused all of them to get the yellow '!' in the portrait menu. Yet, when I queued up into a duty as my MNK and SAM before updating them, those portraits still worked just fine.

I stopped trying to give advice on how to get this system to work. Seems to have a mind of its own.

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Originally Posted by Rufalus

It should show in the portrait menu, the [!] symbol if your current gear doesn't match the saved portrait. Save it again and it should be all good.. until next time you change something.

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I've had it with no ! symbol showing and it still breaks. Had to equip a different piece of gear, save the portrait, and then equip the original piece and save to get it working again. No idea why it happened. I didn't do anything aside from remove materia!

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Originally Posted by hydralus

I've had it with no ! symbol showing and it still breaks. Had to equip a different piece of gear, save the portrait, and then equip the original piece and save to get it working again. No idea why it happened. I didn't do anything aside from remove materia!

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That's why it broke. You removed materia. Any time you change even the smallest of details of a gear set the game sees that as a different set. Regardless if the outward appearance changes or not. This even happens with gear sets. Use visor function even on something that doesn't? Game feels you've changed it. Add or remove materia? The game is going to read it as a change to your gear and pop the icon saying there's been a change on the save gear set button at the top right when viewing your equipped armor.