Have other folks complained about how complex portraits are now?
I'd like to pick a background, frame, look etc. Once and have each class / outfit that I wear be fitted to that style. Automagically. Every time I swap jobs or go to a dungeon I get a complaint about how my portrait is wrong. Well how about I do the style once?
Do we have that option? I have not found it.
Isn't this a case of a minor feature growing to overwhelm? I would like a nice portrait, once, and then move on with my life here in the game.
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Portraits now too complicated
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08-07-2023, 10:44 AMWindyGamerPortraits now too complicated
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08-07-2023, 10:53 AMTaleraRistain
I could see a good QoL being something like "copy settings from X job" or something if you wanted to use the same poses and such on different jobs.
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08-07-2023, 11:00 AMMerryl
I’ve stopped using them because system resets every time I glamour change or upgrade my gear. I don’t see why my portrait has to match my appearance exactly…. That’s not how portraits work irl now is it?
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08-07-2023, 11:48 AMWindyGamerI really want a setting that says use this plate design, including character facing camera stuff, for all my jobs. And update it with every costume change same or another button. Set it once and forget it.Quote:
Originally Posted by TaleraRistain
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08-07-2023, 11:58 AMArzalis
Portraits are still just fundamentally broken, sadly.
I dream of the day they just work. -
08-07-2023, 12:12 PMPercibelTherenSame. I tried using them for a bit when they were new, got frustrated by how persnickety the system is and decided it's not worth my time or energy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merryl
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08-07-2023, 06:14 PMRenalt
Sometimes I wonder if they do a Bethesda approach of "Put it in now and fix it later".
Or let the community fix it...but we can't talk about that. -
08-07-2023, 06:17 PMWinglessSeraphimNew word. Stealing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by WindyGamer
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08-07-2023, 06:21 PMTaleraRistainI think that's a reasonable ask. Hopefully they can look into it. I like to use different poses and such on mine so not as useful for someone like me but I think it would be a good addition so someone can have a basic portrait so they're not stuck with the DMV pic all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by WindyGamer
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08-07-2023, 08:14 PMWissp
Oh man, I hear you. I dread it every time I need to go a gear upgrade to the newest and greatest I-level knowing that it will make my portraits FUBAR. And I have a LOT of different portrait looks , especially for my WHM main.
Luckily I have gotten pretty good at fixing them relatively quickly now.
If you go to look at the affected portrait, it is STILL there, the game just defaults to the common one when actually using it in an instance.
To fix it; go to edit, character, and change some minor character thing such as facial look to something else then back to what you had it before, then save. Don't change pose or you gotta position it all over again.
It should be back to your normal look after you have done all that, if not, try it again, sometimes it takes a couple of attempts. -
08-07-2023, 08:28 PMThurmnmurmnWhen it first came out, didn't they say that was the beta version? If yes, you're bang on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Renalt
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08-07-2023, 08:39 PMSyln100% agree this is actually the only thing that bother me with portrait.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merryl
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08-07-2023, 08:47 PMLunalepsyComplicated? My goodness...Quote:
Originally Posted by WindyGamer
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08-07-2023, 11:15 PMReynTime
Isn't the process of 'fixing' it just opening the menu and saving immediately after...?
It's broken alright but it's not like fixing it takes more than 3 seconds. -
08-07-2023, 11:56 PMSylnYou have to do weird stuff to make it work properly sometimes, last time i changed my weapon glam i had to dissociate my glam plate from my job and associate it one more time before updating the portrait since only updating gave me the default plate for some reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by ReynTime
So to prevent this kind of inconvenience they really should just make plate unaffected by any gear change unless you chose to edit them yourself, i really struggle to understand why they chose not to do that. -
08-08-2023, 12:01 AMHyperia
It should be this simple: pick a frame, pose, effects, and have it display whatever your wearing as you appear.
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08-08-2023, 12:13 AMJojoyaBefore we had the single portrait to worry about. It's a lot more annoying when you're juggling 20 different portraits and they have to be updated any time you change a piece of gear, add materia, change materia, remove materia, extract materia, add glamour, change glamour remove glamour, switch between jobs that share role gear but each saved set is linked to a different glamour...Quote:
Originally Posted by ReynTime
Of course the best part is the warning about how your gear has changed so your portrait is reverted to default only appears once you've entered an instance but you can't update quickly in the instance while waiting for the barrier to drop.
It stopped being fun and became an annoyance. If it's going to constantly be reverting to default, then what's the point of customizing the portrait?
A little QoL would go a long way here. Make the "Update Gear Set" button also update the Portrait. If they can't do that, add an Update Portrait button next to it rather than force us to open Gear Set list, scroll to gear set, right click gear set and select Edit Portrait then hit the Save button half a dozen times a day.
This would be perfect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hyperia
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08-08-2023, 12:48 AMTaleraRistainThat sounds like a bug. I've never had to do anything but go to Edit and then Save and had no further issues. If it happens again you might want to report that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Syln
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08-08-2023, 03:38 AMToutatisSomehow sometimes, the save button doesn’t appear after I click edit although it tells me the portrait needs updating and I need to make other changes for the button to appear. Really they should either make it display the current gear automatically or display the gear you had when the portrait was made. Requiring constant updates for the tiniest changes is annoying. If you have only one job it’s probably not that bad but if you have them all + extra sets it’s really annoying.Quote:
Originally Posted by TaleraRistain
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08-08-2023, 04:45 AMReynTimeThey should yeah.Quote:
Originally Posted by Syln
But that's still weird to me. I haven't run into that level of portrait jank. -
08-16-2023, 08:34 AMSamSmoot
I've never used this feature. Don't see any point in it.
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08-16-2023, 08:42 AMNoox-115
It should work like the adventure plate where you can just save and lock the gear that you have on the Plate so when you change your gear glam or whatever your plate doesn't reset or anything, Monster Hunter World had this system and it works way better and it's way less annoying then having to resave the whole thing every time you change gear plus I don't even know why it should be tied to gear equipped no where on the portraits they show what gear you currently have so that whole gear change and save set should not even be a thing
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08-16-2023, 09:05 AMCanadaneRight click any portrait and select Import. You can then pick what one you wanna import.Quote:
Originally Posted by WindyGamer
There are additional options as well for importing to and from your adventurer plate. -
08-16-2023, 09:05 AMZarkovitch
Potrait is like a Ikea table. Easy to understand but god damn annoying to put it up.
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08-16-2023, 09:22 AMRaven2014I think it's because for some reason, your portrait data do not have your glam information, or rather it's not saved, unlike the adventure plate which is probably stored as a "screenshot", thus it remain the same even after you change the character. Instead I'm about 99% sure portrait are generated "live" each time it is shown, base on several settings, and one of those is whatever glamour you have at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merryl