Adventure Plates feedback!

[Cidel]

Maybe I can find an answer here. If not, well, feedback.

It doesn't seem like you can save portraits in a way that permanently saves your outfit used to create that specific portrait... If you link it to your Adventurer Plate, it'll stay as is, but if not, I notice all other saved portraits will always change to reflect your current glamour/job weapon.

I was hoping I could make multiple portraits for different jobs and glamours, with specific poses/outfits to link to gearsets- but in the end they're perpetually linked to what you're currently wearing if it's not the active portrait being used for your Adventurer Plate.

[Kaurhz]

Bluntly put, I think this feature should wholly replace the search info. It's one of the nicest things they've added into the game honestly, and it would be a shame for it not to get so widely used.

[Risvertasashi]

Maybe I can find an answer here. If not, well, feedback.

It doesn't seem like you can save portraits in a way that permanently saves your outfit used to create that specific portrait... If you link it to your Adventurer Plate, it'll stay as is, but if not, I notice all other saved portraits will always change to reflect your current glamour/job weapon.

I was hoping I could make multiple portraits for different jobs and glamours, with specific poses/outfits to link to gearsets- but in the end they're perpetually linked to what you're currently wearing if it's not the active portrait being used for your Adventurer Plate.

Yoshi actually addressed this - I'm not sure why it hasn't been directly shared with the English community but an unofficial translation from the reddit team follows.

ただ、ポートレートを沢山作っている時には、あくまでキャラクターの向きとか、エモーション何取らせているとか、どうタイミングでしているとか、ライティングはどこで当てているのかっていうキャラクターの座標情報とかしか保存できてないんですね、これ。何でかというとローカルに保存しているんですけど、皆さんのPCとか、PS4とか、PS5とか、MACとかに保存しているんですけど、持っている装備を確認する方法がない、サーバーでセーブじゃないから。ズルができちゃうので、キャラクターの向きとか表情とか仕草とかを保存できるんですけど、服の情報が保存されない状態になる…ポートレートが複数でガンガン作る時…メインだけがサーバーに保存しているんですけど、それは一個だけなんですよ。で、これが同じものに見えるのに、何でこっちが固定されててあっちが安定されないのか…例えば白魔道士用だと思って、作って、黒魔道士になって別のポートレートに弄ろうと思ったら、「おいおい、さっき白魔道士として保存してたやつ黒魔道士装備になっとるやん！」ってなるんですよ。これが、とにかく分かりづらいので、根本的に今処理を変えようとしています。なのでまず一個を作るには全く混乱しないので、お気に入りを一個作ってみてください。
However, the issue lies in when players start creating multiple and large amount of portraits, the server currently will save only settings with different character view direction, different emotions and what not... along with other elements like timing, lighting position, character coordinates, etc. The reason is due to these settings created for characters are saved locally, and not onto the server. Now, an inconsistency will occur when they start creating them for different jobs because, while the character info itself is saved, the same however doesn't apply to their equipment when creating different character portraits in large numbers. Only the main one will be saved, and it's currently only one for now. Okay, now this will result in cases where the first setting seems stable and all but when it comes to other portrait it doesn't seem as if it's saved. Like for example, let's you created a portrait meant solely for your White Mage attire/glamour, and when you try making another portrait that is meant for Black Mage, suddenly you'll go "wait why is that portrait that I saved for White Mage suddenly has Black Mage attire or glamour applied!?". And this may cause confusion to players and made the feature hard to use so we have to change the core specification of this feature. Therefore to avoid confusion, players are advised to create only one portrait for now, one that is your favourite and universal for the time being.
ただし、プレイト編集上では白魔の装備で作ったものが黒魔に見えているんですけど、実際コンテンツ用ポートレートとして登録した場合って白魔の装備ってもし想定しているんだったらPvPで白魔でいけばちゃんと白魔の装備で反映されはするんですよ。でもここが本当に分かりづらいので全部サーバーに保存するわけにはやっぱりいかないので、今やり方を根本的に変えて、今も打合せしているんですけど、もっと分かりやすく、使いやすくする方法はないかていうんので今ガリガリやっていますので、ちょうど今いいアイデアが出たのでちょっとそれが何とかしたいと思っているので、ちょっと最初の時は複数作っていくと混乱すると思うんですけど、まず一個シンプルにお気に入りでどのジョブでも綺麗に見える自分の一枚ポートレートを作ってもらえるといいかなと思います。
However, another confusion will occur when the portrait players created specifically with White Mage glamour will end up showing Black Mage glamour when displaying their Adventurer's Plate (in case of creating multiple, different portraits of different job glamours), but when registering for duty/content and entering it, like for example during PvP, the portrait will properly show its settings based on the job you registered with (if registered with WHM, it'll properly display the portrait setting you set for the job). Still this will end up really confusing and we have to make sure all settings are properly saved onto the server, and for that we have to change its specification, and even now I had a meeting earlier to discuss the issue to see if the feature can be made friendlier and easier to use, and we're actively looking into this issue, and right just now we've manage to thought up of a good solution here. So for now players will only need to create one simple portrait of their favourite, the one where it displays their appeal at their fullest until we address the issue above.

tl;dr: They're aware and working on it.

[Ilisidi]

I was hoping I could make multiple portraits for different jobs and glamours, with specific poses/outfits to link to gearsets- but in the end they're perpetually linked to what you're currently wearing if it's not the active portrait being used for your Adventurer Plate.

This confused me at first as well and it's difficult to see, but actually does what you want. Right click the portrait and assign it to the gear set of choice. Whenever you switch to that gear set it switches the portrait as well. So, the preview list shows current great for all portraits, but the actual portrait is the one assigned to the current gear set.
The thing is, this switch doesn't apply to the adventurer pass, it only applies to the quick portrait used in PVP. At least I have found no way yet, to also make the adventurer pass switch with portrait switch by gear set switch.

[Samdwitch]

>people wanting to make portraits reportable lmao
tbh the card is great, sure seeing the same old pose for miqos and the like can get boring but it doesn't hurt anyone and you can just not inspect them. In the case of PvP the cards are there for 5 seconds max.

[Kacho_Nacho]

My biggest issue with it so far is the lack of options for portrait poses. I actually had a bunch of ideas beforehand of emotes/poses I wanted to use for my portraits but the selection of animations we can use is fairly limited. Hopefully this is something they add more to once the feature is out of beta or at least over time.

More poses are there you just have to look outside Poses and click on Display Poses List instead.

Hope this helps. Have fun!
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I love Adventurer Plates! For feedback, I feel there should be an online guide on how to use it because some of the functions aren't immediately obvious.

One thing I'd like to see in the future is the ability to save multiple plates. ((Oh! I just read the post above. Seems like Square Enix is ahead of me.))

[Demetri_Delethorn]

It’s a great feature and I hope it is implemented in more content going forward.

[Padudu]

It's ugly tho. :P Let me hide it and display things like house/apartment address instead.

Ohh I would like the apartment/house address instead of the play schedule lol. Give it that "business car(r)d" flavor. :P

[Kacho_Nacho]

It’s a great feature and I hope it is implemented in more content going forward.

Like what?

Ohh I would like the apartment/house address instead of the play schedule lol. Give it that "business car(r)d" flavor. :P

I like that idea! Add my voice to that suggestion! On a similar line, how about the option to add a Discord server listing?

[Risvertasashi]

More poses are there you just have to look outside Poses and click on Display Poses List instead.

Hope this helps. Have fun!

This immediately made me go to check it and... while there's a few more, it's still a very limited selection.