Show us your... Adventurer Plates!

[Packetdancer]

Yeah.. This is what I was doing too... but my face always resets.

I don't know if this helps, but my strong suspicion is that "None" is not handled as "do not override the expression", but rather that the expression is always overridden (which the "switch to plate, watch expression change" behavior seems to support), and if you do "None" it picks the next expression keyframe in the pose animation to use as the override. Which kinda makes sense; it's not how I would have done it, but it could actually be a reasonable abstraction to keep bits of logic separate. But it feels like it only jumps forward to "next frame", never backwards (e.g. "nearest frame")... and so presumably if the animation relies on a "back to default" blend to lose the expression as the animation ends, you might have basically no expression keyframes in the later part of the pose. And thus, presumably, get the "straight face" pose as a default.

Again, just a gut feeling, but I've had better luck freezing pose expressions earlier in the animation rather than later, which does at least provide circumstantial evidence.

[Packetdancer]

My main character's plate is fairly straightforward:



My alt, meanwhile, continues her tradition of looking like she wants to stab someone like 87% of the time:



I also had some fun with job-specific portraits...

[Kacho_Nacho]

I like the white mage stuff for portrait, but I couldn't really find anything that would work well as far as the adventurer plate itself was concerned for the theme. I don't even know where to get other plate items, for that matter.



Also, I wish there were some better pink dyes. Something not as washed out as this, but not as excessively pink as some others. I need to buy the schoolgirl skirt off mogstation store as well.

Cute picture of Sturm! It's a bit of a struggle for white mages to find healer gear which looks good for Portrait/Adventurer Plate.

I agree with you about pink dyes. Sometimes they look fine, other times, they are all washed out. It has to do with how it "overlays" the equipment's color.

Makes me wish you could overlay dyes more than once.

Apparently I'm not very photogenic...

Ha! I'd love to hear how you pulled this off. I attempted to make a portrait that looked like the photographer aimed the camera too high but Portrait wouldn't accept it.

I also ran into the issue where the facial expression resets when the portrait is saved. It was with the /blowkiss emote. When I saved the picture, my character had a straight face instead of a smile. I had to manually select /smile as an expression.

I ran into it too! However, I was able to get the /blowkiss emote to work by pausing it just past where I had paused it the first time.

It seems to very much be a certain point in the different animations that won't save correctly. I remade my cheer one:
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*snip*

It seems to be the midpoint for most of the emotes for the "neutral face" bug to happen. But, as you say, other emotes have the bug occurring in other spots.

[Cincierta]

Ha! I'd love to hear how you pulled this off. I attempted to make a portrait that looked like the photographer aimed the camera too high but Portrait wouldn't accept it.

To be honest I have no idea how that happened either. I had set up another pose (girl scout girl with that evil smile) and I came back to it a couple days later to see it was like that.

One of my other friends has a static mate that managed to get their character to T-pose menacingly for theirs.

[Jybril]

This is beautiful.
Very simple and clean. Feels like a model.
Love her expression and colours.
Good job.

[SturmChurro]

Cute picture of Sturm! It's a bit of a struggle for white mages to find healer gear which looks good for Portrait/Adventurer Plate.

I agree with you about pink dyes. Sometimes they look fine, other times, they are all washed out. It has to do with how it "overlays" the equipment's color.

Makes me wish you could overlay dyes more than once.

Thanks! Yes, the dyes can be quite a struggle. The pink dyes just weren't really doing it for me. I just ended up scrapping pink altogether for a different variation of the outfit. I didn't have the right bottoms at the time anyway.

alternative 2 (red):



Still wish I knew where to find other plate items.

I love the lighting on your mooncat's portrait. Works great with her skin tone, hair color, and makeup.

[Jin-]

Makes me want to play Starcraft again ^^

[EternalNub]

[Wolfsbane706]

Update! Same style, but properly leveled and with new search info.

[Veranolth]