So... Portraits

[DiaDeem]

I don't mind those camera restrictions...

No no, like... I wouldn't mind the restriction either if it made sense. My face is perfectly visible and it's still calling it an "obstruction" but then it works just fine with the Anima?

So then I just moved it a bit... and now it's fine??



What annoys me it's that the restriction feels totally arbitrary instead of consistent. As long as the face is visible, that should be enough.

[Canadane]

Don't stab the cameraman, I guess.

[Antonio_Xul]

No no, like... I wouldn't mind the restriction either if it made sense. My face is perfectly visible and it's still calling it an "obstruction" but then it works just fine with the Anima?

So then I just moved it a bit... and now it's fine??



What annoys me it's that the restriction feels totally arbitrary instead of consistent. As long as the face is visible, that should be enough.

It depends on the size of the weapon. This exact thing happened to me when I got a new sword that was different either by shape or size and I got the error. I just needed to tweak the camera a little bit and I was good, but was still weird that was a problem.

[Tahbitha]

It depends on the size of the weapon.

It's not the size of the weapon... it's how you use it.

Sorry, it had to be said.

[ReynTime]

Unfortuately it got ruined by all the children who couldn't stop themselves from making NSFW portraits.

ERPers making everything worse for everyone like usual.

[Mattski3]

I stopped doing portraits because everytime I equiped something new, my portrait would go back to default and I would have to do it again.

[Swordsman]

I stopped doing portraits because everytime I equiped something new, my portrait would go back to default and I would have to do it again.

This too. There should really be a portrait auto-update feature.

[iVolke]

You only see the adventure plate if you click on someone and look at them.

The PvP community greets you.

[yoshinoharu]

There are definitely a lot of oddities in the new system. Through a lot of experimentation I discovered the following:

-If the update gearset button, is lit (meaning unsaved), it breaks the portrait:


-Even if the gearset IS updated, you must save the portrait after it IS updated in order to apply the portrait.

-If the gearset is tied to a glamour plate, the gearset MUST match the glamour plate exactly in order for the portrait to be applied. If you remove a glamour-plate link to a job, this prevents it from breaking and as long as you click update on the gear set and save on the new portrait, it will not break.



-If you equip a new set of gear, then apply the associated glamour plate, and then hit 'Update Gear Set' this entirely breaks the portrait entirely. The only way to fix this is to alter the portrait in some way and save the new portrait (i.e. go into portrait settings, maybe alter the light or angle by a value of 1, and save the portrait again)

-Interestingly enough, if you equip a new set of gear, then update the gear set, switch to another gearset, then switch back to let the glamour auto-apply, it doesn't break the system.

Any way you cut it, the system is REALLY janky though and definitely needs bugs hammered out.

[Denji]

I hate the portrait system so much it's unbelievable.

Glams, materia, class/jobs... Having to manually save it when you make minute changes, thinking you saved it but then there's an issue with your gear set... just, good lord it's rough at times. Drives me up the wall. I actually hate that Square introduced it at this point. I really liked the "beta" of it where it was just the adventurer plate... but idk. It just kinda sucks now.

Shouldn't have even given us the option to position the camera for portraits at this point since there's so few actual angles/positions that it doesn't complain about anymore.