Instant Portraits - Annoying??

[Astrus]

Have you tried just directly glamouring the new weapon with the one saved to the portrait? Either carry it with you or do it directly from the dresser when required.

Sharing the plate shouldn't affect anything, because each gearset saves the portrait separately. And applying the "wrong tank's" glamour plate shouldn't break other ones, because a sword glamour isn't going to be applicable to an axe.

Do you have something in every slot of the glamour plate, including jewellery and hat?

I'm not able to log into the game to test this right now but back when I tried after the system left its Beta the issue seemed to be that the portraits thought an invalid piece on the plate meant that that slot was using the unglamoured default appearance of the item. So it would work if I was using an actually unglamoured weapon but would break the moment I tried to use a weapon with an applied glamour if the weapon on the glamour plate was incompatible with the Job.

They might have changed this since, I'll try again when I get a chance to log in in a couple of days.
Also, yes all the main slots on the plate are filled to avoid "invisible" pieces like armbands breaking things, except the offhand slot since only PLD uses that.

Applying the glamour directly from the dresser without using a plate is a feature I was not aware of, that's going to save me time in either case.

[Gemina]

I'm not able to log into the game to test this right now but back when I tried after the system left its Beta the issue seemed to be that the portraits thought an invalid piece on the plate meant that that slot was using the unglamoured default appearance of the item. So it would work if I was using an actually unglamoured weapon but would break the moment I tried to use a weapon with an applied glamour if the weapon on the glamour plate was incompatible with the Job.

They might have changed this since, I'll try again when I get a chance to log in in a couple of days.
Also, yes all the main slots on the plate are filled to avoid "invisible" pieces like armbands breaking things, except the offhand slot since only PLD uses that.

Applying the glamour directly from the dresser without using a plate is a feature I was not aware of, that's going to save me time in either case.

There is no reason I can think of to use glamour plates to glamour weapons. The glamour plate system is essentially used to glamour multiple appearances on the same piece of gear. This was basically the response to being unable to choose multiple glamours if multiple jobs were using the same piece of gear with the previous glamour system. Because weapons are unique to each job and cannot be used by any other class/job, there is no reason to use glamour plates to glamour a weapon. Just use the old system and save the gear set. It should work fine after that.

[Merryl]

I've stopped using it. Its not really a portrait if it has to be updated all the time. Imagine if our drivers license photo had to be updated every time we changed our clothes, or got a hair cut? How annoying would that be?

[AmiableApkallu]

Imagine if our drivers license photo had to be updated every time we changed our clothes, or got a hair cut? How annoying would that be?

The irony being that if you are using your driver's license photo as your portrait in game (i.e., you never bothered to set a portrait, ever), then it updates automatically! No pain. No annoyance.

[BokoToloko]

I mostly keep Glamour Plates with all slots filled (those slots that do not need any glamour would be filled with Emperor's New Gear) and I link them to the gear set I have for each class. Every time I get an upgrade in gear, I only have to equip the new piece, update the set and, by "equipping" the set again, the glamour would reapply on all slots, keeping the portrait up without needing to update it manually.

Only thing where it doesn't fully work is for pieces that occupy several slot (like the Toad suit) but I found a way around which is having the hidden pieces to be glammed with a different compatible glamour set (for example, I use the Toad Suit for my Warrior glam but the gloves, pants and boots, which are hidden are saved with my PLD glamour appearance. That way, to avoid getting the reset, I just swap to PLD, applying the glamour on those pieces, then to WAR, which gets the end result the portrait wants.

Since I keep 2 hotbars visible to use for jobs swaps and the glamour plate menu button, it got less bothersome for me.

[MistakeNot]

Anybody else annoyed by the Instant Portrait function? It requires an edit every time you change your gear in any way? For each Job? How about it just auto-clicks edit and Save, so you get face camera / sparkles and the correct border without doing that each time you change a ring or something? How about that?

With 15 jobs, isn't it a bit much to have this thing needing edits all the time?

Whatever

I haven't a clue as to what the "Instant Portrait function" even is or does.
So no, it doesn't annoy me because I never noticed it in the first place.

[Destati]

I've gotten into the habit of checking and updating my portraits whenever I make changes but having said that I hate that it's a necessary habit. Maybe I'm wrong but I could have sworn the issue wasn't there (or at least not nearly as prevalent or obnoxious) back when the feature was in "beta". Kinda wish we could go back to that.

[Fhaerron]

I don't use it so I don't get annoyed by it.

That's the only option really, that or maybe wait several years and hope they fix it? (but you should still ignore and not use it during that time so you won't get annoyed).

[Kemiko]

Just wanted to update my experience here with trying the methodology posted here to get around the portrait system not being able to properly handle mutli-peice glamours. My memory here was actually correct in that swapping gearsets within the same role (I used DNC and MCH here with DNC using the mutli-piece glamour and MCH being glamoured with every individual piece). The DNC gearset was never giving the option to update it and swapping between the two (DNC and MCH and nothing else) would never prompt it to do so and always caused the portrait system to break for DNC, who had the mutli-piece glamour. So, there was never a situation that I could update the portrait, or update the gearset, to recognize the glamour pieces of MCH who has individual pieces so that swapping from MCH to DNC would make the DNC portrait work properly.

[Iscah]

So, there was never a situation that I could update the portrait, or update the gearset

What do you mean, there was never a chance to update the gearset? You just press the update button in the corner of the character menu (or Triangle on controller) and it saves the current state of your equipment and glamours to the gearset. What "situation" are you expecting?

Updating the portrait isn't any good until the gearset is glamoured correctly.

I haven't set up the automatic linking of plates to gearsets, but I tested it out with manually applying all-in-one and multi-piece glamour plates as I switched between gearsets. I don't think it should behave any differently when the linking just makes it apply automatically, but I'll test it with linked plates next time I'm in the game.