Graphics Update and My Beautiful Portraits

[Jessica_VS]

I had a terrifying realization. Remember that one little patch that updated the portrait system and forced us to remake our portraits? I have a feeling that 7.0's graphics update may screw with our portraits.

I've screenshotted my portraits and their settings, which I've spent an inordinate amount of time "perfecting" for some inane reason, in case 7.0 erases the settings. Might be worth preparing for!

[AluneTempest]

What they need is to rework this portrait system, is so bad that a simples materia can ruin your portrait.

I hate when i enter on the menu and see a lot of yellow triangles.

[TKMXIV]

I know. Having to constantly update your portrait is bla. I wish that when I hit update gear set it would also update portrait.

[Derio]

Its gonna happen. Hell during the leveling process you will end up having to update it every 5 minutes. Hopefully we will hear something in the next live letter that this was addressed.

[Iscah]

is so bad that a simples materia can ruin your portrait.

I'm pretty sure I've directly tested that claim before and materia has no effect on the portrait.

It may be that they're so prone to failing that people blame it on the materia change, but it's actually something else.

[Skivvy]

I'm pretty sure I've directly tested that claim before and materia has no effect on the portrait.

It may be that they're so prone to failing that people blame it on the materia change, but it's actually something else.

I just tested this myself and can confirm that adding/removing materia does not impact the portrait. I didn't bother hitting the "Update Gear Set" button either.

[Elissar]

can ruin your portrait.

Honestly you just need to click "update gear"...

[Jojoya]

I'm pretty sure I've directly tested that claim before and materia has no effect on the portrait.

It may be that they're so prone to failing that people blame it on the materia change, but it's actually something else.

There was a point where adding or extracting materia did cause the portrait to error. Adding materia no longer causes the error so that was probably fixed in an undocumented change sometime in 6.5 (or might have been buried in Resolved Issues in patch notes that people usually don't read unless they've been told an issue is going to be fixed).

I don't know if extraction still causes an error but I would hope that was fixed at the same time. With luck, it truly is only the model information being saved now.

I'll have to go back to playing with Portraits to see if it's worth paying more attention to them again.

Honestly you just need to click "update gear"...

Which is what many of us had been doing. Change gear item, apply glamour plate, then click update gear. Portraits would still error unless we also went into to Portrait edit to resave it.

Now the Portrait seems to be fine as long as the same Glamour Plate is applied to gear.