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Title: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Rotten Rudy on August 26, 2010, 08:04:16 PM: Hey Everyone. I Need Some Help On This One. I Remember Way Back When A Guy By The Name Of Serj Tankian (Not The Singer) Released A Portrait Tutorial, Only Problem Was, It Messed Up My Portraits. I Would Really Appreciate It If Somebody Could Show Me How To Change My Characters Small Portraits. Thanks All, And Any Help Is Greatly Appreciated! :)
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: aznperson569M on August 27, 2010, 02:27:28 AM: How did he mess up the portraits? As in they appeared all discolored?
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Rotten Rudy on August 27, 2010, 09:29:12 AM: Yeah They Came Out Discolored. I Just Need Someone To Explain How To Replace A Portrait.
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: aznperson569M on August 27, 2010, 03:32:57 PM: There are 2 possibilities for your problem;

The portrait is somewhere in the middle of the character's SFF. It may also have a shared pallete. You have to move the portrait to either the very beginning of the SFF file (So it should be the first sprite in the SFF), or the very end.

The other thing is that your character's portrait might just be discolored due to the glitch, so you just might want to download the character again, and replace your glitched portrait with the new one.
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Spidermew on August 27, 2010, 04:43:54 PM: Sounds to me like you didnt properly format your images!
Video help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQZE5K621XA# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQZE5K621XA#)
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: aznperson569M on August 27, 2010, 04:53:16 PM: Thanks Spidermew :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Rotten Rudy on August 27, 2010, 07:49:10 PM: Quote from: SpiderMew on August 27, 2010, 04:43:54 PM
Sounds to me like you didnt properly format your images!
Video help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQZE5K621XA# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQZE5K621XA#)
Following Your Tutoral. I'll Let You Know How It Turns Out :)
Post Merge: August 27, 2010, 08:14:47 PM
Okay, When I Enter The Game, I See My Select Portraits. When I Enter A Match, My Characters Portrait Is All Messed Up. I Only Have One Palette For The Character So I Don't See How That Would Be A Problem.
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Spidermew on August 28, 2010, 11:14:24 AM: Does it look messed up when you open it in fighter factory?
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Rotten Rudy on August 28, 2010, 07:53:25 PM: No It Looks Perfect In Fighter Factory. Its When I Enter A Match. The Life Bar Portraits Are Discolored. :'(
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Spidermew on August 29, 2010, 09:59:05 AM: In fighter factory, make sure you dont have a check in the box that says "Shared Palette" for the little portrate.
If it is checked, uncheck it.
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Rotten Rudy on September 01, 2010, 02:01:37 AM: Quote from: SpiderMew on August 29, 2010, 09:59:05 AM
In fighter factory, make sure you dont have a check in the box that says "Shared Palette" for the little portrate.
If it is checked, uncheck it.
I Did That, And It Is Still Discolored.
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Spidermew on September 01, 2010, 11:25:01 AM: Ok, im not sure what you could be doing then. Why dont you rar it and send it to me. just use sendspace and send it via pm, I'll check it out and see what the problem is for ya.
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: davismaximus on September 01, 2010, 12:36:38 PM: Quote from: Rotten Rudy on August 28, 2010, 07:53:25 PM
No It Looks Perfect In Fighter Factory. Its When I Enter A Match. The Life Bar Portraits Are Discolored. :'(

What life bars are you using?
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Rotten Rudy on September 01, 2010, 01:37:17 PM: Quote from: davismaximus on September 01, 2010, 12:36:38 PM
What life bars are you using?
The Default Mugen Lifebars.
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Rotten Rudy on September 06, 2010, 04:28:50 PM: Bump :-??
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: SanjiSasuke on September 07, 2010, 01:37:15 AM: You say that the small portrait looks fine before the fight (as in on the Choose Your Character screen?)
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Rotten Rudy on September 08, 2010, 12:11:46 PM: Yes Thats Right.
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Acey on September 08, 2010, 01:17:20 PM: Quote from: SpiderMew on September 01, 2010, 11:25:01 AM
Ok, im not sure what you could be doing then. Why dont you rar it and send it to me. just use sendspace and send it via pm, I'll check it out and see what the problem is for ya.

The problem is that when the portrait is on the select screen it uses it's own palette but once you see it in the lifebars it uses a shared palette. If the portrait doesn't have the exact same palete as the character then it will look messed up in the lifebar.
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Arkady on September 08, 2010, 01:53:31 PM: Quote from: Acey on September 08, 2010, 01:17:20 PM
The problem is that when the portrait is on the select screen it uses it's own palette but once you see it in the lifebars it uses a shared palette. If the portrait doesn't have the exact same palete as the character then it will look messed up in the lifebar.

so if you want to fix it, you'lll need to extract one sprite of the character (possibaly from the one of the stance sprites) and the portrait pic, open them both in a paint shop or photo shop program, then save the pallete from the stance sprite ,(call it whatever and save) then hightlight the portrait pic and load the pallete, (note: you might have a different backround color, so if that's the case color the portrait backround with what you have in the stance pic)

alternatively, you can just make a new portrait pic from the stance pic or any other pic (and reduce it to 25x25 pixels)
hopefully that helps you
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Rotten Rudy on September 08, 2010, 03:59:50 PM: None Of This Is Working For Some Reason. Would Somebody Be Willing To Convert The Portraits That I Have Already Made? There Is Twenty I Believe. Or Possibly Make A Video Tutorial Explaining How? I Would Very Much Appreciate That.
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Spidermew on September 08, 2010, 04:35:18 PM: didnt i post this already?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQZE5K621XA# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQZE5K621XA#)
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Rotten Rudy on September 08, 2010, 05:02:47 PM: Yeah You Did. And I Followed It Exactly And Thats When I Had Told You My Life Bar Portraits Were Messed Up, Discolored. The Transparency Worked And There Was No Discoloration In Fighter Factory, Its Only When I Enter A Match That They Appear All Discolored. Im Stumped.
Title: Re: Help With Select Portraits?
Post by: Rotten Rudy on September 20, 2010, 11:47:52 PM: Quote from: arkadyrossovitch on September 08, 2010, 01:53:31 PM
so if you want to fix it, you'lll need to extract one sprite of the character (possibaly from the one of the stance sprites) and the portrait pic, open them both in a paint shop or photo shop program, then save the pallete from the stance sprite ,(call it whatever and save) then hightlight the portrait pic and load the pallete, (note: you might have a different backround color, so if that's the case color the portrait backround with what you have in the stance pic)

alternatively, you can just make a new portrait pic from the stance pic or any other pic (and reduce it to 25x25 pixels)
hopefully that helps you

Your Way Worked! I Guess I Wasn't Doing It Right. Thanks So Much! :thumbsup:
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