KregorRanger's Portrait Collection and How/Why To's

[Kuma]

I was wondering, is there a way that these can be put on a dropbox type thing that people can sync to, and then change that synced folder to be the folder that nwn looks for portraits in?

easy updating?

Entirely possible, but also a massive security vulnerability. I'd recommend against it.

[CragOrion]

yeah, i thought about that after posting, you're prolly right

[Lilja_91]

Valeria Araaxian

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6m7sfqm899lgz ... n.rar?dl=0

[JediMindTrix]

That's a very, very well done portrait. Props to the author!

[Lilja_91]

Whoever the author is! It's part of a massive portrait pack I downloaded some time ago but it fits my char perfectly.

[CragOneEye]

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/knfceex8g0hx ... Qzera?dl=0

Durrash's portrait

[SteelsSweets]

*bump*

While I realize this thread has already been taken over by chit chat, as per the OP's wishes please do not derail with personal portrait show and tell or unnecessary replies. (Your character is so awesome, they deserve their own thread!)

[Lilja_91]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ad5fafev9i8bi ... r.rar?dl=0

Isendir Dae

Apparent age (elven): 21~ (130~)
Height: 5’8”
Hair: Dark
Eye-color: Misty green

A bit tall for an elf, he carries himself with a light and deft stride with a subtle yet polite smile on his lips. He has a prominent scar on the right side of his chin vertically, likely from some kind of claw. He has elaborate tattoos on both his arms.

The left arm, from top to bottom: An eagle in flight, a viper squeezing a critter, a tree, vines, a book with nothing inside it and lastly sharp fangs on his hand. Right arm: Two daggers crossing over a bag coins, a hand holding a diamond, a fox head, a cracked mask and thorns in many places.

[caldura firebourne]

Skharr.zip

Skharr portrait pack

(211.29 KiB) Downloaded 739 times

Skharr commissioned by Vampirika, an awesome artist!


Skharr, gnoll howler and portrait pack

[CragOrion]

It seems like Kregor's moved on or at the very least stopped watching this thread. I figure I can try to pick up where he left off. Send your portraits to me if you want them added to the pack, but make sure they're already in portrait format. I don't have the time to create them for you.

Here's the full version 2.0, my first update
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pu3ykezizlkfm ... ll.7z?dl=0

Incremental: see below

Got rid of the big block of extremely mediocre portraits in the middle of the list, left just a few exceptions.

Removed all the duplicates I could find, If I missed one, just let me know

Swapped out a couple portraits for different versions of the same ones that I've found that were cropped better, giving them a better view

Removed a couple incomplete portrait sets

Added the portraits for Valeria Araaxian and Durrash

Didn't add the portraits for Isendir or Skharr as they looked a bit too cartoony, and I believe not in line with the type of portraits Kregor was trying to compile here.

There is no incremental download since most of what I did was remove the mediocre block and fix a few individual portrait sets.
If you have the old packs already and want to keep the portraits I took out, first make a backup of your portraits folder just to be safe by making a copy of it somewhere, then extract the portraits folder from my download into the NWN root folder and when it prompts you, tell it to skip any duplicate files.

Please send all other portraits to me via PM and leave the posting area for pack updates.

Thanks

[CragOrion]

Optional Arelith Community Portrait Pack (OACPP) version 2.6.26
7,455 Files
1,491 Portraits

Added Cyrus Galva'for's Portrait (Previewed here)

Merged in most of the portraits from 45's Super Portrait Pack (Previewed here)


Downloads

The full download can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/s7ssx4yp23anj ... ll.7z?dl=0

If you already have main download and just need the update of everything that was added since the last release, the incremental can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3adhq7nzzlzh1 ... al.7z?dl=0

[Krivoklat]

I went through this morning and compared what is in version 2.6.26 to what I am currently using, and Sharwyn's portrait (which is what I use here in the forums-->) is definitely not in it.

I've pulled from my own collection two portraits I have used on Arelith Characters, and 7 other portraits I know I have seen on the server, but that I did not see in my examination of the current Version 2.6.26 of the OACPP.

I'm listing preview .jpg files here of the 9 images, and a link to a .rar that contains the complete set of 9 as .tga files

The link to download the .rar is:
http://smokingrabbit.com/arelith/portra ... ed_Add.rar
(just right-click and 'save link as' to download)

the file names are the same in the .rar (only they are .tga)
^ ClaennisH

^ ShulaRogueH

^ Wood_elfH

^ crdrow_H

^ doc_H

^ f_elf05H

^ f_nwnrhi_H <-- Yay Sharwyn!

^ grf_nyluth_h

^ po_hu_f_522_h

[Rodent]

Valeria Araaxian

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6m7sfqm899lgz ... n.rar?dl=0

Ooh, taking that for Shallan. Cheers.

[CragOrion]

Please try to PM submissions to me and leave the posting area for file updates, thanks

Optional Arelith Community Portrait Pack (OACPP) version 2.8.14
7,400 Files
1,480 Portraits
(managed to shrink it a little!)

Krivoklat, most of those are pretty good, but a lot of them are already in the main download, just named differently:
f_elf05 is EL_F_PRF_01_
Wood_elf is po_el_f_247_h
ShulaRogue is po_ha_f_502
Claennis is po_hu_f_505
po_hu_f_522_ is po_hu_f_522_

Added to the file from Krovoklat:

* f_elf05
* f_nwnrhi_

Left the other 3 out. Didn't feel they were in line with the type of portraits Kregor was trying to compile here.

Please understand the file is already pretty huge, so we can't add everything.

Did some more pruning and found a few more duplicates
* m_rgr03 was the same as MPortrait269. Kept m_rgr03
* po_ho_f_beauty_ was the same as Female12. Kept po_ho_f_beauty_
* ps_hu_f_032_ was the same as FPortrait135_H. Kept ps_hu_f_032_

You can view the duplicates that were removed here.

Removed a couple of emo-vampy type portraits who's quality just wasn't up to par with everything else in the file (bonapetit & po_eegil6a)
Removed silly Roger Moore(james bond) portrait wearing bow tie (MPortrait316_)
Removed cutsie anime portrait (o_edfwf)
Removed 4 CG orc portraits (F_44_, f_Half-Orc3_, orc_male_, and orc_woman_)
Removed a badly proportioned and badly photoshopped portrait with some actress's head whom I can't place. We'll just call her Felicity. (po_ha_f_PH_04_)
Lastly, Removed one of my joke portraits that I'd forgotten to remove from the original file. The uh...stick figure...sorry about that (robinsample_)

You can view the above files that were removed here.

DOWNLOADS

The full download can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/37f1uz0axefqk ... ll.7z?dl=0

If you already have the main download and just need the update of the two portraits that were added since the last release, the incremental can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ul6qh84eh45nw ... al.7z?dl=0

Remember, most of what was changed with this update was the removal of duplicates and other files that didn't fit Kregor's theme, so If you don't want to re-download the full, just reference my update notes above and delete the same files that I did. Or don't.
Here is the removed-list for easy reference:
bonapetit
F_44_
f_Half-Orc3_
Female12
FPortrait135_H
MPortrait269
MPortrait316_
o_edfwf
orc_male_
orc_woman_
po_eegil6a
po_ha_f_PH_04_
robinsample_


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[Iceborn]

Hey, that stick figure portrait was my favorite!
I was totally going to use it for my next char.

[CragOrion]

(edited post to include a removed list for easy reference at the bottom)

[caldura firebourne]

Probably a dumb question, but as I'm considering using this, here goes
Are the artists of the portraits given credit for their work or have they given permission for its use?

[CragOrion]

Some of the portraits were signed by their authors, but most of them weren't. Most of the portraits in this collection have been floating around the general NWN gaming community and have been included in various other servers' portrait packs. I know I I've seen a huge amount of them when I was playing on servers like Myth Drannor and Heartlands.
These days, I think a lot of content comes from just googling for good pictures. If you're worried about a legality standpoint, though, shouldn't be any problem since noone here is making money off of these portraits. (AFAIK)

[caldura firebourne]

ah, thanks, I'll pass.... copyright laws can be really picky about this kind of thing

even if a profit isn't being made, it's still using someone elses intellectual property and offering it for free to people who might otherwise have to pay the artist for permissions

[Iceborn]

Well, the intellectual property is free for display.
Maybe it's just chaotic me, but I find it absurd to worry about things like copyright infringement when there's a list much larger of oversights.

Really, if there's the faintest moral thing to worry about is whether somebody ever told the artists what his work is being used for or not, and considering the vastness of the internet, that may not be entirely possible.

[cptcuddlepants]

Sorry for the thread necro, but will I see these custom portraits if other people are using them? I still see a lot of the "default/disguised" icons around.

If it helps, I downloaded the most recent (at least, I think it's the most recent) collection, the one that's linked on this page.

[Commissar]

You will! There's a good number of people on the server that use the pack and, as long as you've got it, you'll see whatever portrait they've chosen.

[Baratan]

The link on post one is dead

[CragOrion]

Sorry about the lateness of this, IRL happens yo

I know it's not much of an update. Only really had 1 person submit a portrait since the last update anyway, so here it is:

Optional Arelith Community Portrait Pack v3.3.6
7,405 Files
1,481 Portraits

Added submission from Archon (gravelle)

You can preview the added portrait here

If you don't have the portrait pack yet, then you'll want the full download here:
OACPP3.3.6full.7z

If you already have the main file, then you'll only need the incremental here:
OACPP3.3.6incremental.7z

Just unpack the portraits into your portraits folder.
As always, please pm submissions to my inbox and leave the posting area for updates.
Enjoy!

[CragOrion]

Update!

Optional Arelith Community Portrait Pack v3.4.7
Added 19 portraits for a total of...
7,500 Files
1,500 Portraits

Added portrait from cilginat

* drow_male_al_1

There were a few people in the Character's Appearance thread who posted some really good stuff that I thought really deserved to be made into portraits:
Vacazays (Commissar)
Maiki (DreamHeart)
Vance (Archon)
Hero (Endrak)
Elenia (On A Quest To Fetch My Cookies)

And then found a lot more pictures on google that were just too awesome not to add in as well, so went and converted those and the above pictures into portraits, 18 in all

* po_el_f_300
* po_el_f_301
* po_el_f_302
* po_el_f_303
* po_el_m_300
* po_el_m_301
* po_el_m_302
* po_hu_f_300
* po_hu_f_301
* po_hu_f_302
* po_hu_f_303
* po_hu_f_304
* po_hu_f_305
* po_hu_f_306
* po_hu_f_307
* po_hu_f_308
* po_hu_m_300
* po_hu_m_301

You can view all the added portraits here

DOWNLOADS

Get the full portrait pack here:
OACPP v3.4.7 Full

If you already have the main download from the last update and just need what I added today, then you can get the incremental here:
OACPP v3.4.7 Incremental

What's in the pipeline?
I have a couple projects I'm going to be working on for the next update (or 2)

1. Naturally, after adding 19 portraits this update, the file has gotten about as big as I feasibly wanted it to get, so I'm going to look at pruning it a bit more. And I can think of one other duplicate portrait right offhand that needs to be taken out, so I'll be starting a discussion in the Slanty Shanty asking for input on what people think needs to go and what's still being used and should stay. Before you get worried, nothing will go that is being used, so long as you let me know it's being used.

2. In doing some research on standard portrait naming conventions, I discovered the reason why some of the portraits show up as just blank white when you're trying to select them in the game. Any file name over 15 characters will break the portrait, so I'm going to start looking at filenames of existing portraits in the pack and fixing anything longer than 15 characters so it can be used. This is going to be a HUGE project, with 7500 files to go through, and so if anyone feels like giving me a hand, I won't say no! Just shoot me a PM if you'd like to help out.

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Thanks, and as always, if you have anything you'd like me to add, just drop me a line in my inbox and I'll take a look.

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