So, what I would like to do is increase the number of portraits available for me in my character builder. I'm not super technically adept or anything though. I did have the following thought though. Every month a new book comes out, and Wizards puts up a new gallery of art, which is mostly full of great pictures of heroes that I could use. I'd just have to add them to whatever folder the character builder puts it's portraits in, right? Or maybe modify them down to the right scale, and then move them. Would that work? Does anyone know?
Also, again, not a model of technical proficiency here or anything so, ah, in Windows 7, where would I find the file Character Builder stores the portraits in?
Any help or advice would be greatly apreciated.
Where you installed the Character Builder the default portrait location is:
...\Wizards of the Coast\Character Builder\SamplePortraits
What I have done to increase the number of portraits is to download all of the art galleries for the books they release and then use Photoshop to crop and resize them. (There are many other software choices that can be used, many of them freeware like 'Gimp') You could use Microsoft paint that is built into windows 7 to crop and resize, although it lacks many features that I enjoy having.
The sample pictures are 290 pixels wide by 260 pixels high.
You could modify pictures to be 290 px wide and 260 px high, but this is unnecessary. You can adjust the picture within the character sheet window to move the focus of the picture around, or change the zoome by using the wheel on your mouse...assuming you have a wheel mouse...
Oh, and you also don't need to put pictures into the SamplePortraits folder. You can just browse to whichever folder you have those gallery pictures you mentioned stored.
The reason to crop them, is so that when viewing characters by Icon (within the character builder) , you can clearly see the face.
True you don't need to place an image in the SamplePortraits folder.
I like to place my new images in the folder, so that I can browse them all at once. Using Windows 7 I can have the selection window display extra large images and see the preview of many images at once to help me make a selection. Just my personal preference.
1 - And by this I mean that he is doing all the work, and I am just forwarding his emails.
I have tried to search for other portraits, but the program doesn't see them.
Thanks for the advice guys. It's working out great now.
