No. of Frames for dds capped at 27?

[Marconius]

I'm trying to make a mod for portraits and I ran into a bit of an annoyance: it seems you can only have a maximum of 27 frames read in from a .dds file.

Essentially what happens is, I have a very large .dds with 38 frames. As a series of experiments, in the portrait_properties.txt, I set the factor of all clothes (working on clothes atm) to 0, except for a single one (removed all modifiers). Then I changed which one wasn't at 0, basically making all characters wear the same clothes. Up until #26 (counting starts from 0), it worked just fine and dandy, but for any number beyond that, it was as if those entries weren't even there, the numbers "loop back" to the beginning again.

Is there really a hard limit like this or am I missing something? Would be really quite annoying if they put a limit like that in place, especially since it seems pretty pointless.

 

[SchwarzKatze]

According to this thread, you also need to edit portraits.gfx to make the game recognize the extra frames

 

[RedRooster81]

According to this thread, you also need to edit portraits.gfx to make the game recognize the extra frames

Indeed. I have something like 45 in my character modifier icon strip and intend to keep going. You need to change the number in the correct *.gfx file to let ck2.exe know how many images are in your file.

 

[Marconius]

Indeed. I have something like 45 in my character modifier icon strip and intend to keep going. You need to change the number in the correct *.gfx file to let ck2.exe know how many images are in your file.

I did change the numbers in portraits.gfx, of course. I'm not that silly!

Hmmm, further experimentation is required then, it would seem...

 

[RedRooster81]

I did change the numbers in portraits.gfx, of course. I'm not that silly!

Hmmm, further experimentation is required then, it would seem...

I haven't had much luck with actually modding portraits. I can swap up *.gfx files, but the *.dds files are not liking me, either. Good luck.

 

[Marconius]

Well, I did a very clean experiment to test this and it seems confirmed. Basically what I did was made a .dds file and just flood-filled it with one color, then colored the two ending blocks a different color.

Then in portrait_preferences, I set it so that the last entry had a factor of 100, all the others of 0.

While the thing was 27 blocks long or less, it worked fine, always using the color of the last block (green), never using the color of the first (blue) or the middle (red). But when I added one extra block (and recolored appropriately), suddenly all the portraits were colored blue, meaning they were "wearing" the very first block and the numbers kinda looped around. So there seems to be a hard limit there.

EDIT: I don't suppose anyone knows what that "norefcount" business is?

 

[CrackdToothGrin]

Well, I did a very clean experiment to test this and it seems confirmed. Basically what I did was made a .dds file and just flood-filled it with one color, then colored the two ending blocks a different color.

Then in portrait_preferences, I set it so that the last entry had a factor of 100, all the others of 0.

While the thing was 27 blocks long or less, it worked fine, always using the color of the last block (green), never using the color of the first (blue) or the middle (red). But when I added one extra block (and recolored appropriately), suddenly all the portraits were colored blue, meaning they were "wearing" the very first block and the numbers kinda looped around. So there seems to be a hard limit there.

EDIT: I don't suppose anyone knows what that "norefcount" business is?

I know that it is capped at 27, even if I changed portraits.gfx, because of restrictions on the number of letters. It doesn't seem to know whether to loop or continue on, because of how it reads the DNA. Every time you add a frame, you change the letter of the first frame in how the game codes the DNA in the save files. I ran into a problem making clothes for Cumans (before I realized you can just create a whole new set for each culture), where the game's looping broke. Could never fix it, either.

 

[Marconius]

I know that it is capped at 27, even if I changed portraits.gfx, because of restrictions on the number of letters. It doesn't seem to know whether to loop or continue on, because of how it reads the DNA. Every time you add a frame, you change the letter of the first frame in how the game codes the DNA in the save files. I ran into a problem making clothes for Cumans (before I realized you can just create a whole new set for each culture), where the game's looping broke. Could never fix it, either.

Ohhh, it's because there's only 27 letters in the English alphabet... right, that makes sense. It's still really poor design, but I guess it at least makes sense.