I cannot for the life of me get custom portraits to work. I've changed the size of the pics in paint, renamed them with the proper prefixes, and saved them as 256 color bmp files. They still don't show up in character creation...

Furthermore,I added them to the userport.mes

Thanks for the links, but I've already gone through them all and followed the instructions to the letter. I should add thtat I did (probably two years back) create custom portraits for the game before, back before I had windows 10. Now, nothing I do seems to work.

This is what I've been doing, step for step:

I create the userport.mes file in the portraits folder, then I take the pic in question, open it in paint, re-size the picture to 128x128, then save it as a 256 color bmp called "HUM05_b" (minus quotations) in the portrait folder. Then I take the same picture, re-size it to 64x64 then save it as a 256 color bmp called "HUM05" in the portrait folder. Finally, I edit the userport.mes file, and write the line {1} {HUM05} then save. I've also tried using ANY01, but nothing seems to work.

Finally got it to work, had to re-install the game.