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Posted July 23, 2015
Hello there! Been a while since I last posted in here.

I'm getting back into Wizardry 8 again after some time, and after played around with an old, tweaked team of mine (LSFBAR), I decided that I think I'd like to go for something different (MoMaSaAlBaRa). But that's not important to this topic. What is important is that I'd like to know about any advice or help with custom portraits. I know it's possible, as I've heard about an editor, but when I've tried using it, the pictures I try to use simply don't take. I believe it has to do with the colorbits of the pictures, but my image editor can't save them in the right way, unfortunately. The file extension is fine; the -bit is not. So I wanted to ask for help here. Any thoughts?
Posted July 23, 2015
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SBF1: Hello there! Been a while since I last posted in here.

I'm getting back into Wizardry 8 again after some time, and after played around with an old, tweaked team of mine (LSFBAR), I decided that I think I'd like to go for something different (MoMaSaAlBaRa). But that's not important to this topic. What is important is that I'd like to know about any advice or help with custom portraits. I know it's possible, as I've heard about an editor, but when I've tried using it, the pictures I try to use simply don't take. I believe it has to do with the colorbits of the pictures, but my image editor can't save them in the right way, unfortunately. The file extension is fine; the -bit is not. So I wanted to ask for help here. Any thoughts?
There is a software suite called ImageMagick that can be used to convert between image formats. If you are using Windows , you can get it from
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php
If you are running Linux, it is probably already installed. (Not sure about Mac OS, but try typing "convert" in the terminal.)

ImageMagick should be able to change the color depth. The one downside is that you need to run it from the command line.
Posted July 24, 2015
I downloaded it, and... have no idea what I'm doing.

Sorry, but could you possibly give me a step-by-step of how to do it? I can pull up the command prompt and then I'm completely clueless.
Posted July 24, 2015
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SBF1: I downloaded it, and... have no idea what I'm doing.

Sorry, but could you possibly give me a step-by-step of how to do it? I can pull up the command prompt and then I'm completely clueless.
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php
has some examples of the "convert" command and a list of command line options.

For changing color depth, try the -depth option.

If you can't figure this out, you can look for a GUI frontend. (According to Google, there's one called converseen.)
Posted July 25, 2015
Well, I was able to figure out how to convert things (at least, the medium 8-bit portraits. The 16-bit ones will have to wait), but they're displaying wrong in-game, even though I've checked the Use TGA Palette checkbox. I'm guessing this is more an issue with the portrait editor rather than anything else, but blargh. At least I've made some progress! If you have any tips for using the editor, that'd be more helpful now.

What a weird experience, trying to mod old games is. Hehehe.
Posted July 26, 2015
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SBF1: Well, I was able to figure out how to convert things (at least, the medium 8-bit portraits. The 16-bit ones will have to wait), but they're displaying wrong in-game, even though I've checked the Use TGA Palette checkbox. I'm guessing this is more an issue with the portrait editor rather than anything else, but blargh. At least I've made some progress! If you have any tips for using the editor, that'd be more helpful now.
What's the actual requirements for the different files? File format, compressed encoding, resolution, file size, bit depth, etc.
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