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StrikerX
StrikerX


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The Bringer of Rain
posted January 31, 2012 06:25 AM
Edited by StrikerX at 22:53, 02 Feb 2012.

Tons of Portraits for Heroes 3

Here ya go..  274 Portraits for Heroes 3.  There basically setup still like my 120 portrait download was for H3 Phoenix Mod but i've added 154 more.  


Here is the download for regular heroes 3 portraits swapped out for mine.  Just unzip it and copy all the files in data folder to your Heroes3 data folder.

New Portraits for standard heroes


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274 Portraits for Heroes 3 Phoenix Mod

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I found out I must of been saving it wrong in Photoshop when I reduced it to indexed colors.  I thought I had saved it the same way I did for the first 120 portraits which are good with no transparency pixels.  

The last group of 154 though all have transparent pixels.. Some worse than others..  Sorry but I don't think I'll be fixing it any time soon if at all..  I spent 3 weeks on them and went thru 20,000 pictures and would have to find each one in that 20k again

Depends on your tolerance for it but maybe you won't think the pixel issue is that noticeable.

***** All standard hero portraits replaced except special hero's ****











**********   274 Portraits setup for Phoenix Mod    **********











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Bersy
Bersy


Honorable
Supreme Hero
posted January 31, 2012 11:26 AM

Nice work, thank you.

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Warmonger
Warmonger


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Legendary Hero
fallen artist
posted January 31, 2012 11:54 AM

Nice!

Now create name, bio and unique specialty for each hero
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ZaknefeinDo
ZaknefeinDo

Tavern Dweller
posted January 31, 2012 07:23 PM

Hello. Is it possible to change the original heroes 3 wake of gods portraits without phoenix mod? I wanted to install it, and I did, but it changed my original language automatically into english, which I don't understand in 100 %, because it is not my first language. Also phoenix mod changed lots of things which I wanted to stay. I want only to change portraits, is it possible without phoenix mod, or is it possible to install other mod which will allow me to do portraits only?  
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Salamandre
Salamandre


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Wog refugee
posted January 31, 2012 07:27 PM

A mod changing the portraits is too hard work, none tried until now.
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Tsar-Ivor
Tsar-Ivor


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posted January 31, 2012 07:50 PM
Edited by Tsar-Ivor at 19:55, 31 Jan 2012.

They look like decent avatar pics imo.

Quote:
Quote:
A mod changing the portraits is too hard work, none tried until now.


Making new heroes rather than changing old ones, would that be simpler or is that what you were talking about?
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ZaknefeinDo
ZaknefeinDo

Tavern Dweller
posted January 31, 2012 08:06 PM
Edited by ZaknefeinDo at 20:08, 31 Jan 2012.

Yes, does what I meant. I just want to overwrite the default portraits with other ones from this forum.
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Salamandre
Salamandre


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posted January 31, 2012 08:22 PM

Quote:
what you were talking about?


I was making fun, but you are a rookie.
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StrikerX
StrikerX


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The Bringer of Rain
posted January 31, 2012 10:37 PM
Edited by StrikerX at 09:17, 01 Feb 2012.

Quote:
I want only to change portraits, is it possible without phoenix mod?  


To get it working in regular heroes you have to find all the original file names for heroes.  They are stored in h3bitmap.lod and use names like..

HPL*.bmp
HPS*.bmp

there 164 original portraits each with a small and large file in h3bitmap.lod.

The files are labels like this where HPL means the large portraits and HPS are the small.  If you wanted to for example use portrait 1.pcx and 1s.pcx you would copy it to data and rename to

HPL000KN.pcx
HPS000KN.pcx
 
You can use a program called Resource Editor to extract those files from h3bitmap.lod so you can view them better and know which pictures are being replaced.


*** Thanks to Salamandre for the help ***




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Salamandre
Salamandre


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Wog refugee
posted February 01, 2012 02:14 AM

Any new portrait with same name as original will be read if placed in DATA. I don't see any reason to place in lods, thus permanently.
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Salamandre
Salamandre


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posted February 01, 2012 03:27 AM

pcx format only for Data.
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ZaknefeinDo
ZaknefeinDo

Tavern Dweller
posted February 01, 2012 06:29 PM
Edited by ZaknefeinDo at 18:31, 01 Feb 2012.

Ok thanks for help. It works now
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Salamandre
Salamandre


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Wog refugee
posted February 01, 2012 08:38 PM

StrikerX, check here
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StrikerX
StrikerX


Known Hero
The Bringer of Rain
posted February 01, 2012 08:49 PM

Quote:
StrikerX, check here


That's a cool portraits manager.. thx

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StrikerX
StrikerX


Known Hero
The Bringer of Rain
posted February 01, 2012 10:01 PM

Quote:
Ok thanks for help. It works now


If you want to wait.. I'm gonna be done with replacing all the original portraits probably tomorrow.. I'll post it here as a separate download.

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Salamandre
Salamandre


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Wog refugee
posted February 02, 2012 11:35 PM

I tested them all in my map, and there is huge problem with all small portraits. They are so close that we see only eyes, most portraits are dark so it is hard identifiable. The big ones are superb, is just that you cut too much for the small.
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ZaknefeinDo
ZaknefeinDo

Tavern Dweller
posted February 03, 2012 04:51 PM

They now don't want to work on my heroes 3. When I put them into data folder. And than try to change hero portrait on my map the window is coming up and saying "Fatal run-time error!" someone knows what is that about?
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StrikerX
StrikerX


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The Bringer of Rain
posted February 04, 2012 11:09 PM

Quote:
I tested them all in my map, and there is huge problem with all small portraits. They are so close that we see only eyes, most portraits are dark so it is hard identifiable. The big ones are superb, is just that you cut too much for the small.


Hmm.. I did most small ones so they were cut right above the eyes at top and right below the lip at bottom.  

I know there was a couple that were just too big for the small portrait like the skull demon... Not sure why they would be dark.  Mine looked alright except for those pixel problems.  Not even sure what I could do about a dark problem.

Once I have time I may look into doing them over since I don't want them to have transparency pixels.  But that may be awhile.

I'll try to resize them smaller but I tried to avoid that cause they lose clarity..

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Salamandre
Salamandre


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posted February 05, 2012 01:22 AM
Edited by Salamandre at 06:48, 05 Feb 2012.

Example:

Yours (third good):


Not yours, others:


It seems to me the view is too close, we should see more details from their face.
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ZaknefeinDo
ZaknefeinDo

Tavern Dweller
posted February 05, 2012 01:08 PM
Edited by ZaknefeinDo at 13:08, 05 Feb 2012.

They look really great, but when I tried to use them on my map, does what happened [url=http://imageshack.us/f/546/beztytuuerg.png/]http://imageshack.us/f/546/beztytuuerg.png/[/url], and  when I started game it was just showing me arrow and black screen. I don't really know what I could done wrong...
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