Avatar Gallery Submission Thread

[Infinitron]

Wasteland 3 beta portraits:

 

[DJOGamer PT]

So you guys accept avatars from any game?

 

[Citizen]

Would I be wasting my time if I went and made some icons out pieces done by the D&D artists that weren't explicitly made for D&D?

You definetly would, but we will appreciate it. The more avatars the better

 

[Infinitron]

I updated all the Neverwinter Nights portraits (they were JPGs, ugh). Also added galleries for Pirates of the Sword Coast, and the new Darkness Over Daggerford and Tyrants of the Moonsea modules.

PotSC:

DOD:

TotM:

TBH I should have cropped these to be square-shaped but I think I've done enough work for today.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

hey Infinitron what are the limitations to posting a list of avatars (resolution, image number, game genre, if it can be a gif, etc...)?

 

[Infinitron]

hey Infinitron what are the limitations to posting a list of avatars (resolution, image number, game genre, if it can be a gif, etc...)?

96x96 PNG, any video game

 

[Infinitron]

By downloading and examining the original premium module installers, I was able to further split out the portraits for Infinite Dungeons and Wyvern Crown of Cormyr:

ID:

WCoC:

 

[Infinitron]

Observations about NWN portraits that may come in handy to somebody someday.

The data files of the original NWN Diamond Edition on GOG include the following texture packs:

1) textures02.bif - The main texture pack includes all the portraits from the game's original release, including the celebrity-based portraits that were overwritten by later patches.
2) xp1_textures.bif - A texture pack with all the portraits that were added in SoU.
3) xp2_textures.bif - A texture pack that includes both all the portraits that were added in HotU and all the portraits from SoU.
4) xp2patch.bif - A HotU patch texture pack that added the portraits from the first batch of premium modules (Witch's Wake, Shadowguard, Kingmaker, Pirates of the Sword Coast) along with a few others. It seems that the available versions of WW, SG and KM no longer include these portraits - they use the copies from this texture pack.
5) xp3.bif - The Patch 1.69 texture pack that added the portraits from the last two premium modules (Infinite Dungeons, Wyvern Crown of Cormyr).

Beamdog's Enhanced Edition made the following changes:

1) The celebrity portraits have been completely removed (instead of merely being masked by newer portraits with the same filenames) along with a couple of other portraits that were superseded by newer versions.
2) The SoU texture pack has been completely emptied, presumably since it's mirrored by the HotU pack.
3) No changes.
4) No changes.
5) No changes, but the Steam DLC versions of Infinite Dungeons and Wyvern Crown of Cormyr appear to have been modified to use the portraits here and no longer include their own copies. Oddly, Pirates of the Sword Coast still includes its portraits, so those are duplicated.

 

[Abelian]

I was actually bored enough to edit and upload the 11 new hero portraits included in the Heroes of Might and Magic II expansion The Price of Loyalty.

In a classic case of procrastination, I took the screenshots nearly five years ago by setting up a map using the scenario editor (most of the new heroes are specific to a single campaign mission and several are AI-only), but they were on another hard drive and I never got around to cropping out the portraits, adding background transparency and uploading them.

I can't find the source, but I remember reading somewhere that the new hero portraits were based on the staff of Cyberlore Studios*, the company to which development of the expansion was outsourced by New World Computing. For the portrait background, the devs decided to go with clouds of different colors, which sets the expansion portraits apart from the regular HoMM 2 portraits, many of which were more detailed versions of portraits from HoMM 1 and the M&M 3-5 games.

*I was able to find a source for this claim... here on the Codex (where else?):

Excellent job with these new portraits, they fit in infinitely better than the ones belonging to the expansion. HOMM2 didn't need portraits of Cyberlore devs.

In fact, HoMM2 + PoL portrait pool features three different styles, the one being "slightly improved Heroes 1" mainly used for earlier MM game reference characters, the other being actual new Heroes 2 portraits for Necromancer and Wizard factions plus some vacancies in already existing factions and campaign characters, and finally the third being PoL campaign-only heroes. There was a rumor that these PoL portraits were based over Cyberlore employees. Anyhow, the quality of graphics for portraits was varied for the whole portrait poo

Another source from a 1999 Price of Loyalty review:

Although they don't add anything to the game as such, there are eleven new characters in PoL. The character portraits aren't in quite the same style as the other heroes, which is a bit of a shame. They're very nicely painted, but are stylistically slightly different, which means that they don't fit in as well as they might. And why are there eleven of them? That seems a strange number, but I have my suspicions: in the credits in the manual, it appears that eleven main people were involved in creating the game, and the male/female ratio matches, too, so I rather suspect that the new heroes are modelled on real people. It would be interesting to know who's who...

 

[Infinitron]

Upload a zip file.

 

[Abelian]

Upload a zip file.

My bad, here you go.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Infinitron

Devil May Cry series avatars:

Here's the zip file (it has a 7 day limit to download): https://ufile.io/1t4vv8an

 

[Ghulgothas]

Jason Seow, an illustrator who worked on Pillars 1, has a number of unused character portraits on his portfolio site. He's had them available to download as a portrait mod for years now, and even adds new ones on occasion.

And Josh Sawyer, immortalized.

Here's the .zip.
And here's the link to his portfolio site in case anyone wants a goody bag of pillars portraits.

 

[Ghulgothas]

After a number of failed attempts at enhancing their fidelity, here's a collection of particularly photogenic icons from Dawn of War 1. The low-res pixelation has an endearing quality, I feel.

Here's the .zip.

 

[Ghulgothas]

How the hell did a place as prestigious as this have a folder for DoW2 Portraits before one for DoWI?

 

[catfood]

How the hell did a place as prestigious as this have a folder for DoW2 Portraits before one for DoWI?

This place is prestigious?

 

[Ghulgothas]

A bit late for May 4th, but here's a handful made from various concepts, covers and illustrations done by Ralph McQuarrie for Classic Star Wars.

 

[ItsChon]

A bit late for May 4th, but here's a handful made from various concepts, covers and illustrations done by Ralph McQuarrie for Classic Star Wars.

Wow these are actually amazing. Thanks for posting them.

 

[Ghulgothas]

A bit late for May 4th, but here's a handful made from various concepts, covers and illustrations done by Ralph McQuarrie for Classic Star Wars.

Wow these are actually amazing. Thanks for posting them.

Thanks man!

 

[Infinitron]

Owlcat's Pathfinder games have three sizes of portraits. Small facial portraits, large full body portraits, and an intermediate size.

Trouble is, neither of these portrait types is square shaped. I could manually crop the small facial portraits one-by-one, but I realized there was a better way based on how I created the Icewind Dale II avatar gallery.

By using a template matching algorithm, one can automatically locate the facial portraits within the full body portraits, and then to make them square shaped, add the required number of pixels to the left and right. So for example:

->

Here's the source code in Python:

import cv2
import imutils
import os

SMALL_EXT = "_Portrait.png"
LARGE_EXT = ".png"

OUTPUT_EXT = ".png"
OUTPUT_DIR = "Output"

def match_portrait(small, large):
    found = None

    template = cv2.Canny(cv2.cvtColor(small, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY), 50, 200)
    for size in range(small.shape[1], large.shape[1] + 1):
        image = cv2.Canny(imutils.resize(cv2.cvtColor(large, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY), width = size), 50, 200)

        result = cv2.matchTemplate(image, template, cv2.TM_CCOEFF)
        _, maxVal, _, maxLoc = cv2.minMaxLoc(result)

        if found is None or maxVal > found[0]:
            r = large.shape[1] / image.shape[1]
            found = (maxVal, round(maxLoc[0] * r), round(maxLoc[1] * r), round(small.shape[0] * r), round(small.shape[1] * r))

    image = cv2.Canny(cv2.cvtColor(large, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY), 50, 200)
    for size in range(1, small.shape[1] + 1):
        template = cv2.Canny(imutils.resize(cv2.cvtColor(small, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY), width = size), 50, 200)

        result = cv2.matchTemplate(image, template, cv2.TM_CCOEFF)
        _, maxVal, _, maxLoc = cv2.minMaxLoc(result)

        if found is None or maxVal > found[0]:
            found = (maxVal, maxLoc[0], maxLoc[1], template.shape[0], template.shape[1])

    return found[1:]

def expand_portrait(startX, endX, expand, maxWidth):
    offset = min(startX, int(expand/2))
    startX -= offset
    expand -= offset

    offset = min(maxWidth-endX, expand)
    endX += offset
    expand -= offset

    startX -= min(startX, expand)

    return startX, endX

if not os.path.exists(OUTPUT_DIR):
    os.mkdir(OUTPUT_DIR)

names = [filename.rsplit(SMALL_EXT, 1)[0] for filename in os.listdir() if filename.endswith(SMALL_EXT)]

for name in [name for name in names if os.path.exists(name + LARGE_EXT)]:
    small = cv2.imread(name + SMALL_EXT)
    large = cv2.imread(name + LARGE_EXT)

    startX, startY, height, width = match_portrait(small, large)
    endX, endY = startX + width, startY + height

    startX, endX = expand_portrait(startX, endX, height-width, large.shape[1])

    result = large[startY:endY, startX:endX]
    cv2.imwrite(OUTPUT_DIR + os.sep + name + OUTPUT_EXT, result)

And the resulting avatar gallery for Wrath of the Righteous:

 

[ItsChon]

Owlcat's Pathfinder games have three sizes of portraits. Small facial portraits, large full body portraits, and an intermediate size.

Trouble is, neither of these portrait types is square shaped. I could manually crop the small facial portraits one-by-one, but I realized there was a better way based on how I created the Icewind Dale II avatar gallery.

By using a template matching algorithm, one can automatically locate the facial portraits within the full body portraits, and then to make them square shaped, add the required number of pixels to the left and right. So for example:

Wow...

We truly are blessed that Infinitron uses his powers to shill for Obsidian and participate in Codex hi-jinks versus ruling the stock market and collapsing western civilization like the rest of his cousins.

 

[NJClaw]

A bit late for May 4th, but here's a handful made from various concepts, covers and illustrations done by Ralph McQuarrie for Classic Star Wars.

HOT

 

[catfood]

A bit late for May 4th, but here's a handful made from various concepts, covers and illustrations done by Ralph McQuarrie for Classic Star Wars.

HOT

XDXDXDXD

 

[Infinitron]

New Colony Ship avatars from the latest version of the demo:

 

[Abu Antar]

The left one is saying to the three on the right: Dat Ass.

(Look at his expression!)