JohnMHammer

The v40 archive file will not un-zip after being downloaded. I thought it might be possible that it was a problem with my computer so I attempted it with another and experienced the same issue. Still not impossible that it is a problem on my end but I thought I'd report it here.

Lawton

Incompetence to its paroxysm... Sometimes I wander how a genuine company don't figure out they are not meant to deal with games, let alone MMOs.

Adra

@Lawton

Hi, it seems I misunderstood your question

I thought you wanted to see a vital frame without a hole within it when you disable the 3D portrait in the lotro option panel. Your screenshots show you succeed to get it.

If your question was "Can a skin allow me to get a static portrait of the characters within the vital frames instead of the default animated 3D portrait ?" then the answer is no.

Contrary to the plugins, the skins cannot add any new element or function in the game. The skins can only change the appearance (size / location / picture) of existing elements from the default user interface, and only for elements which the sources have been published (and when the source is not obsolete and/or completely bugged ).

In the case of the 3D portrait, skinning can only change its width and height and its horizontal and vertical location within the vital frame, nothing more.

Only the Lotro developers can fix their own coding errors.

Lawton

I'm afraid it didn't really do anything at all.

https://imgur.com/6D7Pth3
https://imgur.com/5GkC46Q

I deleted the folder and reinstalled it from scratch. 3D portrait straight up won't work and removing it instead I am having black/weird color filled in like since Umbar release.

I'm using Grey Wizard.

Adra

@Lawton

Nope, it does.

Reinstall v35.1 and don't apply Bachia's patch. The portrait hole within most of the vital frames will be filled.

Lawton

Nope, the current version doesn't : https://imgur.com/fW5mx8D

Adra

@Lawton

hi,

By default, the portraits frames in the JRR collection have a full filled design especially made to be enjoyed when you disable the 3D portraits in the game options.

Lawton

Is there a possibility that you would change the portraits so that it disp[lays something static ? The 3D portraits eats 40 to 50 fps, i's absolutely insane..

Sunfire

That's fair enough, though what was commented on the forums from SSG staff it seems the change was done in purpose.

Thanks a lot for taking a look though!

Bachia

I'll have a look. I'm waiting for december 6 update, should SSG revert things

Sunfire

I'm sorry for crossposting like this @Bachia: is there any chance you would be willing to make a fix for the Azure Glass skin as well?

Bachia

@Adra
Yes, it's batch processing for targa files. I used ImageMagick (https://imagemagick.org/), a great open-source command-line tool.
This only works because all your images were already pixel-perfect aligned. Ultimately, this is all because of your great work.
Thanks Adra !

Adra

@Bachia

Great job !

Did you used a batch process to apply the changes into the TGA files and XML files ? (If yes, you have far better skills than me )

Just a suggestion: Within you next patch you could add a "Bachia patch release notes.txt" and / or modify the JRR.skincompendium file maybe with something like to inform about the fact the pack of skins is patched and which version / date of the patch is applied. (However, the skincompendium file is really optional since almost no software support it yet).

I'm very glad you fixed the JRR pack, I really did not have the courage / will / time to do it manually file by file, especially when the devs could fix their own crap within a few minutes of good will.


@Lawton

I did not played WoW, maybe one of these plugins offer the experience you are looking for (I did not test them) :

https://www.lotrointerface.com/downl...VitalSelf.html
https://www.lotrointerface.com/downl...eNewWorld.html

Bachia

Hi,

I've added the missing lm_uf_* vital frames and uploaded the patch in the right section (well, I hope so ).

Lawton

Coding of this game, especially Umbar release is a whole bunch of unrecoverable mess.

is there a way to make it so we display only fixed character portraits like wow ?