Remove gender restrictions on portraits

Umbersona

Probably gonna get some hate, but I'd like to see the portraits not locked to certain genders.
There's no real reason to limit players in this way.

This is supposed to make it in the Trello for votes or whatever, I hop I am posting in the right place.

MadHatter

I don't think you're going to get any hate for the idea. You do know this is a 30 second mod of portraits.2da, right? You just change the gender field from 0 (male) or 1 (female) to 2 (both).

*Edit* and then pop your edited portraits.2da in override or hak, obviously.

Umbersona

By opening it up and not requiring modification, you're really only just increasing player customization.

Phoosy

Having all the portraits being dumped into one pool would bloat the amount you have to scroll through to pick out what you'd like (without resorting to nested folders to reduce that dastardly load time when hitting the portrait section of character creation) - instead, I'd propose a UI change to allow users to load portraits by the existing 3 filters so you can still select all of them but it only loads/displays the ones that are flagged by the filter selected. Keeps the existing "functionality" for organization and gives player the option to disregard it at their whim, but probably over complicates the issue.

Perhaps something like the way the toolset currently loads portraits when editting areas or creatures?

fkirenicus

"Hate", no less!

cherryzero

I don’t have any particular hate for the idea, but do dislike it on the grounds of bloat. Especially since I like to download portrait packs. If you combine genders then it just becomes a pain to scroll through them all.

The great thing about MadHatter’s solution is that if you want to do it for your game, great. It does mean you have to do a little extra work... which seems more fair than everyone else having to do a little extra work scrolling through a feature we don’t really want.

I suppose if enough people wanted this that would be different, but I’m going to guess it’s nit on the top (or bottom) of many request lists.

ShadowM

Better ask for gui filter switch like the toolset options of Male/Female/both/other/none that at the top of the portrait selection screen so you pick anything and it filtered for speed.

JuliusBorisov

Now a part of https://trello.com/c/tCi8XcXE/128-improve-character-creation-ui