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Hey! So, I was going through the awesome guides on the Larian docs, and I found one that tells you how to upload custom icons. It mentions at the bottom of the page that "This same process can be used to add custom portraits", which I did. Now I can make a character in the editor and assign this icon to him, and it works great!

My question is: I have a running campaign already using this addon, is there any way to replace the icons my PCs already have with these new ones? How would I assign a specific picture to a specific PC?

Hey Taedin!

Good to see everything works when following the guides
For PCs in a normal campaign it will not be possible, sadly. PCs get a custom icon assigned according to their appearance after character creation and this gets stored in your save for that character.

The only way to get custom icons on the PCs is to skip character creation. This would require some editing and scripting as you'd have to make your PCs in the editor and add some script calls to skip character creation. (I am looking into making the process of skipping character creation simpler though.) But even then, this would apply to a new game only, not an already running campaign.

Sincerely,
Kevin

I suspected as much. Oh well, if nothing else I can at least replace the portraits for the main NPCs, and wait for that ability to turn off character creation. Thankfully restarting the campaign isn't a huge setback, I'm really only using it for the exploration and simulating the combat in my Pathfinder game. Thanks a lot for the info!

Just so I understand correctly, you want to be able to assign a specific portrait to a player regardless of what they actually look like? If so, there may be a way to pull this off with the respec version of character creation and inserting a visual asset of the desired portrait in between the line of sight of the icon generation camera and the character teleportation trigger used during the respec process.

Proof of concept with everyone's favorite painting from Origins

Interesting! That's going to be a lot different from just setting the value in the Icon box.... My next question then would be if the respec menu is available in GM Mode? I looked around but couldn't find out if you can do it.

Just realized that I didn't mention GM Mode in the original post... Should probably specify.