Rogue Trader Portrait Replacer 1.0 — Rogue Trader

[Nessa]

Rogue Trader Portrait Replacer

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What is this?

It's both a portrait replacer and a tutorial on how to do it without the use of ToyBox.

The way up till now has been using ToyBox. Which is not ideal because:

• You have to stop your game, open the **** ToyBox thingy and replace a portrait.
• ToyBox does not work automatically on all instances of the portrait so you frequently run into vanilla awfulness. This requires you to stop the game and switch, or live with hideous vanilla.

Downloads

• Rogue Trader Portrait Replacer (Main File) - This is the one with my rapidly and mostly joke AI portrait replacers. (That everyone seem to love complaining about. Little *&#$#-ers.
• RT- Extracted Portraits - This is just the vanilla extracted portraits from the game that you can use to do your own.

Requirements

• UABEA
• Rogue Trader
• Windows (potentially WINE for Linux/Mac)
• Ability to read.

Replacing Rogue Trader Portraits

3 ways:

• ToyBox, with extreme negatives already listed.
• Override textures via mod -- I have not researched this one but I know it's possible. If anyone knows of some good resources, please post a comment!
• Replace the textures yourself in the bundle file. <- This is what we're doing here.

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How to Use

1. Download UABEA.
2. Download the mod!
3. Follow the instructions below.

Replacing Files in a Bundle

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The mod contains the following folders that are hopefully self explanatory:

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Step 1 - Find the Bundle

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Find your portrait bundle. This will be located in "YourDriveHere\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader\Bundles\portraits". Yes it has no extension.
Copy it.
Paste it into the Updated Bundle Folder.

Step 2 - Load the Bundle

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Open UABEA. Load the portrait file in your Updated Bundle Folder.


Note: You need to use Open rather than Load Package File.

A message will appear:


Click Memory.

This uncompresses the bundle. You will now have this:


Click Info.

Step 3 - Filter

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You are now confronted with the Asset window. We are only interested in Texture2D in this case. So let's filter for that:




Uncheck AssetBundle and Sprite, and close the Type Filter window. We will now only see portrait textures in the Asset window.

Step 4 - Importing

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Finally we get to the import part and this is made simple because of the wacky names of the portraits I've included.

Select All Portraits in the Asset Info window.


Click Plugins.

Now you will get the Plugins window. Select Batch import textures and click OK.


From here you get a file selection window. Navigate yourself to 1 - Edited Portraits/Texture2D and hit Select Folder. You will not see any items!



Here is the beauty of the setup, all you have to do is: select all and hit OK.

Step 5 - Saving

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You have now imported everything you need and just need to save. Select Save from the Assets Info window.




You will get a popup informing you you're not done. Hit OK.





Close the Asset Info window.

Select Save at the main UABEA window:




Important: close the bundle via File: Close. You need to do this for the next phase to work properly!

Step 6 - Compression

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First open the bundle you just saved.

Select File:Compress:


You will get a folder selection window here.
Name the file portraits.
Navigate yourself to the 3 - Compressed Bundle folder.
Hit Save.

You will now get to choose compression. In my tests LZ4 is probably what OwlCat uses. LZMA causes a noticeable increase in load times. (Only at game start.)

Pick LZ4 and wait for it to finish.

Step 7 - Replace Game Bundle

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Copy your compressed portraits bundle from "3 - Compressed Bundle" to "YourDriveHere\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader\Bundles\".

Optionally: rename the original to portraits_old or something.

PLAY GAME without trash portraits.

Questions that Nobody Will Read

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The game is getting more DLCs, are you going to spruce up any new portraits?
Absolutely, when they release updated portraits I'll be sure to get rid of any filth they send our way.

Why go to this trouble when we have ToyBox?
I don't like having to stop the **** game to change filth. Also this way lets us do secondary characters which ToyBox really doesn't work on.

Your Idira thot portrait and Solomorne are white-ish and their game models are still hideous black! How can I fix this?
Use a mod called Redress and replace the texture on their base bodies and head to something lighter. You can also change their hairstyles. Make Kibbelah not a scar factory, etc. Alternatively pick a darker portrait to replace mine and don't bother with it.

I don't like X portrait or more likely I think X portrait is gooner filth! I'd rather replace it with a fatty nakey picture from the Nexus!
That's the beauty of this setup. All you need to do is replace any portrait in the "1 - Edited Portraits" folder with whatever you like. Just be sure to keep the same funky name. The numbers on the end tell UABEA which portrait to replace so you don't have to hand pick 100+ portraits by hand.

Won't this get broke every time they update portraits?
Yes and no. When they update portraits you need to redo this process on the new portraits bundle. However, the addresses appear (at least the last version anyway) to remain the same. Regardless I'll be updating this as they add new portraits because I'll be damned if I have to see one more of their hideous filth portraits in my game. So if addresses do change, I'll account for it in the future.

Why are some portraits closer to the spirit of vanilla but others are wildly off? I mean come on, Kibbellah is thot central, Jae is straight out of a gooner site, and Idira is... beyond description.
A lot of the earlier portraits were originally a joke for my coop game and I just don't care enough to fix. Idira I only started to like when I didn't see her ugly face and turned off her awful voice work. Jae I space because she's The Gay. She's never in my games now. Kibbelah is The Gay too I just avoided date night so I can pretend she's just an insane blade woman. The point of this mod is to make it easy to replace things with whatever you want. So by all means replace these characters with better portraits. Post what you chose in the comments!

I see you did the loadscreens too, but I replaced some of your follower portraits. How can I fix the loadscreens too?
If you need me to explain how you select transparency of one image, invert selection and subtract it from another.... oh wait, I just did. Well there you go.

[Nessa]

I meant what I said in the questions that absolutely nobody will read: if you've got a choice you prefer for a certain character post it here! I may switch for future updates.

[UltraFan123]

I think Argenta is already perfect the way she is, I wouldn't change her portrait.

[Nessa]

I think the two best vanilla portraits are probably Cassia and Argenta. But... not good enough for me.

[J-12]

This looks like ****.

[Nessa]

This looks like ****.

So do you. Yet here you are.

I thought, surely I wouldn't get complaints and instead get "I prefer this portrait" posts right? RIGHT? Nope. Thanks for reaffirming my misanthropic outlook.

[Nessa]

While I'm here....

From the part nobody reads:
I'm a gay ***** and think X portrait is (insert idiotic expletive here)!

That's the beauty of this setup. All you need to do is replace any portrait in the "1 - Edited Portraits" folder with whatever you like. Just be sure to keep the same funky name. The numbers on the end tell UABEA which portrait to replace so you don't have to hand pick 100+ portraits by hand. So now you can be a gay ***** with portraits you prefer.

I... paraphrased. A little.

[J-12]

This looks like ****.

So do you. Yet here you are.

I thought, surely I wouldn't get complaints and instead get "I prefer this portrait" posts right? RIGHT? Nope. Thanks for reaffirming my misanthropic outlook.

I rarely care for AI slop, but these are straight up downgrade.

[Nessa]

I rarely care for AI slop, but these are straight up downgrade.

You really didn't get the hint. If you don't have a suggestion for an alternative portrait (which is the main point of this **** mod/tutorial) kindly:

Go-Musk-Yourself.gif

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Yeah you'd be touchy too if you spent 2 hours writing up the tutorial in archaic format and all you get is some pissant whining about AI. And yes, I just looked pissant up.

Also you're straight up blind. Vanilla is disgusting to the point of capital punishment. Go join your woke Owlcat friends in Cyprus.

[Aevann]

They're all the same, even the men. This is the one that I use, so it doesn't ruin my immersion. There are missing companions, but it's something at least.
https://www.nexusmods.com/warhammer40kr ... r/mods/157

Would love a decent Solomorne one, of a white man of course, but couldn't generate anything decent yet.

[Kodotusk]

Not quite the aesthetic I was looking for but thanks alot for writing down how to change portraits without the Toybox mod!

[rusty_shackleford]

Not quite the aesthetic I was looking for but thanks alot for writing down how to change portraits without the Toybox mod!

Feel free to upload a portrait pack here if you want

[Nessa]

They're all the same, even the men.

That's what I think about comments here too. The point of the **** thing is the tutorial anyway.

[Nessa]

Not quite the aesthetic I was looking for but thanks alot for writing down how to change portraits without the Toybox mod!

FINALLY! Somebody bloody got the point!

[DrSneed]

indian coded mod

[Finarfin]

I need a zip file of all the original portraits.

[Nessa]

indian coded mod

As there is no code, I suppose that's accurate. However I did figure how to do it with code but I don't like you so I'm not sharing it today. (Don't worry, my worst hate is reserved for @loregamer and @Tipfy . )

I need a zip file of all the original portraits.

You have tutorial above showing you how to attain this objective.

UGH I'll be nice one final time. Steps 1 to 3. You can export the existing game files from there. Then replace and/or edit as you prefer, then follow the rest of the tutorial as stated.

[Nessa]

@Finarfin You know what... screw it. I'll upload the unedited files assuming this jury rigged net can handle it. You can then just download that and have access to all vanilla. Then follow the tutorial from there after you've changed what you want.

I'm also zonking the AI stuff because I'm sick of all the whiny *** ******* around here. (If you only knew what it means for me to cuss without self censoring... )

[Finarfin]

>self-censoring
>on the HQ
How about you don't?

[Fitz]

Rogue Traders portraits are supposed to look like
paintings and for me personally that carries them a lot through out the 100+hrs campaign that it offers. That effect here is lost and most of the portraits look the same too. Tone wise some
of them don’t fit the Warhammer aesthetic too.

I think I might have some portraits lying around on my HDD back home. Will post them later.

[Nessa]

>self-censoring
>on the HQ
How about you don't?

Because I do normally regardless if it's required or not. That I didn't there is an expression you won't be able to comprehend.

[Nessa]

Rogue Traders portraits are supposed to look like
paintings and for me personally that carries them a lot through out the 100+hrs campaign that it offers. That effect here is lost and most of the portraits look the same too. Tone wise some
of them don’t fit the Warhammer aesthetic too.

I think I might have some portraits lying around on my HDD back home. Will post them later.

The better ones are the painting AIs that nobody complained about. But yes in essence I agree, they should be more painting like just... not the disgusting filth we got in vanilla.

But yes, post replacements! That's the original point of this post. The AI-slop was just what I used in my game as an example.

[Fitz]

Actually, I’m certain I don’t have companion specific portraits but if some extra portraits can help the mod just say the word.

[Nessa]

@Finarfin

OK the download you want is the second file. RT- Extracted Portraits.

[Nessa]

Actually, I’m certain I don’t have companion specific portraits but if some extra portraits can help the mod just say the word.

Somehow I missed this. Go ahead and post whatever you find. Maybe it will help someone else compiling their own portrait setup.

[Nessa]

So turns out @loregamer was messing around with AI and created something absolutely perfect for some of the complainers around here. I'd like to share his AI masterpiece here. (If you have any sense for the love of all that is holy, don't look.)

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I can definitely see a series like this for the next update. Of course I'm kidding you sick degenerates.

[Fitz]

Uploaded some down below. Tumblr actually has a lot of Rogue Trader art that's not that bad, but not at the same level as the portraits used in the original game.
Let me know if any of the links are dogshit.

• https://ibb.co/Xfmxx1Wt
  https://ibb.co/KxRTN24M
  https://ibb.co/8LgrhJdg
  https://ibb.co/DD6rSWhc
  https://ibb.co/9HXWFngf

[Nessa]

Uploaded some down below. Tumblr actually has a lot of Rogue Trader art that's not that bad, but not at the same level as the portraits used in the original game.
Let me know if any of the links are dogshit.

Got some good looking portraits there! And one epic beard!

[Fitz]

The bearded one reminds me of Chris Pine for some reason.

[Nessa]

Well wouldn't you know it, they renamed about 3/4 of all the portraits!

I've uploaded the extracted portraits to be used for a replacing guide. (Under optional files.) I'll eventually get around to updating the main mod, but they've got some ugly *** Rusty level crap in the latest update that all need makeovers!