Forcing special characters into different palettes

[Xifanie]

There is an event instruction that changes the portrait of someone when a dialog of his/her is opened. Whoever it is VERY limited (about 5 portraits) I have no idea how we'd go to implement new ones as I don't even know how to set special portraits like the special monk/thief/mediator.

[Zozma]

miluda and the first special squire you encounter is in the second part of the menu portrait .bin file im sure you can set them with the m.portrait option...

but the big menu portrait file cant yet be edited without damage to other pictures on the file because its compressed...

[Cheetah]

It would be very awesome if we could figure out how to implement those special portraits. Obviously the code isn't in the event instructions because they are also present during the battle. But do the events have the portraits individual referenced, or are they getting the information for the portrait to use from a different source?

Sorry I am over my head as I am not a coder, I just hope my questions make sense.

[Xifanie]

I have no idea where the portraits are loaded from with that instruction but the portrait stays there until the end of the event.

[Zozma]

ahh okay so i just have to say this in case anyone is running out of duplicate sprites to use for new custom characters. Zalbag's zombie sprite can be merged with his normal sprite (thanks to zodiac for mentioning how to force specials to change colors) with this trick you can make his zombie portrait paste over his normal one in battle, AND make his skin that zombie color too with a second palette thus freeing the zarue2 type1 sprite for use as anything else u want it to be. (and all without affecting his normal arc knight job at all)

[Zozma]

you know what, i think those 5 portraits are at the end of the wldface4 file... i saw miluda and the special squire there

but altogether there are more than 5 special generic portraits...
Miluda
Gariland Squire
Dorter Theif
Monk
Mediator
Ninja
Gustav
Golgaros

[Argg0]

Btw...

Units with sprite that way cannot join. They will bug, a lot.

[Zozma]

yeah, i know its specifically for enemy units that i will call doppelgangers
and also level 4 monsters.