Dragon Age: Inquisition

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Replaces the inquisitor and companion portraits with their tarot cards - now contains skintone options and Inquisitor-only versions!

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UPDATE: The Inquisitor Only version now contains all races!
  All Portrait versions for male and female Elves and Qunari have been added!
  All Portrait versions for human female Inquisitors have been added, including skintone options!
  I uploaded the DDS images for the revamped portraits if you want to modify them for your game!

If the option you want is still not updated, don't be afraid to ask me for it - I'll do my best push that version out within a day or two!

IMPORTANT NOTICE: I had this hidden for about a day while I tried to solve the DirectX crashing issue that was reported to me and I still can't figure it out, so for now I'm setting it back to visible in case anyone wants to download the working versions. The DirectX error has been reported with the Hand and Elf Female versions, there could be a few variations within them that work, but I'm not sure. I'm so sorry for the problems, but I'm not too knowledgeable on Frosty modding so this will probably take a while.
ALSO: The old versions will probably work fine, but they don't have any skintone options.
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Hi everyone! I finally found some time and got finished with some updates on this! The original versions are still available under Old Files, and I'll keep the install instructions for them near the bottom of this page!

Basically I made this because I thought the vanilla hand portrait for the Inquisitor was the ugliest thing I've ever seen, and that most of the companion ones didn't do them much justice either, while the tarot cards made for the game were absolutely beautiful and criminally underused. So, I swapped the portraits out for the cards! I'm no artist so these were basically all made from mixing and matching the cards and backgrounds and screwing with the saturation and coloring - in other words, I didn't draw anything myself, everything comes from the tarot cards. Originally this was going to be just for my own personal use but I don't know when to stop and I made too many variations, have of which I'll never use, so here they are!

REVAMP!

The revamped version has brighter colors, with skintone options for the Inquisitor, Sera, and Solas. By default the revamped version changes All Portraits!

There is also a new version that changes the Inquisitor Only, everyone else's portraits stay vanilla. The Inquisitor Only collection contains male and female options for all Inquisitor races, plus the general hand, with skintone options for most of the inquisitors (details below). The Inquisitor Only version unfortunately does NOT contain Sera or Solas skintone options yet.

Currently Available:
  • Revamped: Dark Skinned General Hand, with any combination of dark- or pale-skinned Sera and Solas
  • Revamped: Pale Skinned General Hand, with any combination of dark- or pale-skinned Sera and Solas
  • Revamped: Elf Male and Female, with any combination of dark- or pale-skinned Sera and Solas
  • Revamped: Qunari Male and Female, with any combination of dark- or pale-skinned Sera and Solas
  • Revamped: Human Female with skintone options, with any combination of dark- or pale-skinned Sera and Solas
There are also two Solas portraits for each of these - one I pulled from his default card (where he wears the hood), and one from his romanced card (where he faces the tree). You can see them in the Images tab, if you want a refresher or just didn't romance Solas like my dumb ass did
  • Inquisitor Only: General Hand, with dark or pale skintone options
  • Inquisitor Only: Dwarf male and female, dark or pale skintone options for each
  • Inquisitor Only: Elf male and female. NO skintone options - they're green anyway so I didn't feel like it lmao
  • Inquisitor Only: Human male and female, dark or pale skintone options for each
  • Inquisitor Only: Qunari male and female, NO skintone options. they're gray

(Hopefully) Coming Soon:
  • Revamped versions for pale male and female dwarves
  • Revamped versions for dark male and female dwarves
  • Revamped versions for pale male and female humans
  • Revamped versions for dark male and female humans
  • Sera and Solas skintone options for the Elf, Dwarf, Human, and Qunari versions
  • (It's a lot of combinations I'm dying)
  • Sera and Solas dark skintone options for their vanilla portraits in the Inquisitor Only versions

INSTALLATION
Download one of the Revamped Portraits or Inquisitor Only. Crack open the folder.
For the Inquisitors with skintone options , you can pick between the dark or pale skinned versions. Open the folder for the one you want. Select the Sera/Solas skintone combination from the list, and which Solas tarot version you want (Romance or Default). Take ONLY THAT ONE FILE and place it on your DAI mod folder.
For the Inquisitor Only version, just open the zip file and select the Inquisitor you want to use. The game doesn't distinguish between race or gender when it comes to the portraits, so again you can only use ONE at a time. Drop that file in your DAI mod folder.

If it needs to be said, you CANNOT use both the Revamped Portraits and the Inquisitor Only versions at the same time, nor can you use multiple versions of Revamped/Inquisitor Only at the same time. There should only be ONE tarot portrait file in your folder.

After you picked your file and put it in your mod folder, boot up the mod manager, and merge. If you're not familiar with the mod manager or how to mod, go here for a tutorial. To uninstall, either uncheck it from the list in the mod manager and then merge, or remove the file from your mod folder altogether and merge with the mod manager.


CONFLICTS
This obviously conflicts with other portrait mods but should be fine with everything else. Should. Let me know if you find any other conflicts or have any sort of problems. I have NOT tested every variation, and I have NOT tested every DLC, and I have NOT played a full game from beginning to end with this installed. That being said, the parts of the base game I have played worked fine, so I see no reason why these would break for only some of the game. In addition, they worked in Trespasser, so they should in theory also work for the other DLC, but let me know if you run into any issues and I'll look into it as soon as I can!

This is seriously tedious work, so it's very possible I fucked up labeling some of the files or correctly stating the versions in the file description, or even packaged the completely wrong version somewhere. If you notice anything like that please let me know and I'll fix it as soon as I can! Or get lazy and just put it in here until I do.



OLD VERSIONS
The original version of this mod had two different Blackwall and Solas portraits (you can view them in the gallery). Solas version 1 is his default card (the hood, mentioned above), and version 2 is his romance card (the tree). Blackwall version 2 is his default card (where he stands with a shield), and version 1 is his post-quest card (where he's on the horse). You can see these in the Images tab, titled OLD: Solas and OLD: Blackwall.
There are four possible combinations, all of which are included in the old folders, so here's the guide for what each version contains:

Portraits V1 - Solas and Blackwall V1
Portraits V2 - Solas and Blackwall V2
Portraits V3 - Solas V1, Blackwall V2
Portraits V4 - Solas V2, Blackwall V1

(Just as a note - the revamped version contains options for version 1 Solas and a slightly changed difference of version 2, but ONLY version 2 Blackwall. I'm not sure if I'll add version 1 for him)

INSTALLATION: OLD VERSION

Just download the folder with the Inquisitor type you want - general, dwarf, elf, human, or qunari. Then crack open the folder and select the file with the Inquisitor gender and Blackwall/Solas portrait combination you like best -- the BW/Solas variations are listed above. Remember, you can only have one file version in the game at a time. Then follow the same process as above - slap the file in your mod folder, boot up the mod manager, merge.




Anyway, these are pretty fun to make so if you wanna request anything lemme know and I'll try to whip one up for you (just remember I am not an artist in the slightest, the most I can do is editing/mix-and-matching existing artwork); but they're also kind of a pain in the ass to implement so I'm probably not gonna do like a million different variations of a request unless a few people ask. Alternatively, you can try making your own with the tutorials I used: here and here. If you want to use any of my images to create a variation for yourself, I've uploaded them under optional files (so far only the original images)!

Thank you for taking a look at this mod, and thank you if you installed!