You can actually quite easily set this up to be toggleable in the mod manger in the options menu. Simply by putting the "portraits" folder into a chain of folders that goes "yourmodfolder/gui/portraits". That way it can be manually placed, or installed with the Vortex manager, into the override folder. This removes the hassle of having to create a back up or verify the integrity of the game. With the additional benefit of shrinking the download size to only the images you are actually overriding. As you'd only need to include the NPC portraits and companion/player convo & si images that you are changing!
Though if you do go this route it might be a good idea to split the 65 custom player portraits into an optional download, just to avoid confusing for people.
Great idea! I use IOS (Mac), so I have no way to install Vortex here, nor test whether it works. But I did the update as you suggested. Can you tell me if it works correctly, please?
After testing mods with Vortex, it seems that I was wrong about Deadfire mods working with the Vortex mod manager. I was under the impression that Vortex just did the work of placing mods into the correct folder. What it actually seems to do is install mods to a separate folder and then create shortcuts to them. Sorry about that.
However downloading the normal way and placing "better_npc_portraits" into the override folder works perfectly!
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This removes the hassle of having to create a back up or verify the integrity of the game. With the additional benefit of shrinking the download size to only the images you are actually overriding. As you'd only need to include the NPC portraits and companion/player convo & si images that you are changing!
Though if you do go this route it might be a good idea to split the 65 custom player portraits into an optional download, just to avoid confusing for people.
I use IOS (Mac), so I have no way to install Vortex here, nor test whether it works. But I did the update as you suggested. Can you tell me if it works correctly, please?
Thank you very much for your help.
I was under the impression that Vortex just did the work of placing mods into the correct folder. What it actually seems to do is install mods to a separate folder and then create shortcuts to them. Sorry about that.
However downloading the normal way and placing "better_npc_portraits" into the override folder works perfectly!
Maybe next time ;) !
Maybe next time.
Thank you!