D43 Video Tutorials - Portraits - How to make and insert

D43 Video Tutorials - Portraits - How to make and insert

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This video will show you how to:
Find a portrait
Edit your portrait
Find the portrait in NBA 2K17 Explorer that you want to overwrite
How to overwrite portrait and place in Modded Folder (External Plugin)
How to use Limnono Modifier to assign the portrait

TOOLS NEEDED

Template
https://www.mediafire.com/?865qdxlss3v05q5

External Plugin (Modded Folder)
http://forums.nba-live.com/viewtopic.php?f=225&t=102382

NBA 2K17 Explorer
http://forums.nba-live.com/viewtopic.php?f=225&t=102445

Limnono Modifier
http://forums.nba-live.com/viewtopic.php?f=226&t=102181

OPTIONAL: Paint.net (What I'm using in the video)
http://www.getpaint.net/download.html

NOTE: ONE THING I FORGOT TO MENTION. If you go to insert your portrait (import archive) in the iff editor, and a screen pops up with "DXT1 and SWIZZLE". Make sure you change DXT1 to DXT5, and keep Swizzle checked

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Also, real quick.

If you are using my rosters (UFDR and UCTR), don't use 1152. I am using that one for the Charles Barkley Portrait.

Thanks!

Great tutorial thank you
Please release an edit music tutorial & you will be my master

Great tutorial thank you
Please release an edit music tutorial & you will be my master

I'm all set on being your master... not interested. Haha.

However. In this same section I made a jukebox tutorial (music editing tutorial). Check that out.

And thanks for the support.

Check the music tutorial thanks !
Also, I Wonder why some portrait doesn't show in the game but present in the game file (for example J Noah to Knicks don't have a portrait but it exist on game file)
Thanks !

Can we insert portraits to draft classes ? I plan to create historical classes and this will help me a lot ! For the cyberfaces, if i am not wrong, i have to be in myleague the year after the draft to use limnono tool...
Thanks

[Dee4Three]

Can we insert portraits to draft classes ? I plan to create historical classes and this will help me a lot ! For the cyberfaces, if i am not wrong, i have to be in myleague the year after the draft to use limnono tool...
Thanks

Hey, I'm not sure. TSOGOOD might know.

Last edited by Dee4Three on Tue Oct 18, 2016 9:57 am, edited 1 time in total.

Nice Video Tutorial...Great Findings...

Can we insert portraits to draft classes ? I plan to create historical classes and this will help me a lot ! For the cyberfaces, if i am not wrong, i have to be in myleague the year after the draft to use limnono tool...
Thanks

Hey, I'm not sure. TSOGOOD might know.

Yes you can insert portraits to a draft class. The easiest way is to load a draft class into a random MyLeague, then use the method from the tutorial. When done save the draft class from MyLeague.

Can we insert portraits to draft classes ? I plan to create historical classes and this will help me a lot ! For the cyberfaces, if i am not wrong, i have to be in myleague the year after the draft to use limnono tool...
Thanks

Hey, I'm not sure. TSOGOOD might know.

Yes you can insert portraits to a draft class. The easiest way is to load a draft class into a random MyLeague, then use the method from the tutorial. When done save the draft class from MyLeague.

Ok thanks !!!

Hi! I'm looking for pictures for the portraits but I keep finding png of many players but they're all small. I could only find big photos for the well-known players. The ones I found in google are 384*384 and they all come from 2khead so I think they might be "original" but how is it possible if they are so small? I was wondering if you could share where do you find them or what prorgram you use to resize them without losing quality. THANK YOU! 

Hi! I'm looking for pictures for the portraits but I keep finding png of many players but they're all small. I could only find big photos for the well-known players. The ones I found in google are 384*384 and they all come from 2khead so I think they might be "original" but how is it possible if they are so small? I was wondering if you could share where do you find them or what prorgram you use to resize them without losing quality. THANK YOU! 

I think you are confusing a few things. Use the tab in NBA 2K17 Explorer that I show in the video, find the portraits that end in "a1", and those are all the right portraits that you can overwrite. If you want portraits that are not used in the game, go to the high 8000's, or in the mid 1200 (Old free agents like Okafor and Ben Gordon). However, if you make portraits and than I use the same numbers you did, and you try to use my Classic Teams roster or UFDR, my portraits my overwrite yours.

Hopefully this helps.

However, if you make portraits and than I use the same numbers you did, and you try to use my Classic Teams roster or UFDR, my portraits my overwrite yours.

Yes! Thank you! However, I still don't get that part. How can your portraits overwrite mine? (Sorry if this is obvious but I'm still pretty new at this editing mode of the game )

So, in conclusion, if I want to use other images, I have to look them up in those places right?

However, if you make portraits and than I use the same numbers you did, and you try to use my Classic Teams roster or UFDR, my portraits my overwrite yours.

Yes! Thank you! However, I still don't get that part. How can your portraits overwrite mine? (Sorry if this is obvious but I'm still pretty new at this editing mode of the game )

So, in conclusion, if I want to use other images, I have to look them up in those places right?

Yes.

And here is an example, Lets say I use 1152 for Charles Barkley, and I include that in one of my MOD packs. But you also use 1152 for a player... That would mean that when you download one of my rosters, and place the mod pack contents into your modded folder, my 1152 for Barkley would overwrite your 1152 portrait.

BTW, I did use 1152 for Barkley. Haha.

Hi

do you know how to assign pictures to players that dont have one by default like for example zaza pachulia?

Hi

do you know how to assign pictures to players that dont have one by default like for example zaza pachulia?

Yes, please see my basic roster editing tutorial in this section. It's a video like this one. Also, in the newest Limnono modifier release from Oct 8th, you can make a player keep a portrait on his home team.

If you have any questions, let me know.

And btw, Pachulia probably has a portrait but with the Mavericks. If you trade him to the Mavericks he will probably show a portrait. It's just how these games work now.

Hi

do you know how to assign pictures to players that dont have one by default like for example zaza pachulia?

Yes, please see my basic roster editing tutorial in this section. It's a video like this one. Also, in the newest Limnono modifier release from Oct 8th, you can make a player keep a portrait on his home team.

If you have any questions, let me know.

And btw, Pachulia probably has a portrait but with the Mavericks. If you trade him to the Mavericks he will probably show a portrait. It's just how these games work now.

thx for the reply, I'm gonna check it out

Also, in the newest Limnono modifier release from Oct 8th, you can make a player keep a portrait on his home team.

but how exactly do i do this? there is a "team player pictures" option in the modifier tool but i dont know what to do with that

Also, in the newest Limnono modifier release from Oct 8th, you can make a player keep a portrait on his home team.

but how exactly do i do this? there is a "team player pictures" option in the modifier tool but i dont know what to do with that

no one knows this?

Also, in the newest Limnono modifier release from Oct 8th, you can make a player keep a portrait on his home team.

but how exactly do i do this? there is a "team player pictures" option in the modifier tool but i dont know what to do with that

no one knows this?

Sorry.

Ill give you a screenshot response soon. Ive been really busy and am at work.

Would you be willing to upload the portraits you've already edited in a .rar or something?

Is there anyway to remove portraits from all players? I'd rather just have the CF of the player show up.

Is there anyway to remove portraits from all players? I'd rather just have the CF of the player show up.

You can't do it with just one key. You would have to go into each player in Limnono and just type "0" in the portrait ID slot, that would remove the players portrait.

Would you be willing to upload the portraits you've already edited in a .rar or something?

I can try to do this when I have completed my classic teams roster.