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Lock Randin
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-01-19 15:04:43 UTC
Last question for now.

My in-game profile picture seems to be corrupted. If you look at the image to the left of this
post, there is a splotchy shadow on my character's forehead that wasn't there when I took
the initial profile picture.

That being the case, I was wondering if there was a way to take a new photo for my character
for use in-game, and on the forums. Is this possible?

Thank you.
J Kunjeh
#2 - 2012-01-19 16:49:57 UTC  |  Edited by: J Kunjeh
Yep...in game, on the right hand panel, there's a re-customization button. That will take you to the character creator. You don't have to actually change anything, just hit the finalize button and it'll let you take the pic again.

Note that it takes the servers sometimes days to update the forum picture with the new pic and update all the profile pics with a hi-rez version of it. That splotchiness is likely due to it being a low-rez version of the pic that the servers haven't re-rezed yet.

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Xercodo
Cruor Angelicus
#3 - 2012-01-19 16:50:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Xercodo
Any time you want using the character recustomization

you can change hair, eyes, makeup, clothes, but you can't change the face or body structure.

When you're done you can take a new pic. Just expect it to take a few hours to update and a few days for the client to update.

This is because when you take a new pic the server renders it at maxed settings with an optimization or two the client might not have (which might explain any difference you might have even if you did yours at maxed settings). This is to ensure everyone has the highest quality pics and ppl with older comps don't get a worse looking pic just cause they can't render it.

The client delay is cause the image cache doesn't update very often.

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Kata Amentis
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2012-01-20 12:46:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Kata Amentis
There's also a bug with the picture generator...

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=662873#post662873

Dev wrote:

peep wrote:

2. The character creator adds extra shadows across the face when it does the off-line rendering for the portrait. When are you going to fix that?


2. This should be fixed when Crucible 1.1 goes out.

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