Interested in making art files needed for a custom faction for Pandora: First Contact? Then look no further!
A leader portrait is 180 by 320 pixel sized in jpg or png format and 7 mkv.format files for videos.
If a picture you want to use is too small then either look further in Google or upscale the image with free ai upscaling sites (
https://zyro.com/tools/image-upscaler)
Tool(s) needed:
Windows Movie Maker - needed for making video files, you can download it free from
https://www.winmoviemaker.com/I will be working with a png with dimensions 162 x 196. Since it is too small, I will use upscale with zyro.
Next is converting the upscaled image to mp4 format with Windows Movie Maker. Right click the image and select Movie Maker.
Once opened, go to Edit tab at the top left menu. Set the Duration from 7.00 to 1.00
Go to Project tab at the top left menu. Make sure it is set at Standard (4:3)
Then click the blue box at the top left menu. Select Save movie > For computer
Next is to crop the mp4 file with
https://online-video-cutter.com/crop-video
I will change the values from 640 px x 480 px to 390 px x 480 px then click save.
Next is resize the cropped file with
https://ezgif.com/resize-videoUpload the file...
Set the new width to 180 and new height to 320 then click Resize video!
Save the resized cropped mp4 file by right clicking and select Save Video As... then click save.
Next is converting resized cropped mp4 file to mkv with
https://cloudconvert.com/mp4-to-mkv
Upload the file there, click the wrench icon to set the mkv settings of the converted file.
Set Video Codec to vp8, Fps to 30 and Audio Codec to none.
Scroll down, click okay, and click the Convert button.
Once finished converting, click the Download button.
Copy paste the mkv files 7 times.
Renamed those 7 files to Friendly, FriendlyToNeutral, Hostile, HostileToNeutral, Neutral, NeutralToFriendly and NeutralToHostile.
Put those 7 renamed mkv files to your faction folder in
Data\Cinematics\Clips\Factions\Enteryourfactionnamehere
Look for the resized cropped file with ezgif in its name and convert it with
https://ezgif.com/video-to-png
Click Convert to PNG! button and right click save the png image.
And lastly put your saved jpg or png to your faction folder in
Data\Video\Textures\Factions
and rename it to your faction name.
And now we're done with making portraits for your custom faction. There are still other things needed to be done to complete your custom faction, please refer to this page for the rest.
https://pandora.fandom.com/wiki/Creating_a_new_factionNote that some of these free websites have a limit on how many files you can process per day.
