Hi everyone,

New to Strive, just started playing a few days ago and absolutely love it! The only issue I've come across so far is with the IRP mod & accompanying portrait pack from AK Phantom at https://itch.io/t/239558/body-and-portrait-packs-v29updated-2805

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but from what I've read it seems like the portraits / body images should be auto-selected based on the physical criteria of a given slave (hair color, breast size, etc). It definitely assigns a portrait and matching body when I get a new slave, but it appears to be selected completely randomly within the right race / age group. For example I'll get an adult human, but none of the other relevant details are accounted for.

Any insight on if my understanding is correct & if so any insight on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Edit: Made my question clearer.

There are 2 versions of the Improved Random Portraits mod; the original by Kyler2 and an updated version by Zepeteus (https://itch.io/t/984434/randomportraits-and-portrait-pack-editor-for-the-10-version). They work on the same fundamentals, but there are some fixes and adjustments in the latter.

Images are tagged with the characteristics of the image using folders and file names. There is no functional difference between the ways of tagging as the mod just looks at the full file path.

There are 2 types of filters (my naming for clarity) used by IRP: Necessary and Booster. The Necessary filters will exclude any image that does not meet a criteria such as race, sex, or age. The Booster filters increase the weight of images that match the criteria such as skin color, hair color, tit size, ass size, or penis size.

If no images pass the Necessary filters, then the slave gets no image so image pack diversity is necessary to get good coverage. If there are still images, then the mod will use a weighted random selection to choose from all of the remaining images. The mod is designed not to give the optimally matching image all the time in order to increase diversity of picked images. So it is entirely possible for the mod to pass up a better match for a poor match.

The downside of the weighted random is that it can be overwhelmed by having too much diversity of images within the scope of a single group selected by the Necessary filters, thus proportionally increasing the chances of poor matches. There is not a good fix for this, but the mod has a settings file where users can increase the weights to bias it more towards better matches. But this will also result in less diversity of images appearing in game.

Tuning the settings can be tricky, but I'd guess that an increase by somewhere between 3 to 5 times the current values should show significant difference in outcomes. You can also adjust the proportions between the weights to emphasize some attributes over others.

Images start with a weight of 1 and weights are increased multiplicatively. So an image matching two attributes with weights of 10 will have a weight of 100, meaning it will be 100 times as likely to be chosen as an image matching no attributes.

Awesome, thanks!

I thought I had replied earlier but apparently my click on the "post" button never registered so I came back to it still sitting in the text box -_-

Anyhow, I'm just reporting back to confirm that the mod is indeed working as intended, I just had to adjust the values to give me portraits that were more consistent with the in-game description! It can also be tricky depending on the specifics of the slave seeing how they're first filtered by 3 different age ranges, the amount of combinations just on the 4 included parameters makes it easy to just not have a matching portrait. I have 4000 images and some of my folders literally have only a single portrait. Makes sense though, I reckon finding appropriate art for certain age groups of certain creatures (like orcs) could be pretty hard ^_^.

Anyway, thanks again and happy ... slave owning?