Age of Empire Ingame Portraits

Age of Empires: DE I - Discussion
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Hello everybody,

While waiting for AOE DE beta phase to begin, I wanted to bring a useful post (I am not sure if everyone agrees with it) about ingame portraits since the forum doesn’t have a pre-selector for user profile picture.

Also not everyone knows about the modding tools to extract these image files from AOE folder (Advanced Genie Editor - link or Turtle Pack) so this topic can save you time if wanna pick the Ballista portrait or Legion one (whatever you want) for your profile.

Priest Villager Clubman Axeman Slinger Bowman Improved Bowman Compositve Bowman Short Swordsman Broad Swordsman Long Swordsman Legion Hoplite Phalanx Centurion Scout Cavalry Heavy Cavalry Cataphract Camel Rider Chariot Scythe Chariot Chariot Archer Horse Archer Heavy Horse Archer Elephant Archer War Elephant Armored Elephant Stone Thrower Catapult Heavy Catapult Ballista Helepolis Fishing Boat Fishing Ship Light Transport Heavy Transport Trade Boat Merchant Ship Scout Ship War Galley Trireme Catapult Trireme Juggernaught Fire Galley

I will post the buildings later, too many to identify right now.

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I like that each icon is easily recognisable ; the closest ones are catapults/stonethrower and trireme/catapult trireme

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Thank you for posting these in-game portraits. There are a few Age of Empires fan created wiki sites that have these and other Age game portraits as well.

It would be cool if on these new forums we had a profile picture gallery for each Age game in addition to being able to upload our own custom profile picture.

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I love those! Always a fan of the Long Swordsman and the Phalanx. :smile:

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Thank you all for your support about in game units portrait available at AOE Forum.

While I promised to look into building icons, I noticed that there is a lot of these depending on continent (East Asian, Central Asian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and Roman) and age researched. The last one is really interesting because building icons update according to the age being played, this is a feature that no other AOE game seems to use.

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I had a look at the Editor, it shouldn’t be too hard for someone to go in there and extract a file they like. Plus, there are some interesting things to discover, unused units like swimming alligator, elephant with no rider but with cloth, unused Greek TC, etc.

I didn’t manage to find actual icons for buildings, but there are some unused techs research icons that look cool as an avatar pic.

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@Penelinfi said:
I had a look at the Editor, it shouldn’t be too hard for someone to go in there and extract a file they like. Plus, there are some interesting things to discover, unused units like swimming alligator, elephant with no rider but with cloth, unused Greek TC, etc.

I didn’t manage to find actual icons for buildings, but there are some unused techs research icons that look cool as an avatar pic.

Can you post it?

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Post what? The unused units?

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I’ve only discovered how to export 1 frame as a .png, and it saves it as one file, overwritten if you save another. So I only have a few things here. They seem to have transparency - can put any background behind them… I think there was a graphics editor somewhere for the .drs that would be more helpful in extracting an animation. That being said, if you only need one frame, the editor is as easy as installing it, locating your game directories, and clicking lists.

You can also change the colour of units by clicking the colour tab and selecting a colour.








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You can select all frames and export them into 8-bitmap format, but haven’t tried exporting a whole animation (I think each frame get splitted into png/bitmap files).

By the way, I am upgrading my computer into WIN 10, so that’s why I haven’t posted the rest of icon.

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I found Turtle Pack is easier to simply extract things, and you can use the Genie Editor to view SLP file no. and graphic.

Eg: Save as GIF

Or save as .bmp for still shot.

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Egyptian:

Greek:

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Babylonian:

Yamato:

This goat was probably meant to tow artifacts between trade workshops:

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Great work guys! Personally, my in game portrait shall be a glorious War Dog:

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guys u are just awesome!!! <3

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What ■■■■ is this?
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@Augustusman said:
What ■■■■ is this?
/uploads/editor/gc/ejaxztghyx17.bmp

Leftover asset, perhaps?

@KingDarBoja Great job though! I might grab one of these some time :slight_smile:

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Those little buildings are trade workshops. They originally planned to include land trading using the goat towing an artifact, between workshops. Similar to dock trading I guess.

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@Augustusman said:
What ■■■■ is this?
/uploads/editor/gc/ejaxztghyx17.bmp

If you go into scenario editor, you can see two market buildings, one of them use that portrait (If I am not wrong).

@Penelinfi : Thank you! You saved me a good effort about checking those buildings, but you forgot to rename the bitmap files to easily recognize them :lol:

@RWNorthPole : Thanks mate!

Now the tech icons should be posted :smiley:

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@Penelinfi said:
Those little buildings are trade workshops. They originally planned to include land trading using the goat towing an artifact, between workshops. Similar to dock trading I guess.

Than you for the reply.