Help with Headshots and Portraits

[clamel]

Gosh, I like to get into this making of Headshots. Playing older Eras some that is created from any cyberface or edited face is horrible. Sadly, in my eyes, is creators put up ons of cyberfaces and portraits but very few headshots.
It's after all the headshots that is first seen when checking a roster, so I am surprised I don't see whatever you guys have made ready for some DL for us with less skills to make ones own. I do know how to mix and match in the CE to get the right numbers or whatever number new headshots is made.

Looking at this thread it looks beyond me to fix this, but I give it a try. Those headshots just needs to look good. Horrible to look at David Robinson in Jordan Era with his cartoon face and silly grin.

[bikerjimuk]

It's trickier this year as we have no way of assigning new face pics to older players easily. Have you ever used any graphic\paint prog? If so it's easy to make the portraits, find a pic, resize and remove the background then save and replace the face in the iff.

[Zoran+]

Gosh, I like to get into this making of Headshots. Playing older Eras some that is created from any cyberface or edited face is horrible. Sadly, in my eyes, is creators put up ons of cyberfaces and portraits but very few headshots.
It's after all the headshots that is first seen when checking a roster, so I am surprised I don't see whatever you guys have made ready for some DL for us with less skills to make ones own. I do know how to mix and match in the CE to get the right numbers or whatever number new headshots is made.

Looking at this thread it looks beyond me to fix this, but I give it a try. Those headshots just needs to look good. Horrible to look at David Robinson in Jordan Era with his cartoon face and silly grin.

It may look scary at the beginning, as you could see by the amount of stupid questions I asked here lol, but after you do few than its automatic. If you need any help feel free to ask. Since bikerjimuk helped me I did almost full Magic Bird Era. I really wish we can have Hook but we don't. When you know what you are doing it will take you less than 2 minutes per pic and thats starting from scratch.

[sk8pop]

I find the discussion about portraits interesting, but I personally prefer to work with dornas.
The ones from 2k24 need editing to work in 2k25, and I have a lot of work to do to make them work.
I have many from last year, and many current ones.
If anyone could make a tutorial on how to make them work in 2k25, I would be grateful.

Thanks.

[Wolfix]

This seems very complicated. I'm a first time modder for 2K. I have custom portraits that other people have made for trades etc. But I don't know how to get them to work. I can use Cheat Engine to change the ones already in game like changing Karl-Anthony Town's one to his Timberwolves one on the Knicks instead of the in-game model, but I don't know how to get the custom ones to work.
What folder am I supposed to put them in?
How do I get it to overwrite the ones already in game?
How do you get the rookie ones to work?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Bassman58]

Wolfix, you can replace the textures to update or change portraits and action shots for players already on the roster. You can not add new players. You can only add rookies if 2K includes them on a roster. To replace a file just edit the file and place it in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\NBA 2K25\mods\player_images folder.

[bikerjimuk]

I thought you assign the new custom ID to the player in CE? Maybe ask in the CE thread for more info?

[Wolfix]

Wolfix, you can replace the textures to update or change portraits and action shots for players already on the roster. You can not add new players. You can only add rookies if 2K includes them on a roster. To replace a file just edit the file and place it in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\NBA 2K25\mods\player_images folder.

Ok I can't get it to work. I'm trying to change Mikal Bridges Nets Portrait to his Knicks one. Here is the file name as it is extracted from 7Zip: chr_r7709_a1.iff
I've tried renaming it removing the _a1 and renaming it to 7709 but nothing works. What am I doing wrong?

Also does anyone know if you can restore the Portraits and Headshots when you move at team to another city in MyNBA?

[Zoran+]

You need to open iff file with WinZip or 7Zip and inside you will find two more files. 1 RTXT file and one dds file. You need to rename those two too, plus you need to open RTXT file with notepad and edit inside too.

[Bassman58]

If you are updating a player for a new team all you need to do is replace the DDS file. No need for editing the TXTR file or renaming any files. The game will only use files for players in the game already. Cheat Engine may get around this but I do not know for sure. Ask in the CE post (or read the entire post) as bikerjimuk suggested. Open the TXTR file with Notepad++ to see the save format for the DDS file.

[bikerjimuk]

Wolfix, you can replace the textures to update or change portraits and action shots for players already on the roster. You can not add new players. You can only add rookies if 2K includes them on a roster. To replace a file just edit the file and place it in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\NBA 2K25\mods\player_images folder.

Ok I can't get it to work. I'm trying to change Mikal Bridges Nets Portrait to his Knicks one. Here is the file name as it is extracted from 7Zip: chr_r7709_a1.iff
I've tried renaming it removing the _a1 and renaming it to 7709 but nothing works. What am I doing wrong?

Also does anyone know if you can restore the Portraits and Headshots when you move at team to another city in MyNBA?

Not sure why you are renaming anything. You open the iff replace the dds with your new Knicks pic (using the same name and format) and close the iff
The a1 is the full player image, the chr_g7709.iff is the pic that appears in the team selection etc