I have put about half a dozen custom player portraits into NBA 2K22 already. All of them have worked fantastically well. My issue is with one particular player.
Ish Wainwright on the Phoenix Suns, his portrait won't work.
I put the portrait into the game files correctly, because if I assume his player ID for the portrait into another player's using 2K tools, the portrait I want is seen just fine as that other player's portrait. But for Wainwright specifically, no matter how hard I try, it won't show up. What shows up instead is just his generic body model posing whenever I look for the portrait in rotations, in either association or even just roster creator.
His headshot works just fine, which is a custom one I already did with the same player ID number (9982) but his portrait won't show.
I even went through the trouble of trying to use a player on a team such as an All-Time team, setting the portrait as his first, and then importing his player DNA after having exported it from the original Wainwright on the Suns. Even when I do that, THAT version also refuses to read the portrait file.
As I said, I'm pretty certain everything about the file is formatted correctly because other players will have the portrait display if their Portrait ID is changed to 9982.
Any help with this issue would be appreciated, as it will help if it happens with any other player, and I can even do a tutorial on how to fix it if the fixes suggested work,
Thanks in advance!