![]() ![]() Really, such a small addition really adds up to the game's atmosphere. That's really, really cool! I remember a similiar mod for bg:ee and it was awesome, indeed. Bugfixes vexingthoughts, everard's portraits and more All portraits reworked and many replaced a new complete reimagining of the mod. Updated all portraits with help from bob_veng forums. Thanks everyone you know who you are, I hope you appreciate the hard work of the artists as I do. The Portrait names in the tbl are in the 2nd column are filenames in the portrait folder. You can reference theĬreature name to the actor in tools such as NearInfinity. The table in (mod folder)\tbl\iwd.tbl lists the portraits and their creatures/actors. Technical Details and how you can add your own portraits The purpose of this mod is not to make money but to advances knowledge and progress of the arts through the addition of something new onto a great game. If there are any copyright issues or this statement needs revision then please contact me to let me know what to doĪbout it. Portraits remain the copyright of their respective rights holders. This mod was not developed, supported, or endorsed by BioWare, Interplay/Black Isle, Beamdog or any other official agency. This mod is distributed freely and not for any commercial purpose non-profit. If there are any particular portraits that need to be removed you don't wish them to be featured in this work, let me know and it will be removed. Sources of the pictures include Neverwinter Nights portraits found online, searches for baldur's gate and IWD portraits, The Super Ultimate Portrait Pack, and as a last resort I used search engines to round out the collection. Basically, if there is an update to the game, it's probably a good idea to This mod patches 154 creatures future updates from Beamdog may require reinstallation of the mod if Start a new game to get the portraits on NPCs you've already met in game although future NPCs should have their Match the in game NPC, report that as well for potential inclusion in future updates. ![]() If any of the portraits are not to your satisfaction due to quality or you feel that the portrait does not The goal of this mod is to add small portraits to every speaking NPC in the game. The big world of Icewind Dale gets even more beautiful! 6.This mod adds small portraits to speaking NPCs in IWDEE.6.9K Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition.423 Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition.88 Persistent Worlds & Multiplayer for NWN (not EE).410 Custom Content & Community Exp Pack.However, it's my best effort at turning the IWD2 portraits into IWD:EE portraits. how it looks in IWD:EE with this portrait pack:Īll this means that my portrait pack cannot claim 100% authenticity in representing the "official" IWD2 portraits. Here an example of how it looks in IWD2 vs. In addition, the side-bar portraits also use a different aspect ratio in the two games. However, it should be noted that it probably differs in small ways from the (lost) original source art, because the AI essentially just "guesses" the details. Here is an example of a portraits at the resolution at which it is stored in the IWD2 game files, followed by the larger resolution I achived via upscaling:Īs you can see, the result of the AI-based upscaling look pretty good. Since conventional upscaling algorithms cause blurriness, graininess, and other ugly image artifacts, I used AI-based upscaling services (, ). This let me recreate them by cropping the source art in the same way, and if necessary applying the same brightness/contrast/gamme adjustments, as was done to create the original portrait - but without the downscaling.įor other portraits, I could find no original source art – so I had to rely on upscaling the low-resolution images that come with the IWD2 game. First and foremost, this meant bringing them to a higher image resolution.įor some of the portraits, I found the original source art from which they were made ( see here). As I mentioned in the mod description, I had to "remaster" these IWD2 portraits in order to make them suitable for IWD:EE. ![]()
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