Modding character protraits into game

[roblor]

Hiya,
Just a newbie and wanting to know how to mod in PC portraits into NWN2 . Ages ago I found a website that allowed similar for Baldurs Gate and wondered if similar was possible for NWN2?
Cheers

PS I have performed a search for similar topics

[kgambit]

Hiya,
Just a newbie and wanting to know how to mod in PC portraits into NWN2 . Ages ago I found a website that allowed similar for Baldurs Gate and wondered if similar was possible for NWN2?
Cheers

PS I have performed a search for similar topics

I would suggest waiting until the 1.12 patch comes out. I believe that patch is going to make it possible to add them. But you can look here:

http://www.thieves-guild.net/forum/showthread.php?t=983

for how to manage things in the meantime.

I've been holding off on making those 2 custom portrait files available for download until all of the details on the file requirements are known.

:D

[roblor]

And just because thanks is not enough I did spot the custom portraits on the MoTB classes section and saved them - now in your thread I see them all nicely arranged. Beautiful they are, and wait happily I shall as my technical abilities fail at about step 1.
Cheers
Rob

[kgambit]

And just because thanks is not enough I did spot the custom portraits on the MoTB classes section and saved them - now in your thread I see them all nicely arranged. Beautiful they are, and wait happily I shall as my technical abilities fail at about step 1.
Cheers
Rob

I'm glad you like the artwork on the classes page. :D

Just don't try to use those for custom portraits. The file format and dimensions are not the proper format or size for use without editing. :D

I believe I have most of those in the custom portrait file (have to check). If I can find the time, I plan to expand the selections to at least 24 per gender and probably 30.

Any special requests? Except for Drizzt. I don't do Drizzt. :D

[Epirote]

Any special requests? Except for Drizzt. I don't do Drizzt. :D

Thank goodness for that and I apologize, if I offended any Drizzt fans out there. :eek: :D

[kgambit]

Okay, all done finally.

I kind of missed the target and ended up making 70 females, 50 males and 8 more from concept art. :D

So, maestro, a drum roll if you please:

(all images shown at half size)

NWN2 Female Custom Portraits

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd307/kgambit/custom%20portraits/female_collection2_small. jpg


NWN2 Male Custom Portraits

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd307/kgambit/custom%20portraits/male_collection_small.jpg

and 8 more from concept art in the game:

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd307/kgambit/custom%20portraits/conceptart_collection_sma ll.jpg

[Epirote]

Awasome job, you're the best. :D

[kgambit]

Thank you. :D

Most of them weren't that difficult as they were mostly just cropped. Some of them DID require some extra work though. :D Here's a couple of examples of the before and after:

Before: http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd307/kgambit/custom%20portraits/DragonWarrior_temp.jpg After: http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd307/kgambit/custom%20portraits/nwn2fftr72.jpg


Before: http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd307/kgambit/custom%20portraits/nwn2felf99.jpg After: http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd307/kgambit/custom%20portraits/nwn2felf98.jpg

My wife said I needed to get rid of the "elephant ears" on the lower one. :D

Update: I made one small change to the male collection. The portrait of Geralt from "The Witcher" has been replaced with a better version. The replacement has a much better backgroun (not the monochrome background of the earlier version.)

I've also decided to toss in one more male portrait:

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd307/kgambit/custom%20portraits/witcher1.jpg

and this is approximately how the portraits will appear in game:

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd307/kgambit/custom%20portraits/witcher1_temp.jpg

[Epirote]

It noticed that, and he looks suspiciously familiar, too :D

[kgambit]

It noticed that, and he looks suspiciously familiar, too :D

LOL Yeah I thought he might. :D

By the way, the portraits are NOT yet available for download. (But I AM working on it. :D

Here are the final 4 portraits to be included in the collections.

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd307/kgambit/custom%20portraits/additions_small.jpg

The one on the lower right from the Witcher replaces a previous version of a similiar shot but the other three are new and have not been added to the collages. They WILL be in the downloadable files.

[Poison]

Those are beautiful pictures kgambit! I've held back from downloading portraits so far because none really seem to be worth it. I just love the pictures up here though, especially in classes--I even made a signature out of them >_< Can't wait to download these :)

[kgambit]

Thanks Poison. :D

Portrait pack 4 went up for download just the other day, and I am really happy with the way some of those portraits turned out. The base images are from NWN2 concept art but I added totally new backgrounds to all of them which REALLY makes a huge difference. :D

Glad you liked them. :D

[sirchet]

I'm glad you like the artwork on the classes page. :D

Just don't try to use those for custom portraits. The file format and dimensions are not the proper format or size for use without editing. :D

I believe I have most of those in the custom portrait file (have to check). If I can find the time, I plan to expand the selections to at least 24 per gender and probably 30.

Any special requests? Except for Drizzt. I don't do Drizzt. :D

How about Tasslehoff Burrfoot? Everybody likes Kenders. :D
We could call him a halfling.;)

[kgambit]

Now what I would REALLY like is a decent gully dwarf picture .... :D