Help request - BG:EE portraits to BG2:EE (solved)

BelgarathMTH

Hi, could someone please give me a link to a downloadable bmp. or jpg. to the portrait in BG:EE of the cleric guy with the gold armor, gold shield, and red kerchief? I really, really like that portrait, and I'd like to eventually start a trilogy run using it.

I've heard before that I should be able to pull the portrait using Keeper somehow, but I have no idea how to do that. Bringing up the portrait in Keeper doesn't give me any copy-paste or save-as options, so I don't see how I'm supposed to use that as a solution.

If I could just get a copy of the portrait onto my computer, I could easily transfer it to BG2:EE as custom portrait.

Help, please?

Meanwhile, I still don't really understand why it would have been a big deal for Beamdog to include the new BG:EE portraits in BG2:EE.

Heindrich

How to extract portraits with EE Keeper.

When you extract a portrait, a .bmp is created and placed in your portraits folder.

elminster

BelgarathMTH said:

Meanwhile, I still don't really understand why it would have been a big deal for Beamdog to include the new BG:EE portraits in BG2:EE.

As I understand it that is the plan and your lack of being able to do that is just an issue regarding recognizing that you have the DLC (which is really an Ipad/android issue and not a PC issue)

As for accessing the portraits you probably can find them using Near Infinity (or apparently EEkeeper as Heindrich just pointed out). EEkeeper is probably going to be a lot easier actually

KidCarnival

Load any saved game, then take any character sheet and click "change portrait".

BelgarathMTH

@Heindrich and @KidCarnival, thank you so much, I was able to extract and move the portrait into my BG2:EE portraits folder now. That was really nice of you both to include screen shots to show me how. And yes, Heindrich, that was the exact portrait I wanted, so I could have also extracted it from your post, since you were so kind as to put it there.

@Elminster, I don't think you understood what I was saying. There is a series of new player character male portraits (and I assume female ones too), that you can use in BG1:EE, that were not put into BG2:EE. If you use one of those portraits in BG1:EE, and then export/import into BG2:EE, your character will have the box with the silhouette and question mark for a portrait. If you create a new character in BG2:EE, those portraits will not be available to use. They were simply not ported over from BG1:EE to BG2:EE.

The same is true of sound sets. Beamdog did not use the same player character sound set selections between the two games. If you choose any sound set selection other than default for a character in BG1:EE, there will be issues upon exporting/importing that character into BG2:EE. And you'll have to choose another sound set, unless you know how to export/import custom sound sets. (I'm pretty sure there's another thread or two addressing the sound sets, so no need to go over that here.)

elminster

Actually I exactly understood what you were saying. I fully understand the situation and what I was basically saying what that not being to access to BGEE portraits when you have both BG2EE and BGEE is a known issue that Overhaul knows about and plans to address. Its an issue that relates to getting BG2EE to recognize if you have the BGEE portrait DLC (which comes with the PC version but not the Ipad/Android version). Because that DLC doesn't come with all versions its complicated the issue.

There are two separate bug reports for that concern the portraits (one for each game) and they are #4127 and #6944. The soundset issue was also brought up in 6944.

BelgarathMTH

@elminster, ah, I see. Since I bought and play on the PC versions, I did not see why the "DLC" issue would apply to me (yet). If I understand you, you're saying that they did include *all* of the new portraits and soundsets in the PC version of BG2:EE, but that a bug caused the PC BG2:EE program to block all of the new BG1:EE portraits and soundsets, as though those things were unpaid and unsubscribed-to DLC from a tablet version of the game.

That's interesting, and I had no idea that that was the problem. Still, it's on Beamdog to fix it for PC customers.

elminster

All I can say with any kind of certainty is that it looks like overhaul does plan to address it and (as I understand it) part of the issue stems from the fact that for Ipads and (eventually) androids it is a DLC. So that just complicated things.

KidCarnival

I had that problem with the pale warrior with the red beard. I searched and searched and was able to find the female with blue facepaint and the male with turban via Google, but not the other new portraits. Had no choice but figuring out how to extract with EEKeeper. Soundsets, no idea, they aren't that great, so I never used them.

CrevsDaak

The guy in gold, black and red with a shield is a Mage/Thief |:I