Portrait and paper doll colours
Thunderhawk108
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In IWD the paper doll automatically has the colours of the portrait, however IWD:EE doesn't do this properly, could it be fixed?
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Colors are not restricted to clothes alone. This issue affects the color of their skin and the color of their hair.
And one other issue. In the original game some default colors were not available to be picked, but they were coming along with certain portraits. Golden color for the elven female portrait (an eleven girl with black hair carrying a sword). Maybe the feature request should focus on having more colors available to be picked.
As I said, we can look at changing that behavior, but it would mean undoing the change that was previously made (which a lot of players have seemed to appreciate).
After all, this is supposed to be IWD EE, not IWD to BG2 EE.
As for players seeming to appreciate, I beg to differ. While that worked in BG, it does not mean that people who enjoyed (or played) the original IWD game are not going to enjoy having the old features.
But, again, as I've said twice already, we can look at changing the behavior. But what you're asking to be changed is a feature of the Enhanced Editions, and one that a lot of people have said they enjoy. In order to have one, you have to take away the other. So it's not just a matter of "I don't like it, change it back" in this instance.
If Enhanced Edition means Baldurized, makes me fear about what will happen with PS:T or IWD2.
Carry on.
Colors according to portraits was definitely a feature of the original IWD and of IWD2. If EE does not have it, then is not really EE. It's as simple as that.
That's like saying well you may be president but you have gray eyes so that makes you totally not the president!
That way everybody wins: the people that want the missing colors like you and the people that like the new system can both win.
The lack of versatility (mostly due to the bad idea of including mods with standard defaults) is another example of the enhanced games being outshined by the originals.
Lack of support for ToBEx features (including ini customisation) is yet another example.
And clothing colour us hardly an important aspect of the game.
If you'd read above, he said he couldn't access the colors that it was autoassigning in IWD, like they are locked in IWDEE.
I will bow out of this discussion gracefully though to avoid causing an argument
More colours are indeed needed, but that alone is not enough, unless people are willing to rename IWD:EE as IWD-in-BGII:PEE, where PEE stands for Partly Enhanced Edition
Is Beamdog really OK with the knowledge that the original games have still some features that are more enhanced than the ones in the so called Enhanced Edition?
Colours automatically set based on portraits is an enhancement in the original IWD, so the question shouldn't be whether we want that in IWD:EE, but whether this superior feature (i.e. a veritable enhancement) should be also in BG:EE and BGII:EE.
DISCLAIMER: yes, colours can be set manually with NI to whatever, but it is the automatically part that makes this truly an enhancement in the original IWD.
or not. absurd thread.