Trouble with NPC Portraits

Brer_Rabbit

I know, two threads in a row-- professional noob alert!


I'm having issues getting my NPC portraits to work properly in BG:EE. I'm trying to replace Imoen and Faldorn's pictures (someone called Faldorn the "crazy cat-lady". I happen to agree, Faldorn (and Imoen) don't fit as well as I'd like). I edited the pics and I can actually use them as my own portrait, but despite being named "IMOENL", for example, Imoen refuses to change portraits.

I put them in my portrait folders just like my own custom pictures, and no matter how hard I look I don't see anything in here about an "Overwrite" folder. o.0

Dee

In the game's installation folder (the folder with baldur.exe in it), create a folder called "override".

Or you could create that same folder in the directory where your saved games and custom portraits are located.

Brer_Rabbit

*heart attack* Two threads, two dev responses... I might be dead and in heaven. Or dreaming. *eyes lemonade* Or someone spiked my drink.

Thank you for the help, I'll go ahead and try that out. Good game, looking forward to pincushioning everything with my arrows of DOOM!

Brer_Rabbit

@Dee: Just tried it, no cigar.

In the BG:EE folder>files>override, I put in "IMOENL.bmp". It didn't replace any of her portraits as I hoped they would.

AstroBryGuy

Try placing copies of the image called IMOENM.BMP and IMOENS.BMP in the override

Brer_Rabbit

All right, I'll jump on the computer for that one. Unless there's an easy way to do it on mobile I missed, most art apps do everything BUT BMP. x.x

Will come back in like 15-20mins to update...

Brer_Rabbit

AstroBryGuy said:

Try placing copies of the image called IMOENM.BMP and IMOENS.BMP in the override

It WORKS!!! *happy screech* Thank you, you have no idea how nuts this has made me. I saw a note that said the "L" would resize all portraits-- apparently that only works for player characters, not NPCs. It took some painful fiddling with Microsoft Paint, but I managed to resize the images without ruining them entirely and had them show up properly in game.

Thank you @AstroBryGuy, @Dee and @Kilivitz for taking the time to make this rabbit jump for joy! Whooo!!!

AstroBryGuy

Yeah, the NPCs still have references to the *M and *S portraits in their CRE files.

I should have mentioned that you didn't need to resize the *M and *S images. The engine will auto-resize the images appropriately. All you had to do was make 2 copies of the *L image and rename them. Sorry for not being clearer.

Brer_Rabbit

So I was supposed to simply rename the large image? I think I tried that with Imoen before and it just wouldn't take it. Bah, whatever, it works now and my characters look *fabuloussss!*!