Asian portraits for BG - the Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence pack
JuliusBorisov
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Ladies and gentlemen, dear BG community!
It is my great pleasure and honour to introduce you new portraits that can be used for your beloved Baldur's Gate characters.
As you probably know, there's a portrait pack for IE games based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms game series.
But there can't be enough oriental faces in portraits for IE games, especially if they're professionally made.
The Japanese video game developer Tecmo Koei (http://www.koei.com/) has been creating Romance of the Three Kingdoms games for 30 years. These games are about the history of China.
But as it turnes out, for 30 years Tecmo Koei has also been creating Nobunaga's Ambition games, about the history of Japan. These games are also full of awesome portraits.
And it happened so that a new game in the Nobunaga's Ambition series was released in September 2015, called Sphere of Influence, http://www.nobunagasambition.eu/.
The quality of portraits in this game is amazing. This is why I want to introduce a portraits pack for IE games based on this game.
The artwork for those portraits is the intellectual property of Tecmo Koei but Koei is usually very kind to fans of their games in terms of not-for-profit use.
Take a not, please, that all these portraits can be used freely during only your own playthroughs of IE games.
But if you plan to use any portrait in a mod or something else that is available not only for you, you have to get a permission from the appropriate rightholder. Even if you edit a picture from any source, in order to use that edited picture in a mod you still have to get a permission from the rightholder of the vanilla picture.
You can read more about it here: https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/19418/a-quick-note-about-copyright
In this case, all the portraits are the property of Tecmo Koei, so you should contact them on the subject of using a portrait in your mod, if you wish so.
UPDATE from 10/05/2015: 30 portraits, all available in L, M and S sizes, can be downloaded here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/at87918nwksf9ay/Nobunaga's Ambition 30 portraits for BG.rar?dl=0
It is my great pleasure and honour to introduce you new portraits that can be used for your beloved Baldur's Gate characters.
As you probably know, there's a portrait pack for IE games based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms game series.
But there can't be enough oriental faces in portraits for IE games, especially if they're professionally made.
The Japanese video game developer Tecmo Koei (http://www.koei.com/) has been creating Romance of the Three Kingdoms games for 30 years. These games are about the history of China.
But as it turnes out, for 30 years Tecmo Koei has also been creating Nobunaga's Ambition games, about the history of Japan. These games are also full of awesome portraits.
And it happened so that a new game in the Nobunaga's Ambition series was released in September 2015, called Sphere of Influence, http://www.nobunagasambition.eu/.
The quality of portraits in this game is amazing. This is why I want to introduce a portraits pack for IE games based on this game.
The artwork for those portraits is the intellectual property of Tecmo Koei but Koei is usually very kind to fans of their games in terms of not-for-profit use.
Take a not, please, that all these portraits can be used freely during only your own playthroughs of IE games.
But if you plan to use any portrait in a mod or something else that is available not only for you, you have to get a permission from the appropriate rightholder. Even if you edit a picture from any source, in order to use that edited picture in a mod you still have to get a permission from the rightholder of the vanilla picture.
You can read more about it here: https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/19418/a-quick-note-about-copyright
In this case, all the portraits are the property of Tecmo Koei, so you should contact them on the subject of using a portrait in your mod, if you wish so.
UPDATE from 10/05/2015: 30 portraits, all available in L, M and S sizes, can be downloaded here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/at87918nwksf9ay/Nobunaga's Ambition 30 portraits for BG.rar?dl=0
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Especially a fan of the bottom right one with the purple/orange color scheme!
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how do you extract the portraits from the game?
Also, I'll add a link to dropbox with a zip file with all the portrais.
And I'm planning to offer 2 options for each portrait, so that in-game it could be different versions for M and S portraits (IWD-style), for example: