Portraits

SmilingSword

So I just started up new game and installed all my normal mods. For some reason Imoen still has her BG1 portrait, so that means the mod didn't work. So is there a button I can press or something to change the portrait to the BG2 one or do I physically have to make the change in EEkeeper?

fkirenicus

Is this a mod for the original game? Chances are that the portraits have the wrong dimensions then; in BGEE I think they must be 210x330 or something along that scale. Also, they must match with the file name they are supposed to override.

SmilingSword

@fkirenicus nah these mods have worked on the EEs before. Must be the new update screwing things up.

rapsam2003

SmilingSword said:

@fkirenicus nah these mods have worked on the EEs before. Must be the new update screwing things up.

2 things.
1) Are any of the NPC portraits in your Documents/Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition folder?
2) Are you sure that the mod installed the portraits correctly?

SmilingSword

@rapsam2003 it was the NPC project, it said the installation was complete. I can't check my docs folder right now, I'm at work.

Strange thing is the other portraits installed. The ones for non joinable characters.

Kerozevok

SmilingSword said:

nah these mods have worked on the EEs before.

Since the v2.0, there is a bug with the portraits. The "M" are used instead of the "S" and the "L" are used instead of the "M".

So if "imoenL" is not present in your mod, her portrait is not replaced.

fkirenicus

rapsam2003 said:

SmilingSword said:

@fkirenicus nah these mods have worked on the EEs before. Must be the new update screwing things up.

2 things.
1) Are any of the NPC portraits in your Documents/Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition folder?
2) Are you sure that the mod installed the portraits correctly?

Actually, I think these go to the game\override folder, not the Documents\BGEE folder.
(Or, to be more precise: PC portraits go to the Documents\BGEE\portraits folder, whereas NPC portraits go to the game\override folder).

rapsam2003

fkirenicus said:

Actually, I think these go to the game\override folder, not the Documents\BGEE folder.
(Or, to be more precise: PC portraits go to the Documents\BGEE\portraits folder, whereas NPC portraits go to the game\override folder).

Well, the reason I bring it up is because I recently had an issue when I put new replacement portraits in for Neera. However, the Large portrait (the one on the character screen) for Neera was still showing the old replacement portrait. I discovered that was because there was a NeeraL.bmp that I had put in Documents\BGEE\portraits to use later for a PC. I didn't realize that I forgot to rename NeeraL.bmp to something else, and the game was using the one in Documents.
(See here: https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/55654/using-wrong-portrait-for-neera#latest )