Separating male and female custom portraits. Is it possible?

Dinger

Hello!

When putting custom portraits into Documents\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition\portraits, does anyone know of a way to keep the male and female portraits separate? Wanted to throw in a lot of portraits but don't want to see all the males portraits when looking for a female one and vise versa.

If there isn't a way to do this currently or are there any plans for this going forward? Maybe just have two folders within the portraits folder like a "male" and "female" folder?

Thank you for any responses!

mf2112

Maybe take a look at Mr2150's portrait picker mod, it is really well done.

Dinger

Hmmm I'll check it out...thanks man!

BillyYank

There's an internal table called "portraits" that contains the name of the portrait (the filename without the L or M at the end), and the number 1 for male or 2 for female. This table is created in the BGEE.lua file. You can create your own .lua file that adds portraits to the table as detailed in this post by Dee:
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/773986/#Comment_773986

If you have your portraits divided up by filename, i.e. all your male portraits start with M and female start with F, I've written a utility that will create the M_*.lua file for you.

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/53891/portraits-utility-for-version-2-x-updated-for-version-2-2

Dinger

Thanks Billy this is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you much sir!

Thorgaaz

I was once trying the same giving the Portraits names it kind of sortet them too. It worked good enough, but not perfectely. But basically starting girls with 1001 and onwards while males starts at 2001 should already kind of bringing an order.

But in the end the already mentioned solution is even better. Yust mentioned this for an alternative.

BillyYank

@Thorgaaz If your portraits are still named that way, you can change the file patterns in my script from F*L.bmp & M*L.bmp to 1*L.bmp & 2*L.bmp.

rapsam2003

You can easily name them in such a way as to separate them. For instance, I name portraits based on race & sex & also "class" (this one is more fluid). So, I might have FEMage1L.bmp or MEMage1L.bmp (along with the other size bmp files).