Original portraits from Icewind Dale 2

liquidsteel

Hello everyone. First, sorry for my English, i'm not native speaker. I have big request: could anyone of you told me where i can find original portaits from ID 2? I know, that it sounds a little bit ridiculous, but yes, i found thousands of portraits on Internet, some of them are nice, but after few hours I still don't have portraits from ID 2. I want to have them in ID EE. I install old version of ID 2 on computer, but there aren't any files... Anyone? Plesae.

ineth

liquidsteel said:

I install old version of ID 2 on computer, but there aren't any files...

The portraits are baked into the game data archives, but they can be extracted using Near Infinity:



However, note that their resolution is pretty small.
The side-bar version, in particular, are too small (and the wrong aspect ratio) to use them in Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition.
For example, here's one of the portraits that are included in both IWD2 and IWD:EE. The left column shows the highest available resolution of the IWD2 version (extracted from the data files as shown above). The right column shows the IWD:EE version, at the size at which it is rendered in-game when playing at 1920x1080 resolution with UI scaling enabled:

		IWD2	IWD:EE
side-bar version:
character record screen version:

If you were to take the IWD2 side-bar version and use it as an IWD:EE portrait, it would look distorted and blurry like this:

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Luckily, higher-resolution versions for some of the IWD2 portraits are available from various sources:

From IWD:EE

The following 53 were the original IWD1 portraits, and IWD2 simply copied them over.
IWD:EE has higher-resolution versions of them (like the example shown in the table above).

The following 6 first appeared in IWD2, but IWD:EE has higher-resolution versions of them anyway:

From justinsweet.com

The website of Justin Sweet (the artist who painted them) has hi-res (but not completely cropped/post-processed) versions of these 5:


(Two of these are also available in my IWD:EE style portraits collection, though cropped a little differently than they were in IWD2.)

From press.icewinddale.com

Beamdog's IWD:EE press page additionally has a super high-res version of this one:

From GOG.com

When you buy IWD2 from GOG.com, you get an "Artworks" bonus download which additionally has IWD:EE resolution versions of these 3:

From justinsweet.com (old gallery)

The old gallery on Justin Sweet's website, which is no longer linked from the main page but still online, additionally has higher-resolution versions of the following two (although not quite at IWD:EE size):

Leftovers

That leaves the following 13 IWD2 portraits for which I haven't found a higher-resolution version yet:

Download

I've collected what I've found so far, on my Yandex drive.

liquidsteel

Actually, I managed to find portraits by myself yesterday evening, but thank you for your respond and help Sorry for spaming forum!

ineth

I discovered that Justin Sweet's old image gallery is still online, even though it is not linked from his homepage anymore... and it contains higher-resolution versions for some more of the IWD2 portraits. (I updated my post above, as well as my Yandex drive, to include the additional ones.)

AstroBryGuy

@ineth - https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/419850/#Comment_419850