Neverwinter Nights portraits to BGEE

comebackhome

I'm looking for NWN portraits.2da that has been unlocked (all portraits from game available) that someone has converted to .jpg files to use for BGEE portraits - I'm aware that this is a big ask but if anyone else out there has thoughts about bringing those portraits into BG EE and has them ready in a file to download, please let me know!

I've downloaded a 300 meg portraits .rar but I have to convert them all individually and it's a pain - I'm not even 100% sure that all the portraits have been unlocked either.

bob_veng

use irfanview batch conversion https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/50519/simple-batch-conversion-using-irfanview/

megamike15

some of them are already included in the portrait pack.

AstroBryGuy

I have an archive of the NWN portraits. I don't know about 300 MB, but it's about 36MB. It's only the _h portraits, trimmed to 256x400, converted to .bmp, and renamed to 8 characters, ending in "l".

https://www.dropbox.com/s/aivyxyqwxdv9d7d/nwn.zip?dl=0

comebackhome

AstroBryGuy said:

I have an archive of the NWN portraits. I don't know about 300 MB, but it's about 36MB. It's only the _h portraits, trimmed to 256x400, converted to .bmp, and renamed to 8 characters, ending in "l".


https://www.dropbox.com/s/aivyxyqwxdv9d7d/nwn.zip?dl=0

Does this include all monsters and npcs?

comebackhome

Friendly bump

AstroBryGuy

comebackhome said:

Does this include all monsters and npcs?

No. It is just character portraits.

EDIT: Is this the portrait pack you're talking about?

https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/images/portrait/all-portraits-portrait-pack

comebackhome

AstroBryGuy said:

comebackhome said:

Does this include all monsters and npcs?

No. It is just character portraits.

EDIT: Is this the portrait pack you're talking about?

https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/images/portrait/all-portraits-portrait-pack

Thanks mate, you are an absolute Legend! Are these in jpg form or need to be converted to be used in BG.

AstroBryGuy

They are in .tga format, but if that's the archive of portraits, I can easily script a conversion to bmp. If there's a more complete portrait pack available, let me know the location online.

Most of the portraits have a max size (once trimmed) of 256x400 ("huge" in NWN parlance), but some max out at 128x200 ("large").

comebackhome

bob_veng said:

use irfanview batch conversion https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/50519/simple-batch-conversion-using-irfanview/

Fantastic program I just saw this.

AstroBryGuy said:

They are in .tga format, but if that's the archive of portraits, I can easily script a conversion to bmp. If there's a more complete portrait pack available, let me know the location online.

Most of the portraits have a max size (once trimmed) of 256x400 ("huge" in NWN parlance), but some max out at 128x200 ("large").

I'm trying to convert them now but some are getting blurry and some have some weird background

AstroBryGuy

If you see blurry images, you're probably converting the low res ones too. NWN included up to 5 sizes for each image: _h (huge, 256x512), _l (large, 128x256), _m (medium, 64x128), _s (small, 32x64), _t (tiny, 16x32).

Also, the .tga files from NWN have a bit at the bottom that needs to be trimmed (see image below). Trimming that crops the huge images to 256x400 (large images to 128x200), which is the aspect ratio of BGEE portraits.



Here is an archive of the portraits from the TGI pack + the PC NWN portraits. I converted to .bmp format and trimmed off the extra bit. I've only included the maximum resolution of each image (either _h or _l). It has ~700 images.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4czl1cm4k0zzgf1/nwn_portraits.zip?dl=0

If there is a more complete NPC portrait pack, let me know. I've got scripts to easily convert the tgas to bmps and do the needed trimming.