[mod] Portraits from IWD2
ineth
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Icewind Dale II comes with the same 59 portraits that are included in Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition, plus 24 extra ones.
This portrait pack consists of these 24 extra portraits, remastered to the resolution and aspect ratio required by IWD:EE.
See the included readme file for installation instructions.
Direct link:
Alternatively, get it from the github page or from my Yandex drive.
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Humans
Aasimar
Tieflings
Elves
Drow
Dwarves
Gnomes
Halflings
For some of the portraits, I found the original source art from which they were made (see here). This let me recreate them by cropping the source art in the same way, and if necessary applying the same brightness/contrast/gamme adjustments, as was done to create the original portrait - but without the downscaling.
For other portraits, I could find no original source art – so I had to rely on upscaling the low-resolution images that come with the IWD2 game. Since conventional upscaling algorithms cause blurriness, graininess, and other ugly image artifacts, I used AI-based upscaling services (https://imglarger.com, https://vanceai.com).
Here is an example of a portraits at the resolution at which it is stored in the IWD2 game files, followed by the larger resolution I achived via upscaling:
As you can see, the result of the AI-based upscaling look pretty good. However, it should be noted that it probably differs in small ways from the (lost) original source art, because the AI essentially just "guesses" the details.
In addition, the side-bar portraits also use a different aspect ratio in the two games. Here an example of how it looks in IWD2 vs. how it looks in IWD:EE with this portrait pack:
All this means that my portrait pack cannot claim 100% authenticity in representing the "official" IWD2 portraits. However, it's my best effort at turning the IWD2 portraits into IWD:EE portraits.
Let me know what you think.