I never imagined that Priss looked like... that. I suppose Tiana becoming murderous is slightly more understandable:
I found these portraits rather jarring and immersion breaking (they're from a rather well known game and represent a distinct culture/historical timeframe that, with rare exceptions like Yoshimo perhaps, does not fit most characters from Amn):
I've been enjoying this for years now. Problem i have recently is it's working in BG:EE fine but not BG:2EE they are both from GOG. I had it working a few weeks ago. So i uninstalled wiped all the folders clean and can't get this to work anymore. It has been working perfectly, it just no images show up, any ideas?
Update Installed some other mods light the lighting pack and now it's working! Whew! i love this mod so much!
...I found these portraits rather jarring and immersion breaking (they're from a rather well known game and represent a distinct culture/historical timeframe that, with rare exceptions like Yoshimo perhaps, does not fit most characters from Amn)...
WHAT IS IT?:
Portraits Portraits Everywhere (PPE) - core component
The core component of this mod adds portraits to speaking NPCs in the Enhanced Edition Infinity Engine games. It can be installed on multiple platforms including Enhanced Edition Trilogy (EET), Baldur's Gate 1 Enhanced Edition including Siege of Dragonspear, Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced Edition, and Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition. The mod can add representative portraits for all 4617 speaking creatures throughout these games so that when you speak to them, these NPC characters that inhabit these rich worlds will appear a little bit more alive.
If any of the portraits are not to your satisfaction due to quality or you feel that the portrait does not match the in game NPC, feel free to post on the forums for potential inclusion in future updates. If there is a future patch to
the game, it's a good idea to reinstall this mod. Keep in mind that when installing or reinstalling this mod, NPCs on areas you've previously visited won't get portraits, but areas and NPCs you have not yet visited will get portraits.
If you start a new game, then all NPCs that should get portraits will get them.
Category Portraits (Recommended)
This mod has an optional Category Portraits component to assign portraits from a pool of random portraits to actors that are not assigned specific portraits by the main component. This component is highly recommended and covers beings that are genericly named. For example, human characters named "Thief" or "Mugger" will get portraits from the male or female Rogue pool, characters named "Commoner" or "Peasant" will get portraits from the commoners pool, and "Drow" will get portraits from either the male or female Drow pool. There are more than ninety pools of random portraits that range from a few portraits to over 20. There are more breakdowns for groups of Humans than there are for other races. Please note that you may get repetition in portraits if you speak to multiple characters as once a pool of portraits is exhausted, then an additional round of picks from the portrait pool will be assigned to additional NPCs.
There are two ways to install the Category Portraits component - Sequentially or Randomly. If you install the component 'Sequentially' then Portraits from the Pool are assigned in numerical order to allow for reproducible results. That means that when you speak to "Mugger" in the dark alley, he should look the same if you were to reinstall the mod. There is also a Random option to grab a random portrait from the pool so that our friend the "Mugger" might get a different portrait if this component was installed a second time. If the random option is selected then a random pick will be selected. The way the random picked works is that all possible numbers from a pool are used before a second pick of the same number is picked meaning that you should not get random picks out of a group of 5 with the same number being used until all 5 of the portraits have been picked.
This is optimized for vanilla supported games but you might get some decent results for mod added characters. For example if installed after other mods, then matches from those mods of characters specifically named "Mugger" would get portraits from the Rogue pool. Please note that how other mods name or code their creatures or whether they name their rogue characters specifically "Mugger" or one of the other matching keywords is beyond my control - results may vary. Due to the varying coding standards in mods and the vast number of potential mods available, there is little chance that this component will act perfectly for mod added NPCs but it will do the best that it is able to do. An example of where the component would not act perfectly is a a character for a mod that works for Baldur's Gate 1EE that describes a human as a Half Orc through dialogue. Mods made for Baldur's Gate 1 do not support Half Orcs because there were not a playable race and that character would appear human to the engine and would get a human portrait.
Isandir's CHARNAME Portraits
A beautiful portrait pack by Isandir in a style similar to vanilla BG1 and BG2 portraits.
Preview of some of the portraits:
Replace Low Quality TOB & SOA Portraits
This component, for Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced Edition, replaces legacy portraits included with the game for Bhaalspawn. The portraits that
are replaced are generally low quality 38x60 size and are replaced with beautiful 169x266 portraits created for the Enhanced Edition
engine.
Edwin/Edwina
This component, for Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced Edition, gives Edwin a female portrait once he completes the Nether scroll ritual. The portrait
was created by Syntia13 and is based on the default portrait for Edwin in Baldur's Gate 2. This is highly recommended but optional. If
you've replaced the portrait for Edwin with a custom one, you might not want to load this component.
Ust Natha Drow NPCs
This component, for Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced Edition, provides drow versions of vanilla NPC portraits. This is highly recommended but
optional. The code to transform the portraits was thoughtfully provided by K4thos. Most of the drow versions of NPC portraits are by
Isandir. If you've replaced your NPC companion portraits with a custom portraits, you might not want to load this component.
Vampire NPCs
This component, for Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced Edition, provides vampire versions of vanilla NPC portraits. This is highly recommended but
optional. If you've replaced your NPC companion portraits with a custom portraits, you might not want to load this component.
"Vampirized" NPC portraits provided by lefreut.
CREDITS and Additional Information
This mod is based on older mods for Baldur's Gate prior to the EE editions had mods that included small portraits for some NPCs. The pictures in these mods are lower resolution than the ones carefully selected for this mod. Some of these older mods for classic Baldur's Gate with smaller pictures that directly inspired this project are:
Gerri's BGT NPC Portraits ( https://kerzenburg.baldurs-gate.eu/downloads.php?id=69 )
BG1NPC ( http://www.gibberlings3.net/bg1npc/ )
Sources of the pictures include Neverwinter Nights portraits found online, searches for baldur's gate and IWD portraits, and as a last resort search engines were used to round out the collection.
If there are any particular portraits that need to be removed you don't wish them to be featured in this work, let me know and the pictures will be removed. If you have any suggestions for submissions or changes, please feel free to comment in the discussion forum.
This mod is distributed freely and not for any commercial purpose non-profit. This mod was not developed, supported, or endorsed by BioWare, Interplay/Black Isle, Beamdog or any other official agency. Portraits remain the copyright of their respective rights holders.
If there are any copyright issues or this statement needs revision then please contact me to let me know what to do
about it. The purpose of this mod is not to make money but to advances knowledge and progress of the arts through the addition of something new onto a great game.
Special thanks to bob_veng on the baldur's gate.com forums for assistance recoloring, adjusting, selecting and creating new portraits for this mod.
Thanks everyone you know who you are, I hope you appreciate the hard work of the artists as I do.
Additional thanks to lynx and argent77 from Gibberlings3 Forums for coding assistance.
Thank you to Mr2150, Cahir, AstroBryGuy, Thels, lefreut, swit, K4thos, Syntia13, Isandir and others for their input
and assistance on the Baldur's Gate Forums.
The mod name was suggested by Cahir.
======================================================================
v1.01 21 Sept 16
- Updated 57 portraits with bob_veng
v.1.00 08 Sept 16
- Updated 42 portraits with bob_veng
- revised code for Isandir's CHARNAME Portraits component
V.0.99 03 Sept 16
- Downgraded Weidu from beta version to stable version 239
- Added additional install components
Isandir's CHARNAME Portraits
Replace Low Quality TOB & SOA Portraits
Edwin/Edwina
Ust Natha Drow NPCs
Vampire NPCs
- Modified & replaced a few portraits with bob_veng
Version History:
V0.91 20 Aug 16
- Fixed a few entries
WHAT IS IT?:
Portraits Portraits Everywhere (PPE) - core component
The core component of this mod adds portraits to speaking NPCs in the Enhanced Edition Infinity Engine games. It can be installed on multiple platforms including Enhanced Edition Trilogy (EET), Baldur's Gate 1 Enhanced Edition including Siege of Dragonspear, Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced Edition, and Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition. The mod can add representative portraits for all 4617 speaking creatures throughout these games so that when you speak to them, these NPC characters that inhabit these rich worlds will appear a little bit more alive.
If any of the portraits are not to your satisfaction due to quality or you feel that the portrait does not match the in game NPC, feel free to post on the forums for potential inclusion in future updates. If there is a future patch to
the game, it's a good idea to reinstall this mod. Keep in mind that when installing or reinstalling this mod, NPCs on areas you've previously visited won't get portraits, but areas and NPCs you have not yet visited will get portraits.
If you start a new game, then all NPCs that should get portraits will get them.
Category Portraits (Recommended)
This mod has an optional Category Portraits component to assign portraits from a pool of random portraits to actors that are not assigned specific portraits by the main component. This component is highly recommended and covers beings that are genericly named. For example, human characters named "Thief" or "Mugger" will get portraits from the male or female Rogue pool, characters named "Commoner" or "Peasant" will get portraits from the commoners pool, and "Drow" will get portraits from either the male or female Drow pool. There are more than ninety pools of random portraits that range from a few portraits to over 20. There are more breakdowns for groups of Humans than there are for other races. Please note that you may get repetition in portraits if you speak to multiple characters as once a pool of portraits is exhausted, then an additional round of picks from the portrait pool will be assigned to additional NPCs.
There are two ways to install the Category Portraits component - Sequentially or Randomly. If you install the component 'Sequentially' then Portraits from the Pool are assigned in numerical order to allow for reproducible results. That means that when you speak to "Mugger" in the dark alley, he should look the same if you were to reinstall the mod. There is also a Random option to grab a random portrait from the pool so that our friend the "Mugger" might get a different portrait if this component was installed a second time. If the random option is selected then a random pick will be selected. The way the random picked works is that all possible numbers from a pool are used before a second pick of the same number is picked meaning that you should not get random picks out of a group of 5 with the same number being used until all 5 of the portraits have been picked.
This is optimized for vanilla supported games but you might get some decent results for mod added characters. For example if installed after other mods, then matches from those mods of characters specifically named "Mugger" would get portraits from the Rogue pool. Please note that how other mods name or code their creatures or whether they name their rogue characters specifically "Mugger" or one of the other matching keywords is beyond my control - results may vary. Due to the varying coding standards in mods and the vast number of potential mods available, there is little chance that this component will act perfectly for mod added NPCs but it will do the best that it is able to do. An example of where the component would not act perfectly is a a character for a mod that works for Baldur's Gate 1EE that describes a human as a Half Orc through dialogue. Mods made for Baldur's Gate 1 do not support Half Orcs because there were not a playable race and that character would appear human to the engine and would get a human portrait.
Isandir's CHARNAME Portraits
A beautiful portrait pack by Isandir in a style similar to vanilla BG1 and BG2 portraits.
Preview of some of the portraits:
Replace Low Quality TOB & SOA Portraits
This component, for Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced Edition, replaces legacy portraits included with the game for Bhaalspawn. The portraits that
are replaced are generally low quality 38x60 size and are replaced with beautiful 169x266 portraits created for the Enhanced Edition
engine.
Edwin/Edwina
This component, for Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced Edition, gives Edwin a female portrait once he completes the Nether scroll ritual. The portrait
was created by Syntia13 and is based on the default portrait for Edwin in Baldur's Gate 2. This is highly recommended but optional. If
you've replaced the portrait for Edwin with a custom one, you might not want to load this component.
Ust Natha Drow NPCs
This component, for Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced Edition, provides drow versions of vanilla NPC portraits. This is highly recommended but
optional. The code to transform the portraits was thoughtfully provided by K4thos. Most of the drow versions of NPC portraits are by
Isandir. If you've replaced your NPC companion portraits with a custom portraits, you might not want to load this component.
Vampire NPCs
This component, for Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced Edition, provides vampire versions of vanilla NPC portraits. This is highly recommended but
optional. If you've replaced your NPC companion portraits with a custom portraits, you might not want to load this component.
"Vampirized" NPC portraits provided by lefreut.
CREDITS and Additional Information
This mod is based on older mods for Baldur's Gate prior to the EE editions had mods that included small portraits for some NPCs. The pictures in these mods are lower resolution than the ones carefully selected for this mod. Some of these older mods for classic Baldur's Gate with smaller pictures that directly inspired this project are:
Gerri's BGT NPC Portraits ( https://kerzenburg.baldurs-gate.eu/downloads.php?id=69 )
BG1NPC ( http://www.gibberlings3.net/bg1npc/ )
Sources of the pictures include Neverwinter Nights portraits found online, searches for baldur's gate and IWD portraits, and as a last resort search engines were used to round out the collection.
If there are any particular portraits that need to be removed you don't wish them to be featured in this work, let me know and the pictures will be removed. If you have any suggestions for submissions or changes, please feel free to comment in the discussion forum.
This mod is distributed freely and not for any commercial purpose non-profit. This mod was not developed, supported, or endorsed by BioWare, Interplay/Black Isle, Beamdog or any other official agency. Portraits remain the copyright of their respective rights holders.
If there are any copyright issues or this statement needs revision then please contact me to let me know what to do
about it. The purpose of this mod is not to make money but to advances knowledge and progress of the arts through the addition of something new onto a great game.
Special thanks to bob_veng on the baldur's gate.com forums for assistance recoloring, adjusting, selecting and creating new portraits for this mod.
Thanks everyone you know who you are, I hope you appreciate the hard work of the artists as I do.
Additional thanks to lynx and argent77 from Gibberlings3 Forums for coding assistance.
Thank you to Mr2150, Cahir, AstroBryGuy, Thels, lefreut, swit, K4thos, Syntia13, Isandir and others for their input
and assistance on the Baldur's Gate Forums.
The mod name was suggested by Cahir.
======================================================================
v1.01 21 Sept 16
- Updated 57 portraits with bob_veng
v.1.00 08 Sept 16
- Updated 42 portraits with bob_veng
- revised code for Isandir's CHARNAME Portraits component
V.0.99 03 Sept 16
- Downgraded Weidu from beta version to stable version 239
- Added additional install components
Isandir's CHARNAME Portraits
Replace Low Quality TOB & SOA Portraits
Edwin/Edwina
Ust Natha Drow NPCs
Vampire NPCs
- Modified & replaced a few portraits with bob_veng
Version History:
V0.91 20 Aug 16
- Fixed a few entries
V0.90 20 Aug 16
- Initial Release
Hello good morning, how are you?
Is there a modfile for mobile devices? If it doesn't exist, could you create one, if it doesn't bother you, thanks in advance
I'm preparing for a new EET playthrough with a fully custom party (Icewind Dale style), and I'm looking for some BG1-style portraits for my group. I don’t want to use existing NPC portraits for roleplaying reasons, so I’m searching for some unique, new portraits instead.
Can you guys recommend any good portrait packs that match the mentioned races and kits or is it PPE suitable for this purpose? I’d really appreciate any suggestions.
Can you guys recommend any good portrait packs that match the mentioned races and kits or is it PPE suitable for this purpose? I’d really appreciate any suggestions.
PPE adds portraits to the NPCs. It's not a pack to select your own portrait from, or at least not designed like that. You could of course download it and search through the images to see if there's any portrait that fits your characters, then place those in your portrait folder.
PPE adds portraits to the NPCs. It's not a pack to select your own portrait from, or at least not designed like that. You could of course download it and search through the images to see if there's any portrait that fits your characters, then place those in your portrait folder.
Thank you for your feedback. I'm definitely going to use PPE in my next playthrough. I also found the Realistic Custom Portrait Packs for BG1EE and BG2EE on Nexus Mods, which are perfectly suited to my needs and include all the required races. Furthermore, the portraits match my planned kits as well, and I really like this semi-realistic portrait style.
Thank you for the tip. Would you say this is a "spiritual successor" to PPE? I would also like to ask about the difference between Portraits Portraits Everywhere RELOADED and PP Enhanced, and whether there are any other PPE projects. If you were to start a new playthrough now, which one would you choose? Thank you for your feedback.
There is Isandirs Portrait Pack included into PPE, which you can use for char portraits as well.
I checked Isandir's Portrait Pack, and I must say the images are very good. Unfortunately, there is a lack of dwarf portraits, and I need three good ones. So at this moment, Realistic Custom Portrait Packs for BG1EE and BG2EE is still my go-to solution for my party (see screenshot).
Thank you for the tip. Would you say this is a "spiritual successor" to PPE? I would also like to ask about the difference between Portraits Portraits Everywhere RELOADED and PP Enhanced, and whether there are any other PPE projects. If you were to start a new playthrough now, which one would you choose? Thank you for your feedback.
I'm currently doing a PPE Reloaded playthrough. I feel it improves over PPE, in that we get a lot less very similar portraits, like all those Diablo 3 portraits in PPE. There are still some pictures off here and there. The guy that makes the PPE Reloaded mod is currently doing a playthrough and planning to improve and replace the pictures that feel off. He hates AI generated work, so don't expect much of those to appear. PPE Reloaded also supports several mod NPCs, such as Quests and Encounters.
I'm currently doing a PPE Reloaded playthrough. I feel it improves over PPE, in that we get a lot less very similar portraits, like all those Diablo 3 portraits in PPE. There are still some pictures off here and there. The guy that makes the PPE Reloaded mod is currently doing a playthrough and planning to improve and replace the pictures that feel off. He hates AI generated work, so don't expect much of those to appear. PPE Reloaded also supports several mod NPCs, such as Quests and Encounters.
I haven't played with PP Enhanced.
Ok, thank you for the tip. Portraits, Portraits Everywhere RELOADED looks really promising for the future, and I'm definitely going to try this pack in my upcoming playthrough. I'm already in contact with the author via the G3 forum. PP Enhanced is not available (not even as a work-in-progress version), so Portraits, Portraits Everywhere RELOADED is currently the best—and only—option (besides vanilla PPE).
Hello. I'd like to use the Ust Natha Drow NPCs component but with my own portraits. Does anyone know if this is possible? Or if not, another mod that does the same thing, such as Tweaks Anthology which can too add a portrait for Edwina, please?
Edit: Found it! It's in PPE/copy/BG2.
And for this component to work with NPCs added by mods, you need to modify the files drow.tph, K#DREM.SPL and AR2102.BCS. And create portraits and a .SPL file for the NPC.
Comments
I found these portraits rather jarring and immersion breaking (they're from a rather well known game and represent a distinct culture/historical timeframe that, with rare exceptions like Yoshimo perhaps, does not fit most characters from Amn):
How can it be fixed?
English:
"Applied Category Portraits to 605 Actors"
If you choose Japanese for example:
"Applied Category Portraits to 44 Actors" only
Turkish:
"Applied Category Portraits to 49 Actors" only
French:
"Applied Category Portraits to 67 Actors" only
Update Installed some other mods light the lighting pack and now it's working! Whew! i love this mod so much!
You could try Portraits Portraits Everywhere RELOADED which adds cotnent to PPE?
.
Hello good morning, how are you?
Is there a modfile for mobile devices? If it doesn't exist, could you create one, if it doesn't bother you, thanks in advance
I'm preparing for a new EET playthrough with a fully custom party (Icewind Dale style), and I'm looking for some BG1-style portraits for my group. I don’t want to use existing NPC portraits for roleplaying reasons, so I’m searching for some unique, new portraits instead.
My characters will be:
1. Dwarf – Berserker
2. Dwarf – Priest of Lathander
3. Dwarf – Assassin
4. Elf – Archer
5. Half-Elf – Blade
6. Half-Elf – Wild Mage
Can you guys recommend any good portrait packs that match the mentioned races and kits or is it PPE suitable for this purpose? I’d really appreciate any suggestions.
Thank you very much for your tips.
PPE adds portraits to the NPCs. It's not a pack to select your own portrait from, or at least not designed like that. You could of course download it and search through the images to see if there's any portrait that fits your characters, then place those in your portrait folder.
https://www.gibberlings3.net/forums/topic/38490-portraits-portraits-everywhere-reloaded-updated-sept-14-2024/
I'm currently doing a PPE Reloaded playthrough. I feel it improves over PPE, in that we get a lot less very similar portraits, like all those Diablo 3 portraits in PPE. There are still some pictures off here and there. The guy that makes the PPE Reloaded mod is currently doing a playthrough and planning to improve and replace the pictures that feel off. He hates AI generated work, so don't expect much of those to appear. PPE Reloaded also supports several mod NPCs, such as Quests and Encounters.
I haven't played with PP Enhanced.
Edit: Found it! It's in PPE/copy/BG2.
And for this component to work with NPCs added by mods, you need to modify the files drow.tph, K#DREM.SPL and AR2102.BCS. And create portraits and a .SPL file for the NPC.