A Portrait Question

The Cold One · 11-29-2001, 08:21 PM

I have a couple character portraits both a Large and Small of the correct sizes and names (XXXL.btm ect.) I have them in a folder labeled Portraits (Capitol P as emphasized in the manual)(I have also tried the lower case too) alas nothing seems to work. Perhaps I am missing something if anyone could be of service it would be much appriciated.

andrewas · 11-29-2001, 08:32 PM

They should be XXXL.bmp, not .bmt. other than that, i can see no probl...

hold on, if your renaming this Protrait directory, you must be crating a new one. there should be one already there, under your BG2 main directory. anyway, dir names under DOS (and thus windows) are case-irrelevant. hell, anything under dos is case irrelevant.

Mitro Jellywadder · 11-29-2001, 09:44 PM

I had the same problem not too long ago. My problem ended up being that my .bmp files had saved as a double. It was LadyDL.bmp.bmp. All I had to do was open them in a paint program and resave them under a different name. As people told me, try restarting after you customize your portrait. If not, I'm sure you have this, but here it is again.

Custom Portraits:
The measurements for player portraits are 38X60 pixels for
the smaller portraits (8-bit color runs faster but it can be
up to 24 bit color), and 110X170 pixels for the larger
portraits. To use a custom portrait, place it in the
Portraits directory (in the install directory for the game)
and add an S to the end of the small portrait name and an L
to the end of the large portrait - otherwise the two names
must be identical. The names must be 1-7 letters long,
maximum - so the filename with the S or L added to the end
is no longer than 8 total characters. The portrait files
must be in BMP format.

For example:
XXXXXXXS.bmp for small (38x60, 8-bit)
XXXXXXXL.bmp for large (110x170, 24-bit)

For multiplayer, each player must have a copy of the
portraits, otherwise they will see a blank icon instead of
the other player's custom portraits. You will need to
manually send these portraits to your friends as BG2 has
no method of transferring them.

11-29-2001, 08:21 PM	#1
The Cold One Welcomed New User Join Date: November 29, 2001 Location: Smoketown, USA Posts: 2	I have a couple character portraits both a Large and Small of the correct sizes and names (XXXL.btm ect.) I have them in a folder labeled Portraits (Capitol P as emphasized in the manual)(I have also tried the lower case too) alas nothing seems to work. Perhaps I am missing something if anyone could be of service it would be much appriciated. __________________ Dank<br /> The Cold One

11-29-2001, 08:32 PM	#2
andrewas Harper Join Date: October 2, 2001 Location: Aberdeen, Scotland Age: 42 Posts: 4,774	They should be XXXL.bmp, not .bmt. other than that, i can see no probl... hold on, if your renaming this Protrait directory, you must be crating a new one. there should be one already there, under your BG2 main directory. anyway, dir names under DOS (and thus windows) are case-irrelevant. hell, anything under dos is case irrelevant. __________________ [img]\"http://www.sighost.us/members/Zvijer/andrewas.gif\" alt=\" - \" />

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11-29-2001, 09:44 PM	#3
Mitro Jellywadder Quintesson Join Date: September 5, 2001 Location: Florida Age: 52 Posts: 1,016	I had the same problem not too long ago. My problem ended up being that my .bmp files had saved as a double. It was LadyDL.bmp.bmp. All I had to do was open them in a paint program and resave them under a different name. As people told me, try restarting after you customize your portrait. If not, I'm sure you have this, but here it is again. Custom Portraits: The measurements for player portraits are 38X60 pixels for the smaller portraits (8-bit color runs faster but it can be up to 24 bit color), and 110X170 pixels for the larger portraits. To use a custom portrait, place it in the Portraits directory (in the install directory for the game) and add an S to the end of the small portrait name and an L to the end of the large portrait - otherwise the two names must be identical. The names must be 1-7 letters long, maximum - so the filename with the S or L added to the end is no longer than 8 total characters. The portrait files must be in BMP format. For example: XXXXXXXS.bmp for small (38x60, 8-bit) XXXXXXXL.bmp for large (110x170, 24-bit) For multiplayer, each player must have a copy of the portraits, otherwise they will see a blank icon instead of the other player's custom portraits. You will need to manually send these portraits to your friends as BG2 has no method of transferring them.

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