a dumb portrait question - i'm not 'puter savvy

[IdiotRogue]

What the hell is wrong with me? Wait a minute... we have limited space here.

I have done a search of the archives to find out about transferring portraits from one BG game to another with no luck. I thought I followed the instructions in the game manual but something is wrong. The portrait is listed in the folder, but does not appear as an option when i create my character.

If someone more adept than I would post a link, I would appreciate it (i know this topic has been covered numerous times, because i benefitted from one such post). What I'm trying to do is move that (imo) cool dwarven fighter from IWD to SoA & BG.

Also, does anyone know if there's any site still hosting those Lady Nightshade portraits? I seem to recall some legal hassle over them a while back.

Thanks.

[Sir Exxon]

There are a few requirements that must be met:
- There must be two version of the portrait, one 110x170 pixels, the other 38x60 pixels
- The names can be no longer than 7 characters
- They must be bitmaps (.bmp)

As for Lady Nightshades portraits, there's a few portraits flying around on different sites, but she doesn't have a site of her own any longer. You can find quite many at Kirith, amongst other sites.

[ 04-26-2003, 12:15 PM: Message edited by: Sir Exxon ]

[Annatar]

The large portrait should be 55,1 kb in size, the small one 6,85 kb in size..

The rest is already coverd by Sir Exxon, just filling in.

[LennonCook]

Originally posted by Annatar: The large portrait should be 55,1 kb in size, the small one 6,85 kb in size..

With bitmaps, that is covered in the dimensions.
Exxon, names of portraits can be *8* characters long, not 7.
Just for good measure, put L as the last character of the large portrait (xxxxxxxL.bmp), and S (xxxxxxxS.bmp) for the smaller one. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[LennonCook]

Oh, and just to make sure of the obvious... the portrait won`t appear as one of the options you click through with the blue buttons on the left and right of the current portrait; you have to click "custom" to view your non-standard portraits.

[sorab]

because making a portrait takes "a good long time"....

any suggestions for a site to download new portraits?????

[Sir Exxon]

Originally posted by sorab: any suggestions for a site to download new portraits?????

*sigh*
I take it that you have not read Dundee's sticky post, then.

[IdiotRogue]

Okay, thanks for the info. Unfortunately, my problem seems to be the transfer of a portrait from one BG game to the other. I believe I read somewhere that all the BG portraits are sized to meet the criteria for any given BG game.

Where I am having trouble is the manner in which I'm moving them (I think). The game does not recognize them once they are in the portraits file. As a test, I did a download from the Ironworks site and they DID work without a hitch.

Thank you for the portrait site, Sir Exxon.