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Old 05-21-2001, 03:07 PM   #1
Gladion
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Hi everyone, im a bit of a newbie, but anyway my friend wants to know what program you use to make new character portraits. Can anyone help?
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Old 05-21-2001, 03:12 PM   #2
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Any picture editor can do it. Here are the parameters from the book.


Select a portrait for your character. To import a custom portrait, you
must follow the instructions below:
The measurements for player portraits are 38X60 pixels for the small
ones (8-bit color only) and 110X170 pixels for the large ones. Create a
directory called Portraits (including the capital "P") in the root directo-ry
where you installed BGII: SoA. The default is C:\Program Files\Black
Isle\BGII - SoA. You will have to add an S to the end of the small
portrait name and an L to the end of the large portrait. The names
must be 1-7 letters long, maximum.
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 silhouette with a question mark where the
other player’s custom portraits would be.

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Old 05-21-2001, 03:16 PM   #3
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You don't really need a specific program to make portraits, even programs like "Paint" in windows can help. If you are using premade picture, all you have to do is resize the picture to portrait size. It might help to download a portrait from the net and open it in one of the programs to see its properties and dimensions.

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Old 05-21-2001, 03:21 PM   #4
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I have a question regarding placing the pics. into the game. Suppose I want to change Mazzy's pic, and I downloaded Ziroc's new addition to his pic gallery, and now I have a cool looking pic. to place, both small and large. Now, I know where the small pic goes...it is in the saved games file. I just rename the new pic as the one I am replacing. My question is where does the large pic get inserted???

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Old 05-21-2001, 03:28 PM   #5
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Originally posted by Larry_OHF:
I have a question regarding placing the pics. into the game. Suppose I want to change Mazzy's pic, and I downloaded Ziroc's new addition to his pic gallery, and now I have a cool looking pic. to place, both small and large. Now, I know where the small pic goes...it is in the saved games file. I just rename the new pic as the one I am replacing. My question is where does the large pic get inserted???

They both go into the same directory, usually portraits (to keep things simple). You can just use Shadowkeeper to achieve this result, select the character and click on "change portrait" and it will show you both in-game portraits and the ones in the portrait folder.



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