Portraits

[jmsteven]

Originally posted by galdur: I don't know if any of you have noticed, but there are about 1/3 less female character pictures than male in IWD. Isn't it because among RPG players is less than one third womans??? Hmmm...Maybe? [img]smile.gif[/img] I can affirm you, that when there will be more RPG woman players than men, same ratio will be for portraits.

It seems that regardless of gender, a lot of CRPG players enjoy playing female characters. This is especially true when playing from a third-person standpoint where there is not real "role-playing". You simply manage a team of good-looking female characters who go around killing monsters.

[NobleNick]

Originally posted by Dancing Virginia: ...there are about 1/3 less female character pictures than male in IWD... it seems kind of unfair... I love/love/love the blonde with shoulder length hair, blue clothing, and a mace. She's making a great fighter/cleric, wearing my favorite color, and looks similar to me IRL...I think the portraits for the woman are absolutely gorgeous...

1/3 less probably is about how often they are used. Most players are boys/men. Seems like many of the boys think stacking their party with girls makes them gay. And some of the men have to worry about what their wives will think (that "from the neck down" thing, ya know, as well as some of the overly seductive voices and phrases). I have loaded all my parties initially 3 and 3. My current party, currently kicking butt in latter TotLM, is:

M DC Ranger[12?]/Cleric
M DC Cleric[13?]/Fighter
M DC Fighter[10]/Druid
F DC Fighter[9]/Thief
F MC Thief/Illusionist
F Bard

Yes, all men in the front, all women to the back. I am a male chauvenist pig. (Actually, my old party has two Female Fighters on the front line, destined to become DC Fighter/Mages, once I dust the party off and get going again.)

So, the blonde with the mace? I have her as a priestess or DC Fighter/Mage (forget which) in my old (pre-HoW) party. Hmmm... Have to talk to you sometime about posting a pic...

I identify with the tall, dashing, Pre-HoW, Paladin-type in plate mail. Problem is I don't resemble him much: Have the height (6'4"), but not the hair nor the nose. He is also in my old party, as a Pally, of course, and party leader.

Have you ever noticed how few of the female adventurers are shown wearing heavy armor? Especially some of the third-party pics make me wonder, "Ahem... By exactly WHAT method was she considering overcoming the enemy?" Have to do a quick check to make sure I didn't get into a porn site by mistake. That is one of the reasons Ms. Mace was so appealing: looks like she could wade in and dish out some pain...

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What's a party,
without a song?
Bards ROCK!
Party On!!


[ 10-26-2004, 03:43 PM: Message edited by: NobleNick ]

[Roboghost]

I try to choose the lighter color portraits so that it is easier to see the BLOOD!

Makes it easier to catch out of the corner of my eye if I'm in the midsts of a heavy battle and forget about one of my gang members getting spell-blasted.

I like the male and female dark elf portraits, but it’s hard to see that blood-meter.

[Dancing Virginia]

So, the blonde with the mace? I have her as a priestess or DC Fighter/Mage (forget which) in my old (pre-HoW) party. Hmmm... Have to talk to you sometime about posting a pic...

*blush*

Err...well don't get your hopes up or anything. But I've got the blonde hair and steely eyes. If I only I had a website on which to post pictures...

[Micah Foehammer]

Originally posted by Azred: Micah Foehammer has some links to sites with custom portrait galleries. Unfortunately, I don't have the links to those sites with me right now.

Unfortunately a lot of those links are no longer active. I'll go back through my portrait links and double check which ones are actually working and post them.

[Micah Foehammer]

Originally posted by Soothsayer: Oh and BTW: I had trouble making my own protraits, the game crashes on the load/save menus. Must be something to do with the tiny portraits which it doesnt ask you to draw. THe other 2 portraits for each character work fine.

I'm totally confused by that comment, Soothsayer. There are only two portraits for IWD. One is 110 x 170 pixels and the other is 38 x 60 pixels. (Dimensions are W by H) You have to provide BOTH portraits for the game to work and they must be in .BMP format and properly labeled. IWD DOES ask for both portraits when you customize the character.

Are you sure you aren't confusing the number and size of portraits for IWD with NWN which requires 5 separate portraits in .TGA format?

[Micah Foehammer]

Well, I came up empty on my archived portrait sites. Most of the sites either no longer exist or have gone totally commercial except for these two links:

http://www.geocities.com/drizzt_darkelf2001/index.htm

http://havak.db-forge.com/

[icelus]

Here are 57 more: http://www.pocketplane.net/modlist/i...list&cat_id=72

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[Micah Foehammer]

LOL Outdone by leaps and bounds. Well done Icelus!