04-26-2003, 12:00 PM | #1 |
Manshoon
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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.
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04-26-2003, 12:14 PM | #2 |
Zartan
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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 ] |
04-26-2003, 01:09 PM | #3 |
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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.
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04-27-2003, 05:02 AM | #4 | |
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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] |
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04-27-2003, 05:35 AM | #5 |
Jack Burton
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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.
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04-27-2003, 10:18 AM | #6 |
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because making a portrait takes "a good long time"....
any suggestions for a site to download new portraits?????
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04-27-2003, 12:38 PM | #7 | |
Zartan
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I take it that you have not read Dundee's sticky post, then. |
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04-27-2003, 05:06 PM | #8 |
Manshoon
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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.
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