continuing to BG:II

hwttdz · Post by **hwttdz** » Mon May 27, 2002 5:33 am

I finished Baldur's Gate one planning on going on through BG:II SoA but much to my despair I cannot find how one is supposed to do this. I installed BG:II first that's one thing I can think of that might be giving me trouble.

Sojourner · Post by **Sojourner** » Mon May 27, 2002 5:39 am

To import PC's into BG2, do the following:

From a character file

Start BG1 and load a game containing the character you wish to import into BG2.
Go to the record screen of the aforementioned character and click on Export. Type a name and click done, then quit the game.
Using Windows Explorer, go to the Characters directory located in your main Baldur's Gate directory.
Right-click on the character file you just created (it has a .CHR extension) and select Copy.
Now go to the characters directory located in your BG2 SoA directory. Right-click on this directory and select Paste. You should now see your character file appear in this directory.
Start BG2. When creating a new PC, just click on the Import button and select Character File, then select your character from the list.

From a savegame

Using Windows Explorer, go to the Save directory located in your main Baldur's Gate directory.
Right-click on the savegame directory you wish to import from and select Copy.
Now go to the save directory located in your BG2 - SoA directory. Right-click on this directory and select Paste. You should now see your savegame appear in this directory.
Start BG2. When creating a new PC, just click on the Import button and select Saved Game, then select your character from the list.

hwttdz · Post by **hwttdz** » Mon May 27, 2002 12:24 pm

So you need to use windows explorer there is no way to do this in the game?

Sojourner · Post by **Sojourner** » Mon May 27, 2002 10:16 pm

No, you have to use Windows Explorer.

the_realmerlin · Post by **the_realmerlin** » Sun Jun 09, 2002 7:43 pm

Does this go the same for TOB? is anyone goin to read and answer this? And if it does, it sounds pretty diffulcult

hwttdz · Post by **hwttdz** » Sun Jun 09, 2002 9:02 pm

No the transition from SoA to ToB is flawless. The story continues there is a little movie sequence and you're in ToB.

Giant space ham · Post by **Giant space ham** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 6:25 am

When I imported my character it didn't like it and I had to try several times so as not to have to re-roll for stats. I think the problem was not having the portrait in the BG2 portrait file

EPKJ · Post by **EPKJ** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 9:02 am

It would be a good idea to copy both the portrait files and the sound files for your character to Shadows of Amn before beginning.

Giant space ham · Post by **Giant space ham** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 12:23 pm

yeah that's what I ended up doing