Additional Portraits?

TheAmazingOopah · Post by **TheAmazingOopah** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:17 pm

Can anyone provide me with a link that contains some good additional BG2 portraits? I find the standard selection rather... limited.

BlueSky · Post by **BlueSky** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:28 pm

These are some bookmarks I've had for the BG series, I believe there are some good links to portraits here.
The Gibberlings Three
Sorcerer's Place - Baldur's Gate 2 Mods Index
Pocket Plane Group - Bending Baldur's Gate 2 and the Infinity Engine
Kirith Entrance
Ironworks Gaming -Baldurs Gate 2 - Home
Baldur's Gate II: Westley Weimer's Mods

Hope this helps, I've got lots of portraits saved from the years of playing, but I cannot remember where I downloaded all of them, sorry.

Sytze · Post by **Sytze** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:50 pm

I've always been a fan of [url="http://www.megaone.com/phroxengold/index.html"]PGX's Portraits[/url]

Jedi_Sauraus · Post by **Jedi_Sauraus** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:56 pm

Kirith Enterance - Excellent, very high quality thak you very much. I was looking for a site that had good portraits that fit in with the BG style

Toxeus · Post by **Toxeus** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:55 pm

More portraits:
Baldur's Gate - Portraits

CoM_Solaufein · Post by **CoM_Solaufein** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:38 am

[url="http://xode.planetbaldursgate.gamespy.com/"]Adventurer's Guild[/url]
[url="http://havak.db-forge.com/"]Havok's Portraits[/url]

TheAmazingOopah · Post by **TheAmazingOopah** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:00 am

Thanks for all the links, people

. I did a search on most of them, but couldn't really find anything to my liking. Possibly I could've find something more or less fitting if I had looked more thorough, but I just wanted to get started with the game, so I picked the *only* portrait that is painted in the same BG2 style like the NPC's and that isn't an NPC: the portrait of the grumpy looking half-orc, with the piercing. I'm not complaining, because having your first go through Baldur's Gate 2 as a Wizard Slayer Half-Orc is definitely not that bad.

But still, I think the creators made a big blunder there to not include more of these BG2-styled non-NPC picture. Perhaps lack of time, perhaps lack of artists, perhaps just a stupid blunder. Because as much as I liked the original, more real-life Baldur's Gate portraits, they really don't fit in with the more painted NPC's from the sequel.

On a side note: since I'm a warrior, I've now obtained the D'Arnisse Keep as my stronghold. I've gathered that I am able to collect taxes there (and raise them, which leads to a revolt of the little people when pushing it too far, hehehe:mischief: ), but can I also sleep in there? I guess that should be possible, but I can't find the right bed...

EDIT: Ah, I see, you just have to rest, like in the wilderness. Only here you can sleep in beds, taxed into comfort and cosiness, hehehe....

Onkel Bob · Post by **Onkel Bob** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:31 am

You can use any pic you like if you can get it to be of the right dimensions. For instance I used a picture of Toshiro Mifune for my Kensai once... Or was that a monk? Anyway... Get a program like the Gimp and you can use any pic you want. The Gimp is pretty easy to use as well. I also think I used a pic of Hugo Weaving in the role of Elrond once...

You can find the Gimp here: GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

Celacena · Post by **Celacena** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:32 am

I am involved in historical plays and once used a photo of me dressed as a monk as the portrait.

I took a really good one of a guy in armour which I will also use sometime.