Bi romancing in BG2

Fatale · Post by **Fatale** » Tue May 22, 2001 12:10 pm

I was bored, therefore I changed my PC's sex from male to female (I decided since I'm a girl and all ...) with Shadow Keeper.

Hilariously, it turned out Aerie and Jaheira still had the hots for my PC (I'm now in Chapter 5), and I was wondering which male NPC is worth romancing? Too bad I can't pick Jan ... that guy's a lovable loon!

Oh, and I figured out how to change NPC portraits as well (after much experimenting with the override directory). Anyone want new faces?

Vivien · Post by **Vivien** » Tue May 22, 2001 12:43 pm

Fatale: There is only ONE male that you are able to romance. ( I know.. I've looked longingly at Jan myself, but he's too short, it's just not to be...)

Anomen is a Fighter/Cleric pick upable (literally) at the Copper Coronet. Though he originally comes off as quite arrogant, you may find that he growns on you

If you like being called a lady and a dark flame that is

There are several topics here devoted to him, one being the 'Anomen' thread, if you wish to learn any more

Loredweller · Post by **Loredweller** » Wed May 23, 2001 12:36 am

@Fatale
Changing your gender by SK means nothing because romances are bounded on global variables set somewhere at the beginning of game or, at least (not sure exactly) when you first join the NPC. They depends on gender of your protagonist, of course, but, once set, they never changes during the game whatever you do with SK.
L.

Morokiane · Post by **Morokiane** » Wed May 23, 2001 5:59 am

If you could Fatale...please enlighten me on how to change the NPC faces.

Morokiane
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Quoth the Raven,"Nevermore"

Astafas · Post by **Astafas** » Wed May 23, 2001 6:33 am

About these NPC portraits, why not simply use ShadowKeeper to change them? It seems to work fine.

Fatale · Post by **Fatale** » Thu May 24, 2001 12:38 am

Au contraire, Astafas, that's what I tried doing first off. The game couldn't even load and my computer hanged so badly, I had to switch off the main power to reboot. Mayhaps your system's different? Do tell ...

Anyhow, here's what I did to change NPC faces:

Use Shadow Keeper to get the code names for the portrait of the NPC which you want to change (let's take Aerie for example >> her code is NAERIEM for the large pic and NAERIES for the small pic).

Put the your own (custom) pics of Aerie into the override directory then name those pics NAERIEM and NAERIES respectively.

When you load any saved game, only your custom picture will represent Aerie, or whichever NPC you changed.

Fatale · Post by **Fatale** » Thu May 24, 2001 12:40 am

oops... forgot to add:

the extensions for the pics should be bmp, like NAERIEM.bmp, just like your own PC custom portraits.