The BG1 NPC Portrait Pack

A Gibberlings Three Mod
Authors: Portraits by Diffa, XVIII, and Amok; packaged by Domi
On the web: Home page, discussion forum, and preview gallery

Version 3
Languages:English, French, German
Platforms: Windows, OS X, Linux

This mod offers alternative portraits for each of the Baldur's Gate NPCs. These portraits can also be used by the PC.

This mod will allow these portraits to be used as player portraits on any Infinity Engine game (including Enhanced Editions) except the original and Enhanced Edition of Planescape: Torment. For games with BG content, the additional components will be available to replace indicidual NPC portraits as appropriate.

Enhanced Edition Note: Unfortunately, the original portraits were at 110x170. As the Enhanced Editions use larger portraits to support the larger resolutions available, we unfortunately had to upscale the images--as a result, they may be slightly blurry.

There are no known incompatibilities with any mod, however any portrait modification mod will overwrite the portrait assignments of portrait mods installed previously.

If you should encounter any bugs, please report them to the authors at G3's Miscellaneous Released Mods forum.

Special Note for Siege of Dragonspear from Steam/GOG
Good Old Games (GOG) and Steam both package the additional content for Siege of Dragonspear in a method that WeiDU, the tool used to install this mod, cannot access. You must run a program called Modmerge on your SoD installation before you can install this or any other WeiDU-based mod.

Enhanced Editions Note
The Enhanced Editions are actively supported games. Please note that every patch update will wipe your current mod setup! If in the middle of a modded game you might want to delay the patch update (if possible) as even after reinstalling the mods, you might not be able to continue with your old savegames. Alternatively, copy the whole game's folder into a new one that can be modded and will stay untouched by game patches. For BG2:EE it is important that you install the mod to the language version you are playing the game in. Otherwise, the dialogues of the mod will not show but give error messages.

Windows
The BG1 NPC Portrait Pack for Windows is distributed as a self-extracting archive and includes a WeiDU installer. To install, simply double-click the archive and follow the instructions on screen.

Alternatively, the files can be extracted into your game directory using 7zip or WinRAR. When properly extracted, your game directory will contain setup-bg1npc_portrait_pack.exe and the folder bg1npc_portrait_pack. To install, double-click setup-bg1npc_portrait_pack.exe and follow the instructions on screen.

You can run setup-bg1npc_portrait_pack.exe in your game folder to reinstall, uninstall or otherwise change components.

Mac OS X
The BG1 NPC Portrait Pack for Mac OS X is distributed as a compressed tarball and includes a WeiDU installer.

First, extract the files from the tarball into your game directory. When properly extracted, your game directory will contain setup-bg1npc_portrait_pack, setup-bg1npc_portrait_pack.command, and the folder bg1npc_portrait_pack. To install, double-click setup-bg1npc_portrait_pack.command and follow the instructions on screen.

You can run setup-bg1npc_portrait_pack.command in your game folder to reinstall, uninstall or otherwise change components.

Linux
The BG1 NPC Portrait Pack for Linux is distributed as a compressed tarball and does not include a WeiDU installer.

Extract the contents of the mod to the folder of the game you wish to modify.

Download the latest version of WeiDU for Linux from WeiDU.org and copy WeiDU and WeInstall to /usr/bin. Following that, open a terminal, cd to your game installation directory, run tolower and answer Y to both queries. You can avoid running the second option (linux.ini) if you've already ran it once in the same directory. To save time, the archive is already tolowered, so there's no need to run the first option (lowercasing file names) either if you've extracted only this mod since the last time you lowercased file names. If you're unsure, running tolower and choosing both options is the safe bet.

To install, run WeInstall bg1npc_portrait_pack in your game folder. Then run wine BGMain.exe and start playing.

Note for Complete Uninstallation
In addition to the methods above for removing individual components, you can completely uninstall the mod using setup-bg1npc_portrait_pack --uninstall at the command line to remove all components without wading through prompts. .

The mod contains separate components that can be installed independently of one another. The first component that makes the portraits available to the player can be installed for any game; the rest require games with BG content (original BG, BGEE, Tutu, BGT, or EET).

Copy all portraits for use by player characters
This component will copy all portraits included with the mod into your portraits folder for use by your PC.

Replace all NPC portraits (AMOK)
This component will replace all NPC portraits with this set by AMOK .

Alternate Branwen portrait: BioWare edit by XVIII
An editied version of Branwen's original portrait by XVIII.

Alternate Coran Portraits
You have your choice of three Coran alternates, one by Melisah, a second from NiGHTMARE and Tancred and a third by Amok.

Alternate Dynaheir Portraits
You have your choice of three Dynaheir alternates by Amok.

Alternate Faldorn Portrait: by XVIII
An new Faldorn portrait by XVIII.

Alternate Kivan Portrait: BioWare edit by XVIII
An editied version of Kivan's original portrait by XVIII.

Alternate Safana Portrait: BioWare edit by XVIII
An editied version of Safana's original portrait by XVIII.

Alternate Viconia Portrait: BioWare edit by XVIII
An editied version of Viconia's original portrait by XVIII.

These portraits were made by the respective authors (AMOK, XVIII, NiGHTMARE, Tancred, and Melisah) and packaged by Domi. Visit the Gibberlings Three forums for information on this and any other Gibberlings Three mods on which we may be working.

Big thanks to Amok for letting us use his fantastic artwork for the portraits. You can see more of Amok's work here. Thanks to the other artists as well: XVIII, Melisah, NiGHTMARE, and Tancred.

And thanks, of course, to the Infinity Engine modding community for it's continued existence.

Tools Used in Creation

• WeiDU by Wes Weimer, the bigg, and Wisp

The BG1 NPC Portrait Pack is not developed, supported, or endorsed by BioWare or Interplay/Black Isle. The BG1 Tutu mod was created by Japheth, aided by Ghreyfain, Sim and Kish. The Baldur's Gate Trilogy mod is under the auspices of Ascension64. EasyTutu_SoA and EasyTutu_ToB are built and maintained by Macready.

If there are any copyright issues or this statement needs revision then please contact one of us and advise us what to do about it.

This mod was created to be freely enjoyed by all Baldur's Gate, Tutu, and BGT players. However, it should not be sold, published, compiled or redistributed in any form without the consent of the authors.

Version 3 - December 29, 2018

• Code improvements
• Player portraits can now be used on any IE game, excluding the original or Enhanced Edition of Planescape: Torment

Version 2 - May 16, 2008

• updated to WeiDU v206, README, VERSION, dropped all filenames to lowercase for linux compatible distribution.

Version 1 - November 28, 2004

• Original release.