G3

Blonde Imoen

A Gibberlings Three Mod
Author: Dave 'Grim Squeaker' Bradshaw
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Version 5
Languages: English
Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Overview

This mod allows Imoen to have lovely, blonde hair. Ok, I can't guarantee its lovelyness but it is blonde! You have the option of giving her short, blonde hair (Normal Imoen length) or longer blonde hair (Aerie-ish length).

Compatibility

This mod is designed to work with Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn with or without the Throne of Bhaal expansion pack. It also works for Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition as well as the two ceonversion projects, BGT and EET.

Bug Reporting

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

Installation

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 BG: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
Blonde Imoen 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-blondeimmy.exe and the folder blondeimmy. To install, double-click setup-blondeimmy.exe and follow the instructions on screen.

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

Mac OS X
The Blonde Imoen 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-blondeimmy, setup-blondeimmy.command, and the folder blondeimmy. To install, double-click setup-blondeimmy.command and follow the instructions on screen.

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

Linux
The Blonde Imoen 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 blondeimmy 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-blondeimmy --uninstall at the command line to remove all components without wading through prompts. .

Contents

Blonde Imoen: Short Hair
This component will change Imoen's avatars to have blonde hair and will change her portrait to that of Imoen with short blonde hair.

Blonde Imoen: Long Hair
This component will change Imoen's avatars to that of an elven mage (who has long hair) and will change her portrait to that of Imoen with long blonde hair. A side effect of this component is that she will becomes shorter (as elves are shorter than humans).

Contact Information

This mod was created by Dave 'Grim Squeaker' Bradshaw. Visit the Gibberlings Three forums for information on this and any other Gibberlings Three mods on which I may be working.

Thanks and Acknowledgements

Thanks to whomever originally drew the Imoen and Aerie portraits. They're great! Thanks to CamDawg, the READ/WRITE king, for the code I 'borrowed' from the G3 tweak pack... Cheers man!

Tools Used in Creation

  • WeiDU by Wes Weimer, the bigg, and Wisp
  • Near Infinity by Jon Olav Hauglid, FredSRichardson, and argent77
  • IESDP maintained by igi and lynx
  • DLTCEP by Avenger

Credits and Copyright Information

This mod may not be sold, published, compiled, redistributed or pimped in any form without the consent of its author. Blonde Imoen is ©2004-present Dave Bradshaw.

Version History

Version 6 - December 29, 2018

  • Code modernization
  • Updated to work on BG2EE/EET
  • Player portraits can now be used on any IE game, excluding the original or Enhanced Edition of Planescape: Torment

Version 5 - April 26, 2008

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

Version 4

  • After some discussion it was agreed that Blonde Imoen had too much hair and it was far too 80s. So I started again and produced a new Blonde Imoen and this time you have the choice of long hair or short hair.

Version 3

  • Jester recommended I flipped part of her hair-line so that it faces the same direction her face. The portrait has been updated...

Version 2

  • Domi recommended, that I more Imoen's hairline down to make her more feminine. She was right. It does! The portrait has been updated...

Version 1

  • Bloody hell! It worked! Woohoo!

Beta 1

  • First version of the mod.