Infinity Collection Portrait Pack

A Gibberlings Three Mod
Author: Bioware/Black Isle/Beamdog; packaged by CamDawg
On the web: Home page, discussion forum, and preview gallery

Version 2
Languages: English, French
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
GitHub: Gibberlings3/Infinity_Collection_Portrait_Pack

The Infinity Collection Portrait Pack is a collection of official portraits from all Infinity Engine games, packaged for use on any game. For example, this will allow you to use the original IWD2 portraits for a PC in a Siege of Dragonspear game, or vice-versa.

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.

There are no known incompatibilities. The Portrait Pack simply copies the portraits into the appropriate portraits directory for your game. It can be installed at any time. Assign the appropriate portraits to your PC through the character generation screen.

If you should encounter any bugs, please report them to the authors at the Miscellaneous Released Mods forum. In addition, the Infinity Collection Portrait Pack is available on GitHub, so fixes and changes can be submitted by the community.

First time installing a mod? Check out G3's comprehensive tutorial: A New Player’s Guide to Installing and Playing Mods.

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 DLC Merger 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. 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
Infinity Collection 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-cd_icpp.exe and the folder cd_icpp. To install, double-click setup-cd_icpp.exe and follow the instructions on screen.

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

macOS
Infinity Collection Portrait Pack for macOS 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-cd_icpp, setup-cd_icpp.command, and the folder cd_icpp. To install, double-click setup-cd_icpp.command and follow the instructions on screen.

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

Linux
Infinity Collection Portrait Pack for Linux is distributed as a compressed tarball and does not include a WeiDU installer. Linux users will need to do a one-time install of WeiDU (and a few other adjustments) as described in this great writeup.

To install, run 'WeInstall cd_icpp in your game folder.

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

This is a collection of more than 150 portraits to be used by the PC in any Infinity Engine game (including Enhanced Editions) except the original and Enhanced Edition of Planescape: Torment. It does not include any portraits offered in the purchasable DLCs. The portraits can be previewed on the Infinity Collection Portrait Pack page.

There are four components, allowing you to install portraits from each of the four portrait sources:

• Baldur's Gate: This includes all portraits from the original Baldur's Gate (both NPC and PC portraits), as well as the new NPCs and portraits from the Enhanced Edition and Siege of Dragonspear expansion.
• Baldur's Gate II: This includes all portraits from the original Baldur's Gate II (both NPC and PC portraits) including the Throne of Bhaal expansion, plus the new NPCs and portraits from the Enhanced Edition.
• Icewind Dale: Since Icewind Dale II included all Icewind Dale portraits by default, these portraits are presented as a binary option. You can choose to install only the portraits from Icewind Dale (including Enhanced Edition portraits) OR the portraits from Icewind Dale II since it includes the Icewind Dale portraits. Essentially it's a choice of IWD vs. IWD & IWD2.

There is overlap between Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II options, but each has some exclusive portraits. This is why they are presented as separate options instead of the way that the IWD portraits are presented.

Please visit the Gibberlings Three Forums for information on this and any other Gibberlings Three mods on which we may be working.

The idea for this mod came about during a project to revamp and modernize other G3 portrait packs and make them available as player portraits for all games. It was a pretty straightforward process as the code was more or less already written, and all that was needed was some extraction and Photoshop work.

Tools Used in Creation

• WeiDU by Wes Weimer, the bigg, and Wisp
• Near Infinity by Jon Olav Hauglid, FredSRichardson, and Argent77
• Notepad++, by the Notepad++ team
• WeiDU Notepad++ Highlighters by cmorgan, updated by Argent77
• ConTEXT Text Editor by Eden Kirin
• IESDP maintained by igi and lynx

The modding community for the Infinity Engine has been going strong for more than 20 years now, and is the culmination of thousands of unpaid modding hours by fellow fans of the game. Modders produce their best work and players get the best, well-supported mods when we all work together.

There are two big ways to upset this harmony. One is to claim someone else's work as your own. The second is to host and redistribute a mod without permission from the author(s).

Be kind to your fellow players and modders. Don't do either.

Version 2 - March 7, 2022

• Added French translation (Gwendolyne)
• Readme: fixed typos and out-dated links

Version 1 - January 1, 2019

• Initial release