berelinde's Dragon Age: Origins Style Portraits

A Gibberlings Three Mod
Author: berelinde
On the web: Home page, discussion forum, and preview gallery

Version 8
Languages: English, French
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
GitHub: Gibberlings3/Dragon_Age_Origins_Style_Portraits

This mod offers alternative portraits for each of the BioWare Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II NPCs. It also offers a selection of alternative portraits for mod 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 individual NPC portraits as appropriate.

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

This mod should be installed after all mods that add NPCs.

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

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
Dragon Age: Origins Style Portraits 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-da_portraits.exe and the folder da_portraits. To install, double-click setup-da_portraits.exe and follow the instructions on screen.

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

macOS
Dragon Age: Origins Style Portraits 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-da_portraits, setup-da_portraits.command, and the folder da_portraits. To install, double-click setup-da_portraits.command and follow the instructions on screen.

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

Linux
Dragon Age: Origins Style Portraits 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 da_portraits 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-da_portraits --uninstall at the command line to remove all components without wading through prompts.

The portraits can be previewed on the Dragon Age: Origins Style Portraits page.

PC Portraits: This component allows the PC to use any of the portraits included in this mod.

BG2 Portraits: This component offers up to four alternate portraits for each of the BG, BG2, or mod NPCs.

berelinde created this mod. Visit the Gibberlings Three forums for information on this and any other Gibberlings Three mod.

Contributors:

• theacefes: portraits for Auren and Sarah
• Gibberlings Three: hosting

Tools Used in Creation

• WeiDU by Wes Weimer and the bigg
• Dragon Age: Origins
• Macromedia Fireworks
• Crimson Editor by Ingyu Kang
• WeiDU Crimson and ConTEXT Highlighters by Idobek, updated by cmorgan

This mod may not be sold, published, compiled or redistributed in any form without the consent of its author or current maintainer. Dragon Age: Origins Style Portraits is ©2010-present Ruth Tannahill.

Version 8 - March 7, 2022

• Added French translation (Gwendolyne)
• Fixed wrong @180 strref (replaced Haer'Dalis with Jan)
• Readme: fixed typos and out-dated links
• SoD portraits for Imoen and Viconia now get properly replaced

Version 7 - December 30, 2018

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

Version 6

• Updated for BG:EE and BGII:EE compatibility

Version 5

• Corrected BG1 Gavin's portrait assignment

Version 4

• Updated to WeiDU v216

Version 3

• Corrected Anomen alternate 3 portrait assignment
• Fixed tp2 typo that listed both of Minsc's portraits as Minsc 1

Version 2

• Corrected mod NPC portrait assignment
• Resized b_ano1s.bmp to eliminate white border
• Replaced Haldamir's portrait

Version 1

• Initial release