JPS' Portrait Pack
A Gibberlings Three Mod
Author: JPS
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Version 4
Languages:English
Platforms: Windows, OS X, Linux
This mod provide a series of alternative portraits for several of the female Bioware BG2NPCs. These portraits can also be used by the PC.
Each portrait is a separate component. In JPS' own words:
The first two portraits I blame on the FWP flirt packs. One of the flirt options for Aerie is "Stare down Aerie's robe", but if you look at her portrait you'll notice that her robe is of the non-stareable kind. So to get a deeper and more immersive roleplaying experience I made this. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! (Part of the picture is borrowed from a portrait from the Portrait Portal. I'll give it back if they ask)
My favourite flirt option for Jaheira is "Play with Jaheira's braids". Unfortunately I got a bit carried away, so the 38x60 version that you see most in the game doesn't look that great. At the moment I'm using the second portrait instead.
I was allergic to headbands for a while, so I removed them from the Nalia and Viconia portraits. Then I started editing other things as well, and then my trial version copy of Photoshop stopped working. These two would be "works in progress" if I was planning to ever do anything about them. But since I probably won't they're just 'works in'.
And finally there's a picture of Imoen without the stuff in her hair and with an attempt at a smile.
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 BG3 content, the additional components will be available to replace indicidual 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.
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
JPS' 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-jpspp.exe and the folder jpspp. To install, double-click setup-jpspp.exe and follow the instructions on screen.
You can run setup-jpspp.exe in your game folder to reinstall, uninstall or otherwise change components.
Mac OS X
JPS' 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-jpspp, setup-jpspp.command, and the folder jpspp. To install, double-click setup-jpspp.command and follow the instructions on screen.
You can run setup-jpspp.command in your game folder to reinstall, uninstall or otherwise change components.
Linux
JPS' 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 jpspp 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-jpspp --uninstall at the command line to remove all components without wading through prompts. .
The portraits can be previewed in the Portrait Gallery.
PC Portraits: This component allows the PC to use any of the portraits included in this mod. This component works on any Infinity Engine game (including Enhanced Editions) except the original and Enhanced Edition of Planescape: Torment.
Individual BG2 Portraits: The first two portraits I blame on the FWP flirt packs. One of the flirt options for Aerie is "Stare down Aerie's robe", but if you look at her portrait you'll notice that her robe is of the non-stareable kind. So to get a deeper and more immersive roleplaying experience I made this. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! (Part of the picture is borrowed from a portrait from the Portrait Portal. I'll give it back if they ask)
My favourite flirt option for Jaheira is "Play with Jaheira's braids". Unfortunately I got a bit carried away, so the 38x60 version that you see most in the game doesn't look that great. At the moment I'm using the second portrait instead.
I was allergic to headbands for a while, so I removed them from the Nalia and Viconia portraits. Then I started editing other things as well, and then my trial version copy of Photoshop stopped working. These two would be "works in progress" if I was planning to ever do anything about them. But since I probably won't they're just 'works in'.
And finally there's a picture of Imoen without the stuff in her hair and with an attempt at a smile.
JPS created this mod, CamDawg supplied the code. Visit the Gibberlings Three forums for information on this and any other Gibberlings Three mod.
Thanks to the still active and vibrant Infinity Engine modding community. Big thanks to Wes Weimer, creator of the WeiDU tool, Jon Olav Hauglid, creator of Near Infinity, and the IESDP team.
Tools Used in Creation
The modding community for the Infinity Engine has been going strong for more than 10 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 4
- Code improvements
- Individual portraits now work on BG2EE/EET
- Player portraits can now be used on any IE game, excluding the original or Enhanced Edition of Planescape: Torment
Version 3 - 2008
- Packaged for Linux, updated to WeiDU v206/VERSION/README, rebuilt documentation, rereleased.
- Corrected Viconia's portraits' filenames.
- Added Mac OS X port.
- Updated Nalia portrait.
- Minor code tweak.
- Fixed readme.
- Initial beta release.