NiGHTMARE's NPC Beautification Pack

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

Version 2
Languages:English
Platforms: Windows, OS X, Linux

This mod provide a series of alternative portraits for several of the Bioware BG2 NPCs. These portraits can also be used by the PC.

In NiGHTMARE's own words:

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 BG2 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
NiGHTMARE's NPC Beautification 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-nmbeauty.exe and the folder nmbeauty. To install, double-click setup-nmbeauty.exe and follow the instructions on screen.

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

Mac OS X
NiGHTMARE's NPC Beautification 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-nmbeauty, setup-nmbeauty.command, and the folder nmbeauty. To install, double-click setup-nmbeauty.command and follow the instructions on screen.

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

Linux
NiGHTMARE's NPC Beautification 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 nmbeauty 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-nmbeauty --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: All the BG2 NPCs have now undergone plastic surgery, and all the wrinkles, spots, warts, scars and so on are gone! A couple of the characters opted to have their tatoos completely removed.  Oh, and the surgeons somehow figured out how to get rid of Sarevok's weird glowing eyes! Some characters have benefitted more than others.  Jan, for example, has had a good 20 years taken off of him, and the Half-Orc player portrait now looks considerably less repulsive.

This mod was created by NiGHTMARE and Icelus.  You can visit the Gibberlings Three forums for information on this and any other Gibberlings Three mods on which we may be working.

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. 

This mod may not be sold, published, compiled or redistributed in any form without the consent of its author. NiGHTMARE's NPC Beautification Pack is ©2004-present NiGHTMARE and Icelus.

Version 2

• 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 1

• Initial beta release.