[request] Portraits for all NPCs...

[junker18]

So I've been taking notes while playing and matching up various portraits to the in game appearance of NPC characters with conversation windows (and even editing portraits to better reflect descriptions of characters). I'm pretty sure old IE games allowed users to mod in portraits for the hundreds of NPCs in the game, but how?

 

I assume it will be a simple but tedious task. If somebody could walk me through it I'll get on it.

 

Thanks.

Edited April 12, 2015 by junker18

[ch6tal]

you need to have two versions of each portrait the big one 210x330 pixels and a small one 76x96 pixels both pictures need to be in the format .png

for player characters place the pictures in folder:

data\art\gui\portraits\player

with the name of the big picture in this format

male_human_o_lg.png

and the small picture in this format

male_human_o_sm.png

 

for companions/npc

place pictures in data\art\gui\portraits\companions or data\art\gui\portraits\npcs

with the naming format

portrait_aloth_lg.png and portrait_aloth_sm.png

[junker18]

I know that much. I'm talking about giving portraits to the hundreds of NPCs that you talk to, but little else. The shop keepers, the quest givers, etc.

 

Is there a way to add portraits to these NPCs so that when they talk it shows up just like the characters with portraits?

[junker18]

Anybody know of a way?