BGTSCC Portrait Pack
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2021 3:08 am
Hello!
I've decided to finally start working on maintaining a portrait pack for BGTSCC. For now this will be a manual process, but we may have an automated one in the future.
To create a portrait for your character, you will need to find an image and crop it to 128x128 pixels, save it as a tga, uncompressed, at 24 bits. Please name it something like bg_fullcharactername_portrait.tga. Once you have a portrait, upload it using a file sharing service like imgur, Google drive, or Discord, and post the link here. I will add it to a portrait pack.
Once we have enough portraits to justify implementing it, I will update this thread with a zip file that people can download. Once the file is downloaded, you extra the portraits to your My Documents/Neverwinter Nights 2/Portraits folder. Alternatively, I may upload it formally to the server, but that will require some discussion and possible rules (as anything officially updated would allow just any random newbie to potentially select someone else's portrait in-game without knowing that is not appropriate).
On past servers I have done the cropping for people. This time around I'd prefer people handle their own portraits, or find someone else that can do the work for them. If you absolutely cannot find anyone to help, I can do it, but my server work load is already pretty high so I'd rather not be having to crop everyone's avatars for them.
Edit: In touch with the person making the automated program, that might actually come sooner rather than later. If so, elements of this post will change. In the meantime, though, you've got forewarning to start getting your portraits ready!
I've decided to finally start working on maintaining a portrait pack for BGTSCC. For now this will be a manual process, but we may have an automated one in the future.
To create a portrait for your character, you will need to find an image and crop it to 128x128 pixels, save it as a tga, uncompressed, at 24 bits. Please name it something like bg_fullcharactername_portrait.tga. Once you have a portrait, upload it using a file sharing service like imgur, Google drive, or Discord, and post the link here. I will add it to a portrait pack.
Once we have enough portraits to justify implementing it, I will update this thread with a zip file that people can download. Once the file is downloaded, you extra the portraits to your My Documents/Neverwinter Nights 2/Portraits folder. Alternatively, I may upload it formally to the server, but that will require some discussion and possible rules (as anything officially updated would allow just any random newbie to potentially select someone else's portrait in-game without knowing that is not appropriate).
On past servers I have done the cropping for people. This time around I'd prefer people handle their own portraits, or find someone else that can do the work for them. If you absolutely cannot find anyone to help, I can do it, but my server work load is already pretty high so I'd rather not be having to crop everyone's avatars for them.
Edit: In touch with the person making the automated program, that might actually come sooner rather than later. If so, elements of this post will change. In the meantime, though, you've got forewarning to start getting your portraits ready!
