how do custom portraits work?

[dylanhurst2000]

form what i understand i need 3 sizes a large, medium, and small, my questions are,

do they need their own individual folder {one picture with all three sizes in a single folder}

do i even need multiple sizes or will the game automatically resize them?

and is their a limit to how many portraits i can have?

thanks for any help you can provide.

[Damn_Monkey]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=157532087#:~:text=To%20%22install%22%20your%20nice%20new%20custom%20portrait%2C%20copy,quickly%20access%20them%20by%20selecting%20to%20the%20left

[dylanhurst2000]

thanks man, you've helped me twice now!

[Centurion]

As I have just updated my portrait galleries, I still had these links. Enjoy (everyone!)

http://www.portraits.chosenofmystra.net/index2.html

https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Portraits

https://www.moddb.com/games/baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition/downloads

http://www.shsforums.net/files/file/993-enkidas-portrait-pack/

http://www.shsforums.net/files/category/93-portrait-mods/

http://www.tgeweb.com/ironworks/baldursgate1/portraits_08.shtml

[MidnaFeetEnjoyer]

All you need to know for EE is that:
1. Horizontal vs vertical ratio lengths need to preferably be roughly 1 : 1,5833(3).. (so for example 300:475px).
2. 24-bit Bitmap format.
3. "nameL.bmp" is your character sheet portrait(the large one), while "nameM.bmp" is the in-game UI portrait (the small one) if you want them to be different, otherwise having just 1 bmp file is enough and will be used everywhere.
4. Need to be put in folder "C:\Users\*USERNAME*\Documents\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition\portraits", assuming your OS is run on disk C:\.


* I believe the file name needs to be 8 characters or less before the ".bmp" (so for example name1234.bmp OR name123L.bmp and name123M.bmp) and already listed sources suggest, that max available resolution is xxx:1024. So around 647:1024 or smaller. I can't confirm, but I can say that I got away with a 643:1018px portrait, while 878:1390px doesn't work.