BBA Potraits 1.2 — Baldur's Gate 3

[Ty6]

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Overview
NPC Portrait AddOn for @AlbertHeinous's Whiter version of BBA. I chose to use Albert's version for maximum coverage.

Using @SniperChris's original version or @orinEsque's minimalist version will result in mismatches between portraits and NPC models as those versions do not change all the NPCs that the whiter version by Albert does.

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To Do
I am only covering Acts 1 and 2 for now as there are far fewer NPCs to cover. I will start working on Act 3 at a later date, once all of the NPCs in Acts 1 and 2 have had new portraits made for them.

If you have BBA installed alongside this mod and you see any NPCs in Acts 1 or 2 with mismatching models and portraits, please let me know by commenting below and detailing where the said NPC can be found in-game.

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Changelog

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v1.2
Added Olly and Bellar from act 1 zhents.

v1.1
Added a few missed portraits from acts 1 + 2.

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Credits

• @SniperChris for the original Baldur's Better Aesthetics Mod.
• @AlbertHeinous for the whiter version I used as a base for this mod.
• @orinEsque for help and guidance when making this.

And a big thanks to the RPGHQ community for supporting lore-friendly mods.

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My Other Mods

• BBA Portraits

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[Ty6]

1.1 - Added a few missed portraits from acts 1 + 2.

[Calumininium]

1.1 - Added a few missed portraits from acts 1 + 2.

I think the zentharim crew is still missing, otherwise tysm I look forward the next updates

[Ty6]

1.1 - Added a few missed portraits from acts 1 + 2.

I think the zentharim crew is still missing, otherwise tysm I look forward the next updates

Can you give me a screenshot please? I'm pretty sure I covered them. But I seem to have missed some.

[Calumininium]

1.1 - Added a few missed portraits from acts 1 + 2.

I think the zentharim crew is still missing, otherwise tysm I look forward the next updates

Can you give me a screenshot please? I'm pretty sure I covered them. But I seem to have missed some.

https://f.rpghq.org/Y51A57NVogTt.png?n=Zenth1.PNG

My handsome blue eyed ramirez is negrified.

https://f.rpghq.org/qOiWHRMXCQyZ.png?n=Zenth2.PNG

Zarys is a blond chinese ?

https://f.rpghq.org/RMfN619aJrMS.png?n=Zenth3.PNG

Wearing braids got him being brown

[Ty6]

I think the zentharim crew is still missing, otherwise tysm I look forward the next updates

Can you give me a screenshot please? I'm pretty sure I covered them. But I seem to have missed some.

https://f.rpghq.org/Y51A57NVogTt.png?n=Zenth1.PNG

My handsome blue eyed ramirez is negrified.

https://f.rpghq.org/qOiWHRMXCQyZ.png?n=Zenth2.PNG

Zarys is a blond chinese ?

https://f.rpghq.org/RMfN619aJrMS.png?n=Zenth3.PNG

Wearing braids got him being brown

Your right I missed those two. Thanks for the heads up.

Zarys though, I already replaced her Potrait so I'm not sure what is causing a problem on your end.

I'll double check with her in the morning on my end.

[Ty6]

I think the zentharim crew is still missing, otherwise tysm I look forward the next updates

Can you give me a screenshot please? I'm pretty sure I covered them. But I seem to have missed some.

https://f.rpghq.org/Y51A57NVogTt.png?n=Zenth1.PNG

My handsome blue eyed ramirez is negrified.

https://f.rpghq.org/qOiWHRMXCQyZ.png?n=Zenth2.PNG

Zarys is a blond chinese ?

https://f.rpghq.org/RMfN619aJrMS.png?n=Zenth3.PNG

Wearing braids got him being brown

Uploaded a new version that should fix Olly and Bellar. Not sure what is wrong with Zarys as her portrait is being replaced fine on my end.

[FloSharChosen]

Amazing work, thanks you so much!

[Ty6]

Amazing work, thanks you so much!

Thanks

[loregamer]

Playing through Act 1 again so I'll let you know if I run into any portraits that were missed. Also thanks for not touching Duke Ravengard's portrait, I'm running NoAlphabets and Better Aesthetics for my girlfriend's playthrough but left Wyll and his father alone.

[Ty6]

Playing through Act 1 again so I'll let you know if I run into any portraits that were missed. Also thanks for not touching Duke Ravengard's portrait, I'm running NoAlphabets and Better Aesthetics for my girlfriend's playthrough but left Wyll and his father alone.

Thank you for your kind words

Wyll and his father or the domain of the alt wyll mod anyway so I'll leave them.

[loregamer]

Yo, hold up... Did you have to make all these portraits manually dude?? Like opening the characters in inspect and cropping the black background and all that?

I was thinking hey I'm in act 3 I'll help out Ty6 and use the Ninja Ripper trick Luckmann did for the Wyll portrait, but I just realized that won't work for non-companions.

But I could help you out with making them! I've been able to spot them pretty easily since I'm using Better Target Info

[Ty6]

Yo, hold up... Did you have to make all these portraits manually dude?? Like opening the characters in inspect and cropping the black background and all that?

I was thinking hey I'm in act 3 I'll help out Ty6 and use the Ninja Ripper trick Luckmann did for the Wyll portrait, but I just realized that won't work for non-companions.

But I could help you out with making them! I've been able to spot them pretty easily since I'm using Better Target Info

Yeah you have to open the npcs model via examine, screenshot it and take it to gimp or photoshop to remove the black background and replace it with an appropriate one.

Did you want to help make the potraits themselves or just hunt for npcs?

If you could just make a list of npcs names and where I can find them as you play I would really appreciate it,

[Reichspepe]

It seems really weird to me that portraits don't just always automatically generate and show the current model of the character, and that each seems to be made manually.
But I'm not a programmer, so who knows why Larian did it that way or if they had to do it this specific way.

[loregamer]

Did you want to help make the potraits themselves or just hunt for npcs?

If you could just make a list of npcs names and where I can find them as you play I would really appreciate it,

I think I could help you make them! I could speedrun a playthrough and try to look for them and just let you know where they are.

I guess to start out I found a dead fisherman with a black portrait around the crash site area.

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Not sure where you've gotten the backgrounds so I'll just send them cropped.

Also I'll try using Recruit any NPC - Transform NPC Into Playable Character and Emotes - Poses and Toggle Walk to get em looking nicely and for when we have to deal with **** like this

[loregamer]

Here's one for Nettie at the Grove:

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And I think Gandrel at the swamp was made a bit lighter by BBA, so here's one for him just in case. But this one's not that important:

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Here's one for Mask of Regret in Auntie Ethel's lair:

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Going to try to see if there's anymore tricks to get them in different poses since it seems like Emotes don't sync up to the Examine screen though

[loregamer]

Mask of Terror at Auntie Ethel's lair (left with his mask still on since he doesn't even seem to take it off):

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Salazon at Waukeen's Rest:

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Murmath at the abandoned refuge near the Grymforge has hair in his portrait but was made bald by BBA:

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Same with Ward Pistle:

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And Stonemason Kith:

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And Grundril:

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Same deal with Mind Master Dunnol:

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[Ty6]

Great work! I'll have a look at my files and see what I can come up with and post the results here.

I've got a busy period comming up so if I don't respond to the thred don't worry I'm still working on the mod. I just have more irl stuff to do.

[loregamer]

Great work! I'll have a look at my files and see what I can come up with and post the results here.

I've got a busy period comming up so if I don't respond to the thred don't worry I'm still working on the mod. I just have more irl stuff to do.

No worries! I'll keep sending em as I go. Hope I can save you some time

[loregamer]

I think Harper Chenti at Last Night Inn has a different head model now

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Harper Branthos @ Last Night Inn

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Harper Teebs @ Last Night Inn

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Harper Lymn @ Last Night Inn (might actually be different due to Lore Friendly Heads, not sure)

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Cerys @ Last Night Inn (also might be from Lore Friendly Heads)

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Fist Cyril @ Last Night Inn

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Kansif in the Shadowlands during the ambush

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Pilgrim Nalira @ Moonrise Towers

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Pilgrim Iong @ Moonrise Towers

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Radija @ Moonrise Towers

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[loregamer]

It seems really weird to me that portraits don't just always automatically generate and show the current model of the character, and that each seems to be made manually.
But I'm not a programmer, so who knows why Larian did it that way or if they had to do it this specific way.

I'm currently trying to figure out a way to force the game to do this. I think I almost did it, but the portraits end up bald as ****. I think it would be cool if we could figure out a way to get it to auto-generate, though. Just for consistency since the BBA Portraits do kinda stick out

[orinEsque]

It seems really weird to me that portraits don't just always automatically generate and show the current model of the character, and that each seems to be made manually.
But I'm not a programmer, so who knows why Larian did it that way or if they had to do it this specific way.

I'm currently trying to figure out a way to force the game to do this. I think I almost did it, but the portraits end up bald as ****. I think it would be cool if we could figure out a way to get it to auto-generate, though. Just for consistency since the BBA Portraits do kinda stick out

Mind sharing the files? I'd like to have a go at trying this.

[Envergence]

Aelar is a High-Elf? They couldn't even get his subrace right. Kind of shows they really did just slap a lot of the game together without much care.

[loregamer]

Mind sharing the files? I'd like to have a go at trying this.

Ye I gotchu. This is the file and NPC I'm trying to test this on:
https://f.rpghq.org/mNKcRwFqsM0E.zip?n= ... teTest.zip



I'll spoiler this just since it's an eyesore but I did some cheeky lurking on the modding discords and this is some info I've found on how portrait generation works:

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• There's a portrait generation room (the same one as character creator?) that you can TP to. Also apparently there's some camera tool that's paywalled behind a patreon that you can find for free if you look hard enough that you can basically create an HD portrait with. If all else fails, we can try using the camera tool and just make the portraits manually like that.
  
  
  
• What I was trying to do is get the game to generate a portrait by commenting out the Icon line and see if GeneratePortrait would do the magic. But that won't work, I think. It just generates a default as a portrait, but the Icon bit I commented out is just using the DDS file. I think what we'll want to utilize is PortraitVisualResourceID instead, maybe? I think we can use the Building a Race Mod wiki post on Community Library as reference
  
  
• There's a mod just released on Nexus called Alternative Portrait Pose and Stand Style Tutorial that we can possibly take a look at
• There's some kind of portrait generation file we might be able to use
  

[orinEsque]

Had a closer look at that lsf file. Removing that icon file doesn't actually generate a new portrait, instead it defaults to its TemplateName's predone icon. I traced the templates to another template then another until no more portraits were there and I get this:


If you remove templates, Aelar will be unclickable.

[loregamer]

Had a closer look at that lsf file. Removing that icon file doesn't actually generate a new portrait, instead it defaults to its TemplateName's predone icon. I traced the templates to another template then another until no more portraits were there and I get this:


If you remove templates, Aelar will be unclickable.

****.. I'm guessing we'd have to whip out the Script Extender to do this huh?

[orinEsque]

Had a closer look at that lsf file. Removing that icon file doesn't actually generate a new portrait, instead it defaults to its TemplateName's predone icon. I traced the templates to another template then another until no more portraits were there and I get this:


If you remove templates, Aelar will be unclickable.

****.. I'm guessing we'd have to whip out the Script Extender to do this huh?

Yep. Even your own portrait only refreshes when you level up.

[RayoSombrio]

It's not working after patch 7. But at least, the deblacker one works fine with the BG3MM

[rusty_shackleford]

It's not working after patch 7. But at least, the deblacker one works fine with the BG3MM

BBA itself is being replaced with something else I think, so I doubt there will be an update.

[WesternWashed]

It's not working after patch 7. But at least, the deblacker one works fine with the BG3MM

BBA itself is being replaced with something else I think, so I doubt there will be an update.

Was curious to know what is replacing it, anyone know of something else besides this and BBA?