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Ouch!  daedalian, please wish ironmaid   well, and the same to you and the kids!

Since Embra invoked Stevie Nicks (via Fleetwood Mac)  last month, here's a favorite from 11 years ago.  The video quality could be better, but that takes little away from its capture of an intense show closing performance, including some moments of tribute to her idol Janis Joplin, the band just on, and none other than the legendary Peter Frampton on guitar.

I've already pre-ordered one of each version to support this effort.  What these guys did with Baldur's Gate II improvements was great, both in well thought out refinements to the game interface and in weaving new characters into the story.

I do not share the pessimism some have voiced.  Proof will be in the end product and what may result from it, naturally, but this has potential to breathe some new life and player interest into NWN.

Happy Holidays and joy of the season to all!

See here:  link

It's down on both the main entry and event servers

What a great event.  Much enjoyed!

Dec 5, 2015 16:10:29 GMT -5  @belladonna said:

It does work, but it doesn't zoom in on specific faces, so... sometimes it doesn't do the proportions well.

One way I have gotten around this when the larger image(s) is a larger view, such as partial or whole body, but the smaller images are just the character's face, is to create one set for the large image, and a second set from a jpg that is pre-cropped to just the face as desired, then rename.

There's also a very simple procedure to create a set of NWN portraits from a single jpg file.  This will save you all of the trouble of getting the formatting of portraits right, and avoid the crash producing errors that can sometimes happen:

1) Place the portrait you want to use in jpg format in your NWN "portraits" folder.  Proportions should be a multiple of 64 pixels wide by 100 pixels high for the whole image to be used, but close to that will work and just be cropped a little.  Resolution of at least 256 wide by 400 high (the resolution used in the largest of five portraits) will look good in all sizes.  Other resolutions will be resized as needed.  Be sure to note the jpg image's filename - you'll need to type it exactly in the last step.

2) Open the NWN player client in either multi or single player with any character.

3) Press the "~" key, which will give you the ">" symbol for text entry at the upper left of your player window.

4) Type "Conv" (without the quotes) and press the TAB key.  You should see "ConvertPortrait _"

5) Type your original portrait filename exactly, minus the .jpg extension, and press ENTER.  You will see a message that the portraits have been created, and will find the set of five in your NWN portraits folder.  ("mycharacter.jpg" will produce "mycharacterH.tga" through "mycharacterT.tga")