I have no problem paying full price to the artist (especially Mike Sass the initial BG portraits creator) that creates original work and not some random AI prompter guy. I am pretty sure most of the royalties goes to the artist and not Beamdog anyway. And yes there are a lot of different portrait packs available on Nexus and other places, but most of them are pretty weak, or actors faces converted to fantasy style, or AI generated crap. I did find some great ones though, but those are mostly exceptions to the rule Ok, so whoever is still wondering about buying one or both DLC's, I have the answer: You only need ONE of them! I've bought the DLC for BG2EE and the new portraits are stored as *.bmp files in the folder: \Baldur's Gate II - Enhanced Edition\portraits\ Now you can take all this pictures and copy them manually to BG1EE documents folder (important, this is the place where your saves are, not the installation folder). On windows it should be: c:\Users\\Documents\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition\portraits\ Restart the game and enjoy the new portraits in both games!
I have no problem paying full price to the artist (especially Mike Sass the initial BG portraits creator) that creates original work and not some random AI prompter guy. I am pretty sure most of the royalties goes to the artist and not Beamdog anyway. And yes there are a lot of different portrait packs available on Nexus and other places, but most of them are pretty weak, or actors faces converted to fantasy style, or AI generated crap. I did find some great ones though, but those are mostly exceptions to the rule Ok, so whoever is still wondering about buying one or both DLC's, I have the answer: You only need ONE of them! I've bought the DLC for BG2EE and the new portraits are stored as *.bmp files in the folder: \Baldur's Gate II - Enhanced Edition\portraits\ Now you can take all this pictures and copy them manually to BG1EE documents folder (important, this is the place where your saves are, not the installation folder). On windows it should be: c:\Users\\Documents\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition\portraits\ Restart the game and enjoy the new portraits in both games!
...I don't agree with the pixel art. Could have been made with better visuals.
