Baldur's Gate

Baldur's Gate Custom Portraits

This portion of the site contains customized and themed icon sets for importing into Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II. To use the custom portraits, simply save the main and thumbnail image to the portraits folder located in your Baldur's Gate directory, restart the game, and then choose the new portraits from the list in the character information window.

 

Baldur's Gate - Classic Portraits

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Placeholder Image   Drizzt Do'Urden  
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Catti-brie   Bruenor Battlehammer  
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Wulfgar   Regis "Rumblebelly"  
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Graz'zt   Magus Shadowhelm  
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Mica Drost   Old Magus Shadowhelm  
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Sabranic Svengund   Cecil Harvey  
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Edge Geraldine   Edward Chris von Muir  
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Golbez   Kain Highwind  
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Palom   Porom  
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Rosa Joanna Farrell   Rydia  
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Yang Fang Leiden   Blackguard  
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Barbarian   Female Bard  
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Cleric   Female Barbarian  
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Female Monk   Female Ranger  
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Jarlaxle   Artemis Entreri  
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BG 2 Sarevok Anchev   BG 1 Sarevok Anchev  
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Baeloth Barrityl   Rasaad yn Bashir  
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Dorn Il-Khan   Neera  

Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition Portraits

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Khelgar Ironfist Neeshka Safiya
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Elven Ranger Sabranic 1 Sabranic 2
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Charissa Maernos Clara Gannayev of Dreams
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Casavir Bishop Sand
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Daeghun Farlong Ribsmasher Wanderer

Creating & Adding Custom Portraits in Classic Baldur's Gate

Some players may wish to create their own custom portraits - below is the original information from the game manual on building them:

APPEARANCE
Select a portrait for your character. To import a custom portrait, you must follow the instructions below:
The measurements for player portraits are 38X60 pixels for the small ones (8-bit color only) and 110X170 pixels for the large ones. Create a directory called Portraits (including the capital "P") in the root directory where you installed BGII: SoA. The default is C:\Program Files\BlackIsle\BGII - SoA. You will have to add an S to the end of the small portrait name and an L to the end of the large portrait. The names must be 1-7 letters long, maximum.

For example:
XXXXXXXS.bmp for small (38x60, 8-bit)
XXXXXXXL.bmp for large (110x170, 24-bit)

For multiplayer, each player must have a copy of the portraits, otherwise they will see a silhouette with a question mark where the other player’s custom portraits would be.
- Baldur's Gate II Manual