[kta]

Well, since I get more and more questions about what kind of graphic enhancements or character portraits I use I thought it time to make a post so this information is available to you all.

I use a number of overrides to modify the almost (in a few days!) ten years old graphics of the Aurora engine.

My Overrides:

• Thay PW Heads - Custom heads in the Thay PW Hakpak are not selectable at character creation unless you download this and extract them into your override folder!
  
• NWNCQ Project
  
• Undead Redux 2
  
• Improved Zombies
  
• D&D Classic Elementals
  
• Reforged: Chain Weapons
  
• Reforged: Chopping Weapons
  
• Reforged: Smashing Weapons
  
• Reforged: Reach Weapons
  
• Reforged: Light Blades
  
• Reforged: Heavy Blades
  
• Molo67's NWN Shield Reskins
  
• Retextured/remodeled tower shields for override Make sure to install Molo67's NWN Shield Reskins first and overwrite the tower shields from his pack to benefit from this one.
  
• Monster Mash - Bugbears, Orcs and Ogre Enhancements !Be sure to read the included MM_readme.txt!
  

There are countless portraits/packs to be found on the web, most of them not very good IMHO. But over the years I collected a few good ones and also made a portrait or two for one of my characters.

My Portraits:

• Icewind Dale - from the original Icewind Dale game
  
• Baldur's Gate II NPC Portraits
  
• Baldur's Gate Misc Portraits
  
• Baldur's Gate NPC Pack
  
• 44 Portraits by Leurnid Hand
  
• Red Wizard of Thay
  
• Female Red Wizard
  
• Human Female
  

Current Character Portraits:

• Tomte Fox
  
• Knick 'The Knife'
  

Hint: If you are using the linux client, make sure all files are in lower case!

I will try and keep this up to date...

KTA

[kta]

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KTA

[Hellstrom]

Thanks KTA, these are great.

Do you (or anyone else) know of any good overrides that allow more quickslots? I'm not great with the radial menu, at least in emergencies :)

I saw one there, but it was for NWN2

[kta]

I look into this myself every few years but I am afraid its hardcoded so that is a bummer...

KTA

[kta]

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I always found the orc and bugbear models very ugly and low-detail but I recently found a hak that included very good models of those critters and also much better looking ogres. I extracted all that is needed and made a override out of it! Try them out but be sure the read the included MM_readme file.

Also added shield overrides, pay attention to the install order!

KTA

[WingsOfStardust]

Is there any easy way to modify colors on things?
Like, make all in-game colors that are green => RED for example.
Why? Say you'd want to play an insane character and need a little inspiration. Changing how YOU see things and later describing them can be a whole lot of fun and there will be some logic behind it.
Like making humanoid blood gold instead. I'm going to do some research tomorrow, though I could ask here in case somebody knew something already.

[kta]

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- new reforged weapon overrides
- current character portrait

KTA

[Alfa Kilo Nine One]

Would you recommend NWNCQ Basic or Extended (and with or withou Plus addon)?

[kta]

I am using the extended version with all options enabled. If you can run this depends mostly on your graphics hardware. Give the full version a try and disable options if the framerate slows down.

KTA

[Alfa Kilo Nine One]

Hardware's not the issue. I had problems with the extended version on a different server where it caused some serious clipping in some areas.