======================================================== Avatar Pack Readme ======================================================== 0 Table of Contents --------------------- 0 Table of Contents 1 About this document 2 Installing the mod 3 Contributing to this mod 4 Using it in your own mods 5 What this mod does 6 Spoilers 7 Version history 1 About this document ----------------------- Author: Marzo Sette Torres Junior e-mail: marzojr@yahoo.com version: 0.10.03 This mod is all about new avatars. There are 14 new portraits all told, all in the SI style, which REPLACE the old portraits. The portraits usually come in male and female pairs; there are portraits for brunette avatars, blonde avatars, black-haired avatars, redheaded avatars, asian avatars and black avatars, all with matching paperdolls and sprites -- and there are also gumps for paperdoll-less BG. There is also a bucket-headed avatar, for comic effect and for those that like U8 or even (*shudder*) U9. All the portraits -- except for the buckethead avatars -- are based on real people -- you can see the full list in the 'Who_is_who.txt' file. As you can see if you poke around enough, there *are* BG-style versions of the portraits. I chose not to use them because they look *awful* with the SuperSAI 2x scaler. Also, because the bigger portraits are so much cooler than those small portraits could ever hope to be ;-) 2 Installing the mod ---------------------- This mod is will *not* work in Exult 1.2, nor it will work on any but *the* latest snapshots. As of the initial writing of this document (GMT 03:46 AM of 20007-03-18), you would likely have to wait ~24 hours just so you could download a snapshot with which it would work! Also, this mod works for either BG *or* SI, with or without the add-ons. It is designed to work in BG even if you don't have SI. With those out of the way: to install the mod, unzip it anywhere and copy the contents of the 'data' dir it creates to your 'patch' dir. If the folder is not there, simply create an empty folder called 'patch' in your BG or SI dir and proceed as above. You can use it with BG or SI, your choice. OPTIONAL: If you want the avatar bodies to behave like normal bodies, you will also have to copy a few more files. This isn't required -- you will not normally see the dead bodies of the avatar -- but the data is there if you want to. You will simply have to copy the contents of the 'data-bg' *or* 'data-si' (depending on the game you are using) to the same 'patch' dir mentioned above. You do NOT have to start a new game to see the benefits of this pack! Just be sure that cheats are enabled and cycle through the skins with Alt+S or change your gender with Ctrl+G (or do both). *** Using this mod with another mod: If the other mod is the Keyring mod, simply download the latest version of the Keyring mod as it is included in it. For SI Fixes, follow the installation instructions above but with SI Fixes' 'data' dir as your copy target instead. For other mods, you'll have to pester the mod maker to include it :-) OPTIONAL: If you want to see how awful the BG-style portraits really are, copy the 'bgfaces/faces.vga' file to your patch dir after you install the mod normally. This is not possible for the Keyring mod, but you can see it in the normal BG game (or in SI, if you prefer). 3 Contributing to this mod ---------------------------- If you have any suggestions of new portraits (or have done some of them yourself!) that you would like to see included in this mod then, by all means, please send them to me! You can either e-mail them to me or you can post them in the Exult Phorum. 4 Using it in your own mods ----------------------------- You are free to use anything I have written in your own mods; I ask only that you give me proper credit -- and maybe tell me about the mod you are doing, as I might be interested enough to help and/or to include as a part of this mod. Also, you should include the 'Who_is_who.txt' file in your mod. 5 What this mod does ---------------------- I thought I said that above already? 6 Spoilers ------------ Huh... this is a GRAPHIC package. Spoilers????? 7 Version history ------------------- version: 0.10.03 - New sprite for male bucket-heade avatar, made by Skutarth. Also, removed the silly fully-armored paperdoll for the bucket-headed avatars. Lastly, fixed an oversight which caused problems in SI. version: 0.10.02 - Split (optional) parts of the data into BG and SI versions, and updated installation instructions accordingly. version: 0.10.01 - Improved installation instructions. - Added two new avatars: the bucket-headed avatar of U8 and U9 (both male and female versions) and a long raven-hair male avatar (XXXX). - Retouched several avatars. version: 0.10.00 - Document created.