Changing Carried Weapon GUI Button Icon

[MSduPre]

When using IE to mod the appearance of weapons, I can successfully change the icon that I see in the inventory screen, as well as the description image. But the icon which shows on the main screen in the quick-weapon selection button does not change, and I cannot see an option to edit it in IE, nor can I find any way to do it manually, i.e., finding the file in the BAM list and renaming it. Anyone know how to do this? It seems like it should be the same icon, the same BAM, but I just can't figure out why it's not changing.

[Jarno Mikkola]

It's part of the effect of the .itm file. Aka, if you open the file with Near Infinity, you can see the general appearance of the .itm, but you also can double click the Abilities in the View windows, it's probably the Melee (1), which needs to be edited separately:

After which the double click will open anoither window, in where you need to go into the Edit view, and then edit the 5th one from the top, aka Icon.

[MSduPre]

Brilliant! Thank you!

This was driving me nuts. I intensely dislike the change in style from BG to BG2, and the look of most of the "new" items; with all of the extraneous spikes and protrusions and fanciful who-knows-whats, as opposed to the more medieval and realistic-looking ones. To the point that I was not using certain better items only because they looked so annoying in the menu bar. Just a pet peeve of mine. If you played and modded Neverwinter Nights, you may know me as this guy: https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/hakpak/feanors-medieval-armoury

Thanks again!

Edited March 31, 2020 by MSduPre

[Bartimaeus]

I'm not even sure how you're supposed to hold these - are these architectural masterpieces or weapons?

Edited April 1, 2020 by Bartimaeus

[MSduPre]

Ha!, true. And those aren't even the worst. The ones that bother me most are the ones like this: just ridiculous. Of course, it's not wholly a BG2 thing. Some of the items were already awful in BG1, most notably a number of the helmets. 

[Bartimaeus]

Soul Reaver looks like it could be a car key, Dragonslayer is anime, and somebody thought a sword split down the middle was a good idea for the Equalizer.

Edited April 1, 2020 by Bartimaeus

[MSduPre]

Lol, yes. And Ilbratha and Cutthroat are downright phallic.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Or you could just think of those as what they are, fantasy swords. The phallicity is implied. It's not like you watch porn for not wanting to be part of the action.

[MSduPre]

I prefer my fantasy to be less fantastic. Not necessarily realistic, but at least plausible.