I remember Icewind Dale 1 having the Baldur's Gate 1 graphical style, e.g. bulky looking plate armour, the classic horned helmet and characters wielding their weapon in their right hand, even when turning around (no mirroring).

I installed IWD Classic today and noticed that it now has the Baldur's Gate 2 graphical style, same as the EE. What's up with that? Is it due to Heart of Winter being installed in unison (I thought it only changed the resolution up to 800x600 back in the day but left the graphics intact), or where does that come from?

Any help would be appreciated. It really doesn't help that Beamdog gobbled up the classic variants of the Infinity Engine games, and now it's harder to find your way around...


EDIT: From looking at screenshots of both the original vanilla IWD and IWD: HoW, it seems as though the engine changed to BG2-style (most likely to enable the higher resolution). Is there a way to play GOG's IWD Complete without Heart of Winter's changes activated? I used the forum search, there were no real answers except "maybe there's a mod", but I couldn't find any.

You have it wrong. The BG1 armour was (is) the slimmed, sleek version. The BG2 armour is the bulky version.

BG1 animations should have stayed for the Infinity engine games (apart from PS:T of course). Here is a mod that restores them in classic IWD with Heart of Winter/Trials of the Luremaster:

http://www.shsforums.net/files/file/972-1pp-animation-fixes-for-iwd-totlm/

If the download won't work, I can upload the mod somewhere.

Thanks a lot! I will try it out after work. Sounds great!

It seems as though this mod is exactly what I'm looking for. However, it does not seem to work with GOG's IWD version. I have G3's IWD fixpack installed, the 1pp high quality music and the Widescreen Mod. When I try to install the 1pp animation fixes, it only installs the first component (combat sounds in TotL), but not the other two. It says the executable is not compatible.

Do you know what to do now, or somebody who could help me? I have the debug file, but cannot upload it here. I'm so close... *:*

EDIT: Nevermind, I found this on the SHS mod thread:
[url=]http://www.shsforums.net/topic/50492-1pp-animation-fixes-for-iwdtotlm/?p=519871[/url]
The installation worked with that trick.