How do you import your character from baldur's gate into baldur's gate 2 shadows of amn?

Answer 1

It's easy. First go to your last saved game in BG1. Run it. Then go to the "record" menu (it's on the left, button that has human head on it) and press the "export" button. Name the file of your exported character and hit ok or something. Then go to your BG1 folder and find the map named "characters". In it you will find your file that you yourself named before. Copy or cut it and then to go your BG2 directory and paste it into the "characters" map. Launch BG2 and press import during the creation of a character. Select the "import from character file", then select your file, obviously. That's it.

There is another problem though. When you use a cap remover in BG1 and you get a whooping 1236868 experience points or more throughout the game (that's what I got whilst soloing with mage), even if you use it at BG2, the experience will be set to 161000 in both cases, when the character is imported into BG2. The main character will also lose all his items. Other party members will not, but will also be set to 161000 experience points. Both problems can be avoided, whether you'd want to keep your hard earned experience or items or both. Start a multiplayer session and import your character twice. As a main character, the character will lose all items, as a lateral party member, he will not. Then carry all the items over to the main character, and delete/drop the lateral party member. Note that when you do this item-retreiving procedure, you'll have to play the entire game in multiplayer mode. As for getting back your experience points, open the file baldur.ini in the root of your BG2 directory with Notepad. Add the line: "Debug Mode=1" under [Program Options]. Launch BG2, press CTRL+Space to open the console window at the bottom of the screen. Then enter the line "CLUAConsole:SetCurrentXP(x)", where x is the desired amount of experience. When you have several characters in the party that need boosting of experience, simply select each character individually and enter the cheat code. If you start the game with multiple characters, you will obviously have to play in multiplayer mode.