How Do You Create Custom Icons?

Depot

<div class="IPBDescription">Scoreboard icons using Photoshop.</div> After searching for 30 minutes I gave up so I hope this isn't a dupie.
How do you use Photoshop to create 16x16 custom icons for the scoreboard?
Please be specific including creation of the alpha channel.

Emanon

You helped me with the stats, I can help you with this.

FYI you can make them bigger than 16*16. 20*16 is the largest I think.

PM me on a time that would be good for you this weekend.

Depot

I'm on IRC all the time.
This isn't that difficult, someone just post it here plz.

TheGuy

Hi, here's the guidelines for making your icons work..

Here we go. (This is for photoshop)

Ok, make a new image 16x16 rgb color with a black background

Draw your icon in white with varying degrees of opacity if you wish..

Select only the artwork you just made , Go to your Layers windows and click channels

Click Save channel as selection. This will make an alpha channel. Whatever is white in this channel will show up in game and whatever is black in this channel will be transparent.

Now comes saving the file.. go to file > save as, and save it as a tga file with alpha transparency checked off.

A box will pop up, this is the important part.

Save it as 32bit and check off compress RLE

Depot

@TheGuy: thanks for the response. You made a similar post elsewhere yet my search for it failed.
I believe the above is for a black and white icon? What about a colored one?

TheGuy

The color is added in the game. (plugin code does it), I believe if you wanted it to use colors, you make the plugin color white and color the icon as usual.


Try this one <a href='http://www.modns.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=168' target='_blank'>http://www.modns.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=168</a>

TheGuy

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