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Unit icon creation tutorial petition - Printable Version +- Forums (https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards) +-- Forum: The Firing Line (https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards/forumdisplay.php?fid=1) +--- Forum: Tiller Operational Campaigns (https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards/forumdisplay.php?fid=11) +--- Thread: Unit icon creation tutorial petition (/showthread.php?tid=52524) Pages:
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Unit icon creation tutorial petition - P.Ako - 08-15-2009 Could anyone explain me please, how to create the unit icon's? (IE, the unit pics) it's for a mod that i'm thinking about.... RE: Unit icon creation tutorial petition - Tortue Agile - 08-16-2009 easy.... You create a bmp picture 180 by 77 pixels, then you need to give it a background color. Then you have to paste a drawing of your liking (reduced to the right size). After that you can adjust the position of the drawing in your icon, usually on a PzC game the bottom of a drawing is at 61 pixel vertical. The name of the icon will have to match the name of the component in the oob. RE: Unit icon creation tutorial petition - P.Ako - 08-16-2009 Tortue Agile Wrote:easy.... Ok, thank you, but i assume that i need photoshop or GIMP right? RE: Unit icon creation tutorial petition - Ricky B - 08-16-2009 Nope - any image editing program will work, I created a number of unit images years ago just using Paint - and no knowledge of the sizes, I just slapped them together and they seemed to work okay, although not pretty. RE: Unit icon creation tutorial petition - Glenn Saunders - 08-16-2009 Ricky B Wrote:Nope - any image editing program will work, I created a number of unit images years ago just using Paint - and no knowledge of the sizes, I just slapped them together and they seemed to work okay, although not pretty. Right The things to remember is: - MUST be a BMP (not JPGs and other graphic file formats - Filename of the BMP must match the component name (be careful using characters like " or periods in the component name which can't match the BMP file name) - background color doesn't matter as long as it is one solid color Where fancy editors like Photoshop come in handy is with super imposing two images over top one another on a solid background. Glenn RE: Unit icon creation tutorial petition - Aaron - 08-16-2009 Paint does work but Photoshop makes everything easier, i got an older 5.0 version off ebay for 9.99 with delivery, been using it for about a year. Aaron RE: Unit icon creation tutorial petition - P.Ako - 08-16-2009 Thanks to everyone, i'll try to paste the East German soldier of Volcanomods for Danube '85 over a BTR 152 (simulating a PSW 152) and i'll post results, just to see.... RE: Unit icon creation tutorial petition - P.Ako - 08-16-2009 Well, my first trial.... ![[Image: trial.jpg]](http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/9870/trial.jpg) It's a bit shabby, blurry and surrounded by a, 1 pixel width white line.... RE: Unit icon creation tutorial petition - Mr Grumpy - 08-17-2009 We have all got to start somewhere. ;) RE: Unit icon creation tutorial petition - Tortue Agile - 08-17-2009 P.Ako Wrote:Well, my first trial.... That's where all the fun start... Now you have to clean all those white pixels 
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