Icon making tutorial

[Kelathin]

If anyone has an icon making tutorial, that be extremely helpful

[Lord_of_the_Sith]

I always use photoshop.

I don't know where to find a tutorial.

I may try to give you some suggestions on how to procede.

[Eric072691]

Here's one.

 

1) get the image you want.

2) Create an alpha channel for areas around your ship. Tutorial:Alpha

3) Resize it down to 50 by 50.

4) Save as .tga

5) Download: MTD Editor

6) Extract the MTD Editor.

7) Run MTDedit.exe

Open Mt_commandbar.MTD and it's matching Mt Commandbar.tga file

9) Press Edit.

10) Insert

11) Select your image, rename to something descriptive.

12) Figure out a way to put it in game.

 

Hope it helps.

Edited September 24, 2006 by Eric072691

[swgbex]

there used to be one.. but we lost all of that -.-

Someone care to make a new one? With pictures? ^^

[Dr. Nick]

no

 

 

don't forget the alpha.....if you have gimp or photoshop

[Eric072691]

Fixed.

[Kelathin]

thanks for the tuturial, but swgbex was right, they're use to be two so I didn't have to remember.

[Eric072691]

No porblem, I just wish that they can restore the forum 100%

[Mike.nl]

I did find this in the Google Cache:

 

Tutorial on how to create new icons with Mike's tool

 

Maybe someone (Orao himself?) could recreate this topic?

[Kelathin]

Thanks mike, that would be the one I was using before.

[Lord_of_the_Sith]

That is exactly what you have to do.Using phoshop is the best and fastest way to do icons.I am pretty fast in this as I have replaced nearly all the icons for my Eaw.I say nearly as what you need is always a good picture of the ship or troop you are going to do the icon for which is sometime diffucult for the lack of images themselves.

[MajorPayne]

Not for someone who rarely uses PS. I've actually found you PSP to be far easier and quicker, for myself anyway. Even with that tutorial and after half a dosen attempts and 2 hours wasted (on the last attempt), I gave up.

[jedi_consulor]

I was actually suprised to see how easy it is to make an icon in photoshop CS with an alpha channel. Really not hard at all.. you can then save as PSD if you like to keep a back up. Or just copy them right into the MTD file.