Custom Icons

[Argh]

Just a quick note for game designers, to avoid the 1.5 hours of frustration I just went through

The code for IconTypes doesn't understand capital letters. This is a valid IconType:

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	[lordicon]
	{
		bitmap=icons/lordicon.tga;
		size=2;
		radiusadjust=1;
		distance=1;
	}

This is how it needs to get called in your Unit:

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iconType=lordicon;

And in the Icons folder, it needs to be "lordicon.tga".

Using capital letters resulted in borked behaviors, every time

Oh, and the image files need to be TGAs with 32-bit alpha channels. They can be whatever size you want, so long as they're square, but powers of 2 work best.

[rattle]

No dds?

[Argh]

I haven't gotten it to work yet. And I think that the icons are going into TextureAtlas anyhow, so it won't do any good.

[AF]

I find that tags in TDFarser are always read in as lowercase, altho I didnt think it affected the values since description tags are parsed fine...