Custom unit icons

TradeMark · Post by **TradeMark** » 28 Aug 2006, 09:11

edit: i posted to wrong topic?? weird, it was AA topic a while ago

Where is delete message button...

colorblind · Post by **colorblind** » 28 Aug 2006, 11:31

Caydr wrote:Also, after some testing I've had difficulty (specifically, it don't bloody work) using anything but TGAs.

TBH I haven't tried anything else except TGAs, but in principle DDS should also work. Can you give a bit more detailed description of what doesn't work? (i.e., does the bitmap appear to load, does the transparancy not work, that kind of thing).

Because the unit icons are generally small (128x128), it isn't a big issue to use TGAs. Unless you have 300+ different icons ....

FoeOfTheBee · Post by **FoeOfTheBee** » 17 Oct 2006, 20:08

What I've got going with the custom unit icons:

These are png's. I found that the custom icon system doesn't seem to like capital letters in the iconstype tag in the fbi, and a grayscale tga won't work, just in case anyont is interested in little details like that.

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 17 Oct 2006, 20:17

Hey, those aren't bad.

I made these really high-detail ones but they go pixelated to crap ingame

Anyone tested to see if DDS's work yet? Specifically, DXT3 w/ mipmaps.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 17 Oct 2006, 21:24

Speaking of mip maps, am I the only one who got strong pixelation when the mip maps kick in? Could be my graphics card but I doubt it.

The icons are pretty fine. Clearly show what is what without cluttering it too much.

Dragon45 · Post by **Dragon45** » 19 Oct 2006, 18:19

I think I would much prefer more utilization of different polygons to represent different types -with the letters/pictures still inside of them to denote a further subdivision. Fex, resource buildings should be triangles with M or E inside of them depending on what they produce; aircraft should be rhombuses, ground units should be squares (with the appropriate tank/kbot picture inside of them), and all builders should have a little wrench inside of the large category they are - air cons as rhombuses with wrenches, f.ex.

FoeOfTheBee · Post by **FoeOfTheBee** » 19 Oct 2006, 21:44

Dragon45 wrote:I think I would much prefer more utilization of different polygons to represent different types -with the letters/pictures still inside of them to denote a further subdivision. Fex, resource buildings should be triangles with M or E inside of them depending on what they produce; aircraft should be rhombuses, ground units should be squares (with the appropriate tank/kbot picture inside of them), and all builders should have a little wrench inside of the large category they are - air cons as rhombuses with wrenches, f.ex.

Good points. I don't think my icon system is ideal, and I'll be trying different stuff out. I'll post a link a little later today if anyone wnts to mess with them. I've played a few games with the icons, and they really help - it's a nice feature.

raneti · Post by **raneti** » 21 Oct 2006, 11:53

perhaps filtering icons through hotkeys would be in order like: units(kbots/vehicles/planes), buildings(production/supply/offensive)

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Custom unit icons