Help with icons

Eraser · Post by **Eraser** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:04 pm

I would like to know if anyone would like to help me and OoT by making icons for weapons and armor. I have the first version of these two plugins ready, but the only thing holding me back is finishing the icons off. I started working on them, but not only am i having problems getting them to appear right, and I'm finding myself uninspired when making them which only slows me down.

I'll send the models/textures and plugins to whoever would like to help so they know what stuff looks like

Morden · Post by **Morden** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:15 pm

Do the icons have to been in either dds or tga format?.. or can they be bitmaps. What you can do to make a quick icon is to take a screen shot of the Item in the CS, on a black background, and then paste the screenshot into photoshop or whatever, cut out the item and shrink it down to size... and there you have a small icon of the item.

Eraser · Post by **Eraser** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 1:56 am

I've done that, but the icons keep coming out all warped and distorted in TESCS, even though they look fine in photoshop. that's why I'd like someone else to give making them a try.

Yes they either have to be tga or dds.

Anyone?

Blad I think you posted in the wrong thread. should I delete the post, or does that have any relevance to my post?

Dakkan · Post by **Dakkan** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 11:58 pm

Would You use XnView to convert to TGA, or DDS?

I'll give it a try, I'm pretty good at drawing icons from stealing them from other games

(Redmoon Online)

Majra · Post by **Majra** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:12 am

ignore this, I accidently pressed back

Morden · Post by **Morden** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:25 am

If you do it in the editor, won't it come out looking more like the besthesda icon?..but guess when its shrunk so small it won't make much diff.

I'll repeat what i suggested above...

"What you can do to make a quick icon is to take a screen shot of the Item in the CS, on a black background, and then paste the screenshot into photoshop or whatever, cut out the item and shrink it down to size"

Here's a tutorial for people who are wondering:
http://www.euro-morrowind.com/modding/tutorials.htm

Majra · Post by **Majra** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:40 am

I thought doin it in TESCS was causin issues for some reason, it needs to have a transparent back ground right? and by rendering in 3dmax and just putting it into photoshop for editing, the background will be transparent and a TGA

Morden · Post by **Morden** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 5:48 pm

Maybe thats why his icons were always coming out all warped.

Eraser · Post by **Eraser** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:38 pm

That may have been why, if I hadn't made the background transparent after pasting the screenshot in photoshop.

Dakkan is going to be helping me with the icons now so no worries

I could've released stuff earlier, but I like things being complete(well what I have being complete) I don't do things half-assed