Adding borders to blizzard icons?

[Tar-Quaeron]

Hello all,

I'm really new to this. Please don't shout at me for asking such a stupid question. I wanted to add the autocast border to existing blizzard icons. So I downloaded warcraft viewer, W3IR, and irfan and I followed Poenix-flame's tutorial on icons, but every time I try to convert the BTNBlizzard.blp file into the bmp file, it just creates a 1 kb bmp file which I am then told is unvalid. I'm guessing this is because of some sort of protection from Blizzard? How could I add autocast borders to existing blizzard icons, such as Chain Lightning, Flame Strike, etc.?

 

[chilla_killa]

I recommend this tool:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/tools-560/button-manager-v1-8-1-a-116280/
Use Warcraft 3 Viewer to extract the Icons.

 

[Tar-Quaeron]

Oh, you can use wc3 viewer to extract stuff from the mpq as well? I used rmpq extractor as I couldn't get power mpq to work (yes I suck). Anyway the problem was really stupid, I extracted my icon as a listfile (I'm not exactly sure what that is, but it probably is something different from an image). When I extracted it correctly there was no problem converting it into .bmp and add borders. Thanks for the reply though.

 

[Dentothor]

wc3 viewer is the best for exporting blp files, as it automatically converts it to bmp.