Icon Trouble

[Zhall]

I am having a H**l of a time trying to make a simple icon...

The icon began as a screenshot of a pixelated game (outpost2) and i took out the ground so i just had the unit left. (Im giving full credit to the game in my map, but i need the icon for the unit badly)

Then I saved it as a .TGA (24 bit compression) and used WCIR to make a btn and disbtn version of my icon.

Importing this tga into WE would render the icon split or invisible.

So i tryed renaming the icons i bordered, and the same thing happened when importing them, even causing WE to crash just by trying to use them as icons for units.

Next i tryed using WCIR to a btn and a disbtn again. Then i decided to convert the file to a .blp using Wc3 image extractor, but i was getting an error that the file was an unsupported compression type.

To solve this i took the bordered TGA files and saved them overthemselves to flatten them, only then would Wc3 image extractor allow me to convert them to .blps

Yet when i imported them into the editor I still couldn't see them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

For now i will try using BMPs and using wc3 viewer to convert to blps instead.
EDIT: Figured it out, with no help from WCIR i used the photoshop icon layer to imbed the icon filters into a bmp, then converted using wc3 viewer and renamed by hand, but the other route is too buggy, atleast i got it working

 

[Luckerguy]

Just a few tips to handle with WCIR:

- Be sure you made a 64x64 bmp icon

- After you bordered it with WCIR, use Wc3 Viewer to convert bmp to blp

- Rename them to "BTNYourIconName" and "DISBTNblabla"

- import them in your map and enjoy them.

 

[Hubcool]

Just use Button Manager v1.7

It's really easy to use, and it resize your pic, convert it to blp and add borders.

When you made your icon, you just need to import it. Icons made with it are 100% working.