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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
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
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