icon trouble

[Zieg]

ive read the tutorials on how to make your own icon but its not working. well heres what im doing. i take an icon thats already made and convert it to tga. i open the tga and paste my icon over it and save it as tga. i open it up in image extractor and save as a blp. i import it into the game using the normal filepath as the original i used didnt have a path either. for some reason my icon wont show up after i import. the original i pasted the new ones over works fine though. i can open the blp in image extractor and it works fine. all of them are 64x64 so that isnt the problem. any advice? well i imported the tga and it works, but i wanna save space and convert to blp.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Open the blp in Wc3Viewer, save as jpg, and then re-convert to blp, it gives the icon an alpha channel and it works in-game.

A little trick Wolverabid showed me.

 

[Zieg]

it wont open up into wc3viewer.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

The blp? And you don't mean Magos, correct?

 

[Zieg]

i dont remember which ones i have. i have the image extractor, the model viewer, and the model editor. it opens in the editor and the extractor but not in the model viewer.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

That's strange. Try re-downloading it. It's at www.wc3campaigns.net

 

[Zieg]

i already did. it opens but you dont see anything in the window. the blp i mean. everything else works fine. heres one of the files. im doing this for a request and i have a few more i have to do. if you figure it out let me know how you did it so i can finish the rest. these are not ripped from wow, i copied and pasted from allakhazam.com.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Try it now. If it doesn't work in-game, I'm at a loss here.

 

[Wolverabid]

Zieg: I converted the icon and attached it to your post:

BTNBloodfangHood.blp

DISBTNBloodfangHood.blp

They look fine in Warcraft III Viewer so they should, in theory at any rate, work in the game as well.

 

[Zieg]

well it works, can you tell me what you did?

 

[Wolverabid]

Chriz. probably followed (more or less) the same procedure that I did.

1. Saved the .tga file that you posted.
   
   
2. Converted the file into a .jpg (I used Paint Shop Pro).
   
   • Here I also copied the file and added the DISBTN layer using Icon Layer for Photoshop.
   
   
3. Used Warcraft III Viewer to Convert Files > JPG -> BLP

From a "Mini-Tutorial" I once wrote:

...You'll need these tools:...

 

[Zieg]

ok thanks i got it now. i had to open the tga with the viewer and covert to blp and add an opaque alpha channel. when i converted to jpg first it made the icon a blueish tint. rep to both of you.