Is there a problem with uploading icon packs?

TheVaultDweller · Jun 25, 2004

I tried to upload a pack, but it seemed to fail, and when I went to the Icon Pack page nothing could be downloaded, like about half of the packs there.

Is there anyway I can upload these icons without individually doing it? I really don't want to upload a couple hundred icons individually.

Darky29 · Jun 25, 2004

Yes.. read the text which was provided at the IconPack uplaod screen....

- MUST be ZIP
- All Icons must be named BTN + [buttonname] + .blp
- and disables is DISBTN + [buttonname] + .blp
- All Icons must be 64x64 size

I bet you broke one of the rules = icons get rejected

TheVaultDweller · Jun 27, 2004

EDIT: I just tried it for a pack with 4 icons. It didn't work either.

After triple checking, I must have done something wrong while they were tga's. I'll try again after figuring out what I have to do to fix it.

EDIT 2: Ok, my tgas work in maps but my blps don't. :x

Darky29 · Jun 27, 2004

yes icons must be in BLP not TGA

Shimrra · Jul 10, 2004

I have recently suffered this problem as well. All my icons were .blp, were 64 x 64, were in a zip file, and worked in game. However, they failed to upload corectly. Also, you icon uploading is missing spaces for both auto-cast and hero scorescreen (The little icon that appears on the scorescreen in the post-game scorescreen). Could you please add support for, at the least, hero scorescreen? I thank you in advanced for any assistance you may offer.

Shimrra

Sopho · Jul 10, 2004

Make sure you don't have any strange letters such as: '

Shimrra · Jul 10, 2004

I didn't hsve any... An example of one group was:

BTNDuGalle
DISBTNDuGalle

Is there something wrong with this?

Sopho · Jul 10, 2004

Nothing wrong with that
Are you sure you followed Darky's instructions

Shimrra · Jul 10, 2004

I did it exactly like it said. The file was StarcraftIcons.zip and in it was BTNDuGalle.blp and DISBTNDuGalle.blp. All the other icons in it also followed this pattern. Does the zip need a certain name, or the files need to be in a folder within the zip?

Sopho · Jul 10, 2004

Haven't tried uploading a icon pack before but maybe the icons need to be in order, such as DISBTNiconname1.blp after BTNiconname1.blp

Shimrra · Jul 10, 2004

Can you do that? My compressor just auto-arranges them in alphabetical order... I noticed that most of the icon packs there seemed to have the same problem, as they were undownloadable and didn't show any of the icons, so aparently, this is a common problem. Is there any way to contact Darky27? He should be able to help, and if it's a glitch, he can fix it. Thank you for your assistance thus far.

Sopho · Jul 10, 2004

You can PM Darky28.

Shimrra · Jul 11, 2004

OK, I got them to appear, but there's still soemthing wrong. All the icons appear to have been reversed in color; like a photographic negative. Why is this? When I converted them, they worked fine...

Sopho · Jul 11, 2004

Its the alpha channels of course, it may look wrong but its fine in the game. It happened to my skin http://www.wc3sear.ch/?p=Skins&ID=973

Shimrra · Jul 11, 2004

I suppose... I'm just afraid people'll think, "YUCK! That's all messed up! I'm not downloading that!" Anyway, thank you for all your help.

Shimrra

Sopho · Jul 11, 2004

They will be discouraged but if they look at the screenshot, they will re-consider

Shimrra · Jul 11, 2004

I re-uploaded it and it worked fine this time. Thank you for all of your assistance!

Sopho · Jul 11, 2004

NP, my suggestion is that icon packs should be uploaded easier.

Is there a problem with uploading icon packs?

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