Please help me! How to????

[Elvish Master]

how can i create an icon???

thanks in advance people!

 

[acolyteofdoom]

Create a 64x64 picture, put the meatl border around it, and then draw whatever you want on it. Then save it as .tga and convert it to a .blp using the WC3Viewer.

 

[Sopho]

But you'll need a decent image editing program first. Find loads on www.download.com

 

[Elvish Master]

ok i have photoshop...

but i want to make an easy one first, with like a smilie on it or something before i start makng nice ones...

so:

1) where can i get the WC3VIEWER??
2) what is a "meatl" border??

 

[Sopho]

1. You can download WC3 Viewer in the tool section
2. The metal border is on all icons of wc3. You can copy and paste it or download my icon template

 

[Tiki]

im not gona even justify this thread with a comment just wow

 

[Elvish Master]

Thanks sophon and AoD....oh and Tiki you rpost didnt really help me out

 

[Tiki]

exactly, next time u start a thread on how to make an icon search the forums. because this has been answered a thousand times.

 

[Elvish Master]

ok, so i did these things:

1) copied an icon (some shield) and loaded it into Photoshop. Then i made my own icon of it. But then i saved it but it was a .jpg picture then. So i couldnt make it .tga????

2) downloaded the same shield, but couldnt load it into photoshop. So i used the WC3viewer, and made it some weird other thing (.tga??) but that couldnt been load as well because of the modul interface????

can anyone please help me out?

EDIT: it seems i can load it into paint, btu as u might know, it isnt a good program to change the picture

 

[Sopho]

You can save your icon as .tga

WC3 Viewer will open .blp and not .tga or .jpg or .bmp but you can convert them to .blp