Come on guys........someone must know how to make an icon. Maybe I can help them with some other problem that I am good at.

There are some wonderful instructions in the tutorial for importing a ship from Lightwave to Freelancer.

yeh, look for it, it has an instruction as how to put a commodity icon in freelancer.

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uhh.......I don't have lightwave.....is there some other way to make an icon?

Uhh, that part of the tutorial can be easily altered to suit your software, just skip the part on rendering and read the part about the finished image

well.....I have read the tutorial several times.....and it is just over my head. Could someone please make an Icon for the armored transport? I have absolutely no skills at making models, texturing, or using 3d programs. (I have milkshape, but have been unable to figure out how to do more than look at other peoples models.)

if milkshape has camera, you can render it using 64 x 64 frame. and just make sure that the camera can view your model perfectly. and save the picture in tga format. Now follow the other steps described in the tutorial on how to insert the picture to the commodity.

for the camera, check out its options.

Never used milkshape for modelling before but used it for exporting models to FL.

Come to think of it i'll take shots of my ships to put it in the commodity.

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milkshape doesn't seem to have a camera (or I just don't know how to find it). Can I just take a screenshot, convert it to 64 x 64 TGA and then just rename it to use as an Icon?

Some things just have to be done a hard way.
Don't ask if a screenshot will work, try it! Its faster than waiting for a reply and it saves other people time....

Yes, you can take any 64 by 64 TGA file and use it as Icon.

I made mine using a screen shot in Milkshape and converting to tga file in photoshop.

when i look at ms3d and mingled with it, i found out that it doesn't have any camera to make rendering. So a screenshot will do as what they are saying and convert it to 64 x 64 tga file.

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