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Manhattan_Guy

Post Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:56 am

Ship icons

I've got some problems with creating new ship icons. First, I used the FL Model Cloner to try and create a new icon.

When that didn't work, I worked my way through implementing step 3 of Osprey's tutorial manually. That didn't work either.

My 3db is referred to correctly in the INI and the tga imported into the file is 64 x 64 pixels and looking fine.

Ideas?

Manhattan_Guy

Post Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:28 am

Okay, I solved it. Osprey's tutorial said 24 bits would be okay for the tga. Well, obviosly not: I tried 16 bits and now it's working.

Argh

Post Sun Nov 06, 2005 4:17 am

I have to suggest using 32. You can also use DDS, actually, although it hardly matters with Icons anyhow. Icons, like practically everything else in FL, are just pictures that are being projected onto two-tri squares. You can double the texture rez, etc., and it all still works.

AluminumHaste

Post Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:03 pm

This is also where I gave up on my ship mod with the see through hull, the icons kept crashing the game.
I had 6 colors to choose from and you picked which one when you installed the mod with a drop down menu.

Hobbes78

Post Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:38 pm

I tried out the new 3db export plugin for milkshape to create an icon for a ship i just finished recently and it worked great using a 64x64 32 bit TGA texture.

I would suggest getting it and trying it out. Quite a handy little plugin.

AluminumHaste

Post Sun Dec 04, 2005 6:51 am

Do you have a link??

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