How to Edit Icons

[Sam08]

Here's an example of a Humvee I made. I loaded it into GIMP and told it to translate to the SP palette


And here's what it did!



The GIMP uses luminosity values and even messes up the pink transparent pixels! That should be a direct 1 for 1 translation there!

[Cross]

Your original on the left, after applying the SP palette with Paint.Net on the right.



NB. I removed the invisible pink from the SP palette in PDN, because I don't want PDN to use invisible pink for the hands of infantry etc. I just add the pink to the icon afterwards.
If you prefer to have pink in the palette it's easy to add, just make sure you check pink wasn't added to the icon itself.


Cross

[Cross]

If you want to try out Paint.Net, it’s a free download here:

http://www.getpaint.net/index.html


APPLY PALETTE

The plugin to apply a Paint.Net palette to an image is found here:

http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php...pdate-for-354/

Drop the plugins into the EFFECTS folder, and then after restarting PDN go to the menu: EFFECTS...COLOR...SELECTIVE PALETTE to use the plugin.

I will attach a copy of the complete WinSP palette (232 colours, not including invisible pink and the bright blue collage colour) to this post in a text file.

Put the txt file in your PALETTES folder which may be located:

MY DOCS/PAINT.NET USER FILES/PALETTES



SP Colours in Three Palettes <96

When manually selecting colours in Paint.Net you can only see 96 colours at time; so I'll also attach 3 palettes for manual selection:

Browns
Blues & Grays
Greens & Yellows

but I prefer to paste an image of the palette onto the canvas and just work from that.

Cross

[Sam08]

It certainly is cool to meet someone else with a passion for making small top-down military images!

Yes, I like Paint.net, but after finally wrapping my mind around GIMP, using Paint.net feels like using my mouse with my left hand! I'm going to need Paint.net because GIMP's been acting up lately--there are so many strange aspects to that program!

Here's an example of what I'm trying to do:



I want to translate some images to be in SP. I changed the paint scheme to be more SP friendly. It still looks too dark to me, but I'm just starting to learn. I must admit, this is a challenge with such a limited palette!

I'm planning to play a long campaign, and replacing each icon as I encounter it. Most of all, I want the game to feel like I'm actually playing with little metal miniatures!

[Cross]

I think you succeeded in making it look like a metal miniature. Looks good. You can probably lighten it up by playing with the brightness and contrast, and then reapplying the SP palette.

Cross

[EJ]

Andy OR Don,

Is there any CHANCE you guys will CONSIDER making Cross's edited icons part of the next game patch? I think it would be great for making the game look better as it's already one of my favorite games.