[Tutorial] How to make Item Icons in Gimp

[Muffin]

Thanks. I was wondering how to do this, Since im not good with editing programs.

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[FOX TAIL]

Best ever

[spartan101]

Thanks so much!

[takato14]

You seriously thought there was a need for a tutorial of this? This is litterally all one big DERP.

Not only that, but its far easier to screenshot the model in the modeling program itself. You'll get a better render of it, for one, and for two its not horrendously impossible to get a nice viewing angle. Not only that, but you can also make all the icons for the weapon before you have it in-game as a dts, which is much more convienient.


All-in-all this tutorial is useless. Nice job wasting both mine and your own time.

[spartan101]

You seriously thought there was a need for a tutorial of this? This is litterally all one big DERP.

Not only that, but its far easier to screenshot the model in the modeling program itself. You'll get a better render of it, for one, and for two its not horrendously impossible to get a nice viewing angle. Not only that, but you can also make all the icons for the weapon before you have it in-game as a dts, which is much more convienient.


All-in-all this tutorial is useless. Nice job wasting both mine and your own time.

There's the door now get out!

[takato14]

There's the door now get out!

What door?

This is a website, you dolt. -_-

Im am merely stating the fact that GIMP is very simple to use and that a tutorial is pointless if you can easily figure it out yourself.

[spartan101]

What door?

This is a website, you dolt. -_-

Im am merely stating the fact that GIMP is very simple to use and that a tutorial is pointless if you can easily figure it out yourself.

Do I have to say it for the 5th time I have a mac.

[takato14]

Do I have to say it for the 5th time I have a mac.

That doesnt make it any harder. GIMP is the same on Mac OS and Windows.

Not only that, but this tutorial was made on a WINDOWS computer, if you hadnt noticed.

[TheKhoz]

If you take a picture of the render, the lighting/coloration might be off. That's not saying it is a bad idea, and I have done it before. But there is a perfectly good way to get a great angle in game. First, go to a single player server in either the Construct, Greenscreen (or Slate Green) or Bluescreen maps. Then build a tower that is about 10 bricks high out of 1x1's. Put a platform on top. Set all of these to no rendering. Go into F8. Find a good angle (Easy to do now). Take picture. Cut out green/blue/white, replace with trans, merge with the icon.png. Save. Put in .zip. Test. ???. Profit.

[takato14]

If you take a picture of the render, the lighting/coloration might be off.

Not if you do it correctly and actually perform a final render of the model.

But there is a perfectly good way to get a great angle in game.

Using the admin orb is not as easy as rotating your view with the modeling program, because you have a LOT more control over the camera movement in Blender, Milkshape, SketchUp, etc than you do in-game.

[TheKhoz]

Not if you do it correctly and actually perform a final render of the model.

I mean that your render will look different in game, and you don't want your icon and weapon to look different. Blockland screws with the textures.

[takato14]

I mean that your render will look different in game, and you don't want your icon and weapon to look different. Blockland screws with the textures.

Meh, not really. Here's a comparison for you:

Screenshot In-game:


Screenshot from Google SketchUp:


Screenshot from Blender:


As you can see, there's very little visible difference, except for the fact that the angles arent the same. (i tried, :P)

[spartan101]

I got this done

[Uxie]

Found the door.

[takato14]

I got this done

Blury as stuff...

Which is why you make a higher resolution than 90x90 and allow the game to resize it by itself.