Armise
Chieftain
Hi, I'm starting to create custom icons for my mods, and besides introducing pain in my ass for image format compatibility, there is a problem I can't solve.
How do you make your custom icons match the style of the original ones ?
I mean, for example in civilization or leaders icons, the golden circle surrounding it, is it applying itself around where the icon is in alpha layer ? If yes, how do you know the size of the icon you have to create, since some vanilla icons (if not all) overpass that circle ?
Other thing, the shiny effect on the civ's icons, the one that, when spawning two different french civs in vanilla game, appears on the one that has french colors but not on the one that has dutch's colors. How do you apply this effect on your icon for it not to look ugly ? Is there a semi-alpha .png that holds this effect ?
EDIT : other question, how and where do you make civ's silhouette, like it appears on the right of the name of a civ's city ?
How do you make your custom icons match the style of the original ones ?
I mean, for example in civilization or leaders icons, the golden circle surrounding it, is it applying itself around where the icon is in alpha layer ? If yes, how do you know the size of the icon you have to create, since some vanilla icons (if not all) overpass that circle ?
Other thing, the shiny effect on the civ's icons, the one that, when spawning two different french civs in vanilla game, appears on the one that has french colors but not on the one that has dutch's colors. How do you apply this effect on your icon for it not to look ugly ? Is there a semi-alpha .png that holds this effect ?
EDIT : other question, how and where do you make civ's silhouette, like it appears on the right of the name of a civ's city ?
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