12-31-2010, 03:45 PM
Forgive me for saying that it really, really shouldn't be that hard to use, but I'll help you out here.
To make a new icon, go to file and click new icon. Specify the resource the icon is for (Models, Sprites, Textures) and then if it a game section or sheet icon. To add a name for the sheet you go to Text and then hit Add Text to get a little window where you enter what you want to name the icon. Now there's two ways to get an image onto the icon. You can copy the image from somewhere (it has to be small enough because you can't resize it in the icon maker) and click Image and then Paste Image to get it on the icon. You can drag it around with the mouse to position it and that's that really as the effects the icon maker itself adds aren't too good.
The second method would be only if you wanted to make an image for a player model or something that doesn't take up the whole icon box. Since the Icon Maker doesn't support pasting in images with transparency, you have to manually edit these types of images in through another program. Personally I use a program called Paint.Net (Not the name of the website, homepage is getpaint.net), but you can use any decent image editor for this you want like GIMP, Photoshop, whatever. The whole reason behind this is so that you can have anti-aliasing on the model images so they look nice rather than blocky edges. The AAed look really is worth it in the end.
To make a new icon, go to file and click new icon. Specify the resource the icon is for (Models, Sprites, Textures) and then if it a game section or sheet icon. To add a name for the sheet you go to Text and then hit Add Text to get a little window where you enter what you want to name the icon. Now there's two ways to get an image onto the icon. You can copy the image from somewhere (it has to be small enough because you can't resize it in the icon maker) and click Image and then Paste Image to get it on the icon. You can drag it around with the mouse to position it and that's that really as the effects the icon maker itself adds aren't too good.
The second method would be only if you wanted to make an image for a player model or something that doesn't take up the whole icon box. Since the Icon Maker doesn't support pasting in images with transparency, you have to manually edit these types of images in through another program. Personally I use a program called Paint.Net (Not the name of the website, homepage is getpaint.net), but you can use any decent image editor for this you want like GIMP, Photoshop, whatever. The whole reason behind this is so that you can have anti-aliasing on the model images so they look nice rather than blocky edges. The AAed look really is worth it in the end.
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