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How To make an Icon

by Tyler Slabinski · in Torque Game Builder · 04/01/2007 (9:55 am) · 6 replies

I want to make an icon for my game. Anyone know how?

#1
04/01/2007 (12:08 pm)
You need to replace the IDI_ICON1 in the "T2D SDK.rc" in the VS Solution and recompile ... the easiest way to do it is to replace the t2d.ico in the engine/compilers/VS2005 or VS2003 directory and recompile ...

If your question is how to make the actual .ICO file itself, their are a number of applications out there that can convert BMP, JPG and PNG files into ICO files ... and alternatively, there are tons of art programs which are designed for creating/editing ICO files like they are regular images in photoshop, etc, etc ...
#2
04/01/2007 (12:16 pm)
Ok I have photoshop CS2 So that will work
#3
04/01/2007 (4:28 pm)
Ok I have photoshop CS2 So that will work
#4
04/01/2007 (6:23 pm)
@David

What if you do not have TGB Pro with access to source. How do you replace the default icon with your own custom one?
#5
04/01/2007 (6:52 pm)
@Stanley, don't think you can change the icon without the source ... sorry.
#6
04/02/2007 (4:46 pm)
There are a number of programs out there that let you replace windows resources in a windows exe, including the icons.

I can't vouch for any of them, but you might want to look at the ones listed here.
www.thefreecountry.com/programming/resourceeditors.shtml