How to make new icons for the menu of Game-Guru ?

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imothep85

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Posted: 5th Jun 2018 07:00

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Hi i would like to create new icons for game-guru, and propose that to the community & Lee, how can i do that, what format is needed for the icons ?

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Posted: 5th Jun 2018 10:53 Edited at: 5th Jun 2018 10:54

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Quote: "how can i do that"

I don't want to sound negative but that really doesn't fill me with confidence .
I think its all hard coded but the format doesn't matter at this stage. Mock up shots would be good enough
Perhaps the EBE could do with something better but that's just me. It doesn't effect the function of it

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Posted: 5th Jun 2018 12:39

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they are in the .ico format.
Here: https://github.com/TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo/blob/master/GameGuru%20Core/Guru-MapEditor/icon2-db3.ico

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Posted: 5th Jun 2018 13:00 Edited at: 5th Jun 2018 13:18

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Quote: "they are in the .ico format."

Creating them can be any format from BMP to Jpg to start with.
Changing or saving them to .ICO would just be the end result

Quote: "make new icons for the menu of Game-Guru "

Also I think he is referring these and not the actual exe icon you linked to

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Posted: 5th Jun 2018 13:49 Edited at: 5th Jun 2018 13:55

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Quote: "Creating them can be any format from BMP to Jpg to start with."

He asked for the format which is needed. So I will not tell him that if you work in photoshop, he should save it in psd or if he works in gimp he should save it in xcf. Even then, .ico support an alpha channel, so bmp or jpg are the worst formats for this task.

The bar icons are here:
https://github.com/TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo/tree/master/GameGuru%20IDE/res

If you want to change them, you need to build the IDE again, but I could do it for if needed

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Posted: 5th Jun 2018 14:49 Edited at: 5th Jun 2018 15:37

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Quote: "bmp or jpg are the worst formats for this task."

Everything I create whether it be icons, pics, Banners etc for my Websites I use BMP initially as it hardly loses any quality after editing and resaving where as other formats do … Once I am happy with my results I then change \ save to the best format for the job ..
Looks like the menu is made up of .BMP's anyway looking at your link so either way it doesn't matter .. My main point in my original answer was he could " mock up " a menu without actually creating the icons in the first place ..

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