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Title: New FRED Icons?
Post by: Axem on February 07, 2009, 12:44:21 pm: I've noticed new icons for the main FreeSpace exe in newer builds, but alas no FRED ones. I took it upon myself to make some, but if someone else has made some but just aren't in the exe yet, well shoot then.

Anyway I made 3 variants. FRED2, FRED Open and FRED 2 Open. (What is FRED's official name anyway?)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/NarfPics/fredicons.png)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/NarfPics/fredopenicons.png)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/NarfPics/fred2openicons.png)

(The 48x48 FRED2 one I need to tweak a bit so its like the others.)

They also have a white glow under the FS Emblem so you can see it easily on darker backgrounds (my one complaint about the new FS icons).

EDIT: Link for anyone who wants to try them out (http://www.axemspace.com/files/misc/fredopenicons.rar)
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: Goober5000 on February 07, 2009, 04:06:34 pm: Ooh, awesome. :)
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: IceFire on February 07, 2009, 04:13:16 pm: Good man! It was time :)

Just one thing...Vista/Windows 7 have icon support to....256 I think it was. Might want to look to the future.
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: Axem on February 07, 2009, 04:46:27 pm: If anyone knows where the source for the icons came from, I could add in a 256 version for both sets.
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: JGZinv on February 07, 2009, 04:51:58 pm: I like the

FRED
2
Open

design out of the group.
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: Galemp on February 07, 2009, 05:14:45 pm: Superb!
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: eliex on February 07, 2009, 05:30:17 pm: Awesome. I'll have to say that the FRED - 2 - Open design is the best of the group.
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: chief1983 on February 08, 2009, 01:42:41 am: Looks sharp, but they seem a little rough on the edges. They're far better than what's there for FRED now, but I think the new FS exe ones are a bit nicer looking. Are they 32bit color?
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: Axem on February 08, 2009, 09:38:37 am: Yeah, they're all True Color + Alpha. I extracted the new FS exe icons and put the words over in Photoshop, then resaved them. If you've got any suggestions on how to improve, that'd be awesome.
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: Aardwolf on February 08, 2009, 01:19:07 pm: Reminds me of Lolcats. "I can has icon?"
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: chief1983 on February 08, 2009, 11:31:02 pm: I think it was just the words I thought were a little rough, maybe you can anti-alias them with the background?
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: TacOne on February 09, 2009, 02:39:17 am: Nth-ing the fred2open design.
As a person who cannot work without the "detail" view in windows, I especially like the increased distinction between the 16x16 FS2O icon.
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: Axem on February 09, 2009, 09:38:38 am: Well the text is anti-aliased. I tried to make it as readable as possible, but cramming 9 characters in a small space while trying to make sure its readable over any background is tricky. Plus Photoshop's AA options all suck for sizes that small. I had to take the one that looked the least worse. I can upload the PSDs I saved if anyone else wants to tweak them a bit.
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: chief1983 on February 09, 2009, 10:13:29 am: Ok I'll stop being picky then. I still want to see 128/256 versions though :)
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: Axem on April 13, 2009, 03:12:45 pm: BUMP!

Icons up to 256 x 256. I also did glow versions of the FS2 icons too. I realize Foxer already made those, but he didn't make up to 256 and I couldn't emulate his glow style perfectly, so I tried the best I could across all of them so they would look consistent.

http://axemspace.com/files/fs2o-256.ico
http://axemspace.com/files/fred2o-256.ico
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: chief1983 on April 13, 2009, 06:58:50 pm: These are committed to trunk, and will probably be the icons for the official 3.6.10 and any RCs before then.
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: asyikarea51 on April 18, 2009, 11:50:15 am: :bump:

Lately I've been getting these errors trying to compile any new builds... any solution for this n00b?

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--------------------Configuration: Freespace2 - Win32 Release Inferno-------------------- Compiling resources... F:\FS_Open\FSOcode\code\FREESPACE2\FreeSpace.rc (392): error RC2176 : old DIB in app_icon.ico; pass it through SDKPAINT Error executing rc.exe. fs2_open_trunk_r_INF.exe - 1 error(s), 25 warning(s) --------------------Configuration: Fred2 - Win32 Release-------------------- Compiling resources... F:\FS_Open\FSOcode\code\fred2\FRED.rc (74): error RC2176 : old DIB in res\FRED.ico; pass it through SDKPAINT Error executing rc.exe. fred2_open_trunk_r.exe - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s) --------------------Configuration: Fred2 - Win32 Debug-------------------- Compiling resources... F:\FS_Open\FSOcode\code\fred2\FRED.rc (74): error RC2176 : old DIB in res\FRED.ico; pass it through SDKPAINT Error executing rc.exe. fred2_open_trunk_d.exe - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s) --------------------Configuration: Fred2 - Win32 Debug Inferno-------------------- Compiling resources... F:\FS_Open\FSOcode\code\fred2\FRED.rc (74): error RC2176 : old DIB in res\FRED.ico; pass it through SDKPAINT Error executing rc.exe. fred2_open_trunk_d_INF.exe - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s) --------------------Configuration: Fred2 - Win32 Release Inferno-------------------- Compiling resources... F:\FS_Open\FSOcode\code\fred2\FRED.rc (74): error RC2176 : old DIB in res\FRED.ico; pass it through SDKPAINT Error executing rc.exe. fred2_open_trunk_r_INF.exe - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
:nervous:
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: chief1983 on April 18, 2009, 02:34:21 pm: Darn. Reverted until I make sure we can compile with Axem's icons this time. Should compile OK now.
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: asyikarea51 on April 18, 2009, 11:07:20 pm: Trying it now, brb...

EDIT: well now FS2 and FRED2 compiles fine (yay), but compiling FRED2 debug throws up some random error

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Linking... LINK : error : Internal error during FinalPhase ExceptionCode = C0000005 ExceptionFlags = 00000000 ExceptionAddress = 00439535 NumberParameters = 00000002 ExceptionInformation[ 0] = 00000000 ExceptionInformation[ 1] = 3FFF029C CONTEXT: Eax = 3FFF0000 Esp = 0012F6A8 Ebx = 36B7B000 Ebp = 004964B0 Ecx = 00000A28 Esi = 007ED3AC Edx = 00A50003 Edi = 01000000 Eip = 00439535 EFlags = 00010212 SegCs = 0000001B SegDs = 00000023 SegSs = 00000023 SegEs = 00000023 SegFs = 0000003B SegGs = 00000000 Dr0 = 0012F6A8 Dr3 = 36B7B000 Dr1 = 004964B0 Dr6 = 00000A28 Dr2 = 00000000 Dr7 = 00000000 Error executing link.exe. Tool execution canceled by user.
but the way the error looks like, I don't think it's related to the icons and I have to rush off elsewhere, so... be back later :shaking:
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: chief1983 on April 19, 2009, 02:43:49 am: That looks like a hardware error to me. I compiled a merge of FRED2 trunk today into Wanderer's branch just fine, so any code in trunk should compile FRED2 debug unless he somehow has a fix (unlikely since Wanderer doesn't mess with FRED).
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: karajorma on April 19, 2009, 04:02:17 am: Quote from: asyikarea51 on April 18, 2009, 11:07:20 pm
Trying it now, brb...

EDIT: well now FS2 and FRED2 compiles fine (yay), but compiling FRED2 debug throws up some random error

Run the compile again. I get that one all the time for some strange reason but running it a second time works just fine.

Yeah, I've got no explanation for that either. :D
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: asyikarea51 on April 19, 2009, 04:15:48 am: LOL, coincidences... I did it just before you posted; force-rebooted the comp after some windows update got stuck halfway.

Opened it "the long way" (instead of "Recent Files"), manually compiled the FRED2 debug build by itself (no batch building)... compile...

Quote
1 file(s) copied.
0 errors, xx warnings
*blah blah blah could not find FS2PATH*

Earlier when I got the error it was actually my 2nd or 3rd compile.. and it just kept coming up. Don't know how it solved itself. also this isn't chief's new project - rather my own with the SAPI files put in place... somewhere... :nervous:

Definitely strange... :nervous: :lol: XD
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: karajorma on April 19, 2009, 04:51:30 am: The FS2Path error is easily solved (and should be solved if you have FS2 anywhere other than C:\Games\Freespace2).

System control panel->Advanced->Environmental Variables->New User Variable->

Call the variable FS2Path and the value is the path to where ever you have FS2.

Now when you compile the FSO exes will be copied to your FS2 folder. :)
Title: Re: New FRED Icons?
Post by: asyikarea51 on April 19, 2009, 05:00:08 am: Cool, I didn't know that. Then all I have to do is rename the old exe's if I needa keep them for anything.

Thanks. :D