[phreak]

I thought I had added them before.   I guess I forgot to commit those changes to CVS/SVN.

[Aardwolf]

That would be awesome.

[shiv]

Also Vistaish FRED 2 Icon would be appreaciated. The old one looks ugly on my desktop

[Herra Tohtori]

Necrothreaded
Does anyone have in mind including those new icons to the recent fs2_open builds?

Have what in mind?

I'm personally going to continue using my own icon depicting a GTF Perseus in SCP-green livery:



 

Anyone is free to use it if they want. I always thought the GTVA insignia to be a bit boring as an icon - functional, sure, and well scalable, but boring. Which is why I use this. Some might argue that you can't see any details on the fighter but aside from 16 pixel size, it's pretty much recognizable as Perseus, and higher resolutions work better.

However, I don't think it would be necessary to include moar icons in the executables themselves, the current ones work well enough as default icons and embedding more images into the executables would just needlessly increase file size - if people want to use other icons, I'm sure they can download some* or make their own, it isn't exactly rocket science...


*a good place to upload icons would likely be FreeSpaceMods' Miscellaneous section. They aren't exactly very hard on storage space or bandwidth so hosting them would be trivial compared to behemoths like TBP or BtRL or the MediaVP's...

[chief1983]

That's true, but from what I can see, 2_gtva.ico is better in every way than the current icon (except for the 200kb jump), while looking almost the same, and it should work on all the platforms it already did.  I see no real reason not to switch to it.

[phreak]

I have added the icons provided by Foxer to the executable.  The gtva.ico file replaces the original, while the gtva_glow.ico is accessible by creating a shortcut and choosing the select icon button.

[Aardwolf]

Due to popular demand I am bumping this thread.

I've made some new icons, in 256², 128², 64², 48², 32², 24², and 16² resolutions. All are 32 bit. Provided is a comparison, kinda like the one earlier in the thread.



The icons themselves are available here.

[Jeff Vader]

The icons themselves are available here.

Are not.

[Aardwolf]

Fixed. It's a *nix server, so the capitalization made it barf. (It might be good to remove the link from your quote, cuz that one is still wrong).

[Aardwolf]

Yeah, I noticed the one used in the icon is not as wide. It's a matter of preference, I guess. The executables, however, use a specific icon and I don't think it's easy to change that (as opposed to a shortcut, where it's easy to change the icon).



A single .ico file (zipped), which should display the optimal resolution automatically

[chief1983]

I actually like the ones that phreak added to SVN more.  I would like to see similar replacement icons for FRED though.  And I also think it would be better if the icon backgrounds were just transparent, and not 3 solid colors to choose from.  Unless that's just an example.

[Aardwolf]

The shades of gray are just to show how it looks on different backgrounds. It has an alpha channel, so it'll look fine everywhere (assuming you think it looks fine anywhere).

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Howdy! I always want to see nice looking 32-bit+alpha FS2 icons, so... I made it. Here it is. This icon is scalar (both versions) which means it will look good with small 16x16 ico and also with all larger sizes (up to 64x64). Of course larger is better . Hope you like it! Previews and links below.

Standard version (only for lighty backgrounds):


Glow version (for all kind of backgrounds):


Download:
Standard version (Right click -> Save as)
Glow version (Right click -> Save as)

Update 2007-07-16:
Standard version up to vista's 256x256 and both 16- and 32-bits (Right click -> Save as)

PS. I want to make one more for FRED2 and one for Launcher also.

Lovely.

By the way, what font is that?

[karajorma]

To be honest I'd rather see the FS2 logo on FS2_Open and FRED2_Open  builds replaced with a generic "Powered by SCP" logo that anyone can use. Quite a few TCs end up shipping with an FS2 logo on their builds because they don't have anyone willing to recompile the build just to change the logo. It's rather silly really.

The launcher should be the one with the FS2 logo since it's the one that is the FS2 specific file.

[Herra Tohtori]

S like SCP.

[chief1983]

Oh that's so totally hot.  It's like Superman meets the Hulk meets Freespace.