[Axem]

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?)



(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

[Goober5000]

Ooh, awesome.

[IceFire]

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.

[Axem]

If anyone knows where the source for the icons came from, I could add in a 256 version for both sets.

[JGZinv]

I like the

FRED
   2
Open

design out of the group.

[Galemp]

Superb!

[eliex]

Awesome. I'll have to say that the FRED - 2 - Open design is the best of the group.

[chief1983]

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?

[Axem]

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.

[Aardwolf]

Reminds me of Lolcats. "I can has icon?"

[chief1983]

I think it was just the words I thought were a little rough, maybe you can anti-alias them with the background?

[TacOne]

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.

[Axem]

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.

[chief1983]

Ok I'll stop being picky then.  I still want to see 128/256 versions though

[Axem]

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

[chief1983]

These are committed to trunk, and will probably be the icons for the official 3.6.10 and any RCs before then.

[asyikarea51]

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)

[chief1983]

Darn.  Reverted until I make sure we can compile with Axem's icons this time.  Should compile OK now.

[asyikarea51]

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 

[chief1983]

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).