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Game icon file

Postby Troodon » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:40 pm

Why I can't change games icon files? It's a bug?
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Postby makslane » Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:05 pm

To change the file icons you must use .ico files
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Postby BeyondtheTech » Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:47 pm

Just in case you don't have it, here's a plug-in for Photoshop so you can make ICO files.

http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/#icoformat

The image has to be 64x64 or smaller square in order to save it to that format.

Also, the king of icon editors is Microangelo Toolset. You can pull icons from other files and muck with them, and a lot more.

http://www.microangelo.us/
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Postby Troodon » Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:44 pm

ICO-files and max.64x64 pixels. Thanks!
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Postby Troodon » Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:49 am

I found a free program wich allows to convert bmp files to ico. It's named pop-a-bmp-to-ico and can be found here http://www.soft32.com/download_94376.html
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Postby Game A Gogo » Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:34 pm

you can also try program at aha-soft its a really great tools for making icon up to any sizes depending on your memory.
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