icons

[Phemar]

I tried to add icons to my game. I usually make icons in paint at the RIGHT resolution, but the ags said I can't do that.

So then I went to downloading a professional icon maker and created my own icon, which was sort of a copy of the first one, except that it changed depending on whether you have small or large icons selected.  I named it user.ico and placed it in my game's directory (not compiled).

I loaded up my game a pressed [ctrl][T] to run my game, but then ags still gave me the icon error.

I tried this with several icon editors and and the same thing happened. Then I tried on our laptop and the error still came. I tried to download AWicon editor like CJ said, but it didn't run on my pc so I don't know if that is the problem.

please help!
Thanks.

[Ishmael]

You've either been downloading crap editors, or saving the icons with wrong format, as far as I can see. I know that atleast IconArt just makes renamed BMPs, it's freeware, but it can rip icons from dlls and such... And I remember a shareware editor which was all professional looking, had loadsa tools, some of them disabled, but it did the same thing. AGS did not accept the icon. The only change is to get a porfessional program, which makes icons, not ranamed BMPs, but I can't think of any right now...

[Inkoddi]

The icons need to be 32×32 16 colour only or they won't work. Seriously, it says so in the manual.

[Pau]

I use the iconpro it's easy to use and it works.

I found it in the CD of Visual Studio 6. I've searched the web and all the samples could be downloaded at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vcsample98/html/vcsmpiconpro.asp

As it's free available, I think I can send you just the program (200KB) instead of make you download all the samples, I hope Microsoft lawyers don't care. So PM me if you are interesed.