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Item Icon Backgrounds

Discussion in 'Census: General Discussion' started by Friggles, Dec 20, 2012.

  1. Friggles

    Friggles Guest

    Im just curious how other are recreating the backgrounds behind the item icons as shown in the in-game examine window. My application can determine what color the background should be based on various factors (i.e. Tier, item type, etc) but I can't get the texture to look right and I'm out of ideas. Have you somehow sampled the texture and re-used it? Or are you a graphic guru and have recreated it from scratch?

    Thanks!

    Friggles

     
    Friggles, Dec 20, 2012
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  2. feldon30

    feldon30 Guest

    Download the DDS Plugin for Photoshop and go dumpster diving in UIDefaultimages. (Yoda) Find there amazing stuff you will. :cool:

    On EQ2U, I actually do not vary the background color for item icons based on item tier. Nobody pointed out that I was doing it wrong until 11 months later when I got a PM from Uberfuzzy. :cool: It's now on my To Do list after Green Adorns and a few dozen other things.

     
    feldon30, Dec 20, 2012
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  3. Lera

    Lera Guest

    The way I did it was to grab them from screenshots after editing my icon dds files to make the icons transparent. The graphic is in the dds files, however, it's recoloured in-game, so recreating it in Photoshop would be a lot of trial-and-error.

    I just noticed this, though: item tier alone doesn't determine the background colour - you also have to look at the tier id number. I've only looked at furniture, but so far, Handcrafted is the only one that's different (it can be grey, green, or blue). Other tiers have multiple ID numbers, but the background colours are the same. It could vary with other types of items.

     
    Lera, Dec 21, 2012
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  4. Friggles

    Friggles Guest

    Thank you both for the tips!

     
    Friggles, Dec 22, 2012
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  5. feldon30

    feldon30 Guest

    I may turn Fabled slots to red, and Mythical slots to purple on our Character Details page, just so you can see at-a-glance what tier your gear is. But I'm not sure it adds much in the Item Examine windows.

     
    feldon30, Dec 22, 2012
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  6. Quicktiger

    Quicktiger Guest

    http://eq2mission.flame.org  does color the backgrounds.  I just made my own colored tiles and use them, as it was easier than stealing them from eq2 (and I didn't want to hit any IP problems)

     
    Quicktiger, Jan 7, 2013
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  7. feldon30

    feldon30 Guest

    The AA icons aren't in the feed, so they had to come from somewhere. ;) Numerous sites including EQ2 Wikia and EQ2 ZAM use real spell and item icons.
     
    feldon30, Jan 8, 2013
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