Making Icons and Integrating

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Making an icon for your mod

Steam Library

Desktop and Enlarged

For the icon of your mod there are two places it can be displayed: In your steam library and on your desktop. (right)

To make your icon you will need either

• Adobe Photoshop
• GIMP

Making the Steam Library Icon

1. Create a new document with the dimensions 256x256 pixels.
2. Create your icon.
3. Save your image in a folder (For example "sourcemods/resource/icons_raw/") and call it icon_huge.
4. Copy icon_huge, rename it to icon_big and scale its dimensions down to 32x32 pixels.
5. Copy icon_big, rename it to just icon, and scale it down to 16x16 pixels.
6. Open the icon file and save it as a targa file (.tga) in the "sourcemods/resource/" folder
7. Do the same with icon_big
   Note:Do not do this with icon_huge
8. Open your gameinfo.txt located in "sourcemods/MODNAME/"

It should look similar to this:

"GameInfo"
{
	game	"My First HL2MP Mod"
	title	"HALF+LIFE'"
	title2	"deathmatch mod"
	type multiplayer_only
	nomodels 0
	nohimodel 1
	nocrosshair 1

Add this underneath

	"icon"			"resource/icon"

Save and restart Steam and your icon should appear in the library

Breakdown

• icon tells Steam where the icon can be found; In this case, in the resource folder: resource\game It should default to looking for icon.tga

Making the hl2.exe Icon

Note:You may need to restart your computer to be able to make the icon visible on your desktop

• Take your 256px icon and save it as an interlaced .png
• Find a .ico converting website and make convert the .png to .ico
• Download and save the .ico in "\steamapps\sourcemods\MODNAME\resource" as "game.ico"

Now you can the mod in your steam library and create a desktop shortcut

Editing the icon with XBLAH's Modding Tool

The mod icon can be edited with XBLAH's Modding Tool through a comprehensive UI without requiring the modder to mess with text files or resources.

Where to find it
This can be accessed within the tool through Mod > Game info.

How to use it
Right click the picture box next to the Icon label and click Load. Select the file path and extension and the tool will generate the icons at the correct sizes, add them to the resource path and update the gameinfo.