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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

Making the Steam Library Icon

The first thing you need to do is make a sqaure 512px image.
Next create your icon. (try copying the example as a placeholder)
Copy the image, and size it down to 32px
Ctrl+S to Save the 32px image as a tga in "\steamapps\sourcemods\MODNAME\resource" as "icon.tga"

Next open your gameinfo.txt located in "sourcemods\MODNAME" It should look something like 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

        "developer"		"YOURNAME"
        "developer_url"         "YOURWEBSITE"
	"icon"			"resource\icon"

Ctrl+S to save, and now restart steam and your icon should appear in the library

Breakdown

developer is the name of you or your company's name
developer_url is the you or your company's website, this is optional and if not entered will be replaced with developer
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 512px 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

@@ Line 13: / Line 13: @@
 == Making the Steam Library Icon ==
-*The first thing you need to do is make a sqaure 32px image.
+*The first thing you need to do is make a sqaure 512px image.
 *Next create your icon. (try copying the example as a placeholder)
-*Save the image as a tga in '''"\steamapps\sourcemods\''MODNAME''\resource"''' as "game.tga"
+*Copy the image, and size it down to 32px
+*{{key|Ctrl|S}} to Save the 32px image as a tga in '''"\steamapps\sourcemods\''MODNAME''\resource"''' as "icon.tga"
 Next open your ''gameinfo.txt'' located in '''"sourcemods''\MODNAME"'''''
 It should look something like this:
@@ Line 33: / Line 34: @@
 <pre>
          "developer"		"YOURNAME"
-	"icon"			"resource\game"
+        "developer_url"         "YOURWEBSITE"
+	"icon"			"resource\icon"
 </pre>
-Save, and now restart steam and your icon should appear in the library
+{{key|Ctrl|S}} to save, and now restart steam and your icon should appear in the library
-== Requirements ==
-Adobe Photoshop or [http://www.gimp.org/ Gimp]
-[http://rapidshare.com/files/328928705/Targa_converter.zip AlphaConv] or [http://www.mediafire.com/?h5m4mjmm3i5 mirror]
-[http://icofx.ro/ IcoFX]
-Source sdk + steam
-== Make Steam Icon first ==
-First things first; Open steam and launch the Source SDK in the tools tab. If you haven't already, [[Create_a_Mod|Create a Mod]] and navigate to your mod folder: ''C:\Program Files(x86)\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\mymod'' where "mymod" is the name of your mod. If you have, navigate to your mod folder.
-Open your gameinfo.txt file in your favorite plain-text editing software.
-It should look akin to the following
-<pre>
-"GameInfo"
-{
-	// This is what shows up in the 'Third Party Games' area of the Steam games list.
-	game						"mymod"
-	type 						singleplayer_only
-	FileSystem
-	{
-	    SteamAppId	215		// GCF for Source SDK Base
-	    ToolsAppId	211		// Tools will load this (ie: source SDK caches) to get things like materials\debug, materials\editor, etc.
-		SearchPaths
-		{
-			Game				|gameinfo_path|.
-			Game				sourcetest
-			Game				hl2
-		}
-	}
-}
-</pre>
-Add the following lines under '''type'''
-<pre>
-"developer" 		"noob industries"
-"developer_url" 	"http://www.google.ie"
-"icon" "resource\GameIconSteam\icon_mymod"
-</pre>
-...So that it looks like this:
-<pre>
-"GameInfo"
-{
-	// This is what shows up in the 'Third Party Games' area of the Steam games list.
-	game						"mymod"
-	type 						singleplayer_only
-        "developer" 		"noob industries"
-        "developer_url" 	"http://www.google.ie"
-        "icon" "resource\GameIconSteam\icon_mymod"
-	FileSystem
-	{
-	    SteamAppId	215		// GCF for Source SDK Base
-	    ToolsAppId	211		// Tools will load this (ie: source SDK caches) to get things like materials\debug, materials\editor, etc.
-		SearchPaths
-		{
-			Game				|gameinfo_path|.
-			Game				sourcetest
-			Game				hl2
-		}
-	}
-}
-</pre>
 === Breakdown ===
+*'''developer''' is the name of you or your company's name
+*'''developer_url''' is the you or your company's website, this is optional and if not entered will be replaced with '''developer'''
+*'''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
-*'''developer''' is the name of what company or who made the game. This affects the game files itself, such as seen in the your Steam games list.
+== Making the hl2.exe Icon ==
-*'''developer_url''' will make the developers name in steam a hyperlink to the address specified above in this case google
+{{note|You may need to restart your computer to be able to make the icon visible on your desktop}}
+*Take your 512px icon and save it as an interlaced .png
-*'''icon''' tells steam where the icon can be found; In this case, in your mod folder: ''resource\GameIconSteam'' It should default to looking for icon_mymod.tga
+*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"
-== Making the Steam Icon ==
+Now you can {{key|RMB}} the mod in your steam library and create a desktop shortcut
-Open your favorite graphics-design or photo-editing software, and make a blank canvas with dimensions of 16*16 pixels. Make it transparent, if you'd like. Design your icon.
-Save it as a .png to your ''C:\Program Files(x86)\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\mymod\resource\GameIconSteam'' mod folder as icon_mymod.png. Don't forget to replace "mymod" with your mod name!
-Now navigate to that folder.
-Open [http://www.mediafire.com/?h5m4mjmm3i5 AlphaConv]
-*select Target format to be .tga
-*Uncheck Convert only 32-bit images(with alpha channel)
-*Drag and drop icon_mymod.png onto the program and it will convert it to the same folder
-*delete the input file (icon_mymod.png)
-== Making the Game.exe Icon ==
-*Download and install IcoFx
-Open it and like photoshop make an Image. Click on the Windows Icon near the top middle of the program...This generates an icon.
-Now save it to your
-''C:\Program Files\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\mymod\resource'' folder
-{{note|Remember that you must call the icon game.ico or it will not work and it must be in the above folder}}
-== Conclusion ==
-And that for the most part is how to get your game fully iconified
-restart steam to get your new icons loaded
-If you want to see your game.exe icon on the desktop rightclick on it and make a desktop shortcut inside steam...
-{{note|Im pretty sure you need to restart the computer to see your new Game icon on the desktop }}
-But if you cant wait start the game and alt+tab out of it and look down at the toolbar to see the icon on the program
-I hope this helped
-Dont forget to check out my Video tutorial of this process here
-[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OYe6Q7BnDI Youtube Tutorial]

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