Making Icons and Integrating
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Making an icon for your mod
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
- Create a new document with the dimensions 256x256 pixels.
- Create your icon.
- Save your image in a folder (For example "sourcemods/resource/icons_raw/") and call it icon_huge.
- Copy icon_huge, rename it to icon_big and scale its dimensions down to 32x32 pixels.
- Copy icon_big, rename it to just icon, and scale it down to 16x16 pixels.
- Open the icon file and save it as a targa file (.tga) in the "sourcemods/resource/" folder
- Do the same with icon_big
Note: Do not do this with icon_huge
- 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


- 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