PlaneShift
Fan Area => Fan Art => Topic started by: Neryam on August 04, 2005, 03:33:18 pm
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So since psclient.exe and updater.exe didn\'t have an Icon and I wanted to contribute something, I whipped up this here icon, in hopes that is would be officially used as the PS icon! :D
Ok that\'s my hope but feel free to use it anyone... :P
http://www.thedragonpeak.com/userfiles/admin/planeshift2.ico
And here is the PNG of the icon, for preview purposes.. the gem is actually slightly translucent, BTW. It won\'t look right in IE because IE does not support PNGs! Stupid microsoft.. X(
(http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/5231/undefined3icon1image9cf.png)
Its big for when toolbars enlarge em and stuff.. When used it will be resized like normal automatically by the OS.
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Very nice job! Good idea on using the crystal from the logo, looks pretty cool. I\'m sorry to say though that Planeshift already has an icon. You might have missed it for some reason but if you look again you\'ll notice they have a little icon that says \'PS\' on it.
Still a nice job though and its glad to see someone making an icon thats actually in the .ico format. You\'d be surprised how many times I\'ve seen people submit icons for other things (not planeshift) and end up submitting a jpeg.
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Try putting some letters in there like \"PS\".
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But alas the linux version doesn\'t come with an icon. So I\'ll use this one.
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Hmm.. PS Yeah I suppose that would be nice but then when made small on the desktop and stuff the letters would get all hard-edged and small.. I could give it a try
Does linux use icons? Isn\'t it just.. code or something sry I Don\'t use linux much :rolleyes: But yeah sure. :D
Really? Planeshift has an icon? It doesn\'t appear in my folder.. ?(
Thanks :D
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Linux isn\'t just code here is my current desktop:
(http://us.share.geocities.com/brantwatson2002/BrantDesktop1.png)
and me installing windowsxp in a small window for testing purposes.
(http://www.geocities.com/brantwatson2002/multitasking.png)
nope it isn\'t JUST code it uses icons too lol
take care.
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Whoah. Dang I was slightly wrong :P It actually looks a bit like a mac..
Is linux nice? other than then the fact that there isn\'t as much software support as windows..
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with linux and mac you get less viruses and crashes. But the downside for both is that they dont get much program compatability. Because the game makers are too lazy to make a newer version. But with Planeshift, this is not the case.
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Yep shasta is right. And while the mac probabily gets a few more native ports of applications than windows does, linux ends up a little better off with its wine/cxoffice/cedega products, which allow the user to run most windows applications on linux without any performace hit. As you can see in my screenshot I have Worlds of Warcraft working in linux and for some reason its performance is actually better than in windows on the same machine. This isn\'t always the case though.
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aye, this game runs better in Linux than windows for me... and btw, i like the Icon, and i will use it now, because i wasnt able to find a linux one... (i\'m not sure they have one for linux, though i could just mount the win partition and make a png out of the .ico, but i like this one... good work!
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w00t go UBUNTU!
hehe i wrote the plone how-to on the forums
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Really? It runs better on linux.. well it may be all the not-working-too-well windows firewall and the nasty 100 programs win xp has running at all times.. :P
Ubuntu? What? One of the windows on that guys screen?
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Ubuntu is a linux distro. Like windows linux comes in various flavors. Windows has flavors like windows 3.11 windows 95/98, windows ME (Mistake) windows 2000, and windows XP. Some of these also have srver versions and there are several versions of \"windows NT which is supposed toi be a more stabile server oriented windows. It also forms the base of windows 2000 and XP. Linux comes in flavors called \"Distros\" You may have heard oif Red Hat, or SuSE. These are larger comercial versions. Ubuntu is a flavor of linux which is desktop oriented. LInux comes in literally thouseands of flavors tailord to your specific needs. Its a bit like shopping for a car. You buy a sports car if it suits your needs. Similarly, you wouldn\'t buy a small car if ou needed to haul a trailor. Similarly different linux distros are tailored to specific needs. Windows has 2 main flavors in reality. Home and Server. Home is a general flavor based on filling everyones basic needs. Server Windows is what it sounds like. With windows XP they also released a pro version which was intended at hitting the major workplace environment.
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And that one doesn\'t show up either :D Try imageshack.. ( http://www.imageshack.us )
Ahh yea I know about RedHat, my host uses that on its servers. So that would be the more advences code kind right? Then Ubuntu is a desktop.. Wow that\'s quite cool mabye I SHOULD get a double boot.. :))
No idea how this changed into a linux discussion thread but :P
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I\'m afraid that that was my fault. I mentioned that the linux version had no icon, so I decided to use it, then someone mentioned they didn\'t know linux used icons... so it began....and myself personally on a quest to figure out why his one screenshot won\'t work! One MORE TRY!
(http://img306.imageshack.us/img306/1596/brantdesktop20lp.th.jpg) (http://img306.imageshack.us/my.php?image=brantdesktop20lp.jpg)
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Yay! It finally worked.. :D Yea imageshack is nice.
Ubuntu does really look like a mac.. :P
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Partially it looks like a mac because I like the OSX look, a and themed my computer to resemble it. I added the scaling dock at the bottom for eyecandy.
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the original icon of PS doesnt look that great, actually I was wondering if there were more custom better icons to use, maybe make a bunch and poll the best, maybe they will use it in there next release :P
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I\'ve adapted that icon for my own use a bit, hope Neryam won\'t mind too much ^^
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/karyuu/PSicon.gif)
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here is one i made
http://www.freewebs.com/bloodwolfen/Picon.ico
(http://www.freewebs.com/bloodwolfen/PSicon.JPG)
.ico by Carpe Noctum :P
I used the art from the front page by screenshot, then did some editing and tweaking and erasing in paint and made that
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You\'d be surprised how many times I\'ve seen people submit icons for other things (not planeshift) and end up submitting a jpeg.
Yup :P
Never submit JPEG for icons, PNG is ~Pretty Much~ an icon not in the .ico format so use those. PNG is the only widely used format that supports partial tranceparency, just like icons :P
There are many programs to convert PNGs into .ICOs, just search google.. :P
Ahh Karyuu thats fine but I sould probably add that text to mine to monopolize this.. :P
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Personally, I like the crystal icon without the text. Look at the other icons on your computer, how many of them have text? Probably none, or close to it. An icon is a just that, a picture, not text, that distinguishes on app/file/folder from another. The text is below the icon, not on it.
Oh, and if you don\'t mind, I made a Mac .icns version of the crystal. .png and .ico don\'t work on Macs, the transparency becomes black if you try to set them as an icon. It\'s a little darker shade of blue than your\'s, I think I screwed up the mesh a little. Cut me some slack, it\'s my first icon... and it\'s not even actually \"mine\". :P
http://www.freewebs.com/drmobius/Crystal.icns
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Ooh okay thanks.. Well its just as well.. I can\'t seem to view the mac .icns so.. :P
Hmm I guess it\'s everyone to his liking, I thought it fine to have just the crystal so
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Just passing by to bump my oooold icon thread (http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=16743&boardid=22&sid=ec310be153775034bbcd32e74574d335&goto=nextnewest). If anyone wants to use/convert/put them in a library file or whatever, feel free to.
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Ahh yours are quite nice.. :] but you hijacked my thread :D
All the icons except the \"PS\" was from actual in-game screenies right?
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Originally posted by Mobius
Oh, and if you don\'t mind, I made a Mac .icns version of the crystal. .png and .ico don\'t work on Macs, the transparency becomes black if you try to set them as an icon.
How would you actually use it? Usually I set icons by opening the file info and cut/pasting the little icon from one file to another, but the .icns file shows the generic icon instead of the gem. I know the images are there because I see them when I open the file in Preview. How can I set it as my PS icon?
By the way, I llike it better without text also.
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there was someone who made some icons a while back... using laanx temple and some other things, they are definatley worth searching for all though the only icon i have for PS is the batch file icon :/
editation: er... i didnt read it all before posting, but yeah.
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Originally posted by Drey
editation: er... i didnt read it all before posting, but yeah.
Lol :P Bad example
Wait.. I don\'t know anything about macs.. :/ Sorry
:D Good then I\'ll keep it wihtout text.. its cleaner and fresher.