PlaneShift

Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: misterfox on March 22, 2006, 02:53:20 pm

Title: Show your Planeshift icons here!!!
Post by: misterfox on March 22, 2006, 02:53:20 pm

Share your ps icons here!!! I\'m shure everybody hates that old stupid...you know..lol =D

That is all =D

grtz

ps: i\'m not posting one cause i cant manage to make an icon with a transparent background at Photoshop CS (when i save it it gets a white background),if anybody can help me with this...One important thing though: i\'m on Mac :-) (wuhuw Mac rocks!!!)
pps: thank you. =D

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Post by: Zan on March 22, 2006, 04:03:18 pm

I\'m not really sure what you mean with PS Icons, my guess is some sort of avatar from your in-game character. Since my in-game character doesn\'t look anything like it should look, race isn\'t available yet, I\'ll pass on that.

What I wanted to say is ... In Photoshop CS save your file as a .gif and make sure the box infront of \'transparancy\' is marked ;) Other file types tend to replace transparant backgrounds with white ones.

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Post by: Avarus on March 22, 2006, 04:42:44 pm

My general avatar on TDC forums (http://thedragoncouncil.free.fr/phpBB2/index.php) is this:

(http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/3069/dragoncouncilavatar5zn.jpg)

And my sig:

(http://img492.imageshack.us/img492/6426/signaturedm7uc.jpg)

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Post by: Karyuu on March 22, 2006, 07:30:24 pm

What do you mean by PS icons? Please clarify :)

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Post by: Sarrow on March 22, 2006, 08:13:06 pm

He means the  icon image that is used for .exe files

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Post by: Karyuu on March 22, 2006, 08:26:00 pm

In that case, all one has to do is search through the Fan Art forum.

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Post by: Drey on March 23, 2006, 10:24:07 am

As you can see from the piccie i have gone for the everlasting, classic default look...

(http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/3725/psicon9ks.png)

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Post by: apis on March 23, 2006, 08:03:18 pm

here is a copy/paste of mine:

charles@plastic ~/PS/test $ ./psclient

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Post by: DaveG on March 23, 2006, 09:33:39 pm

Here\'s the icon I use for the link to my dev dir:

(http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/820/icon2xr.png)

It\'s actually on our CVS.  :)  Grab the ps-gem.ico (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/planeshift/planeshift/support/icons/ps-gem.ico) in /support/icons/ (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/planeshift/planeshift/support/icons/)

We really should be using this, instead of the other low-quality one.

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Post by: Drey on March 24, 2006, 12:38:48 am

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Originally posted by DaveG
We really should be using this, instead of the other low-quality one.

But with mine the yellow really brings out the subtle greeny blue hues of the background, and dot get me started on the grey....

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Post by: misterfox on March 24, 2006, 11:44:43 pm

nonono i dont mean your avatar! i mean the icon of your psclient,get it? like all games have it... Its damn hard to explain...
 and thanks for the hint Zan.

~

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Post by: Drey on March 25, 2006, 01:04:32 am

me and dave are on about icons...

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Post by: apis on March 25, 2006, 11:07:34 am

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Originally posted by Drey
me and dave are on about icons...

And my post is what would be behind an icon, if I had one, it\'s just that iceWM doesn\'t have desktop icons....

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Post by: Drey on March 25, 2006, 11:23:13 am

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Originally posted by apis

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Originally posted by Drey
me and dave are on about icons...

And my post is what would be behind an icon, if I had one, it\'s just that iceWM doesn\'t have desktop icons....

therefore it is not an icon.

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Post by: Peacer on March 27, 2006, 08:30:32 am

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Originally posted by misterfox
ps: i\'m not posting one cause i cant manage to make an icon with a transparent background at Photoshop CS (when i save it it gets a white background),if anybody can help me

maybe you save it in the wrong format... jpg can\'t handle transperancy

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Post by: Ahriman on March 28, 2006, 01:59:18 am

I use the old one too. I was still a noob at computers when I dwnloaded this, some I created a shortcut, then had to search through the /art directory for the icon img. Now I realize that you can just copy & paste it from the start menu :P

Title: Photoshop transparent
Post by: Gripen on March 28, 2006, 03:53:16 am

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Originally posted by Peacer

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Originally posted by misterfox
ps: i\'m not posting one cause i cant manage to make an icon with a transparent background at Photoshop CS (when i save it it gets a white background),if anybody can help me

maybe you save it in the wrong format... jpg can\'t handle transperancy

Hey Peacer, are you havin\' a nice day? or what?
If you do not flatten your image, then the background can be transparent.
JPEG saving tends to flatten it automatically--gif, and I believe jpeg2000 can have t-backs, but you are limited to what you can use in forums and for icons (due to file size).  Try the other formats, or create an image with out any background--still must be careful, jpeg saving sometimes flattens the image to create a background.
(Hint: use the ps help--not always helpful.  I vaguely remember a way to set your saves so the image isn\'t flattened, but I\'m not sure it is for jpeg.)

[See the second post on this page by Zan regarding .gif]

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Post by: Netty on March 28, 2006, 12:56:58 pm

Ah, yes, the PS icon. I agree that it should be changed for both, PS executable and PS website.

Even the current yellow version seems to be a low-color version of this:

(http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/6624/psicon3uf.gif)

I found it on the old PS website.

Title: Re: Show your Planeshift icons here!!!
Post by: Ahriman on June 10, 2006, 07:12:32 pm

I'm changing mine to that one, it looks much better, the other one is 256 colors I think.  :innocent: