Making custom Icons???

#1

[font=Verdana][size=2][color=white]It’s late so forgive me if this has already been covered here, I know that the tool Icons are stored in a .tga file in the modo\resrc directory, but now that I have a bunch of presets for things how do I make a custom set of Icons. Is there a way that I’m missing to import my own icons? [/font][/color][/size]

#2

i would also like to kno how to du this…however…y du u want to import icons…since modo has such a beutiful interface

#3

Agreed, but there are several tools that don’t have them, like for example, the Small Icon version of Rotate, and vortex and swirl tools. Not to mention every time I make a new preset I would like to create and icon for it. We are cerating new tools every day at work, but mostly I want to be able to do it, simpmply because, I should be able to…

Cheers mate
Brad

#4

Hopefully somebody from Luxology or some1 cool will be able to help us out

cheers

#5

I don’t remember it precisely now but there are .cfg files with “icon” in names in resrc folder of modo. these files contain associations of different parts of .tga images to tools as icons. You probably have to create Your icons in .tga divided into small frames of icon size and then associate pieces of images to tool names. I guess it can be done by simply copying and modifying existing entries. I have never tried it though (but I’ve seen someone even assigned animate gif to an icon ;).

#6

The Cowbell? That wasn’t really an icon, I did that whole section of the UI in photoshop. :slight_smile:

I’ve assigned otehr icons to tools and scripts though. I ahd to do exactly what you said in your post.

#7

Exelent! Can you do this to any tool, Or just the ones listed in these configs? they don’t seem like they are updated as I add new preset tools. That is what I would really like to do.

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I assume that the above line refers to the pixle coords. But what exactly what do the values represent? is it >startX startY widthX hightY< ?

#8

You are going to make me do it again and post it aren’t you? :slight_smile:

what you need to do is add something like this to the ToolIcons.cfg file


  	<hash type="Icon" key="xfrm.vortex_32">
  	  <atom type="Source">cg_lge</atom>
  	  <atom type="Location">0 0 32 32</atom>
  	</hash>

The “cg_lge source” file was another targa file that I pointed to at the top of the cfg file.

#9

Dude! you rock. Thank you. Now if you would be so kind to answer my dozen other questions… Kidding

Thanks,
Brad

#10

If I can…

post 'em

#11

in case i seem a little dim here cg i apolagise in advance , is this something i can also do myself although i dont have any knowledge of coding etc… i really need to add some icons to modo also ei… i have created my own custom tabs in the modo tools and have added a selection tab and added all the selection tools like invert,conected, grow and shrink and want to add icons to these buttons too ! allthough it isnt big on some peoples list of needs it is on mine not for asthetic reasons but because i only have very limited eye sight ,in fact i am registered blind now since a recent jetski accident but i can actually see the modo ui but struggle with small text only buttons and find icons a great help , if anyone can help me out that would be great ,my eyesight seriously slows me down when it comes to modelling if i spend half my night with my face pressed up against my monitor , can anyone telll my clearly how to do this in terms i can understand . thanks in advance for anyone willing to help.

#12

Do you already have icons you want to use for those buttons?

#13

Yes, there are ways of changing icons and adding new icons to new things etc… but they’re not obvious, it does take a bit of tweaking in the .CFG files to get what you want. And I wouldn’t advise poking at them too much unless you know what you’re doing… If anything don’t work on the files in the directory, copy them out first :slight_smile:

#14

I was just about to post a tutorial on this, but I would hope that it is something that will be easier in future versions. It’s a shame to have an interface this flexible and not be able to easily create custom icons for your custom tools. [/size]

#15

yeah i have created some icons ready to add but cant work out how to do it ! a tutorial on how to do this is just the ticket so i can print it out and go through it , even enlarging the text on the buttons would help compensate for my eyesight if icons were too tricky to add, thanks for your input guys yeah i hope this is simplified in the future too ,it really hinders me unless i drop to an insane resolution like 1024 im squinting to see the text only buttons.

#16

Ok I wanted to spend some more time on this… it’s very rough, but here it is. let me know if you have questions.

http://www.magicmonkeyfx.com/modoiconTut.htm

#17

hey great thanks a lot , im going to have a good look through this now ill let you kow if i find any bits i need clarifying ,thanks a lot ,really this will help me a lot !

#18

drkollossus you are a star ! i just read that through and you explained it great ! i should have no probs with that at all , ill make a start on the editing tomorrow thanks :applause:

#19

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