Creating Icons for custom nodes for the Node editor

#1

any idea? Thanks!

#2

If your node is called “tokyoJihen” then you would create an xpm somewhere in XBMLANGPATH (ie you icons path) called “tokyoJihen.xpm”, and if you want it visible in the outliner too, then add another one called “out_tokyoJihen.xpm”. I cant remember if other formats work or what the sizes need to be, but you can probably figure that out.

David

#3

Okay, that was easy! : ) I tried PNG and it works as well. Thanks DJX! :thumbsup:

#4

If it’s 2015+ and it’s for the node editor you can package SVGs (best), and for other windows you can package rez/view prefixed PNGs (I think PNG is actually the official raster format since the move to Qt) to see that custom icon in the outliner too, e.g. out_nodename and make it 20x20 for the outliner.

#5

Thanks for the info, I am glad they seem to have moved on from the fti file format, which still seems supported in the Hypergraph.