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Vanden's Power Icon Fix updated

Arbegla

By Arbegla,
Posted on: 2008-01-16 18:14 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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If you're still taking suggestions, I'd like to see a consistency pass made on the various "drain" powers. Power Sink is a particularly bad offender, as it seems to have a different icon in every power set it appears in. Likewise for various versions of Dark Consumption.

Totally pedantic, but there should really be a set guideline for whether drain powers show the attribute you're boosting (with an up arrow), the attribute you're draining from the enemy (with a down arrow), or just the little meter to big meter icon.

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Let's see...

Obsidian Shield - ...meh, I like the unique, old one better *delete*
Total Focus - mmmyeah
HPT - Yay, no more same icons!
IWill - ...I -really- like the Psi Shield icon *baleet*
RA and EF - yay, now I can confuse them logically!
Quills - Ooh yeah.
Patron Shields - Hmm I think I prefer them the old way.

Still <3 it.

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Any chance of changing your Shadow Maul icon? The "high damage" circle may make sense if you just look at how much damage the power does, but the "multiple hits" icon was so much more descriptive of how the power actually works.

When you have 10 attack powers all together in your power tray, anything that sets them apart at a glance is a good thing.

 

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I think the total effects you could expect the power to do is more important for an icon to describe than how it looks or feels while doing it. That's why I didn't change Alkaloid's symbol to a picture of a piece of poo. Seriously though, Alkaloid sucks.

Anyway, I knew I wasn't going to be able to please everyone with these changes, that's why I included the info on how to revert my changes. I could try giving it the "damage over time" symbol, that way it would match the icon for Sands of Mu, if you'd like that better.

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I wonder, is there any way you could create an interface for this whole process? Like, a screen with a list of all game powers and their icons so someone could easily mix and match them as they pleased.

Or even...
An icon-creating toolbox program that would put icons together from scratch. It would have 3 columns:
Powerset (icon color scheme)
Target (icon border)
and Effect (center icon image)

 

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Is there any way you can redress the mouse pointer? I'd like something more ... visible.

I am using the "Ctrl highlights the mouse pointer" feature in Windows but it doesn't work well.

 

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I wonder, is there any way you could create an interface for this whole process? Like, a screen with a list of all game powers and their icons so someone could easily mix and match them as they pleased.

Or even...
An icon-creating toolbox program that would put icons together from scratch. It would have 3 columns:
Powerset (icon color scheme)
Target (icon border)
and Effect (center icon image)

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It could probably be done, but not by me. I just don't have the knowledge or skills for such a thing. What I do boils down to making pictures in Photoshop and then putting them in the right folder. Also, I'm pretty sure the use of a program that can open and change the all the icons in the game would be against the EULA.

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Is there any way you can redress the mouse pointer? I'd like something more ... visible.

I am using the "Ctrl highlights the mouse pointer" feature in Windows but it doesn't work well.

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I could ostensibly change the cursor's appearance, but not its size, so I don't think I could help you there. Happy Birthday!

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I still long to see this for my Corr.


 

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Is there any way you can redress the mouse pointer? I'd like something more ... visible.

I am using the "Ctrl highlights the mouse pointer" feature in Windows but it doesn't work well.

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As an addendum to this, I experimented with the 'mouse cursor leaves trails' option in the Logitech mouse driver settings, but it makes things worse -- yes, moving the mouse pointer does leave a fading trail of mouse pointers, which makes it easier to see, but when you stop moving the mouse pointer, it disappears, which kind of defeats the purpose.

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I still long to see this for my Corr.

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You're preaching to the choir here, buddy.

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Any chance of you hosting the resources you used to make these icons, like the borders by themselves or the icons without colours for people who want to make some icon changes for themselves? I've got a couple I want to just tweak for my own purposes.

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Any chance of Black Scorpions Patron shield getting a proper Defense icon?

 

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You mean as in different from the new icon I already gave it? No, all the patron shields point to the same icon file. Besides, typed defense shields tend to use the same icon symbols as resistance shields.

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I could, but it would change the icon for PvP zone resistance buffs, too. In fact I do have it changed on my machine, but I hardly go into PvP zones so it doesn't bother me. I don't want to put changes into my "official" pack that fix one thing but break another.

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This. If any art guys are reading, it was very easy to make by putting the Eye of the Magus icon into Photoshop and taking the Hue/Saturation tool to it!

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This. If any art guys are reading, it was very easy to make by putting the Eye of the Magus icon into Photoshop and taking the Hue/Saturation tool to it!

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Hey Van? You gonna work on I12 icons once that comes out?

Off the top of my head, Poisonous Ray, a high damage -def power has a -dmg icon, the Bane and Crab sets have three powers each that use the same icon, different borders and the Crab passive and active armor share an icon.

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Just heard about this Icon fix yesterday and I love it!

I was wondering, can you fix Dark Miasma/Howling Twilight to use the correct icon? One for it already exists, but the power points to Dark Armor/Soul Transfer's icon.

Edit: Neeevermind, after actually reading the thread (*blush*), I see you can't without messing up Soul Transfer. Oh well, still great to see these other icons fixed!

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Also, the change to the Traps/Detonator icon is appropriate for the MM version of Traps, but the Corruptor version (who get Time Bomb instead) isn't right (not that it was right before either with the PBAoE border).

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I know, I could only fix one version, so I decided to fix the one that more people took.

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