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Spell icon format

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 9:00 pm
by WrathOG777
Could someone please inform me what format in detail a NWN spell icon uses? I am about to make/alter several. While I have made many icons for windows and LabVIEW, I have never done any for NWN.

I did some searching and found the inventory icon specs. 32 pixel per square .tga format. A Square being one of the sqares in your character's inventory.

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:28 pm
by b.ames
Create one icon for the spell and another for it as a scroll. You could use the same icon for both but Bioware uses a black, white and purple theme for the spell icon and a brown and white theme
for the scroll icon. The image on each is similar. I won?t go into detail on the icons because we have done so many already. They are 24 bit, 32 x 32 pixel Targa bitmaps (.tga files). The naming
standard is not critical for spell and scroll icons but if you want to follow the Bioware standard it is:
is_<name>.tga for spell icons
iss_<name>.tga for spell scroll icons
Where <name> is a maximum of 11 characters. You can find these using NWNViewer in Textures02.bif. Use one as a sample of how to do it. Unlike the weapon icons, there is no
mask or other complication on these files.

I found the above in the custom content guide on the bioware builders section. I haven't done it myself, but I hope it helps.

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 2:21 pm
by WrathOG777
Thanks!