The process is the same for any kind of unit, but it's considerably more complicated for wheeled units and/or units with lots of small details.įor the purposes of this tutorial, I just picked a Tiger tank. Then it's up to you to find the relevant commands and options, though.įirst of all, let's open a unit icon. Note that I'm using Paint.NET, but if you're more familiar with another graphics program, like Gimp, Photoshop or Corel Draw, for example, you can use that instead.
Ok, I'm going to try and outline the process of creating a custom image mask in this post. I hope the work wasn't in vain and some of you guys will find this little tool useful.Įdit : Uploaded new version with some new features (solid color preview backgrounds, aircraft skinning, batch processing).Įdit : New version 1.1 uploaded - icons can be sorted in groups now and the EFX Studio has been added. (On the other hand, if you don't want your units to be skinned - like HBalck for example - your icons will not be part of this application, don't worry.) Even if you don't want to bother making a mask for it yourself, this will allow others to do so. If you're a unit maker, please consider making a blank (not camouflaged) version of your icon.
I'll post a tutorial on how to do this down below. Create unit masks for any unit not-yet in the package.
Create some nice, themed skin groups and share them in this thread. Report bugs/issues or improvement/feature wishes. If you find this little tool useful at all, there's several ways for you to give something back. You can download the current version here.
So, enought with the forewords, I present to you: The tool is still a litte rough - please don't hesitate to report bugs or mention feature wishes in this thread - but I think it's finally time to let you guys take it for a ride. It was pretty rough around the edges and in no shape to release to anyone, and it was also a little short on features early on.Ī lot of time and effort went into changing this, and I think I had some measue of success. To produce these sets, I had made a little tool that was able to create them en-masse for any number of skins I provided it with. Some of you are maybe familiar with the skined icon packages flakfernrohr and I released earlier. In fact, quite a lot of time was spent on things Panzer Corps, and the biggers chunk of it is represented by the tool I'm announcing here now. Well, I already hinted at it recently, and I noticed flakfernrohr has done the same - as I announced earlier, I haven't been all idle in the time I was absent from the forums.