Talent icons

[edge2054]

Excellent timing

[Dekar]

CATEGORIES!

[XLambda]

Oh, how I love those. From the very first moment I was in love with ToME's talent icons... and now there's over 800? DO WANT.

[edge2054]

So... how do I convert these into png for use with gimp?

[lukep]

So... how do I convert these into png for use with gimp?

I could open them with GIMP, then just "save as" with .png. It may be different for Windows, though, and there may be other, better solutions.

EDIT: Yup, inkscape works better, and it's relatively quick for single ones.
-> File/Document Properties
-> background
-> 000000ff
-> file/export bitmap
-> area=page, size=64.

[daftigod]

Open it with gimp, copy, paste as a new file, save as a png. This will ensure that it gets a full palette (not 256 color gif or something), and add a background layer for tranparencies and whatnot.

[edge2054]

When I open in gimp I just get a grey checkerboard.

[bricks]

I just tried opening one of the files in GIMP, it loaded but the vector data seemed corrupted. It opened fine in Inkscape, apart from having no background.

[edge2054]

Yeah, I opened it in inkscape but ran into the no background issue as well (also the issue that I have no idea how to use inkscape since I just downloaded it).

[XLambda]

Yeah, I opened it in inkscape but ran into the no background issue as well (also the issue that I have no idea how to use inkscape since I just downloaded it).

Same here, neither gimp nor inkscape work for me.

[bricks]

Xlambda, does nothing show up at all in Inkscape? Which icon are you looking at? The lack of a background is easy enough to fix; from memory, choose the rectangle tool, click on the black color in the palette on the bottom of the screen, and draw a rectangle that covers the image. Then go to one of the menus - objects, I think - and send it to the back. When exporting as a .png or whatever raster image format you'd like, make sure to restrict the export area to the area of the canvas. I am kind of surprised that website doesn't provide raster images, although I'm sure it takes a lot of load off their servers.

Inkscape has a steep learning curve, unfortunately. I started playing with it many years back when trying to do some vector work; it was probably a few weeks before I properly understood the interface. However, it is excellent for creating little icons like this, especially if all you want to do is mask an image or apply a gradient. That said, it's a little unstable, and in general the .svg format is not very widely supported.

[XLambda]

Xlambda, does nothing show up at all in Inkscape? Which icon are you looking at? The lack of a background is easy enough to fix; from memory, choose the rectangle tool, click on the black color in the palette on the bottom of the screen, and draw a rectangle that covers the image. Then go to one of the menus - objects, I think - and send it to the back. When exporting as a .png or whatever raster image format you'd like, make sure to restrict the export area to the area of the canvas. I am kind of surprised that website doesn't provide raster images, although I'm sure it takes a lot of load off their servers.

Inkscape has a steep learning curve, unfortunately. I started playing with it many years back when trying to do some vector work; it was probably a few weeks before I properly understood the interface. However, it is excellent for creating little icons like this, especially if all you want to do is mask an image or apply a gradient. That said, it's a little unstable, and in general the .svg format is not very widely supported.

Thanks man, that was exactly what needed to be done! It works now.

[lukep]

PNG files:

All of them are 64x64 with a black background. I missed 4 of them, but I don't know which ones.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1i0BO ... EhicnBqbHM

(google drive isn't the best. Just go to "file" then "save" to download the .zip)

[edge2054]

Thanks lukep

[XLambda]

Some of these are really interesting and inspiring. Makes me want to practice my lua-fu.