Endless Paradigm

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I am trying to replace the icons in topmenu_icon.rco and while I am able to replace some of them properly (the main icons), there are others giving me some troubles. I have made all the icons the same, both sub and main icons yet for some reason when I try to replace them using RCOEdit, it stretches the sub icons, as well as some icons in other rco files.
This is what it looks like when I import one of them.

ill have a little look :P

Edit: i have the same problem :s . The picture you sent me is striped , the picture in the rco edit lots of lines and when in gimp has umd in the middle and rest transparent.

Try getting the image and making it another type , try png.

mp3punk05 Wrote:ill have a little look :P

Edit: i have the same problem :s . The picture you sent me is striped , the picture in the rco edit lots of lines and when in gimp has umd in the middle and rest transparent.

Try getting the image and making it another type , try png.

Finished product should look like this (ignore the reddish background) This is what shows both in Photoshop as well as Preview on my Mac:
edit:I've also tried saving it as png in photoshop, but it doesn't make a difference.
extra note: The bmp is saved in the same format as the main icons that work, but for some reason these don't. Is there any sort of size requirement?

I would also like to know because I have this same problem but with my impose_plugin.rco

Maybe wee can figure this out together.

Slushba132 Wrote:I would also like to know because I have this same problem but with my impose_plugin.rco

Maybe wee can figure this out together.

I'm gonna try messing around with a few things in Photoshop and see if I can figure out what is wrong with this as I have had the problems previously and thought that I couldn't fix it so I made a different image instead. I'd really like to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I've allready tried gimp and paint.net
I've also tried even creating a brand new blank image but that didn't work for me.
I think the closet thing I got was an icon file, but there is a problem because it automatically resisez the icons to 24 32 or 64 size.

Well it can't be the image size/resolution because both my sub icons and main icons are the same size/resolution. I think it may be something to do with the transparency.
Hmm...

ok here what you do to make a png work...(don't use bmp.. and you can't just save a bmp as a png and expect different results, doesn't work like that....
first make your image with no backround at all... make the BG transparent, in PS this is known because the BG is checkered black and white.... then you make your complete image on the transparent BG.. you don't have to worry about colors so don't change it to 256.. leave it alone.. then you just save the png making sure the bg is still transparent... then load it into rco edit.. gimp and paint.net i know for sure doesn't handle alpha channel transparecy as well as photoshop.. but umm png works alot better than bmp now.. let me install PS again and ill fix the pic for you so you can see what to do

I remember i had a problem before with an image, four white squares over black font ,
and when i tried to import it with RCOEdit and then the resulted image was streched
image and only 2 squares showed fro the the image.

I think the problem was cause i didnt left black space from up to right .
try to cover the image with black space ,up and down from your icon for BMP
Or make a PNG image with transparency ... this one works better.

MAke the orange black , or cut out the orange color in the image then save as PNG.

Azumi Wrote:ok here what you do to make a png work...(don't use bmp.. and you can't just save a bmp as a png and expect different results, doesn't work like that....
first make your image with no backround at all... make the BG transparent, in PS the known because the BG is checkered black and white.... then you make your complete image on the transparent BG.. you don't have to worry about colors so don't change it to 256.. leave it alone.. then you just save the png making sure the bg is still transparent... then load it into rco edit.. gimp and paint.net i know for sure doesn't handle alpha channel transparecy as well as photoshop.. but umm png works alot better than bmp now

I'll give that a try, and no, I wasn't simply opening a bmp and saving it as a png. I had made my own images, but perhaps the alpha channel is what is screwing up the png. I'll go give it a try right now. If you look at the alpha channel in the bmp I posted earlier it should have worked, as it did with the main icons, but not with the sub icons.