How do I make a custom class icon? : IV

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:41 am

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I'm trying to make a custom class for my personal use. Mainly to get the small description and icon thingy instead of null action every time I hover on my class name in the character sheet

I got the custom class' image shown in the class selection menu, but not in the character sheet, and the damn problem frustrates me

I used DXT3 with no mipmap for the DDS, the same compression I used for the custom class' image. I have put the small icon in textures/(menus/menus50/menus80)/stats/small_class/ with filename small_.dds, but it won't show up.

What do show up is the last icon shown. If I hovered on the Marksman skill before I hover on the class name, Marksman icon is displayed instead of the supposed class icon. If I hovered on the birthsign (which happens to be The Lady for mine) The Lady's icon is displayed instead of my custom icon. If I insisted on not hovering on anything before, the serpent icon mocks me instead

I've made sure I didn't make any typo in the file path, the is perfectly similar to the I put in class_creation_.dds for the class' image. I've also made sure the alpha channel is present and the whole image is supposed to be drawn, but here I am speechless

I tried to google the problem and searched on CS wiki and this forum, but no information turned up. Google results in generic custom class guide and a japanese modder facing the same problem, wiki didn't say anything about class, only birthsign (which is quite similar), and this forum... turned up nothing

Did I do something wrong? I'm sure I don't need mipmap because only one image is needed. DXT3 displays properly within the class selection menu, so what's the problem? Do I have to use a different compression? Do I have to do something after I put the files there?

Many thanks in advance

Nvm, worked it around. Turns out my CS won't properly display icons from a fresh new class, it has to be a duplicate from generic class and manually modified...

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:47 am

Nvm, worked it around. Turns out my CS won't properly display icons from a fresh new class, it has to be a duplicate from generic class and manually modified...

Are you sure? I have a custom class icon that works (small icon shows up in the character sheet) without duplicating another class. Read the note I added to the wiki for http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Birthsigns. I used the same procedure to get both small birthsign icons and smalll class icons working.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:30 am

What always trips me up when making inventory/birthsign/class/faction icons is that if you accidentally put mips on 'em they won't show up. I seem to forget that every time I save one in Photoshop.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:33 am

Are you sure? I have a custom class icon that works (small icon shows up in the character sheet) without duplicating another class. Read the note I added to the wiki for http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Birthsigns. I used the same procedure to get both small birthsign icons and smalll class icons working.

You were the one that put that note up?

Well, to be frank, it doesn't work for me, except for the folder path part. The same thing happened to birthsign too. It actually works in birthsign selection screen (I can even select it and when I press "done" the game says "are you sure you want to blah blah?" "Yes" "No". The problem being there is no icon in the player sheet

I followed the procedure alright, but the game just won't listen to me. What surprised me is that capitalization doesn't seem to be the matter: I tried to replace the lover birthsign image with lowercase folder path and file name. It works like a heavenly charm

I've tried all kinds of effort: make sure the capitalization is correct, add "the" in front of the birthsign name (so, say, before my birthsign was Thor, which is a god's name and using 'the' would be silly, I changed it into The Thor, a very silly name) because th game seemed to have "the" in front of all the birthsigns, still won't work

@Omegacron: strange, wiki says using Mipmap saves you the problem of putting the files within menus50 and menus80