DualPNG and OS4 icons on OS3

[James]

Using DualPNG and OS4.1 icons on OS3.# Requires AfA:
http://amidevcpp.amiga-world.de/afa_binarie_upload.php
Or latest Icon.library:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=64079

Icons:
KensV4 (46 high)
http://www.five-star.com/icons.htm
http://aminet.net/package/pix/picon/AlpyreIcons1
http://aminet.net/package/pix/picon/AlpyreIcons2
OS4 Icons (46 high)
http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=graphics/icon/micollection2007.lha
http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=graphics/icon/micollection2008.lha
http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=graphics/icon/cha05e90_icons_2009.lha
Icons Scaled to 46 high:

I have scaled most of the freely available OS4.1 icons and icons by Lorraine Design to 46 high. Not sure how the authors would feel about these being distributed, will look into this...

Tools to create your own icons from any image:
ImageConverter can create DualPNG glowicons out of PNG images with transparency:
http://www.hd-rec.de/Archive/ImageConverter.lha
IconMaker Scripts for ImageConverter and Join:
https://tinyurl.com/ub97p6u
Add transparency to images with an Image Processor like ArtEffect or PPT:
https://www.amiga-arena.de/amiga-arena-tools/
http://www.ecyrd.com/~jalkanen/PPT/
OptiPNG can be used to crop the first image from gif (snip) animations and DualPNG icons (fix - use copies!). This is the 040fpu version from Aminet with added scripts to make things easier:
https://tinyurl.com/t7xt5b5
SGrab is useful for grabbing screenshots to crop and convert:
http://aminet.net/util/wb/sgrab.lha
Rename all those PNG icons on Aminet e.t.c. from .info back to .png with a tool like MultiRen so they can be converted by ImageConverter:
http://aminet.net/util/misc/MultiRen.lha
KDEView for icon copying:
http://aminet.net/util/wb/KDEView.lha

Some of mine:


https://tinyurl.com/rprk3fy

[fitzsteve]

Wow great work, thanks for sharing

I'll try some of these on my AmigaOne and OS3.9 AfA setup

[James]

Thanks for your comments.
Meant to reply sooner... I will post up some more of my icons once I have sorted them out. In the meantime I have updated the original post a little, and here is an icon for Retrofan:

Retrofan_avatar.lha

[Retrofan]

Thanks a lot mate. Although it's very hard to use a real image as an icon; it has to be much easier with a drawing.

I like a lot also your icons of the first post.

[Retrofan]

James I see that some of the links are now broken.

These last days I've had to create some icons to work with a program that doesn't work with 3.5 icons.

For what I've seen there are two ways:

- To use your great IconMaker program (included in AKReal, needs FPU as it uses ImageConverter).

- Or to use "Join". That's the one Ken Lester uses. In my distro just typing from Cli "Join" it will open and it's just to take two png images and save them as whatever.info

To convert some old icons I obtained the images using a script I have to get both pngs with alpha channel with ImageConverter (normal -_n- and selected -_s-).

ImageConverter Sys:#?.info -of Ram:%f_n -f PNG -img 0
ImageConverter Sys:#?.info -of Ram:%f_s -f PNG -img 1

In one of the icons (for the WBArmy game) I found it only had the old images in the icon, so using IconEdit I saved them first, later I converted them to 32bits with Ultimate Paint in the Pc and finally I joined them.

[James]

Thought it was about time I posted up a collection of the KensV4 style icons I have built to fill in the many gaps. My ultimate (unachievable) goal is to have DualPNG icons for everything. The vast majority are aimed at RTG programs although I have experimented with making a few for WHDLoad games. A few icons need reworking/fixing/replacing, but I've left them in for now.


https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5...HRPVEVjVU0xSU0

Just a few of the included icons:



All of these icons are all built on the works of others such as Ken, Mason, cha05e90 e.t.c. Some like the ImageFX icons are conversions from KenV3 to KenV4.

Very nice! I wish we could have some sort of plug and play workbench pack for this, like classicwb with dualpng icons

[PeterK]

Thanks James!

A lot of new ideas for fresh looking icons. Great! This set gets a good place in my collection.

[James]

Originally Posted by esc

Very nice! I wish we could have some sort of plug and play workbench pack for this, like classicwb with dualpng icons

Thanks, I actually put together a huge collection of freely available Amiga RTG software just for fun . Sadly I doubt it will ever be released. The main problems:

Freely available is not the same as freely distributable, so releasing it would probably upset a few people.
It is very large and my internet connection is not very fast.
Keeping it fully up to date is quite time consuming and parts of it are a bit outdated at the moment.

Originally Posted by PeterK

Thanks James!

A lot of new ideas for fresh looking icons. Great! This set gets a good place in my collection.

Wow! Thanks for the kind words, I'm just building on the great work by more talented people like Ken and Mason.

A small update:



https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5...FFjSWRLdU1DY3c

[Retrofan]

Hi James, I don't know how I missed your latest posts. Wonderful, you make perfect icons and I know that for Ken's drawers icons it takes a lot of time to make the selected image creating the glow effect to the new image you want to add. Thanks a lot for your work

[PeterK]

Originally Posted by Retrofan

... it takes a lot of time to make the selected image creating the glow effect to the new image you want to add.

Correct! It's not easily possible to create a perfect looking glowing effect on the fly for icons where the second image is missing. That would take too much time if it should be added by icon.library. But there is no such problem with your icon set, James !

[Retrofan]

To tell the truth, when I have to make a "new Ken's icon drawer" -24bit using AfAOS-, I have to make the selected image pixel by pixel on CorelDraw to make the glow effect copying pixels from existing Ken's selected images. Simple as that.

Yes, what I see on CorelDraw takes the full screen and I have to change a lot of pixels there. Later you have to resize it to... almost nothing, so you don't see all of the existing beautiful perfection ... What a pity

I'm sure James also works this way or similar, pixel perfect.

[Minuous]

Is there a description of the "add glow" algorithm (as used by IconEdit) anywhere? The innermost three glow layers are straightforward but the outermost one seems to follow a different rule, only half the pixels that would be expected are lit.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Thank you James your icons found on my AFA

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[Daedalus]

Originally Posted by Minuous

Is there a description of the "add glow" algorithm (as used by IconEdit) anywhere? The innermost three glow layers are straightforward but the outermost one seems to follow a different rule, only half the pixels that would be expected are lit.

I don't have a definitive answer, but to me it looks like it's a very simple checkerboard dither for the outermost layer - you can see it in curved icons, where there aren't any pixels in the outermost layer in areas that coincide with a 45 degree line of "blank" pixels in the checkerboard. So it looks like it would be a case of placing a pixel if the LSB of the X value matches the LSB of the Y value, otherwise leave it as colour 0. That's where I'd start anyway...

[James]

Big update of my KensV4 style icons including more than 800 WHDLoad icons:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_B...qRVQUl3n7H1wJn

A few examples:







Attachment 61290

[PeterK]

Very nice, thanks a lot, James

Update: But some icons are much too dark, like in the QuakeEngine drawer.

[James]

Originally Posted by PeterK

Update: But some icons are much too dark, like in the QuakeEngine drawer.

Concentrating on quantity over quality a.t.m.

Long overdue update:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wY...jo-ypLpZl18I_k



Plus many more whdload and other game icons.

Merry Christmas.

[PeterK]

Originally Posted by James

Concentrating on quantity over quality a.t.m.

Come on James, don't be so modest, your screenshot shows great icons. What I like most is that your icons are looking more diversified than many other 0-8-15 styled icon sets.

[James]

Originally Posted by PeterK

Come on James, don't be so modest, your screenshot shows great icons. What I like most is that your icons are looking more diversified than many other 0-8-15 styled icon sets.

Thanks for your comments.
Will get round to improving the weaker icons eventually. In the meantime I have fixed the links in the first post at last...