Custom traits - Importing images as icons and file format/size

Simsontherope · July 2015

Hello again

I'm currently working on a set of new traits for my game. But there is an issue I'm trying to figure out. I wanted to change the icons of my traits, so I looked in the xlm/simdata files for other icons. I managed to put those other icons for my trait, but the problem is, in some part of the UI, those icons scaled down look pixelated and not as neat as the game traits icons.

So I was wondering, what is the format (PNG, DDS ?) and the size (128x128 ?) of the icons for the traits included in game ? And is there a way to import custom files into my .package and link it to my trait ?

Thanks in advance !
Have a nice day.

SimGuruModSquad · July 2015

Hey @Tiro22222 ,

There are a couple of sizes and in DDS format. Here are all the icons used for the Geek trait which illustrate how you should author your icons:

00b2d882:00000000:cbbc4fd78a5f1f44    trait_Geek_cas     Fullbuild6     40x40
00b2d882:00000000:a41937f790127d98    Buffs_Geek         Fullbuild6     40x40
00b2d882:00000000:8c5a13ca4fec2e8b    Buffs_Geek_neg     Fullbuild6     40x40
00b2d882:00000000:a5fe1ed8bd1ea27c    headline_Geek      Fullbuild6     128x128  (not all traits have this)
00b2d882:00000000:226bd3af8d1955a5    whim_Geek          Fullbuild7     40x40    (not all traits have this)

You can add your own icons in a .package file and point your new trait's tuning to those.

Hope that helps.

-SGMS

Simsontherope · July 2015

Thanks a lot, that's perfect. I've been able to import my custom icon in game and it looks good !

pbox · July 2015

There are also a bunch of already-exported icons available here/here, if that helps.

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Custom traits - Importing images as icons and file format/size

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