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2. Before you do anything else, open up the GIMP. Double click the icon so you can see the aqua (or another color, if you use themes like I do) background come up. Open a new file by clicking File--New. It doesn't matter what size this file is or what it looks like, we just need it to get the additional toolbar. | 2. Before you do anything else, open up the GIMP. Double click the icon so you can see the aqua (or another color, if you use themes like I do) background come up. Open a new file by clicking File--New. It doesn't matter what size this file is or what it looks like, we just need it to get the additional toolbar. | ||
3. Bring NifSkope back up again. Maximize it so that it fills your whole screen. Observe that you can change the view of your new item in the window by left-clicking it and dragging it around. You can zoom in and out by scrolling the mouse wheel, too. Practice this until you get a view from the angle you want for your icon; I'll use the one from the picture above. | 3. Bring NifSkope back up again. Maximize it so that it fills your whole screen. Observe that you can change the view of your new item in the window by left-clicking it and dragging it around. You can zoom in and out by scrolling the mouse wheel, too. Practice this until you get a view from the angle you want for your icon; I'll use the one from the picture above. In the latest version of NifSkope, you can click the Render dropdown and uncheck "nodes" and "axes" to make those disappear, making a nice clean picture. Now press "print scrn" on your keyboard (it's usually in the row with the F1, F2, etc. buttons and is right next to scroll lock). | ||
4. Nothing seems to have happened. Believe me, something has. Windows has taken a picture of your whole visible screen and put it on the clipboard. Now we're going to get it for our own use by doing the following. Go back to GIMP and bring up your little blank file. Now click Edit-Paste as new, like this: | 4. Nothing seems to have happened. Believe me, something has. Windows has taken a picture of your whole visible screen and put it on the clipboard. Now we're going to get it for our own use by doing the following. Go back to GIMP and bring up your little blank file. Now click Edit-Paste as new, like this: | ||
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[[Image:iconscreenies4.jpg]] | [[Image:iconscreenies4.jpg]] | ||
7. Now you have a square with your picture of your mesh in the middle of it. This will make a great icon, but it's got all this yellow in the background, plus the green/blue/red arrows from NifSkope (depending on the angle). Now click on Select--By Color. Click the yellow background. Now click Edit--Cut. The yellow is gone. If your picture doesn't have an alpha channel, you'll see white. This means you need to go to Layer--Transparency--Add Alpha Channel, then repeat and delete the white. | 7. Now you have a square with your picture of your mesh in the middle of it. This will make a great icon, but it's got all this yellow in the background, plus the green/blue/red arrows from NifSkope (depending on the angle and whether you turned those off. The latest version of NifSkope generally has a black background instead of yellow). Now click on Select--By Color. Click the yellow background. Now click Edit--Cut. The yellow is gone. If your picture doesn't have an alpha channel, you'll see white. This means you need to go to Layer--Transparency--Add Alpha Channel, then repeat and delete the white. | ||
If your picture automatically has an alpha channel, like mine, you'll see a grid: | If your picture automatically has an alpha channel, like mine, you'll see a grid: | ||