Hi-res (2x) ZDoom/IDE Icon (good for Vista/7)

[Minigunner]

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'Nuff said. Pixel edited with MSPaint and polished with GIMP (although it looks a little clay-like ). I hope I don't have to resize to 128x128. Doom palette for convenience.

[NeuralStunner]

(although it looks a little clay-like )

Blame Id for using exactly that for a base.

[Minigunner]

Yeah, I know about that. I was gonna refer to a frontal image of the clay model, but then I figured that there wasn't a lot of detail, but I did refer to the Doom title art for the helmet details (read: forehead vent, side exhausts and air intake below the visor), but anything else, I just studied carefully.

[NeuralStunner]

Looks pretty good. Although the bottom right of his toes should be rounded 'stead of squared.

[Sodaholic]

Looks nice! My only suggestion would be to realign it so that Doomguy himself is centered, not the whole image. (he looks a little to the left)

[TheMistress]

Zdoom_2x.png

'Nuff said. Pixel edited with MSPaint and polished with GIMP (although it looks a little clay-like ). I hope I don't have to resize to 128x128. Doom palette for convenience.

Why don't you make the full doom marine sprites in Hi-Res ?

[Mikk-]

Because that would take a VERY long time, and it wouldn't be easy.

[Enjay]

8thMonth and Mr.J released a file called "big sprites" a while back that has an enlarged player and a few other sprites too.

[DaMan]

Made a working ico and exe (renamed to avoid icon cache).

[Minigunner]

I realized that the canvas size should be 128x128, because the way it is now, it could end up downsized to 64x64.

[Enjay]

As a matter of interest, how do programs with large icons fare on Win XP or other platforms that aren't Win7/Vista? If it makes them incompatible, then this obviously wouldn't be suitable for inclusion in the main distributable EXE.

[Hellser]

If they use the .ico setup, it can be scaled down to 16x16 without losing much quality. There's even a website that does such conversions with PNGs and keep the quality of the picture.

So either way, a high-res picture (if scaled correctly) will look fine on Windows XP (32x32).

[Bio Hazard]

To add to the high-res pile, I put together a ZDL3 version of the ZDL4 SVG icon for you guys. Hand-coded as always. It's designed for 64x64px and up.

[Enjay]

If they use the .ico setup, it can be scaled down to 16x16 without losing much quality. There's even a website that does such conversions with PNGs and keep the quality of the picture.

So either way, a high-res picture (if scaled correctly) will look fine on Windows XP (32x32).

OK, I just wondered because I remember a little while back there were some people trying to get a game (I forget which one) to run on an older OS and it turned out that the only thing preventing it running was the hi-res icon. Replace that and the game worked. Leave it and it wouldn't run.

[DaMan]

Windows XP, by default, employs 48×48 pixel icons in Windows Explorer. Windows XP can be forced to use icons as large as 256×256 by modifying the Shell icon size value but this would cause all 32×32 sized icons throughout the shell to be upsized. Microsoft only recommended icon sizes up to 48×48 pixels for Windows XP. Windows XP can read 256×256 pixel icon images and larger and it can resize them to use if no closer image size is available.

I kept all of the low res Zdoom icons in my ico file so it shouldn't be a problem.