How do you make custom Icons?

[PZ-NOOB]

I'm thinking of making a mod, but I'm not sure how create custom Item Icons. Any help will be much appreciated.

[Svarog]

Item icon images should be 32x32 or YZx32 or 32xYZ in resolution (YZ can be anything else, it looks best if image has 32 in height or width) and a .png with transparent background.

The file itself needs to have Item_ prefix in the name ex. Item_Fruit.png and must be placed in the mod's media\textures folder.

If you're asking about how to actually draw one then I can't help much other than give you a tip to just take some default PZ icon and modify it to suit your liking with some photo editing tool, personally I use Photoshop for that. Pixel art is not my forte, I have a problem with portraying perspective right.

If you choose to modify a PZ sprite then PZ item icons are withing .pack files in Project Zomboid\media\texturepacks specifically UI.pack and UI2.pack to unpack them you'll need a tool like PZ Unpacker

[blindcoder]

You mean icon like water bottles, pans or such?

 

First, you create the icon (32x32 or 64x64) and place it in <yourmod>/media/textures/Item_<yourshortcut>_<name>.png, for example:

media/textures/Item_BC_gatorleg.png

 

Then, in media/scripts/<mod>items.txt, you add it like this;

item GatorLeg {

  Type = Food,

  Displayname = Alligator leg,

  Icon = Item_BC_gatorleg.png

}

[blindcoder]

Eh, Svarog ninjad me here

[PZ-NOOB]

Wow, thanks for the great feedback guys. C: