2: Icons

The icons are just the visual representation of the weapon inside the player’s inventory.  There are two Icons to create but one is just an outline of the other.  The size of the icon depends on the size of the magazine.

Choose A Size

First decide what size the magazine will be in terms of the grid sizes.  Pistol magazines are usually 1x1, rifles are usually 1x2, rockets 1x5, and machine gun boxes or drum magazines 2x2.  You can look at other magazines in the game to decide what size you want to use.

Next open up your image editing software of choice.  We’ll use Affinity for this guide but feel free to use any that can export .png files. More options can be found on the Overview page.

Each grid square in the inventory is 32 pixels in size.  If you choose a magazine that is 2 x 2 squares you’ll want to create an image that is 64 x 64 pixels.  Here we’re creating an icon for the Thompson Magazine and have chosen 1 x 2.  So we’ll create an image that is 32 x 64 pixels. * Make sure the background type is set to transparent.

Then draw out your magazines icon.  Make sure to leave a few pixels on each side to have room to add the outline later.