Now this is just a small collection of OS3.5 GlowIcons. They don't work with
lower versions of Amiga OS than 3.5. Not even with NewIcons installed. These
icons are in OS3.5 iconformat and don't contain any NewIcons data. I'll
never make NewIcons versions of these, because I engourage you to buy OS3.5.
However, there is a PNG-picture that will show you what the icons will look
like.
None of these icons are fully drawned by me. I just copied some parts from
the other icons and pictures. So don't credit me for these. However, I spent
quite some time antialising and repixeling scaled icons. If you scale a
picture in small size, the quality isn't always too good. Maybe someday I
will make something from the scratch.
I don't consider myself as a gfx artist and I'am just learning the technique
of antialiasing by hand. Technique that is, in these PhotoShop-times, saddly
forgotten.
These icons use standard 32 colors OS3.5 GlowIcons-palette. As many of you
may not know what the palette is. I will put it's RGB-values here:
0. 170,170,170
1. 0,0,0
2. 255,255,255
3. 227,227,277
4. 198,198,198
5. 170,170,170
6. 138,138,138
7. 106,106,106
8. 73,73,73
9. 41,41,41
10. 173,173,240
11. 127,137,194
12. 82,102,148
13. 36,66,102
14. 117,219,110
15. 86,177,90
16. 56,136,70
17. 25,94,50
18. 201,173,159
19. 159,133,114
20. 117,93,68
21. 89,60,31
22. 145,54,130
23. 170,104,162
24. 194,153,194
25. 239,231,20
26. 223,186,69
27. 219,117,65
28. 223,53,53
29. 130,0,0
30. 117,225,240
31. 89,185,180
There is also a ILBM-palettefile in the the archive. As you can see there is
two same grays (170,170,170) in the palette. first one is for background and
WB will show it TRANSPARENT. Another gray is intended to be used on inner
parts of the icons. So remember to check that you are using a proper gray in
your icons. Also if you are using transparent gray in inner parts of your
icons then IconEdit's "Add glow" gives bad results. The order of the colors
in the palette isn't important, because IconEdit saves icons only with the
colors that are used in the icon, but be careful to choose the right gray
for trasparency in IconEdit.
As the new iconsystem in OS3.5 supports icons up to 256 colors, some of you
may think why bother to remap all icons to use the same standard palette. I
have some good reasons to explain why:
1. 256 color icons are dead slow to load. Even with 060 and gfxcard.
2. The "general look" of the GlowIcons stays more easily the same that Matt
Chaput has intended.
3. There is still some poor souls with AGA who will appreciate that icons
don't use more than 32 colors.
Expect there to be a second GlowIcons archive from me in the near future.
Comments are always welcome.
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Kind regards,
Jaakko Oranen - jackson@mbnet.fi
Team AMIGA
A4060/64MHZ/50MB/15.2GB/CV3D/OS3.5
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