Modding the EC on a low level?

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Petra_Fyde said:

*sigh*  I only wanted to know how to make a few more pictures to represent my macros! These are what I've made so far:  A weaving macro, a spinning macro, lava fishing, fishing with bait, emptying my lobster traps, mining a saltpeter rock, demon slayer, energy, demon slayer cold, repond slayer fire, repond slayer energy Number 8 I left alone because I use that when fishing for a macro that does 'say slow forward' delay 8.0 'say stop'. Takes me to the next resource square when the fish stop biting.

Those are brilliant! Bravo! 
 I wish I was talented enough to make the coloured drops for each elem. dmg. on the main seven superslayers. 

So, one opens the .dds with GIMP, turns it into a .gif to modify it, then back into a .dds, and place in Icons\Macro Icons\Numbers.
Correct?

Petra_Fyde

no, you can modify the .dds  I only converted to .gif when I wanted to include an image in a normal web page, like making pages displaying all the special moves icons. 
The tricky bit is you can't save directly to your new folder in 'program files>etc.  I had to save to the folder I'd unzipped into the 'documents' folder and then move it to the new UI folder.

To make the drops I googled a 'raindrop' found a blue image I liked, then re-sized and re-coloured it in gimp to be able to add it to the slayer icons.
https://clipart.me/objects/psd-blue-water-droplet-icon-45907

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Petra_Fyde said:

no, you can modify the .dds  I only converted to .gif when I wanted to include an image in a normal web page, like making pages displaying all the special moves icons. 
The tricky bit is you can't save directly to your new folder in 'program files>etc.  I had to save to the folder I'd unzipped into the 'documents' folder and then move it to the new UI folder.

To make the drops I googled a 'raindrop' found a blue image I liked, then re-sized and re-coloured it in gimp to be able to add it to the slayer icons.
https://clipart.me/objects/psd-blue-water-droplet-icon-45907

Thank you so much!   

TimSt

@Petra_Fyde I love your icons for weaving, spinning, and mining saltpeter. Could you upload the images you used? I would like to incorporate them into my own icons.

Petra_Fyde

Not sure if this will work:
https://www.dropbox.com/t/TeBQCctgx0a1HLjE

If  not here are the files in gif format, save and convert?

TimSt

Thank you @Petra_Fyde.  The mining for niter and weaving .DDS files were spot on. I had to edit the third DDS file and replace its image with the spinning wheel image from above.  Gave me a reason to download and install gimp.

Pitr

Sorry to barge in... here is a different option:
http://www.eric-a-hall.com/personal/ultima/

I really liked the toolbelt option...