Lesson Three - Making Icons


The first two lessons are usually what most of the themes that are our just affect. From this lesson on you will learn how to make more advanced themes. Icons are a small but important part of editing the interface of your theme. Here we will learn how to customize your theme even furthere

1. Open your first theme from the last lesson.
2. Click on Icons in the files on the left
3. Save the bitmap as you did in previous lessons
4. Save the main bitmap as icons.bmp
5. Open icons.bmp in a graphics program

Note: The icons come in 16x16 pixel squares. The color like bright green, maroon, grey, pink, and red are the transparent colors. They are transparent because the (1,16) pixel or the corner lower left pixel tell which color to mask. Do not use a mask file for this as the transparancy pixel is already there.

6. Edit the icons to how you want to make them
7. Make sure your icons are 16x16 and that your icon doesnt cover the transparancy bit
8. Save the file
9. Go back to the theme editor and load bitmap back into the icons file
10. Save theme

Note: Whenever you start tetrinet 2 it loads the icons of whatever theme it loads up with. So if you want to see your icons here is what you do. Load up tetrinet 2 -> Settings -> Change to the Theme with icons -> Close Tetrinet 2 -> Start it up Again -> You will see your new icons :)

Now you have successfully implemented icons!

Next Lesson will deal with Sounds and Music

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