Does anybody know how icons work?

[Reman]

I created a spaceport module mod (link in my sig) and wanted to use a custom icon. I have the icon ready to go in the right format, but I can never seem to get the game to link my module to the icon. It always defaults to a blaster icon. Does anybody know how to make this work?

 

[TehT]

the file name should be exactly the same as the module, and it needs to be placed in the correct directory structure in your mod folder

\gfx\interface\icons\modules

it should look something like that, just find out where paradox puts their station module icons and replicate the structure.

 

[Reman]

the file name should be exactly the same as the module, and it needs to be placed in the correct directory structure in your mod folder

\gfx\interface\icons\modules

it should look something like that, just find out where paradox puts their station module icons and replicate the structure.

Thanks for your help. This is what I've been trying so far. I've attatched some images as documentation.
1 is how the vanilla files pack the icons (notice the path file)
2 is how I'm doing it (the same as in 1)
3 is the text file that creates the spaceport module. It's fairly simple.

When I tried this about a dozen times, it still doesn't work.

 

[Naselus]

Need to add the path to the icon into icons.gfx in the interface folder. Otherwise, it doesn't know where to look.

 

[Reman]

Need to add the path to the icon into icons.gfx in the interface folder. Otherwise, it doesn't know where to look.

Bingo. That's what was missing. Many thanks, my mod is now showing up.

 

[TehT]

I believe if you omit the icon = blah it should also default to the standard folder structure, that's how all of my buildings work at least