Replacing minimap icons.

xen32

I just came with genius mod idea, all I need is new minimap icons. I've seen the thread about creating your first mod, so here are a few questions:
- You will have to lua even if you are just reskinning? or you can just place new items in mod folder and they will replace originals.
- How do I open/edit icons.
- Where do I find em?

Huze

- All you need to do is place the new items in the mod folder and they will be loaded instead of the originals.
- All the UI Images are DDS. There's plugins for Photoshop and GIMP and probably other tools that will open them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectDraw_Surface
- All the UI images are located here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\natural selection 2\ns2\ui

You're looking for minimap_blip.dds

xen32

Thank you, Huze!

xen32

Ok, by opening minimap_blip I realized that I can't make icon bigger, which is part of the idea: making circle around icons representing arc/obs some other structure range.
Sad

Huze

Unfortunately that would require a lua mod to do correctly.

xen32

Guess I'll have to find lua file responsible for picking up tiles from minimap_blip and change values according to new file resolution.
I'll try to do it on my own from here. Thank you for your help!