WIP ... critical comments needed
and practical ones as well
Friday, February 22, 2008 by RickyMaveety | Discussion: Docks
Here's the situation. I'm doing a set of Object Dock icons. Originally, I was just rendering them at 128 because I thought that would be big enough. Now I'm seeing that some dock icons are done at 256 .... so I'm thinking that should be the size of the render.
However, rendering at 256 is about 45 minutes for each render .... so before I take the project much further, I want to see if any of you have comments or suggestions that I should be incorporating in order to make the icons look as good as possible.
The final icons will, of course, be transparent around the steel rim with a drop shadow.
Also, where is the best place to post icon requests? I'm not talking about asking for someone to make me an icon. I'm talking about having people send me actual *.ico files so that I can turn those into dock icons. There are a lot of programs that I would like to be able to add to the eventual package, but I don't have icons for all of those programs.
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Reply #22 Saturday, February 23, 2008 8:50 PM
a demo can be downloaded here at the Maxon website here
WWW Link
I see Tiggz is using it with a lot of his work now and I'm very impressed with how well it works myself.
SGT
Oh and in using the new Icon Developer to do the icons with. I would render those icons at the highest resolution that I could. Icon Developer will compress the image to the proper 256 format and it turns out killer as ever. That new Icon Developer is a must have to doing Vista Icons. I personally recommend that program. It really does work good and saves tons of time !
gt
Reply #24 Sunday, February 24, 2008 12:23 AM
I do have Icon Developer, and it works very nicely. However, I don't want to render larger than I need to, simply because for my dock icons I'll be uploading them as png files. Or am I wrong in thinking that size would be a problem in that case?? I'm doing about 40 icons and a dock.
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Reply #21 Saturday, February 23, 2008 8:18 PM
This is your brain.. this is your brain on blender..
Made me crazy trying to figure it out.