Hi Vice (or anyone else that may be able to help),
Is there any way to increase the size limit for the png files used in the HUD?
Specifically I am trying to make the strafe icon a little larger. I created a png image that was larger in dimensions to the default image provided in the customisation kit. But it seems that the game forces the larger image to fit a specified dimension. I think the dimensions of the strafe.png are set at a limit of 32x32 px. So I would like to be able to use a bigger png image, of around 50x50px.
If the icon, no matter what the size, extends to the very edge of the .png file, that's about as big as you can get it. The game adjusts the size of the file to fit. For the strafe icon, it looks like you might have one or two pixels between the icon and the edge of the file. You can probably expand the icon at least that far.
I think Marv's got the right of it. Within certain parameters, the game software is designed to allow/recognize a modification file, which it'll replace for the game-standard iconography, as/where filed appropriately, et cetera, et cetera... At least, I've not had a problem with any of the 'larger' mod files I'm either currently flying, or have flown in the past. (re: EM1 versus EM2 applicability/compatibility.) And, that also includes the appropriate ?-shadow.png file for most of the HUD-scalable iconography that I'm passing familiar with.
[Edited on 9-21-2014 by Busch]
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Ok, that's what I suspected. Then there isn't any way to set the parameters manually? So the largest size icon I could make would be to the very edges of the png image file.
If the icon, no matter what the size, extends to the very edge of the .png file, that's about as big as you can get it. The game adjusts the size of the file to fit. For the strafe icon, it looks like you might have one or two pixels between the icon and the edge of the file. You can probably expand the icon at least that far.
