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Battlefield 1942 icon

Anyone has, or can create, an upscaled version of the original Battlefield 1942 icon? The original one only has 32x32 pixels and looks bad in newer versions of Windows. It should be at least 64x64.

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Re: Battlefield 1942 icon

Here, i made one.

.PNG, 64 x 64

It's not the original one, though.

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Re: Battlefield 1942 icon

Some time ago I made a logo for my bf server... Here it is, with bf1942 text

Size: 128x128

PNG:

ICO:

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Re: Battlefield 1942 icon

That's a pretty good job, Telrin.

Here are two more versions I made.
Again, it's not the original image, but it's still a T34-85.

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Re: Battlefield 1942 icon

That's a pretty good job, Telrin.

Here are two more versions I made.
Again, it's not the original image, but it's still a T34-85.

Despite not original tank, your image has more authentic font. Do you know his name, or it handdrawed text?

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I tried different fonts, but all looked weird after downscaling to 64 x 64,
so i made it by hand.

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I just learned that size does not really matter, i tried your 128 x 128 .ico.
Is it enough to rename a .bmp to .ico or do i have to use some software ?

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Re: Battlefield 1942 icon

Thank you very much! But how did you do it? Did you use T34 or T34-85 dds image from menu icons and added the Battlefield 1942 text?

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Re: Battlefield 1942 icon

The 128px icon file is downsampled and looks blurry in the lower resolutions. Is it not possible to use a vector image to create an icon?

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Re: Battlefield 1942 icon

II just learned that size does not really matter, i tried your 128 x 128 .ico.
Is it enough to rename a .bmp to .ico or do i have to use some software ?

You will have to use some software to create an .ico file. According to Wikipedia's ICO article, the .ico file contains image bitmap data in BMP format, for earlier versions of Windows, along with some header and structure information.

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Re: Battlefield 1942 icon

The 128px icon file is downsampled and looks blurry in the lower resolutions. Is it not possible to use a vector image to create an icon?

I used image of colored vehicle icons posted by ziba128 (here: https://team-simple.org/forum/viewtopic … 23#p63123) and just recolored T34, then text added.

Rebuilt ico using original ones to avoid blurring.
ICO 256x256 (include 16x16, 32x32, 64x64, 128x128):

Maybe i'll try use original logo to improve ico (next week, when I'll return to home):

EDIT:
About vector. As far as I know, Windows not support vector ico. But it possible to make ico, using one. Of course

Last edited by Telrin (2024-02-24 10:33:25)

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Re: Battlefield 1942 icon

Here it is.
ICO 256x256 (include 16x16, 32x32, 64x64, 128x128):

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Re: Battlefield 1942 icon

Thank you, Telrin. I prefer the previous version because the text is similar to the original 32x32 pixels text.

I took your approach and used the original 128x128 pixels T34 image and cropped it to 106x106 px, to frame it like the original 32x32 px. Then, removed the surrounding text and resized it to 64x64, 128x128 and 256x256 pixels, using the resample method Lanczos2, which seemed visually better than the rest. Now, it is only missing adding the text around the tank image, which should have a black outline, just like in the original.

Can anyone please finish it? Here are the resulting images.

106x106 px:

Resized to 64x64 px:

Resized to 128x128 px:

Resized to 256x256 px:

The text should be as close to the original one, here resampled from 32x32 to 128x128 pixels, to clearly see the outline and the size of the text:

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Re: Battlefield 1942 icon

Here's my contribution:

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Thank you, Blindschuetz! That is more than enough.

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Thank you, Blindschuetz! That is more than enough.

Placed the text more like original and made unite images to ico.

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Re: Battlefield 1942 icon

Perfect!