Editing Modding:Creating Item Icons

== Dimensions ==
An item Icon has 3 dds parts, all perfect squares.

=== Tooltip Icon ===
This is 360x360px icon in the best quality it will be seen, when you hover over the item in the inventory.

It has a fade gradient from the bottom.

=== Controller Icon ===
This is a 144x144px icon. It will be seen by people who play the game with a game controller.

It is the same as the above, but it has no fade gradient.

=== Icon Atlas ===
This is a 64x64px square tile that will be seen in the inventory and hotbar.

It is part of an atlas. This part requires code

== Folder Structure of Icons ==

== Tools to Create Icons ==
- The [https://github.com/ShinyHobo/BG3-Modders-Multitool Modder's Multitool] has an atlas converter.

- [https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/389 Invisible Head and Body] 

- [https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/238 Custom Backgrounds]

- [https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/4536 Chroma Key Droppable Object]

- [https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/492 Visible Shields] - if you have made a shield, this will make it visible in the respec screen.

- [https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/3862 Mod Builder] will generate LSX code and folder structure for you.

== Basic guide to create icons ==

* Install the [https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/238 Custom Backgrounds] background mod 
* Put the clothes or the weapon on your character, and enter the respec screen via Withers.
* Alternately, you can edit the [https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/2881 equipment.txt] of a class to have your outfit as its starting equipment, and start a new game to look at the character in the CC
* Screenshot
* Paste your screenshot into your image editing program.
* Select and Remove background 
* Create border around object (edit > stroke) > (still selected) Gaussian blur. You can also experiment with colour layers.  
* Add the fade gradient. You should have 2 different .PNG versions of the icon, one with the fade out and one without.
* Size correctly, and save as .DDS

== Compression ==
Save your icons in .DDS DTX5, No Mipmaps. (Mipmaps are only needed for things that move closer and further to the camera, they will only make your icons blurry)

Notably you will need to name your atlas .dds NOT .DDS. (or to match whatever you have written in your .lsx code)