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BlueHeavenHero, the icon should have a black border and at the intersection of the object with the border.

Oh, really? Okay, I'll still be reworking their appearance and changing the icon as well.

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I've updated the visual of the Death Harvesters; they look much better now, in my opinion.

A manual on creating icons is in the first post of this thread!

Unfortunately, the link doesn't work for me. And I don't have Photoshop either.

The link works for everyone! And besides the link, it's also added as an archive in the attachment!

Well, then it seems I have some kind of issue with the link. I've already found the manual in the attachment.

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I still seem to be having some problems. I couldn't find the manual in the archive. Maybe I'm just not seeing it, but there were only Textures. Could you please explain where this guide is?))

It's funny, I also couldn't open the manual the first time I tried to figure it out, I thought it was some kind of useless thing - an unfamiliar format, it opens in Explorer XD

I haven't dealt with Alpha and other things, I create icons in paint.net, the process is similar:
1) I combine the icon, cut out a square, remove the background, by the way, a pink background is good, but I take screenshots at the edge of the map and crop the sky.
2) I reduce it to 256 pixels.
3) I create a copy of the layer - now we have 2 identical icons on top of each other, the bottom one needs to be processed through "hue" and "saturation" - it should become super black.
4) I blur the black layer with a Gaussian blur of 3 pixels, copy it and merge it until the transparency disappears - a black outline of 3 or 4 pixels without alpha appears around the icon.
5) I merge the layers and reduce the image to 128 pixels, draw an outline around the edge - it's ready.

Question... what is a "Gaussian filter"?

Here, I made it in PDF format – it opens everywhere!

The manual in PDF format + the texture file for the editor, all in one archive file in the standard .zip format!

This is a filter based on the algorithm of a scientist named Gauss!

I understand that I'll never be able to figure this out.

lol, it looks scary, but it's actually not some advanced technique, it's just the name of the button - "Gaussian blur." Before, there was only one slider that adjusted how much the texture would be blurred. Now there are four, but I still only use the first one.

I found another way) through the median.

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by the way, I was a little mistaken, this Reaper is ID901, not ID900, ID900 is my new Necrolich)
Re-uploaded the archive.