Custom Icon Sheets

This script allows you to designate which icon sheet you want to draw your icon from. This allows you to organize your icons so that you don’t need to load one large iconset just to draw one icon.

Separate your icons into separate files, then load them by name and index!
You can even specify different icon sizes for different sheets.

Download

Script: download here

The icon index utility I use in the example below can be found here

Installation

Place this script below Materials and above Main.

Usage

Setting up icon sheets

Place any custom icon sheets in your Graphics/System folder.
In the configuration below, add the filenames (without extensions) to the
Icon_Sheets hash and the width and height of the icons for those sheets.

You must also include the default icon sheet to use,
which is “Iconset”

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Using custom icon sheets

Now that you have set up your icon sheets, you can begin using them.
In your database, note-tag objects with

<icon: name index>

Where
name is the exact filename of the icon sheet, without extensions
index is the index of the icon in the specified file.

For example, suppose I have the following icon sheet called “CustomIcons”

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After looking up the icon index, I want to assign it to my Potion item

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Now when I load up the game, I will see that my potion is using the custom icon

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Compatibility

This script overwrites how icon drawing is done. Instead of simply loading “Iconset”, it instead calls this function

bitmap, new_icon_index = TH::Custom_Icon_Sheets.load_icon_sheet(icon_index)

The function takes the item’s icon index and returns a bitmap, and a new icon index, which are then used to draw the icon. If your script has its own icon drawing methods, then you should update those methods appropriately.

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124 Responses

  1. Lili says:

    i would like to ask if you could make a script like this for Rpgmaker MV ^^

  2. Rargh says:

    This is not working for me. I use RPG Maker VX Ace. When I note-tag items, the custom item doesn’t display. I’m using just one icon to test. It’s 51×17, Should I resize the icon?

  3. Erick says:

    Hello, there is a way for use this script in rpg maker MV?

  4. Andreas says:

    Hello Hime,
    Is it somehow possible to use this script for the text box in “Show Text”? I want show sometimes Icons in the Textbox with /I[n]. Can i call it about a script order like $game_message.add(“your text”) + order to show the new icon? Or something similiar?

  5. Marcos Luna says:

    Sorry to bother yourself Tsuki,are planning to port this to MV sometime in the future?

    • Hime says:

      Oh, I forgot about this. I will take a look at how it might be implemented in MV. It will likely be the same as Ace though: if you have any plugins that use icons, they will need to be manually patched since icon drawing isn’t an automatic thing.

      • Marcos Luna says:

        Well… That is not going to be a problem,in vx ace i used the default iconset for the script that uses icons and created several for weapons and others.
        Thanks for your reply princess,good night.

      • LokisTochter says:

        Yay! That would be really, really great!
        Thank you Hime for your great Plugins!

  6. Quixxxotic says:

    This is fantastic.♥

  7. Lnik3500 says:

    Hello, sorry to bother you (Again) but do you know how I could make the yanfly’s menus scripts to draw custom icons? ( Item menu ) Also , When I load a shop with the yanfly’s shop options , it simply crashes saying the error was on line 135 ” >= ” . Do you think you know how to fix it? Sorry for the bother and thank you for everything , Hime.

    • Hime says:

      Which ones are yanfly's menu scripts?
      I have updated the script to fix the crash issue with the shop script.

      • Lnik3500 says:

        The Ace Item Menu v1.02 script . I just want to know if it is possible to draw the custom icons at the top zoomed one ( at the left of the stats ) ( it will save me time and space to not make an image for each icons ) . Thank you very much for taking your time to read my request .

    • Hime says:

      I see the issue. Place custom icon sheets under the menu/shop scripts. Typically, patches would be written separately so there is less reliance on the order of scripts but the way I have handled them at that time, all the patches were written into the scripts themselves.

      • Lnik3500 says:

        Almost fixed ! The custom icon works like a charm on the shop menu , but still doesn’t show on the item menu ( I already have included this issue in the demo , you just have to open “items” on the menu to see
        for yourself ) . I have putted the thre following scripts in this order:
        -Ace Shop Options v1.01
        -Ace Item Menu v1.02
        -Custom Icon Sheets
        Sorry for all this trouble…

  8. Robert Fox says:

    What are the terms of use of this script?
    Will this need a license? If so please email me at given address with the details.

    Everyone who contributes to the current development will get the game free.

  9. Ryan says:

    Hello, I am new to Ruby and RPG maker vx ACE, I am trying to get this script to work with Victor scripts animated battles, when I load a new game and check my inventory the item icon for weapon has changed, however, when I battle and my char swipes the weapon there is nothing there (weapon appears invisible)….any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    • Hime says:

      In order to display icons correctly, you must look for where the icons are being drawn in your script and then modify it according to this script. If you don’t know how that would be done you can make a thread on one of the forums with a link to the script.

  10. Shane Isme says:

    I cannot get this to work for Yanfly

  11. Tsukihime says:

    Updated to allow custom width and height of icons for each sheet.

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