[Guide] How to add your own Logo!

[Nexuscrawler]

Logo-Folder: /Documents/Egosoft/X4/[Numbers]/logos/

Valid file formats are .BMP, .DDS, .GIF, .JPG, .PNG and .TGA.
Transparency in images should work as expected, but animations in GIFs will not play.

For the [Numbers] folder to be generated you will need at least one save-game, so the first step is to save your game at least once. After that, create the logos directory inside of the [Numbers] folder. The images you place inside the logos folder must be square and a power of two. A valid size would be 128x128, 256x256, 512x512, ... and so on.

After I placed the logo inside the folder, I had to restart the game and load the save-game. The logo will then show up for selection in the game. Press ENTER, click the tab Player Information and then scroll down to Custom Logos.

Hope that helped. If there are things I missed in my explanation please let me know.

[Net-FX]

Outstanding. Thank you so much for this.

+1

[[FFCW]Urizen]

Thanks for this. This should be pinned methinks.

[ThexxEthxx]

Oh heck yeah! Awesome dude! Thank you very much.
I agree with this being pinned. Or [s]defiantly[/s] definitely added to a post of tips and tricks.

[Frstwlfz]

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

[BlueSabor]

Works a treat!
Thank you

[Perahoky]

this topic is the 5 with a guide for logos....

https://www.egosoft.com:8444/confluence ... os+-+Usage

feel free to contribute

[StoneLegionYT]

Nice I saw lot of people asking so I made a video for it as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7pUGET1VbA

[ProdicalJedi]

Thank you for this.

[alt3rn1ty]

Valid file formats are .BMP, .DDS, .GIF, .JPG, .PNG and .TGA.
Transparency in images should work as expected, but animations in GIFs will not play.

I have seen mention that the ideal default size / format for these custom logos' is 256x256, and 8bit RGB format .PNG
Additionally .PNG is the only one that is really supported by the game for using transparency.

Do you not also have to call them specifically playerlogo_01.png and increase the number for additional logo choices?

Source = https://www.gamerevolution.com/guides/4 ... ustom-logo

[CBJ]

No. There is no naming convention requirement apart from the file extension, which must be one of those listed or a compressed version of one of them with a .gz extension. All files in that folder which meet those requirements will be found, regardless of name.

[Nexuscrawler]

It only needs to follow a naming convention for normal and glow maps. They should have the same name as the logo, with an additional _glow. or _normal. part at the end.

logoname.*
logoname_glow.*
logoname_normal.*

[Socratatus]

The images you place inside the logos folder must be square and a power of two. A valid size would be 128x128, 256x256, 512x512, ... and so on.

Actually this is not entirely true. You can put in pics which are somewhat longer than squarer. It`s a bit hit and miss, but it works most times.

Also, if people learn how to mask their pictures you can make your logo look a real part of your ship. Perhaps I will demonstrate.

[Socratatus]

Here are a couple done real quick (so they`re rough). I`d show my actual pics but I don`t want to break forum rules, whatever they may be.

Black and white.




Colour.


This 400 by 434 pix

I didn`t keep strictly to the rules at all and it still worked. So there is some leeway.

[Nexuscrawler]

This is what I currently use.

[Sgt Hawker]

Thank you for making this short tutorial. I have made a few logos for myself, by doing it. Not sure on how to export the files to share them though.