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Discover and download new policies, situations, events, dilemmas and more, to expand and customize your virtual countries. Or create your own to share with the community. Built-in mod control panel lets you enable and disable installed mods at will. Full modding guide available online here.

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BRITISHGAMER has Democracy 3

Jan 22, 2014 @ 9:24am

Policy Icons and DDS files

how can i create DDS files, i have software that opens DDS files but does not make them, i do not have photoshop.

thanks

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Remington

Jan 22, 2014 @ 1:46pm

You can use the icon creation tools Elinor linked on the positech fourms.
(I took this from his comment)

http://www.gimp.org/
http://registry.gimp.org/node/70

Install Gimp and put dds.exe in your plug-in directory, which is probably somewhere like here:

C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins

Now you should be able to open and save the dds files that icons are saved as.

The Democracy 3 policy icons to base them off of are "Democracy 3\data\bitmaps\policies"

I just use Gimp's vector drawing tools to draw the icons, I think usually using 8.0 - 10.0 wide lines? They are just in white with the engine then handling the rest.