Custom Perk Icon - Tutorial

The following guide will be showing how to make custom perk icons that replace the vanilla perk icon

If you're running into issues or if you don't understand it, feel free to leave a comment on this page.

Disclaimer : This guide was made before prestige update came out

Tools Needed

Programs	Steps
	Killing Floor 2 - SDK -Open Steam -Open Tools -Search for "Killing Floor 2 - SDK" -Download "Killing Floor 2 -SDK" & Run it
	Photoshop/GIMP -download GIMP [www.gimp.org] or Photoshop [www.adobe.com]

Getting Started

So before we make custom perk icon, we need to find some icon references in your Internet Browser, or you can make it by yourself.

Advice:

This advice might useful so don't forget to read it.

• Be sure the resolustion is the same as or bigger than 256 x 256 pixels, less than that could make the icon quality will be poorly.
  
• When you have done making the icon, save as .png or there would be some nasty white background.
  
• Set the image color mode to RGB color

Editing Perk Icon

Now the first thing you do is opening up your custom perk icon, let's just say i download rainbow six operator icon, what we need to do is deleting the white background/black background as seen in the picture below.


Why did we need to this? because when you see your custom perk icon in menu tab, the icon will be set in color overlay, but we can see original version ingame, when you see a player with health bar, armor bar, and perk icon you can see the perk icon had the original color.

Here's Another Example

Basically, i do that by modifying with using "contract" method in photoshop, what does it do? it's decreasing the selected area, if we didn't do that it's like i said the color will overlayed. Like in this picture below:

Okay how about this? try do this by yourself i'll leave some material for you here (i made the resolution is 512 X 512, good luck changing it to 256x256). Remember we need to remove the color in the icon that wasnt white

The point is that you need to remove background colour, you need to decrease the color area not fully collide with other color area or when you see the perk ingame menu it'll be like plain icon.

Replacing Vanilla Perk Icon

This is the final version i made, pretty cool huh ?

Now, we will go to Killing Floor 2 - SDK, open your SDK if it's the first time you run the program it'll take a long time to load them.

If there's a message popup like in the picture below just click "check now"

You can see there's lotta things that you can see in one picture, what we need to do now is go to the UserInterface Directory, click shared folder you can see whole perk icons including martial artist, horzine perk icon, and zed icon.

Mine's already modded, but that doesnt matter

First, we need to right click "shared" folder then click "save", or if there's nothing inside the folder click "fully load" and then click "save".

Choose the perk icon you want to modified then right click the icon you want to modified. You can see there's bunch of commands, for now we need to click reimport texture.



It takes you to file directory just select where is your file was located, after that done you can see the result ingame

My icon just turned to horzine logo why????
that's because you forgot to setting the image to be "RGB color". it can easily fixed by changing color mode to "RGB color", or you mistakenly save as .tga(targa) 

Don't forget to right click the icon you've modded or if you modded entirely icons right click the folder instead and click "save".

Note: If you can't see the perk icon in SDK playtest, try in Killing Floor 2 game.

Playing with the icon in game 
first, you need to copy the userinterface in unpublished folder, then paste it to published folder in
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\My Games\KillingFloor2\KFGame\ if you don't have published folder, make one.

Closing

And you're done, that's basically how to make custom perk icon, if you have issues leave a comment here.

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My only problem now is ,whenever i reimport for a new image to replace my custom icons it doesn't open my file directory.BUT Overall everything worked for me pretty fine,im able to to play on MP & SP at the same time even servers with custom maps and such though i haven't tried on servers that already has custom perks that has custom icons yet.

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I can't connect to multiplayer after changing the icon.

[Clefable_Recon ʕ º ᴥ ºʔ]

I know where it is, it's just that I am confuse on the steps like brewing and script

[Pirangunter21]

you can use KF2 workshop publishing tool, its in KF2 SDK i think

[Clefable_Recon ʕ º ᴥ ºʔ]

also, do you know how to upload my mods to the workshop? can't seem to figure it out

[Pirangunter21]

if that's what you want sure you can increase the resolution a bit

[Clefable_Recon ʕ º ᴥ ºʔ]

I am not in prestige rank, I am referring to the normal icons

[Pirangunter21]

If i remember correctly since the prestige upgrade the icon will shrink when you advance to any prestige level i think.

[Clefable_Recon ʕ º ᴥ ºʔ]

I got it. And it seems the icon is a bit too small to perfectly fill in the missing space. should I increase the resolution a bit?

[Pirangunter21]

@Sergeant Major.Peliks you followed the last instruction right, have you create published folder? make sure you copy BrewedPC file from unpublished to published folder