New Thief Icons (now for download!-updated)

Kerrle on 11/4/2005 at 02:12

In anticipation of getting all three Thief games running on Linux shortly, I realized that the old Windows 95 era icons would look out of place on any modern desktop, so I went about making some updated versions.
Here are the originals:

Inline Image:

http://www.tyrino.com/jonathan/old-icons.png

And here's what I came up with:

Inline Image:

http://www.tyrino.com/jonathan/icons.png

Anyway, I wanted icons that had the same theme as the originals, but that didn't look as if they were 5 years old. I'm also working on new icons for the Deus Ex and System Shock series, as you can see from the included Deus Ex icon.

Edit:
They're done; a zip file containing both ICO and PNG versions can be downloaded here:
(http://www.tyrino.com/jonathan/Icons.zip) http://www.tyrino.com/jonathan/Icons.zip
Re-Edit:
A new version is available here; these icons are the same, but should be a bit larger in use. I'll remove the original link after we've made sure there aren't any problems with these:
(http://www.tyrino.com/jonathan/New_Icons.zip) http://www.tyrino.com/jonathan/New_Icons.zip

Here's what the new ones look like in windows, compared to the originals and other normal Windows icons:

Inline Image:

http://www.tyrino.com/jonathan/newicons.png

Original post follows...

If you want to see what they look like on a desktop, check the image below: (careful, image is big)
(http://www.tyrino.com/jonathan/Screenshot.png)

Inline Image:

http://www.tyrino.com/jonathan/Smallshot.png

Morpheus on 11/4/2005 at 02:37

They're very nice. What's this about getting these games to run on Linux? Are you talking about with Cedega?

Kerrle on 11/4/2005 at 02:46

Well, with Wine in general. Cedega will run Thief I and II, and System Shock 2, pretty much perfectly now - you even get the cinemas. I just installed Thief II and System Shock 2 and was quite suprised when I heard Shodan's "Look at you, h-h-hacker..."

In fact, you can run them in a window, and avoid the resolution change in menus, which always bugged me about Dark engine games.

Non-Cedega wine is quickly improving it's DX9 support; within a few months, even vanilla wine from WineHQ should be able to play all of these with no problems. Even the safedisc protection works on most drives, as long as you've told wine to pretend to be Windows 2000 or XP. I fully expect Thief III and Deus Ex II to be completely playable within the next 2-3 months; already they display, just with messed up menus and whatnot.

Nedan on 11/4/2005 at 03:28

Since System Shock 2 used Shodan's face for the icon, you could use the hackers modified face (the one that was on the box cover) for System Shock 1.

Download this (http://www.ttlg.com/ss1/archive/themes/shock.zip) theme from ttlg, open it up & view the System Shock Wallpaper (.bmp or .jpg) file if you don't know the face I'm refering to. :)

Great icons I must say, offer them up for download when they're ready please.

Gestalt on 11/4/2005 at 04:55

Nice work! I'm very interested in the prospect of .ico versions, if you'd be so kind.

Edit: Oh, and would it be possible to get a blue version of the T: DS one to go with the editor?

Kerrle on 11/4/2005 at 06:02

Sure; that's a great idea. I was also considering doing one for Darkloader and other related projects. I put these together this afternoon; each icon doesn't take long.

To Nedan:
I've gotten the image, and I'll make an icon out of it, but since I got into Shock late and got my copy used, I just don't associate that face with the game...I'll do that one for now, but I may make another one later.

Kerrle on 11/4/2005 at 09:42

Well, I created icons for System Shock I and II. I will probably make a TriOptimum icon to replace the Shock I icon I currently have, but they'll both stay available.

To complete this little set, I need to make a Deus Ex II icon. Any ideas? I can work some things out, but the games logo isn't useable like the first DX's was, and there aren't really any identifyable in-game logos I can think of other than the Tarsus one, and that wouldn't fit.

chrish on 11/4/2005 at 15:06

Wow, those are great! :thumb:

- chrish

Scots Taffer on 11/4/2005 at 15:19

Nice icons, gimme gimme gimme.

dlw6 on 11/4/2005 at 17:13

Isn't an ICO file nothing more than a bitmap with the file extension changed to BMP? Of course, that's in Windows, I don't know much about Linux. My UNIX experience is from the days before GUIs were invented.

Don