AutoLink Folder Icons - Now with DIY tutorial! (Updated 04/07/2016)

[jk8ppt]

Hello. Thank you very much for your wonderful icon.

An icon of continuation was made.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ca12t4833eq5wqb/Additional_Icon_All_Characters_V1.2.7z

 

Thank you.

[Juvemerda]

On 4/23/2017 at 2:46 AM, jk8ppt said:

Hello. Thank you very much for your wonderful icon.

 

An icon of continuation was made.

 

 

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ca12t4833eq5wqb/Additional_Icon_All_Characters_V1.2.7z

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you.

 

Can you upload also the first part in the OP, please? The link to MEGA is broken now...

[LUMANOUZ]

On 4/23/2017 at 8:46 AM, jk8ppt said:

Hello. Thank you very much for your wonderful icon.

 

An icon of continuation was made.

 

 

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ca12t4833eq5wqb/Additional_Icon_All_Characters_V1.2.7z

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you.

 

yea please reupload original folder icons!

[LUMANOUZ]

On 4/4/2016 at 1:56 PM, tastefultoy said:

Hello there, dear lovers. 
 
Well, let's get this out of the way first: I'm a bit of an organization freak.   So maybe this won't be important to any of you guys.
 
Whew. Moving on...
 
So, AutoLink. It's crazy good. But the thing is... to use it you need to create folders. A lot of them, if you want to individually mod each costume of each character. So it gets a bit confusing since there's no easy way for you to memorize each costume's number. Or maybe I'm little dumb. Well, either way...
 
... here's what I did: I made a "little" icon pack.
 

DOWNLOAD (MEGA)

https://mega.nz/#!iY53RKrS!CVPzAR6-DbzyuZiqPyQZ2BAnFc_gjn8WF5QdIgYZbpc

 
The file is a copy of my AutoLink folder (without the mods, of course), with correctly named subfolders for each character and, inside of those, more correctly named subfolders, one for each official costume (the correct number of folders for each character).
 
Also, inside of each character folder, there's another subfolder which contains an icon for each costume in every official DLC for every character in the game.
(except for the season pass exclusives. I couldn't get my hands on them )
 
If you use the file as is, you won't even have to create any folders. It's already organized. You'll just need to insert the mods you want in the respective costume folder.
 
It's not without work, though. Unfortunately, I don't know of any automatic way of selecting different icons for each folder. So if you're a freak like me, you'll want need to do it manually anyway. I recommend doing it as you insert each mod, just make it a bit less time consuming.

 

Anyways. I use the first costume of each character as the icon for said character's folder...
 

 
... and each costume as its own icon.
 


 
It takes a "bit" of effort, but it sure looks nice and organized!    (For my tastes, anyway)
And also it doubles as a nice costume reference. It sure is easier and faster than running the game just to know some costume's number. 
 
It's dumb and as engrossing as an excel spreadsheet... but I hope you guys like it. 

 

Oh, and if you just want the folder to be nice and organized but don't want to go through the trouble of creating every subfolder... here. Let me help you:

 

AutoLink - Folder Structure.zip 203.06 kB · 573 downloads

 

This is a copy of my (empty, of course) autolink folder, with all of the subfolders but none of the icons. 

 

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Now, let's say you're using these icons and you create a new subfolder to add costume alternatives to one of your DLC mods. This new folder doesn't have an icon and you feel sad because now it looks incomplete.
 
Well, not anymore! Here's a quick tutorial on how I've made these icons, just so you can make new ones yourself.

 

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Free software: XnConvert
Step 1 - Screenshots:  For this, I loaded the game through Steam just to get the easy screenshot functionality. But you can use whatever works for you. Then you load the character selection screen and press F1 to activate slow-mo. That's gonna make it easier to get shots of any costume in almost the same exact pose. You select your costume and, as soon as the character finishes fading in, you take the screenshot. Then you repeat this for every costume you need. It's simple and quick. 

 

Step 2: XnConvert:  Now you'll need to run XnConvert. It's pretty easy to understand.

1. On the "Input" tab, click the "Add files" button and select the screenshots you want to create icons with;

2. On the "Actions" tab, click on the "Add Action" button and add the following actions in this order using these settings (All of them are inside the "Image" section that shows up when you click on the "Add action" button:

 

I. Crop:

The first step is turning the image into a square. Since I used a 1280x720 image, we'll crop 560 pixels from the right edge.

This way we'll end up with a 1280 - 560 = 720 x 720 square. Depending on the size of your original image, you'll need to crop a different amount of pixels, always from the right. But the formula is simple. If your resolution is X horizontal pixels and Y vertical pixels, the amount you'll need to crop is always X - Y.

 

1280 - 720 = 560

1920 - 1080 = 840

etc.

 

II. Resize:

Now we need to make it the size of an icon. Which means 256x256 pixels. Easy peasy.

 

III. Add Mask:

The last action is adding the border. To get to the border I used, just click on the black right-ponting triangle and choose the fifth one on the list. Its name is "Camera05.gif". Then select white as the color, choose "Stretch mask" and that's it for actions.

 

3. Now for the output tab. The important parts here are choosing where you want your icons to be created and, obviously, selecting ICO as the format. Don't bother with the filename option, since it's gonna be hard to make the numbering scheme start from where my icons stopped. It's gonna be easier to just rename each one individually.

4. Click the "Convert" button.

5. Smile.  

 

please reupload it. Mega link is down.

[EquestRiley]

3 years later... I'm gonna necro this thread to see if anyone has the original icons, both links in op are dead.

[reyjkw]

saw a video on youtube that has a backup of this structure
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V3i_l72rDZxP0nbwVr_aLUG583Zrg6CA/view