[CGMZ] IconSet Generator (Patreon)

Updates are at bottom of post.

Hi all,

This plugin generates an IconSet from individual icon files, which may be how you receive icons if you download them from resource packs not specific to RPG Maker (such as on Itch IO). You provide an input folder which is where the individual icon files are, and then it will combine them all into an IconSet image compatible with RPG Maker in the output folder you provide.

This plugin can also handle upscaling/downscaling icons. For example, if you have a 24x24 icon and want to add it to a 32x32 iconset (for example, a VX ace icon you want to use in MZ), this will allow you to do that. Same for downscaling, if you have a 48x48 or 64x64 icon that you want in your 32x32 iconset, this plugin can handle that. Please note that automatic upscaling/downscaling needs to remove or add pixels programmatically, which may not produce a final result of acceptable quality to you. For best quality, it is always recommended to manually redraw the icon in the size you want.

You can sort icons alphabetically, and also use subfolders to organize your icons which the plugin will then keep these icons next to each other in the final output.

As always, let me know if you have any suggestions for improvements beyond what is listed above either in the comments below or on my Discord in the #suggestions channel!

Alpha Update R2: This plugin now supports appending icons to an existing IconSet! You choose the index to begin appending, and the IconSet to append to, and it will generate a new IconSet with the original icons + your new icons. This also works with upscaling/downscaling icons, but will not upscale/downscale the existing icons on the IconSet only the ones being appended.

I also added a new parameter to force icons to be added sorted by their filename A-Z. This should have been mostly how it worked previously, due to how icons were read in the filesystem, but could have been slightly random since no sorting was explicitly done. This is a toggle so you can still generate iconsets in the old way with no sorting too.

Alpha Update R3: Seems there was a bug when not appending icons that would cause the iconset generation to fail. This should be fixed now, and both appending to an existing IconSet as well as creating a brand new one should both work as expected.

Beta Release: Hi all, this plugin was released into the Beta stage of development today. This means it is mostly feature complete, though new features can always be added should they be requested. In the beta stage I look to make the code more optimized, solve any remaining bugs there may be, and generally improve the quality of the plugin "under the hood."

This beta release adds an important feature of being able to parse icons from subfolders. Now you can use subfolders to organize your individual icons, and these icons will be kept together when the final IconSet is generated.

Hi all, this plugin received a minor update today. This update fixes a bug where the append option was not able to find the existing iconset image.