(I think I have reblogged this already. Oh well lol).
As you know by now I love using this little app, its an oldie but a goodie!
Aside from making your own icons in PS, there are a range of extra icons (well, PNGs) available from various places, especially Mod The Sims so you can have more choice of icons to customize your collection files if you’re into organising your custom content catalogue. Even TS4 has some cute PNGs too :)
In an older post I made (which I can’t find) about making custom collections in game and/or CCMagic, I said in order for the image of the collection file to show up and not a blank folder, you had to install the collection file twice (one copy in the usual Collections>User folder and the duplicated copy in the Mods>Packages folder). I obviously didn’t read the description properly on the Simlogical page. I missed the part that noted I could’ve just added the line ‘PackedFile ../Collections/User/*.package’ in the Resource.cfg file, e.g (last line)
Priority 500 PackedFile Packages/*.package PackedFile Packages/*/*.package PackedFile Packages/*/*/*.package PackedFile Packages/*/*/*/*.package PackedFile Packages/*/*/*/*/*.package PackedFile ../Collections/User/*.package
Better late than never lol. I’ve taken out the duplicate collection files out of CCMagic after making this edit and I’m happy to see the images on my custom collections are still showing up! I’m so glad I won’t have to remember to make duplicate copies every time I make these things 😄.
I liked making my own icons in Photoshop, you can see some of them in the second row, but I’m discovering some lovely PNGs in the TS3 Icons Collection I recently reblogged at Mod The Sims. I’ll search through them for specific images but I’ll make my own if I can’t find the one I want :)
Remember, if making your own icon psd in PS, the size has to be 54x54. Collection Tweaker only imports PNGs, not icons (.ico). As long as they’re not too big, they’ll export correctly on the file.
Also, if you try to change an icon of a collection made in CCM, the Tweaker will throw up an error. I don’t know why this happens. You can change its icon in the game.