How to Create custom Icon Using AI for Your L2JServer

Required Programs

Before we begin, make sure you have the following programs:

Photoshop CS6 Portable
Encrypt UTX.bat
L2_FileEdit_Interlude.exe
L2decrypt.exe
L2encdec.exe
UE2Runtime-22261903.exe
Fireworks 8 (or any other image editor)

1. Creating the Icon Using AI

Open ChatGPT or any other image generating AI and ask it to do the following:

“Make an image for an icon for my Lineage 2 server in 32 x 32 size. The icon is for a custom item with the function of allowing the player to change their nickname.”

Now, copy the generated image by right-clicking it and selecting “Copy image”.

2. Using Fireworks or Image Editor

Open your image editor (Fireworks 8 or other). Click on “File” and then “New”. Change the file size to 32 x 32 pixels.

Paste the image we copied from ChatGPT and resize it to 40 x 40, positioning it at coordinates X: -4 and Y: -5.

4. Convert to .DDS in Photoshop

Open Photoshop Portable and open the image we just saved in Fireworks. Save the image as D3D/DDS (*.DDS;*.DDS).

Select the settings as shown in the following image:

Import the .DDS file and follow the settings below:

Package: AthenaProject
Group: icons
Name: change_name
Format: DTX1

6. Encrypting the .UTX File

After saving the .utx file, right-click on encrypt UTX.bat and select “Edit”. Rename the file to your created texture, for example: AthenaProject.utx. The command should look like this:

l2encdec -e 121 AthenaProject.utx

8. Final step Replace the AthenaProject.utx file in the systextures folder and open the game to check out the new custom icon.

There you go! Now you know how to create and implement a custom icon using AI for your custom item in Lineage 2. I hope this tutorial helped!

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