[Released]Magic Icon Creator

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Hello,
Magic Icon Creator has been released!
You can easily snapshot icons from anything with no size restriction.
Also you can one-click-create Items that can live in UI and in the world with PhysX on them.
Check it out: Magic Icon Creator | Integration | Unity Asset Store

Main features are:

  • One-click icon creation individually or bulk.
  • No coding required. But code is well commented in case you want to extend it.
  • No size restrictions.
  • One-click-create fully functional Items that exist in the game world and game UI. Instantly test them in included test level.
  • Several modes allow you to decide how Items behave in the world. Just choose from drop down.
  • Two modes: Use MIC as your Item system or easily let it plug in to your existing system by generating only the data you need.
  • Comes with an instruction manual :slight_smile:

Icon Creation:

Item Creation and PhysX:

Have Fun!

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Ahhhā€¦ I forgot:
Should work with any old version of Unity at least from 5.0 (I donā€™t know how the asset store gods figure out which Unity version an asset needs, most probably they always assume the most recent version).

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This thread is for support now. So if you have issues or feature requests, please post them here. MICā€™s Asset Store site links to here now, but must go through review before it is online.

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bump!

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@DerDicke Iā€™m currently designing a RPG and we have a simple item system in place. My question is, will we be able to integrate your system into ours?

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@usmarshal :
Easily. Just choose ā€˜Keep Only Connectionā€™ under ā€˜ā€” Create Settings ā€”ā€™ and create your Items. This will add no additional functionality, just a script with two variables to the newly created prefabs (UI/World) holding the prefabs to create in each case. You can use these variables to create the right prefab just like you create any other prefab as usual.
Also described in the manual.

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Sounds great, thanks :slight_smile:

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bump!

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create your icons with Magic Icon Creator!

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ā€¦and your Items!

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new Version of MIC is out!

----------------- V1.1-------------------

  • Fixed errors when building for a target platform. You should not have to delete MIC anymore before building.
  • Rotation around y-axis was inverted. Fixed.
  • New additional Rotation mode. Hold LeftCtrl+LeftShift to rotate in steps of 15Ā° around the nearest world axis.
  • Scaling is finer now. Hold LeftShift to scale faster.
  • counting starts at 1 instead of 0 now.
  • MIC should be much more stable for prefabs containing odd scripts.
  • Manual is updated.
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------- Bug in Unity 5.6--------
If you want to use the item creation functionality (that is, not only making icons, but actually create items existing in the game world) there is a bug in Unity 5.6 that leads to a white icon image for the item.

Please use Unity 5.5 or earlier in this case.

If you only do snapshots, there is no issue.

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Published a work around for the issue in my previous post. Package will be online after Asset Store Review.
Thanks a lot to Vidmantas from Unity QA for providing me that fix in notime.

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This was fast! MIC V1.2 has been reviewed and is online now:

Thank you Unity Review Team.

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Create Icons with Magic Icon Creator!

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Hi,

Iā€™m interested in purchasing this asset. Has it been tested with Unity 5.6 and later releases?

Thank You.
Regards.

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Tested and working in 5.6, but not tested in later versions.
If you find any issues in later versions, tell me and Iā€™ll try to fix them if possible in reasonable time.

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just tested in 2017.3.0. Works.

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Sounds good. Iā€™ll get it.

Much appreciated.
Regards.

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Hmm, mouse zoom does not work for me. I use the mouse wheel to zoom but it does not work. Mouse works fine everywhere else. In the Scene window I can zoom with the wheel, but in game view I can not. Other move options work just fine, only zoom is not working. Using it on a Mac with Unity 5.6.5f1 64bit.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: Correction the zoom does work with the mouse wheel, but I have to scroll forever for it to zoom. It move extremely slowly, holding shift key actually stops it from scrolling all together.

EDIT2: I had to hack the script to get the zoom to work in a useful way. The zooming altogether seems to be too granular at default. Also what I found is that if I press the shift key the Input.GetAxis is never true. Thatā€™s why pressing left shift does nothing. Perhaps the GetKey clears the input somehow. Can you verify this works correctly for you? Perhaps itā€™s my setup my h/w, the thing is that my mouse zoom and keyboard are working fine everywhere else.

I also think that different sizes of mesh prefabs can mess things up when it comes to zooming. I would suggest testing zooming with different size of prefabs and see if it behaves as you expect.

Iā€™ve hanged the code so I can use keys 0,1 and 2 to set the scaleSpeed to curMeshPrefabSize and the 1 and 2 simply += 0.1 to it and -= 0.1 to it. I can then adjust the zoom and that make is usable.

EDIT3: I was able to take a snapshot of a particle effect Iā€™m interested in. I have no background, so expect it to be transparent around the particle effect. Then when I take the resulting image, change to Sprite and change Alpha Source to ā€œFrom Gray Scaleā€ I see the image I expect, but the background is not truly transparent, there is a gray transparent hue, like gray smoked glass instead of pure transparency. Am I doing something wrong here?

Regards.