Variable icons

[Silveras]

Originally Posted by MNBlockHead

Custom icons would be nice, but pretty low on my priority list. If they did add this functionality, however, it would be nice if you could sell icon packs in the Content Market. I could see their being rule- or setting-specific icon packs, for example.

There is already a desire for more icons... being able to customize them even more would increase that demand, I would expect.

[Acenoid]

It would be nice if it would be possible to add my own icons like it works for images / smartimages and other content to a realm.

[AEIOU]

A post when last we discussed icons requested the ability to package icons to place on the Market. I wouldn't expect that for December but it may be something that could happen eventually. The advantage of course being that other than the code to implement, there is zero cost to LWD; but the gain for the community is huge.

[Silveras]

The issue there would be that everything we have heard so far is about sharing REALMS. Packaging icons may be something that doesn't, and shouldn't, fit into the Content Market. Icon libraries can be a zip file, potentially. A mechanism to load custom icons in RealmWorks would make such sharing possible, without needing to think about how to massage the already complex structures of the Content Market in order to accommodate something pretty thoroughly different from a Realm.

[Parody]

::shrug:: Shared realms could be as small as a single Topic/Article: imagine someone selling/sharing single fleshed-out NPCs or encounters.

Icon additions could be implemented much like the current User Notes: a collection of specialized "Topics/Articles", each of which contains either an icon file snippet or a set of graphic snippets that provide the required sizes and color depths.

(I personally think it's more likely that custom icons would be attached to Category definitions and so to do something like what's being asked for in the original post you'll have to make a bunch of Categories as a workaround.)

In any case, they have to be in your realm somewhere if you want them displayed on the web.

[Acenoid]

Personally I just want to be able to setup custom icons, best local without any bells and whistles.