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I created war3_icons.bni and w3xp_icons.bni today which contains all race/level-specific icons for Warcraft III and The Frozen Throne.

war3_icons.bni contains the 5 icons for each 5 races (25 icons).
w3xp_icons.bni contains the 6 icons for each 5 races, plus the 6 tournament icons (36 icons).

It uses the standard Battle.net icons format. Each icon is 18x26. Use the product field of icons header to determine which icon to match up with the icons field of a Warcraft III statstring ('W3R1' for example).

I originally created them for SphtBotv3, but others may want to support them in their client.

Is there any chance that Blizzard might invoke copyright on these sorts of things?

Presently (Alpha 3), my bot is distributed with the ListView images embedded in the binary as a resource, and the animated (profile) images in a subfolder, as they were animated .gifs downloaded directly from the Battle.net website.

In Alpha 4, I'm going to create a cache and download these images off of the internet as-needed (or perhaps the first time it is run).  I believe that by making the client download the images rather than distributing them, I might be getting around some sort of copyright violation.

Anybody have thoughts about that?

Quote from: Myndfyre on April 14, 2004, 08:20 PM
Is there any chance that Blizzard might invoke copyright on these sorts of things?

Blizzard did not register those icons with the Copyright Office.

Quote from: Spht on April 14, 2004, 08:30 PMBlizzard did not register those icons with the Copyright Office.

That does not prevent the images from being copyrighted.

Quote from: tA-Kane on April 14, 2004, 08:58 PM

Quote from: Spht on April 14, 2004, 08:30 PMBlizzard did not register those icons with the Copyright Office.

That does not prevent the images from being copyrighted.

Being unregistered, and that bots have used them for many years, it doesn't seem like they care much.

I've been trying to download the icons for nearly an hour, but I can't seem to...  :\

Quote from: Spht on April 14, 2004, 09:01 PMBeing unregistered, and that bots have used them for many years, it doesn't seem like they care much.

You're probably right.


Edit: oops, fixed the quoting tags  :\

Note that you will not be able to view these icons with Skywing's IconView because they are all 26x18 and IconView refuses to load/save icons which battle.snp wouldn't be able to load or would crash on.

Quote from: Spht on April 14, 2004, 09:53 PMNote that you will not be able to view these icons with Skywing's IconView because they are all 26x18 and IconView refuses to load/save icons which battle.snp wouldn't be able to load or would crash on.

I have a Mac, I can't run Skywing's IconView. Instead, I can run my own BNI editor! I want to see if it crashes my code! mmm

Quote from: tA-Kane on April 14, 2004, 09:58 PM
I have a Mac

Congrats, Kane.  Admitting you have a problem is the first step to solving it....

Still can't download the file. It would have been nice to simply state the server was down and remove the link instead of letting people try to download it.

Quote from: Maddox on April 14, 2004, 11:11 PM
Still can't download the file. It would have been nice to simply state the server was down and remove the link instead of letting people try to download it.

http://www.bloodynub.com/files/index.php?dir=bnet/bots/development/&file=icons.zip

If his link doesn't work.
I'll probably add more files to that directory as I find them.

anywho, now if I get off my lazy ass and work on parsing war3 stat string and writing war3 logon sequence I'll be able to use them.

They said that the new was going to have new icons.. Looks like someone find them and i ended up finding them from him..

http://www.battle.net/war3/ladder/portraits/animated/war3/W3R2.gif
As you can see it just like they do the stats phase on Bnet

W3R2.gif
W3H2.gif
W3N2.gif
W3U2.gif
W3O2.gif

Quote from: SKiLLs on April 15, 2004, 11:27 AM
They said that the new was going to have new icons.. Looks like someone find them and i ended up finding them from him..

http://www.battle.net/war3/ladder/portraits/animated/war3/W3R2.gif
As you can see it just like they do the stats phase on Bnet

W3R2.gif
W3H2.gif
W3N2.gif
W3U2.gif
W3O2.gif

What are you getting at?

Can someone just post a zip file with all the icons for WAR3 and W3XP, the images not the .bni files? I can't seem to find them.

Quote from: BinaryzL on April 15, 2004, 05:12 PM
Can someone just post a zip file with all the icons for WAR3 and W3XP, the images not the .bni files? I can't seem to find them.

Why would you want just the image files? The icon package contains all the images plus the icon codes for each. Very easy to implement if you support reading Battle.net icon files.