Add-on image: the most important add-on selection criterion?

[Dugi]

I have placed the link to the guide right into the information about the picture in PblWML, but somebody moved it into the see also section. I don't like that decision, but I don't want to start an edit war.

And by the way, it wasn't me who discovered it, I just decided to use it and was surprised by the number of players it attracted (so I decided to try to tell others about it).

[tekelili]

I have recently find out myself how to add custom images to a multiplayer add on, but display a mainline image to users without add on installed. I guess am not a genious and lot of people can also figure out themselves how do it, but I still think is the kind of "trick" that UMC would find very helpfull in a guide. Just throwing here the idea, not sure if is the best thread for it.

What I did:

I included a copy of misc/blank.png with other name inside my add on and used BLIT with my custom images over a mainline image using as MASK my custom blank.png

Example:

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# hidden image to replace custom
#define ICON_INVEST_TRAINING
"&misc/blank-hex.png~SCALE(90,80)~BLIT(items/dummy.png~MASK(wct-blank.png),9,4)~BLIT(dummy-new.png~RC(magenta>brown),9,4)=" #enddef

[iceiceice]

tekelili: You might add it to the wiki, maybe as a section in Dugi's custom add-on images guide? http://wiki.wesnoth.org/FancyAddonIcons