Steam Client Update Released

[-smash-]

Yet another update has been released for the Steam Client fixing some small bugs.

Steam Client

• Fixed Purchase Wizard getting corrupt text when the back button was pressed
• Added ability for 3rd party Source Mods to have an icon in the games list, via an "icon" entry in their GameInfo.txt file. The icon filename is relative to games install directory and should be an uncompressed TGA 16x16 pixels in size
• Fixed small memory leak in core engine

So, as you all should know by now, restart Steam to receive the update.

 

[RP.]

Added ability for 3rd party Source Mods to have an icon in the games list, via an "icon" entry in their GameInfo.txt file. The icon filename is relative to games install directory and should be an uncompressed TGA 16x16 pixels in size

Finnaly!
well done.

example:

"GameInfo"
{
	game	"Garry's Mod Eight v3b"
	title	"Garry's Mod"
	title2	"Eight"
        icon    "gmod"

The file itself is gmod.tga and is located in garry's mod folder.

 

[RP.]

Few more things:
1. For some reason, steam turns the icon upside down, so make sure your tga files are turned upsidedown
2. It's possible to use bigger icons than 16*16, playing abit with that and imo the best to use is 19*19. if you use higher values than 19, it won't become any wider than that, but it'll become higher, so it'll just look wierd.

 

[Teddy]

My buddies icon turned out upside down, mine was right way up. Not sure why it happens for some people...

 

[§amW]

this happens with the game backgrounds for half life mods too...
i think if you use 24 bit colour for your tga it is read correctly.

 

[RP.]

Also, for everyone who wondered about hl1 3rd party icons, this is a post made by alfred from valve:

Originally posted by alfred
Icons for HL1 based Mods are on the TODO list for the next UI update.

 

[dys-Fuzzy]

We have created a little zip file with an icon and the edited gameinfo.txt:

http://dystopia-game.com/files/dystopia_icon.zip

Simply extract this out to your Dystopia folder and restart steam.

Your Dystopia folder is located in a path like this:

..\Steam\SteamApps\SourceMods\dystopia