@Ozhara Don't worry, I already figured out by myself, but thank you anyways XD.

@Balam Ajaw
Long time since I worked on those. Not sure I'll have time in the next few weeks, but I'll try to write something together if you still need/want some info. :)

Hey Ozhara, can you make a guide of how to mod the resource icons? I was trying to do something, but it didn't worked. At least can you help me?

also seems that palette index "07" of the frame stands for 32 bit, but it wont work in-game anyways

That would be great!

so, if all goes right, my the making of mod will be probably the first one ever with 32 bit slps :)

I have an expert friend who works on this and the 32 bit slps show up with transparency, its interesting

Alpha channel is for transparency, right.

I'm not sure about real 32bit and transparency ingame though - this is for AoE uses a special 256 color palette that also includes specific values used for the player colors (so if a pixel is identified to be in one of the 8 values of a player color, it is automatically replaced by the corresponding value of the player color an actual player uses ingame).
The terrain system was build from scratch to support png images instead of the old slp solution and 32bit though. So I don't think the slp files - that still use the old routines - are actually able to use such enhanced 32bit frames - you can see this from using a frame not converted to AoEs color palette before importing it into the slp container - colors are messed up then.
Transparency is also something beeing applied ingame. If a slp frame is considered to be transparent (n0 layer for most units) it is shown transparent ingame although the color of the bmp image is gray/black).

so, I uncovered the 32 bit slp frame by copying the frame section to a 32 bit bmp made by the freeware editor called pixelformer and manually remove all "800F" data with an hex editor and the picture showed up
Hopefully this information can be utilized to make our first 32 bit mods!!! btw alpha channel means transparency if im right? so we could even make stuff transparent :)

Format: 32 Bit Bitmap Picture
Channels: RGBA (Red Green Blue Alpha Channel)
4 Bytes per pixel
But here is the catch:
At the very start of the 32 bit slp frame, you got a byte in heximal value "80"
Then the first row of pixels start consisting of bytes each color, my example image has 32x32 pixels, so it was followed by 128 bytes of RGBA data
But attention! at the end of the row you get another hex value "80 0F" and then the next row of pixeldata starts and each row ends with a "80 0F" heximal value and the final row of pixels only ends with "0F" like the pic started with "80" so you see its both 80 and 0F
Seems 80 0F is used for spacing!

I DECODED THE 32 BIT SLP MANUALLY!!!!

Open them up in Turtle Pack, export the bmp frames, edit them, convert them back to the AoE color palette using Turtle Pack again and then replace the frames with the edited bmp files. :)

It's also described in more detail in my modding guide.

Ozhara any info on how to edit 32 bit slps? its urgently needed for a great mod of mine!

Looking forward to your update.

Sure, I'll take a look at it, but compared to my other mods right now it has a lower priority for me. So it will take some time until I update it.

Can we get an update for this for Rajas?

I'm planning on doing so! :)

And thanks to storm_andy for this add. My bad.

Any chance to upgrate this mod for the 4.4 update or even the Africans civs? Thanks and congrats for your work it's awesome.

hah my bad :P

Additionally - for the bugs I can't continue upgrading the mods right now - have to wait for some fixes. :(

Read the posts below. :)

someone should update this for 4.0

Haha, understandably, you are the one with all of the content packs after all. :P Good luck!!

Sure!

Just needs a little time - I have to upgrade 240 mods and the upgrading itself is still buggy.
I hope to get all mods upgraded until the weekend.

Then I'll start to update them content wise. :)

Could this be updated for the new version of the game's mod support?

the wood looks good when it is logs tho as well

Glad you like it. :)

looks good (Y)

k thanx and they look great man..big dif

it's just the icons.

is it just the icons that change or is everything hd? could be a dumb question but bear with me lol i am quite a noob

Great to hear so. :)

I like it. Very well done and IT WORKS. Now I got rid of confusion by wood and food.

Experimented with gold bars. Looked good so far. Just working on the wood and food, gold and stone are done.

Maybe a golden ring, like in Civ V wound do better? Dunno. But thanks!

I agree with julianbaba4 for your upcoming icons

I'm already planning on creating some new icons my own in the near future, I'll take this into account, thanks for the feedback! :)

It's nice, but I don't like the gold, it looks like a yellow cabbage.

Great thank you for this!