Macros for Making Icons

These provide two macros to make icons for the function tabs. They basically enter some text onto a 75x40 background and strip out the alpha channel. To save the icons properly, attach a FileOut, and save the image as

TabName.FunctionName.nri

and place it in your icons directory either in your Shake distribution, or in a directory pointed to by the NR_ICON_PATH variable.

NRIcon is used to make the official-looking Nothing Real icons for those of you who really like conformity and probably don't get invited to parties very often. For the more rebellious spirits, there is IconMaker, which allows you to plaster an image across the entire icon, or to crop out a slight space at the bottom of the image for the icon title. Note that there are two versions of the macros, one for SGI, and one for NT, since IRIX and NT don't share the same default fonts.

NRIcon: This allows you to enter up to 3 image inputs, although only one is required.

IconMaker: Takes one image input. To avoid stretching, insert a Scale above the IconMaker node and adjust the positioning of the file. If crop is turned on, space is made for at the bottom of the macro for the text.

The macros themselves aren't very interesting, so I haven't included them here. If you want to look at them, they are stored in doc/cook.