Needing instructions on how to draw Windows XP-ish icons
Dec 1, 2019 12:29:59 GMT -8
Post by retrozvoc on Dec 1, 2019 12:29:59 GMT -8
Hello.
I would like to learn how to make my own Windows XP icons. I know that there's a tutorial on some abandoned Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) site, but it doesn't mean much to me in these days of video tutorials or at least in those 2001-2007 days where people learned by opening the Examples or Samples folder of some program.
However, in the meantime, I was using SWiSHmax4 (abandonware with official legal keygen released by the company directly before its bankruptcy) to import SWF files from the Windows XP Tour folder. I then realized that those icons are actually truly vector images. However, when decomposing them into Shapes (that's how it's called), there are some problems with the outlines and fillings colliding incorrectly and showing little holes.
I am pretty sure people out here have some sort of SVG format or something that could be easily editable by some free (no ads, no register, no trial, no demo, no virus, no trojan, no watermark, no restrictions, etc.) tool.
Where can I download those SVG files or SWF files or whatever is used? I would like to make stuff by editing them as that's how every Windows XP kid does.
The purpose of this is to make a YouTube channel video intro/outro/overlays/etc. for all of my videos. The channel is dedicated to the 2001-2007 nostalgia such as Windows XP, Sony Ericsson J2ME Java phones and games, PlayStation 1&2, candy and soda kids had at the time, vibrant colors, textures and designs, etc..
Thank you so much for supplying information to me!
P.S. Google and its Flat UI liking AI is rigged to SEO-rank boring flat design stuff before the Windows XP-ish stuff. Googling is not an option. No, it's not a conspiracy theory. I learned in college and I couldn't use my FrontPage skills anymore; hence why I always epicfailed at HTML/CSS
So, thank you a lot for any piece of information you share with me! 
I would like to learn how to make my own Windows XP icons. I know that there's a tutorial on some abandoned Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) site, but it doesn't mean much to me in these days of video tutorials or at least in those 2001-2007 days where people learned by opening the Examples or Samples folder of some program.
However, in the meantime, I was using SWiSHmax4 (abandonware with official legal keygen released by the company directly before its bankruptcy) to import SWF files from the Windows XP Tour folder. I then realized that those icons are actually truly vector images. However, when decomposing them into Shapes (that's how it's called), there are some problems with the outlines and fillings colliding incorrectly and showing little holes.
I am pretty sure people out here have some sort of SVG format or something that could be easily editable by some free (no ads, no register, no trial, no demo, no virus, no trojan, no watermark, no restrictions, etc.) tool.
Where can I download those SVG files or SWF files or whatever is used? I would like to make stuff by editing them as that's how every Windows XP kid does.
The purpose of this is to make a YouTube channel video intro/outro/overlays/etc. for all of my videos. The channel is dedicated to the 2001-2007 nostalgia such as Windows XP, Sony Ericsson J2ME Java phones and games, PlayStation 1&2, candy and soda kids had at the time, vibrant colors, textures and designs, etc..
Thank you so much for supplying information to me!
P.S. Google and its Flat UI liking AI is rigged to SEO-rank boring flat design stuff before the Windows XP-ish stuff. Googling is not an option. No, it's not a conspiracy theory. I learned in college and I couldn't use my FrontPage skills anymore; hence why I always epicfailed at HTML/CSS
So, thank you a lot for any piece of information you share with me! 
