Maybe a ‘icon making’ tutorial would be needed… 
Haha yeah. I just spent 4 hours trying to make an icon and its not going well at all. 
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That is the story of my life.
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Hahaha The fact that I don’t know much about perspective probably is my main issue. 
icons are easy arnt they?
@moondrixx_01 Depends on how good you are as an artist and how well you can use the right tools . My first version took like 2 hours, but I needed to get familiar with the tool, too.
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ok well if any one wants im normaly free to help, and if u cant get me here u can find me on the FTB wiki and FTB teamspeak. 
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I spent 5 hours yesterday trying to figure out inkscape and another 4 hours trying to figure out gimp. It’s extremely complicated, made a little progress though. Didn’t create anything usable though. So your exactly right.[quote=“moondrixx_01, post:47, topic:4782”]
ok well if any one wants im normaly free to help
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I might have to take you up on that offer if I can’t figure this stuff out soon. xD
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no problem, i know gimp is a picture editor and i’m guessing inkscape is too, i personally use creative clouds photoshop its fairly cheap and u get alot more.
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Inkscape is actually a vector graphic editor, however its often really confusing to me.[quote=“moondrixx_01, post:49, topic:4782”]
creative clouds photoshop
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Isn’t that like $19 a month for one app for students now? I don’t understand this membership crap adobe started.
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is this yet another version of the Photoshop tool? its getting hard to keep up with all the changes coming from Adobe…
i pay $50 a month for the whole suite. compared with the $1000 for a commercial version of Photoshop, id say its worth it. it also comes with nice cloud storage.
edit: just seen students get 50% off that, for those in Australia thats $25 a month for all of there CC stuff,
For a poor college student I can’t even afford that lol
I did finally make something semi decent. First attempt: 
Perspective is a little off, but i made it with the Google Drawing app. lmao
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Concerning perspective:
Try to make parallel lines (copy-paste is your friend). Similar to technical drawing. I hope this image explains it better. Red lines are all at the same angle, and blue lines idem (well, they are supposed to, I draw them after the black sketch 
). Although you have to position correctly the several parts to look balanced.
(I posted this because I died seeing those chair legs x_x )
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Very helpful, thanks! (My one highschool art class i took like 5 years ago has failed me) 
The cube tool in Google Draw doesn’t give many editing options so I’ll have to go back and create them by hand. I only spent like 20mins messing around with the program for the first time and made this so I’m impressed. haha
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You guys are definitely on the right track! If you look at the stuff in the stockpile icons, you can see that everything is drawn from roughly that perspective too–top down, 2 pt perspective. Real 2-point perspective has the lines get closer to each other as they recede from the foreground, but for icons, this is probably too much detail.
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Thank you voxel_pirate for making this tutorial, I just got my first crafted item working! (still trying to get the proxy working though flubed something somewhere…)
Would post pictures but still a newbie
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Nice to hear that this is of use… just trying to understand what is all required to implement a new profession. Maybe that will be the next “tutorial” .
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here we go!
The big tree is a banner replacement (Epic Norse embark with a Seed from Yggdrasil!) and the pillars are a carpenter new item entry.
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I like the idea of a huge tree as some kind of indication of your starting position…
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