Board Thread:Wiki/Forum Technical Support/@comment-25869554-20150919174039

Lately, User:Rideau has been uploading several very good item pictures; basically enlarged icons from the mod's files. I thought that being as I know how, I would tell everyone how to do this easily. Hopefully this will give the Wiki a much better look.

Please note that this can be done free of charge

Firstly, you will need to find the textures within the mod's files. To do this, find your '.appdata' folder, then '.minecraft', then 'mods'. In that folder there will be a '.jar' file called something like '[1.7.10] The Lord of the Rings Mod B24.4'. To find the textures, extract this file with an archiver such as 7-zip (which is free) or Winrar.

Inside the newly extracted folder there will be a folder called 'assets', then one called 'lotr'. Inside this folder are several folders, some of which contain item and block textures, some of which are speechbanks and sounds. Inside the 'textures' folder there are two more folders called 'blocks' and 'items'. The 'items' folder is easiest to use, as the block textures are like a flat icon.

Then, open any of the files in the 'items' folder with PAINT>NET (again, free) and it should open. The pictures are all only 16x16 pixels, so they need enlarging. To do this, click on 'Image' at the top of the window, then 'Resize...'. Then change the width to '150' (pixels) as this is the size me and Rideau are using. Make sure you select 'Nearest Neighbor' as the 'Resampling' type. Then click 'Okay' and the image should enlarge without being blurry. Then save the item texture as the name it has from the files, but with '150' on the end, to make them easy to find on Wikia's stupid image search.

Then upload them on the appropriate pages (like Athelas)

Make sure not to make these images bigger or smaller upon uploading, because that renders the work you did above useless!

If appropriate, a group of these images can be made into a .gif file like Rideau did on the equipment pages.

If you have any questions or issues, please ask,

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