Thread: North American Branding (work in progress)

Hi everyone. It's been a loooong time since any activity in here. I've played around with damn branding for a while and for the life of me I cant figure out why the icon names aren't paired up with the poi names in the poi_visibilities.txt. For me it works enough to have them displayed properly on the map, but glitchy for varso in the detail screen.

A couple other problems I have is with the converting software. Most of the software was buggy and finicky at the best of times on windows 7, but now that I'm on win10 I have a couple extra problems. I can install a program, and when I click the EXE it brings up installshield and the program won't open. it gets quite discouraging to work at this over and over and can't get it to work right. In the last while I've redrawn several gas station icons to be more realistic, but obviously can't implement them in a new version due to the software problem.

I received a PM from a member regarding my branding and I would like to reply but his mailbox is full so I will post it here:

Originally Posted by badwhip

do you have a how to somewhere when making a custom branding file? how does the icons line up with the data on map? also why are there strips of poi instead of each one on it own? also what size are they? thanks for any help.

you can put any icon or a set of icons into "UPOI Editor" to make the POI strip. If you are using square icons then they are usable in a branding file. If the icons are round or other shape, then you have to convert those areas to a transparent background, then use iPAQ to convert it to BMP for iGo (It's a special format). the icons can be any size to start with, then UPOI editor will resize to 2 different sizes to use in your branding zip.

I don't know how the icons lined up with the map names. In the POI_Visibilities.txt file, my names were offset from the icon names, yet it displayed properly while using the software. For example:

Petrol_Station
7-Eleven|eko|5000|0
Petrol_Station
Chevron|cenex|5000|0
Petrol_Station
Costco|conoco|0|0
Petrol_Station
Upi|united dairy farmers|0|0
Petrol_Station
Irving|ingles gas express|0|0
Petrol_Station
Wilsons|wesco|0|0
Petrol_Station
Ultramar|turbo|0|0

You can definitely make poi icons individually instead of stripe, but for my branding I have over 700 icons which would be a nightmare branding file with a couple thousand files. And I probably only have 70% of the icons finished I think. The stripes are much more convenient as cateories so there would only be a few dozen files.