Making A Custom Poi Icon

[Dunny-Door]

G'Day Guys!
I hope someone can enlighten me on making a custom POI icon. I have selected a picture for the icon. I have resized the picture to 24x24 and also given it the same name as the ov2 file. I have positioned the icon into the same folder on my TomTom. The only difference I can find compared to other icons is the actual size of the bmp. Mine is around 64kb and the others are approx 4kb. Please help before I lose the plot altogether. What am I doing wrong?

 

[tarmacburner2]

Hello Dunny (that is if I can call you that!)

Have you tried creating a blank 'canvas' that is 24x24 in size and then creating a very simple image (using just one colour). Check to see what that bmp size is. I have created one and it ended up tiny.

Can't honestly see what you are doing wrong.

Cheers,

 

[Dunny-Door]

You can call me Dunny, just don't call me late for lunch.

Thanks TarmacBurner! What I'm trying to achieve is, I have a number of Poi Categories such as Central Australia, for example, and have downloaded a picture of 'Uluru' or 'Ayers Rock' which I intend to use as the icon. My brain cells must be reducing daily! Thanks for your help, mate!

 

[ts67]

Open the .bmp file with Paint and save it as a 256 color bitmap.

Regards Tomas

 

[flyer1024]

I found the following quote when going through this myself a while back....using photoshop I followed these instructions and all the ones which would not show were fixed. The ones I had problems with were all downloaded with various POI files.

"Along with 22x22 pixels in size and named the same as the ov2 file, they absolutely must be 8-bit. I have been creating my own from different images and even though PhotoShop says the image is 8-bit, it will only save as 16-bit bmp until you change the image 'mode' to "Indexed Color" and set it to "Windows System" which then lets you save as an 8-bit bmp file."

not sure how other photo programs handle things. I found though that the size was not absolutely critical, but the 8-bit stuff was.

 

[tarmacburner2]

Dunny,

I had a play with an image and came up with this after playing with it in PSP.

I hope this uploads okay, first time I've tried to upload on this forum.

Cheers,

tarmacburner2

 

[Dunny-Door]

Thank You!

Thank you! I appreciate your individual suggestions and I will have another go at them.

Tarmac, thank you for the icon.

 

[pianoCM]

According to Tomtom SDK documents, custom POI icon must be 22 x 22 (not 24x24, but it's still ok), 24-bit (Bit Depth), a .bmp file and must be the same exact name as its .ov2 file.