Improve transport belt icon

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Improve transport belt icon

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TL;DR
Transport belts in the inventory fall short of representing the idea of a transport belt in the world. They shouldn't!
What ?
Here's the old (0.17) icon for belts, which looks similar to belts in-game (even if not exactly, the color is kept aligned):
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Here's the new (0.18.27) icon for belts, which is noticeably redder for some reason.
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This is especially odd considering that a lot of icon textures very closely resemble their in-world textures:
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Sure, like the 0.17 belt icon, they are slightly lighter than the in-world texture, but they are not a different shade of color.

I came up with a "high-resolution" fix texture that I'm satisfied with by taking the in-world texture, cutting out excess, brightening the colors, and scaling it. I would also accept a lighter 0.17-esque texture.
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Edit: bonus comparison image with the above texture in-game:
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Why ?
I think this improves Factorio by increasing the ease of recognizing the transport belt icon, especially when zoomed out and looking for it on a belt line in your factory. When I think of a transport belt, I think "grey/black and yellow", not "red and yellow" which is what emerges from the smaller versions of the icon.



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Re: Improve transport belt icon

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If you have belts on a belt they go invisible.
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Re: Improve transport belt icon

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It is harder to see, yes, which is why I also accept a higher resolution 0.17 texture as a solution to this request. Those were still plenty visible.

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Re: Improve transport belt icon

Post by Optera »

The 0.18 icons certainly are better looking.
Reducing red tint and brightness on 0.18 icons only took a few minutes and made them look even better.
0.17
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fast-transport-belt.png (12.25 KiB) Viewed 1195 times
0.18
0.18
fast-transport-belt.png (10.64 KiB) Viewed 1195 times
recolor
recolor
fast-transport-belt.png (11.93 KiB) Viewed 1195 times

I'll be adding those to Iconography.

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