What Is Wrong With My Icons?

Development Platform & Builds
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Executable Icon

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Taskbar Icon

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2 Problems

  1. My Executable icon is somehow still my old icon. I thought I replaced it. Is this supposed to be Platforms → Windows → Game Icon?
  2. My Taskbar icon looks like crap. Why doesn’t it look as nice and smooth? Should it be the one here Platforms → Windows → Game Icon?

I am using GIMP and scaling images to 256x256 and exported as an .ico file.

BTW I’m making it for Windows.

2

I see where I went wrong. I opened up UE4’s default game icon for windows and found out that it has multiple layers which I think corresponds to different icon sizes. When I exported my .ico file it only ever had a 256x256 layer which when scaled down looked very odd. Unfortunately, I have not figured out what is wrong with my executable icon yet and which parameter in the Project Settings it is references by.

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3

Now my Exe icon look right by magically changing one day. I wish I could say what happened. It was bad one day and magically better the next.

4

Well, I don’t always restart my computer. But I just realized that I restarted my computer last night and then I noticed the exe file change. Hmmmm, I wonder.

5

I mean the exe file changed after I packaged again that day.