The Big Giant Icon Thread

[pmoyer]

Has anyone figured out a way to make this work on Macs?

It's the same type of instructions used to get Icon to run in NPC mode; edit the plist file of the program so that the icon command line has the -r option.

Also, this is the way you run Demorecords; instead of "-- icon.exe", you'd run "-- cityofheroes.exe -demoplay {demofile name}", essentially.

--- Philip

[jtessier3]

OK, I have tried several times to download the i24 stuff from the OP, and through SugarSync, with no success.  My original CoX games were deleted long ago, and although I have since relocated and reloaded my "Good Vs. Evil" DVD for CoX, I still know that I'll be needing updates to i24.  Is there anyone that can help me get to that point so that I can once again be a hero?  This would also be a great surprise for my lil 4 yr old, who became very upset when we could no longer play our "supahero game" together. 

Comments and help appreciated...  Jim

[primeknight]

OK, I have tried several times to download the i24 stuff from the OP, and through SugarSync, with no success.  My original CoX games were deleted long ago, and although I have since relocated and reloaded my "Good Vs. Evil" DVD for CoX, I still know that I'll be needing updates to i24.  Is there anyone that can help me get to that point so that I can once again be a hero?  This would also be a great surprise for my lil 4 yr old, who became very upset when we could no longer play our "supahero game" together. 

Comments and help appreciated...  Jim

I used SugarSync and it worked great.  Leandro, was super helpful.  He seams like a really cool guy.  Did you talk with him at all?  If I remember correctly, I observed the files in the SugarSync Drive folder and moved them on to my computer's local hard drive.

[Ice Trix]

OK, I have tried several times to download the i24 stuff from the OP, and through SugarSync, with no success.  My original CoX games were deleted long ago, and although I have since relocated and reloaded my "Good Vs. Evil" DVD for CoX, I still know that I'll be needing updates to i24.  Is there anyone that can help me get to that point so that I can once again be a hero?  This would also be a great surprise for my lil 4 yr old, who became very upset when we could no longer play our "supahero game" together. 

Comments and help appreciated...  Jim

Have you tried the torrent version? (Remember to also download the most recent Icon version from the first post of this thread after downloading it via bit torrent or other methods.
I can put it on a drop box share if you have trouble with the torrent version.

[Eoraptor]

Have you tried the torrent version? (Remember to also download the most recent Icon version from the first post of this thread after downloading it via bit torrent or other methods.
I can put it on a drop box share if you have trouble with the torrent version.

Exactly... download the torrent link, not the magnet link. the magnet link is dead for some reason for both PC and Mac, but the torrent links work fine.

if you need to, there are other torrents and magnents out there you can find on your own. Just remember that the client should be about 4.26 gigs. if you find one which is only a few hundred megabytes, you've either downloaded the NCSoft installer, or a virus.

[JanessaVR]

If you find one which is only a few hundred megabytes, you've either downloaded the NCSoft installer, or a virus.

How are we supposed to tell the difference?   ;)

[batqueen]

 :o THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE! (sorry, couldn't resist   ;D)

[Eoraptor]

How are we supposed to tell the difference?   ;)

Well, both bloat your system, install unwanted applications, and communicate with hostile servers in foreign nations... so hmm... :roll:

[Codewalker]

:o THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE! (sorry, couldn't resist   ;D)

Well, the difference is that the virus bloats your machine and bogs it down on purpose.

The NCSoft launcher just does it because it sucks...

[JaguarX]

yeah almost had Icon working, in the end had to reset my entire computer. Not sure why my computer sees it as a threat, but I'm going to leave it alone for now. Apparently it's conflicting with another program.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Well, the difference is that the virus bloats your machine and bogs it down on purpose.
The NCSoft launcher just does it because it sucks...

Grey's Law: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.  ;D

[Scendera]

yeah almost had Icon working, in the end had to reset my entire computer. Not sure why my computer sees it as a threat, but I'm going to leave it alone for now. Apparently it's conflicting with another program.

False positive. It hooks into a program and allows it to be altered, which is technically "virus like behaviour", except that in this case it's precisely the behaviour we want and we know it's happening. The AV looks for the behaviour, not the intent; it has no way of knowing the suspicious activity is the whole point. Same idea as something like AntiWPA.

[Super Firebug]

You need to tell your AV program, "Trust me; I know what I'm doing", and hope that it hasn't seen any episodes of "Sledge Hammer!"

[Mantic]

It's the same type of instructions used to get Icon to run in NPC mode; edit the plist file of the program so that the icon command line has the -r option.

Also, this is the way you run Demorecords; instead of "-- icon.exe", you'd run "-- cityofheroes.exe -demoplay {demofile name}", essentially.

Gah, I got garden pathed! Thought you were gonna tell us how to run demos through Icon (so that we could F2 out in the middle of a paused demo and start throwing NPCs around and stuff. I so want that, not least because trying to load a map from within the client using the Icon command line always just crashes the client here (it's the fault of my dinosaur computer not having a lot of memory to play with, but nonetheless, demos easily access any map I need while Icon commands don't).

Plus, it'd be so cool to be able to drop in a crowd around an existing fight recording, for some nice Street Fighter styled shots, without having to sort out every one of their locations and orientations by way of manual text placements.

You need to tell your AV program, "Trust me; I know what I'm doing", and hope that it hasn't seen any episodes of "Sledge Hammer!"

+1 nerdy culture reference :)

[JaguarX]

False positive. It hooks into a program and allows it to be altered, which is technically "virus like behaviour", except that in this case it's precisely the behaviour we want and we know it's happening. The AV looks for the behaviour, not the intent; it has no way of knowing the suspicious activity is the whole point. Same idea as something like AntiWPA.

yeah. I figure it's a false positive. Reason it stated for the "threat" was possible virus. The listed source my computer gave was that the program as it detected was from a "personal computer".

[darkgob]

yeah. I figure it's a false positive. Reason it stated for the "threat" was possible virus. The listed source my computer gave was that the program as it detected was from a "personal computer".

I mean, it's technically not wrong.

[Eoraptor]

it's not unusual at all. I play Armada 2 Fleet Ops, and Avast and Norton both insist that it's a suspicious program because of the way it modifies the origina armada 2's memory handler. so yeah, a lot of fan modified games get flagged.

[Max Champion]

I downloaded Tixati, found I24beta and downloaded it to a external hdd (in case that makes a difference), downloaded teh icon.exe and replaced the existing icon.exe

I can open the program from double clicking any one of a number of files (Launch Icon (Costume Creator).bat or (with NPC pieces).bet and all do the same thing. Launch the game (tell me my graphic card sucks) and lets me start creating a character. When I get the choosing the body (male, female, huge) the image doesn't appear. I have only been able to figure this out by rifling through thousands of these posts looking for screenshots and finally found one. I can mouse over the whole area and only the "words" male, female huge appear and disappear as I'm rolling in the right area.

Any ideas???   Because it said my graphics card was weak and the game would be slow, I went into settings (Ultra) and turned things down, but never off or disabled in hopes to improve the quality and speed of building the costume. Then figured it had nothing to do with the costumes and only the speed of the game, so set it back to default. Still no body.
Little help please...

[The Fifth Horseman]

Might be a problem with your drivers. I remember having something like that in 2011 with my ancient Radeon 9600. :p

[Max Champion]

Thanks...
I just find it odd that I could get though all the rest only to be stopped half way through character creation?