Creating an icon
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Open up Paint.NET and open a new file, if need be, and paste it in (Crtl + V). You should see something like this:

A picture of a picture
Now, it's just a simple job of cropping the image and then erasing the green around the ship. I suggest cropping it to whatever you want, then resizing it to 50x50 pixels; it'll make erasing the green icky stuff a lot easier.
A tip: erase over a black background; it'll make spotting "green icky stuff" a lot easier:

You can rid of the layer after you're done, of course. In fact, do get rid of it; unless you want the icon to have a black background in-game.
After you are done, save it as a DDS and not a TGA - I'll explain later.
Save it as a 32-bit DDS and Compress it:

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Arc Hammer icon, 50x100 | 2568 | February 25, 2008 - 4:39 |
Click here to download DDS Converter 2.1 | 3059 | February 25, 2008 - 4:24 |
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Trainzkid - Monday February 21, 2011 - 18:29
hey, um, im at the MTD editor part and i found the file Mt_commandbar.mtd but i cant find the file Mt_commandbar.tga ANYWHERE!!! can u tell me where it should be located?
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nvm figured it out.>.<