After Sucamarto posted on Turbine's forums on the lack of a portal.dat image for patch pages I dug up a collation utility I made over a year ago but never finished up and completed it. I've started filling in old patch pages, though I've had trouble extracting a small number of low color icons that use a different format. Once I get it sorted I'll update any existing images and finish the rest up (I got up to around ToD 2005 so far).
The false backcolor isn't true black (it's off by a single tick, so you can floodfill them to remove it. But they also have the hex ids for identification if you need to pull out an original.
Great work :)
I was wondering, do you think it would be useful to something like what Sucamarto used to do, where the portal.dat icons are displayed and the in-game use of them is displayed below? Example: http://www.dereth.info/?ind=portal_dat&op=viewarchive&i=September2008. And on our listings, the in-game icons would use {{Icon}} so they would redirect to their page. Or is this unnecessary as most of the icons would be on the patch page anyway?
--An Adventurer 00:28, June 8, 2010 (UTC)