Steam Community :: Guide :: How to create Custom Badges

Store Page

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution

All Discussions Screenshots Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution > Guides > Zukas's Guides

200 ratings

How to create Custom Badges

By Zukas

This guide will explain how to create custom badges for your army painter to make your armies seem way cooler or sillier!

Award

Created by

Zukas
Online

Category: Characters, Modding or Configuration, Multiplayer

Languages: English

Posted

Updated

6 Dec, 2013 @ 5:46pm

31 Jan, 2018 @ 2:48am

7,914	Unique Visitors
253	Current Favorites

Guide Index

Overview

General Information

Process

Troubleshooting, Tips and Tricks

Comments

General Information

Dawn of War 2: Retribution Army Painter uses .png pictures with size of 128x128 pixels.
I use Photoshop in for this matter, but I believe free software such Paint.net or GIMP should work flawlessly! You can see the example right below.

Process

First of all we make or find a badge we want to use, in this case I will use one from the internet. But don't forget that it's 128x128, so do not aim for super high detail as you might have to resize it, and that it should be square, else it might stretch and quality might drop.

1st. Create/Paste badge picture into Photoshop (Or any other program you use.)
2nd. Fit it in proper 128x128 if it's less or more, you have to correct it.
3rd. Make sure you've cut out the white/black background as it will apply to the unit too, you can easily delete backgrounds with magic wand tool on Photoshop
4th. Export it as .png in C:\Users\(YOUR WINDOWS USER NAME)\Documents\My Games\dawn of war ii - retribution\Badges. Location may be different a little bit between Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
5th. Go check Army Painter if it's working correctly, if not. Double check every step, if it's still not working, post in comments and let me know! I'll try to help you out!

Troubleshooting, Tips and Tricks

Troubleshooting

Note that other players might not see your badge as they might have custom badges turned off in their options. It can be done by any player, but as default it should be on and everybody should see your badge.
If you've done everything as according to the guide and still do not see the badge in the game, try using different program for exporting the file. This issue seems to be common with GIMP 2.

Thanks to SS|de_Nick for heads up on this issue.

Tips and Tricks

Don't forget to use magic wand tool, it selects the same coloured region and so this way you can easily remove backgrounds, if in some way it starts mark your actual badge parts, decrease tolerance of the tool. This tool is available in Photoshop and Paint.Net and GIMP 2.

Thanks to Chairmaster Stargate_Nerd for confirming Magic Wand on GIMP 2

118 Comments

< >

Clockwork 20 May @ 9:58am

If you are on Linux and using Proton compatibility mode to play with Windows players, the path will be:

[SteamLibrary]/steamapps/compatdata/56400/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/My Games/Dawn of War II - Retribution

Where [SteamLibrary] is your installation folder, whether you installed it in the default Steam path or somewhere else.

Cyrus 30 Jan @ 12:10pm

Instructions unclear: How to start the game?

Bane-Sidhe 15 Oct, 2022 @ 10:44am

@morcalvin, it's under the "Multiplayer" tab

Morcalvin 24 Jul, 2022 @ 6:00pm

How do I access army painter?

ＳＴＡＲＫ 6 Apr, 2021 @ 8:35am

great guide, thanks bud !

ak97062 5 Nov, 2020 @ 10:58am

Iron wolf Birgade patch from Lithuania

NexionSE of the Cm.G. 21 Feb, 2020 @ 10:06pm

one might have to create a badges folder as its not always present

Zukas [author] 13 Aug, 2019 @ 1:07pm

You're welcome! :)

Duck_N_Roll 13 Aug, 2019 @ 1:02pm

thanks, that helped

Zukas [author] 13 Aug, 2019 @ 12:42pm

If Dawn of War II - retribution folder is not there, it's probably the wrong place. I would try to launch folder search to find it as I don't know where it should normally be on Windows 10.

< >