I visited the post CAPITOL SHIPS CREATION FROM SCRATCH, helpful for now. I open up the four files, such as; Unit_Hud_CurerOver.TGA and the other 3, From Entrechment and saw that it was almost full.
Question: Can I expand the image (on the right) and would this create problems later, would it make a lot of work or anything I am unaware of right now.
I think this is okay, as long as you make sure the image dimensions are still some power of 2 (for example, double the width) since graphics cards & routines are optimized to deal with images of power of 2 size.
Most mods I've seen deal with this by creating Unit_Infocard_2.tga / Unit_Main_2.tga / Unit_Picture_2.tga files, though.
Carbon:
He's not talking about enlarging any individual picture, he's talking about enlarging the single texture file that all ship icons are placed in.
EDIT:
Also, Carbon, I just tried using the template you mentioned and I seem to be doing something wrong, but I'm not sure what. See: http://sinsmodding.dreamhosters.com/index.php?title=Shield_opacity
Additionally, how do you make wiki links & searches resolve to a certain article? For example, if you merely get the capitalization of an article wrong, it tells you the article does not exist. I can't figure out how to make "Capital ship" resolve to the "Capital Ship" article, among others.