Dozerfleet Custom Project Icons Pack Series

The Dozerfleet Custom Project Icons Pack Series (a.k.a., Dozerfleet Divisions and Projects Icon Library Series) is an ongoing and ever-changing set of custom icons, mostly folder icons, that exist for purposes of Dozerfleet projects and operations. This series is the successor to the Albums Master, which was prominent in the Cormorant era.

Schema
The Albums Master was retired officially in May of 2006, when the transition to Dozerfleet from Cormorant was made official. The new schema was generated based off of sorting projects by file type and by host folder, as was laid out in Windows XP at the time the new setup began. The general rules for this setup have changed little since then, even though a Mac version has since come to exist.

Most file types are considered "text," even if they're more than just text. File that would have gone under Text Albums in the old Albums Master setup are now placed in project subfolders inside of My Documents. Photos and graphics are stored primarily under My Pictures, unless relevant to Dozerfleet Labs. Dozerfleet Labs is its own special setup. My Videos hosts most if not all video file content. Maps, etc., are usually under My Documents. Web pages may typically be stored in Dozerfleet Labs. Audio files are usually stored in My Music.

From there, subfolders beneath these default Windows folders are given custom folder icons, based on the project involved. Sub-projects to projects may or may not get their own custom icons. Custom file types may also get custom icons. By default, in Windows, subfolders to the project and sub-project folders are assigned a folder icon based on content type. On the Mac side, the project or sub-project's folder icon is usually applied to every sub-sub-folder in the project or sub-project, regardless of inner file type content.

History
The earliest, crudest of icons dated back to 2006, when Dozerfleet first got off the ground. Some revisions to this set occurred in 2007 and 2008, and would undergo numerous transitions since then. A Windows 10 standard for appearance was first created in 2018, and was the standard used for designing the Windows-side folder icons for The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff, particularly for The Merre Edition in 2020.

On October 5th of 2021, the setup was redone to make way for a Windows 11 version. This was implemented on Dozerfleet Mega Portable, and was then retroactively applied to Dozerfleet Main. This is in spite the fact that Dozerfleet Main still primarily ran Windows 10. While attempts existed to make a Mac version, proper macOS folders for newer editions of that operating system weren't possible in 2021 on the Windows side using the software that was available to Dozerfleet Main at that time. IcoFX 1.6.4 didn't support the 1024 res ceiling for ICNS files, given that it was created at a time when OS X only went up to 512 for a maximum resolution.

On May 27th of 2022, macOS Mojave icons for Dozerfleet projects were finally made possible, using properly-formatted ICNS. This was due to the prior installation of VirtualBox on Dozerfleet Main, which enabled a copy of Mojave to run in a virtual machine. On June 3rd of 2022, this prompted the ordering of a second RAM module for Dozerfleet Main, to bring its total to 16 GB of RAM. This is inspired due to the fact that Dozerfleet Main at the time, with only 8 GB of RAM, could barely run The Sims 4 - and also didn't have sufficient RAM to dedicate to running a virtual machine of Monterey. Not only did this limit iconography testing, but insufficient RAM to run Monterey also meant that modern Mac App Store programs such as X-Code became unavailable.

Without those programs, it would become that much more difficult to make the Shrimp on a Treadmill Calculator into a truly cross-platform actual application, limiting it to being little more than an HTML widget. Ability to run X-Code, however, would guarantee that the SoaT calculator could be made as a Mac app, if not also an iOS app to run on iPads and iPhones. With these formats, plus Visual Studio Community 2019 on the Windows side to make an EXE file, the only other barrier to cross to make the SoaT calculator a cross-platform dream would be the means to make it for Linux and Android.

Opening up these venues also implied a future for the custom project icon series, as it opened up the possibility for a future Linux icon set.

Windows-side icons

 * Dozerfleet Productions folder icon
 * Dozerfleet Literature and Comics folder icons
 * Replox: Abstract Foundations folder icon
 * Mackleyverse folder icon
 * Stationery Voyagers folder icon
 * Q-Basic Gorillas Fanfic Universe folder icon
 * The Gerosha Chronicles folder icon
 * Eccentriaverse folder icon
 * Dromedeverse folder icon
 * Dozerfleet Records folder icon
 * Every Ape and His Brother folder icon
 * Dozerfleet Studios folder icon
 * Dozerfleet Labs folder icon
 * Albums Master archive icon
 * Black Hole icon
 * DzMD folder icon
 * Sims 3 folder icon
 * Sims 4 folder icon
 * OBRL folder icon
 * OBRL Windows folder icon set
 * Mancino's folder icon
 * Biggby folder icon
 * Szot's Bar & Grill folder icon
 * Boost Mobile folder icon
 * Ice Mountain folder icon
 * Ferris State University projects folder icon
 * Lansing Community College projects folder icon
 * SWOCC Studios projects folder icon

Otherwise, all other icons were set to the default documents / pictures / music / video folder icon standard for Windows 10 / 11.

Mac-side icons

 * Dozerfleet Productions folder icon
 * Dozerfleet Literature and Comics folder icons
 * Replox: Abstract Foundations folder icon
 * Mackleyverse folder icon
 * Gored By Them Things folder icon
 * Star Flops: Curse of the Medium Side folder icon
 * When Bikes Argue folder icon
 * Stationery Voyagers folder icon
 * Q-Basic Gorillas Fanfic Universe folder icon
 * Camp Jellybean folder icon
 * The Gerosha Chronicles folder icon
 * Corando's "Don't Lose Hope" folder icon
 * Classic Ciem folder icon
 * Classic Ciem 2 folder icon
 * Classic Ciem 3 folder icon
 * Sorbet folder icon
 * The Gray Champion: Modern Legends folder icon
 * Extirpon folder icon
 * Navyrope folder icon
 * Pilltar folder icon
 * Cherinob folder icon
 * The Horrorday Gang folder icon
 * Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil folder icon
 * Blood Over Water folder icon
 * Ciem: Inferno folder icon
 * Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana folder icon
 * Ciem: Ash Cloud folder icon
 * Ciem: Caldera folder icon
 * Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo folder icon
 * Anarteq: Tropic Mercenary folder icon
 * Anarteq: Envoy to Lough Melvin folder icon
 * Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance folder icon
 * Phaemer Village Peacekeepers folder icon
 * Path of the Ming-Cho folder icon
 * Sodality folder icon
 * Swappernetters folder icon
 * Ciem Tomorrow folder icon
 * Eccentriaverse folder icon
 * The Bison folder icon
 * Volkonir folder icon
 * Dromedeverse folder icon
 * Camelorum Adventures folder icon
 * Grillitan Diner folder icon
 * The Slushy Show folder icon
 * The Trapezoid Kids folder icon
 * Dozerfleet Records folder icon
 * Every Ape and His Brother folder icon
 * Dozerfleet Studios folder icon
 * Dozerfleet Labs folder icon
 * Albums Master archive icon
 * Black Hole icon
 * Combination Lock folder icon
 * Task Delegator folder icon
 * The Sims Gallon Converters folder icon
 * Shrimp on a Treadmill Calculator folder icon
 * Question Prompting Assistant folder icon
 * DzMD folder icon
 * Sims 3 folder icon
 * Sims 4 folder icon
 * The Horrorday Gang Story Pack folder icon
 * ITFC folder icon
 * OBRL folder icon
 * OBRL Windows folder icon set
 * Mancino's folder icon
 * Biggby folder icon
 * Szot's Bar & Grill folder icon
 * Boost Mobile folder icon
 * Ice Mountain folder icon
 * Ferris State University projects folder icon
 * Lansing Community College projects folder icon
 * Wireless: AAO folder icon
 * SWOCC Studios projects folder icon

Development
Development of icons for this series, much like with the Albums Master before it, was limited by the operating systems and software available to Dozerfleet Labs at the time of compilation. The very first few icons were made as BMPs with their file extension forced to ICO. Later, IcoFX 1.6.4 allowed for proper ICO formatting. PNGs used as templates for ICO files were generated with varying forms of Photoshop and Illustrator, and later with Affinity software like Photo and Designer. Cursors were made with AniFX.

In 2022, the installation of Virtual Box enabled a copy of macOS Mojave to run successfully inside of Dozerfleet Main's Windows 10, thus allowing for Krita and Image2icon to run. These programs ensured that making proper ICNS format files for newer versions of macOS was finally possible.

Specs
The earliest ICOs for Dozerfleet capped at a resolution of 72 x 72. Eventually, this upgraded to a 256 res standard on both Mac and Windows sides for development, before support was added for 512 res in Mac files. ICNS 1024 res was added in 2022.

Sordum's Folder Painter can be used for rapid icon assignment to folders in Windows 10 and 11. On the Mac side, it's as easy as copy-pasting the custom icons into the icon section of a folder when its Get Info popup is activated.