This script is now outdated. I have since made an interactive webapp version of this script that you can use from your browser. You can access it HERE.
This script will create a mosaic of an image using your Steam emoticons.
You'll need Python 2.x, requests and PIL. Then simply download and use the script (mosaticon.py)
mosaticon.py <steamid> <imagefile> [<width> [<height>]]
where:
- steamid is your profile name (steamcommunity.com/id/XXXXXXX)
- imagefile is the path to the image you want to create a mosaic of
- width is the number of emoticons to use horizontally
- height is the number of emoticons to use vertically
if height is not provided, aspect ratio of the image is used. If neither is provided, 25 is used as the width.
WARNING: Your profile might need to be public for the script to work, since it scans your inventory to gather a list of emoticons you own and can use. Do also note that because of this, the result of the script will look better the more emoticons you own.
The script will output the text you'll need to paste. It outputs to stdout by default though,
so you'll it to redirect it to a file: mosaticon.py bla bla bla > output.txt
If the output is too long to fit into a message, it'll be split up into piece. You'll need to paste each piece in succession. Also, since the Steam client has an artificial limit of 2048 characters, you'll need to use the web chat interface which can paste up to 12288 characters. There might be a way of uncapping the client through skin editing, but I couldn't get it working.
When you are pasting multiple pieces, your name will push the first line of text a bit.
To conpensate for this, I remove a few emoticons, and add a few dots.
For example, my name is roughly 3.4 emoticons wide, so I remove 4 emoticons and 2 dots (each dot is ~0.2 emote).
You can change this according to the length of your name by changing name_length.
First value is the number of emoticons to remove, second is the number of dots to add.
The script uses the bg_color for transparent pixels in the emoticons to get a more accurate result.
On the default skin this is (40, 40, 40). If you have a custom skin and you can change it.
Emoticon's name have different lenghts, so you may need to play with the width/height to get it to fit in 1 or 2 parts. Roughly, each part holds ~1000 emotes, so 32x32 would fit in one piece and 45x45 for two.
If you have any issues, you can post here or message me on Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Ph0X