http://www.unit-conversion.info/texttools/replace-text/

Mosaticon cannot load some emoticons from your inventory? Probably those you just wanted to use in your art? This is an issue known to lots of Steam emoticon art creators.

In this guide I will share a temporary solution to that problem, than I've been using. It is most useful in large emoticon arts, when replacing each emoticon by hand would be very time consuming, but it can make your life easy also in small arts.

After september 2017 (not sure if this has something to do with Mozilla update, or Mosaticon was fixed), many people have noticed that the problem has decreased. There are still emoticons that Mosaticon cannot see, but it includes mostly emoticons that are no longer avaivable on the market, like those from deleted games. That is why I'm not deleting this guide - it still going to be useful. I'm just updating it to present circumstances.

I wanted to use :atorb_e1: to make a simple, four color bar pattern. This emoticon comes from a deleted game so cannot be bought on the market anymore, but has a very unique shade of blue. Unfortunately Mosaticon cannot see it.

As a temporary replacement I used :sp:, which is very similar. This way I can predict how my mosaic will look at the end.















Unfortunately :sp: has a much shorter name than :atorb_e1: I want to use. I need to make sure if this emoticon art will fit the steam character limit, after I replace emoticons, so let us move to the next step.

Simply use bucket tool in Mosaticon to replace your temporary "looks" emoticon, with any other emoticon that have the same name lenght as your desired, missing emote.

I used :woo_crow: becasue my desired :atorb_e1: also uses 10 characters of the limit (including colons).














Now I know that my final mosaic will have 764 characters, so I can move to the next step.

Be aware, that some text editors can only find and replace words separated by spaces, and will treat your mosaic code as one word. You need a function that can find set of characters inside a word.

If you do not have editor like that or do not want to download any new software, use this link to a free online tool I use all the time, and will use as example in this guide: http://www.unit-conversion.info/texttools/replace-text/

Using it is very intuitive. You have upper and lower big windows, and small bars between them for text input. Follow this procedure:

1) Paste your code into the upper window.
2) Write the name of your "replacement" emoticon in the upper bar.
3) Write the name of your desired emoticon in the lower bar.
4) Copy the result from the bottom big window.

The result is the code for your emoticon art, with the desired emoticon, ready to paste on steam.



















And this is how the result looks, when published on Steam:

If you want to check how to create emoticon art picture instead of generating it:
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1130380323

If you want to make transparent emoticon arts:
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1165353459

If you want to crop your emoticon art much more efficient, than mossaticon allows you to:
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1167191674

If you found any way of improvement for this guide, please share in comments.

Now go and have fun with all your emoticons, even those invisible for Mosaticon.



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