About over five hours in I realized this YOU NEED too put in the icons before you export it if you try to put in the icons after you export it (in my case I was dragging the icons into the folder after it finished)
Intel XDK WILL count it as a broken and invalid image THIS IS exceedingly important and please this will save you time if you are working with the same format as me dont make the same mistake import your icons in CONSTRUCT 2 first before exporting