Hello!

[Quinnos]

Hi. I recently picked up EQ2 again after not playing the game since.. 2005ish.

A lot has changed, especially technology and screen resolutions.

The in game UI doesn't seem to have changed that much at all though.


Could anybody recommend me a UI that would increase the font size of in game windows (especially the quest helper) so I don't have to lower my game resolution just to be able to read stuff.

I tried editing the xml's manually in the UI folder but every time I start the game the updater overwrites my edits :\

If there is a way to stop that I would appreciate knowing how to do that also.

Thanks for reading!

Well i sorta figured out how to adjust the font sizes of in game windows through the eq2ui_textstyles xml. I just need to find a way to keep the game from overwriting each time I log in now.

[Darqwood]

Quinnos, create a new subfolder in your \UI folder and place all your custom files in there. When the game loads, it will use your custom files first instead of the default versions. To go back to the default for any file you have customized, just remove it from the custom folder.

To make the game use your custom UI folder, log in and type

/loadui Custom

where Custom is the new folder name. You only have to do this once to set it as your preferred UI folder.


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[Quinnos]

Thanks for the info. I'll give that a try tomorrow.

You guys may know the answer to this but I was wondering if it would be possible to mod the game files so the music boxes play a theme of your choosing.

I'd like to put some EQ1 themes into the game music so I have something to listen to while i craft. I bought one of the freeport music boxes but the themes available in game are limited.

I'll probably mess around with that a bit tomorrow too but if anybody has had success in the past with the modding the music let me know!

[lordebon]

Custom music is doable, basically you just need to find whatever music you want to replace (it'll be inside your EverQuest II/music/ folder or a subfolder thereof) and put a file of the same name inside your EverQuest II/custom_music/ folder (and potentially inside the same subfolder).

For example, I'm guessing that music box plays EverQuest II/music/freeport.mp3. To replace it, you'd put the mp3 of your choice as EverQuest II/custom_music/freeport.mp3.

[Quinnos]

Sorry for the late response. I've been playing the game and was a lot less annoyed by the in game music once I got out of Greater Faydark.

That zone music has since been replaced.

One thing I would love to figure out how to do is use Midi music from EQ1 in EQ2.

Here is a list of some of the original eq1 midi's

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/midi/

I don't know much about how EQ2 runs music but if it's possible to make minor changes to allow for a different music file type to play I'd be grateful for that knowledge.

Thanks again.

edit.. well looking into this I don't believe it would be a simple thing. If what I read is correct midi files don't actually contain music but rather commands to tell your computer to synthesize music. I guess I'll see what they sound like when converted to MP3



edit2... Had a thought but I don't know how feasible it is. Would it be possible to have a program running in the background on my computer that reads my EQ2 log file and starts a midi file whenever a certain zone message begins?

Anybody had success with something similar to this in the past?

[Darqwood]

If you can convert your midi files to WAV, you can set up custom triggers in ACT to play them when you enter a certain zone. I've never used a WAV file longer than about one second in ACT, so I'm not sure how the rest of the program will perform while playing a long file. But it's worth a shot.