Dangermouse Clan Inventory Window

Claritin · #1 12-18-2004, 04:36 PM

Claritin is back and making UI mods ;-) However this time I am going by my family name.

Anyway I decided the inventory window was well.. bloated and lacked info. My goal... make it smaller and yet double the useful info at the same time... not easy to accomplish... I did the best I could.

I started with the EQ2 standard window...

1.) I merged the stats window with the equip window.

2.) I moved all the attributes and resistences up... to make room for the 3 hidden resists crush, slash, and pierce... then I unhid them.

3.) I then removed the paperdoll from the middle.

4.) I resized all the bag and equip icons to 30,30 instead of 42,42 and lined them up all pretty and logical like.

5.) I removed the title that says inventory... because if you didn't kno wwhat that window is you shouldn't be playing... and it just takes too much room.

Anyway... I hope you like it... please help me beta test it I just created it while the servers were down. If you see a flaw... let me know immediately (reply to thread) and I will try to fix it.

NetSapiens · #2 12-18-2004, 07:01 PM

Since this seems to be based on a minimalist design, may I propose the following changes:

Move the window buttons inside the window, for a nice, square design
Place the coins in a 2*2 square, rather than as a list (you've got space a'wastin' there
Move tradeskill xp next to adv. xp now that you've made room to the right

Just a few suggestions, feel free to disregard.

Claritin · #3 12-18-2004, 10:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NetSapiens

Since this seems to be based on a minimalist design, may I propose the following changes:

Move the window buttons inside the window, for a nice, square design
Place the coins in a 2*2 square, rather than as a list (you've got space a'wastin' there
Move tradeskill xp next to adv. xp now that you've made room to the right

Just a few suggestions, feel free to disregard.

Hmm.. good idea... for some reason putting the exp bars side by side never occured to me.... however some of that dead space isn't REALLY dead space... Inventory Overflow slot and text message... quest satchel field etc... it's not visible now... but it has to have room.

I also need to make sure that i will have enough room to have like 9,999,999 platinum... just incase.... so I have to make sure I can actually accomplish a 2x2 coin grid without sacrificing function at lvl 200 coin amounts.

I'll look into the close buttons etc being moved... not 100% sure I can/will do that.... possible though if I have room and I don't screw anything up in my attempt.

Claritin · #4 12-18-2004, 11:50 PM

OK... not going to bother re-attaching right now... because I want people to easily see the difference.

Here it is on my personal site with SOE Original, DMC v1.0, and DMC v2.0

Any more opinions?

Claritin · #5 12-19-2004, 01:14 AM

Ok... version 2.1 is out... I had some attunement and overflow warning bugs... no system crash or anything... but they wouldn't display either ;-)

This time i made sure I had both overflow and Attune warnings in effect when I took the screenshot.... then made sure both went away when I attuned and stacked items.

Here is the link again... same as above... but for the lazy peeps who hate scrolling...

tonyis3l33t · #6 12-19-2004, 03:35 AM

Good job....looks great! just applied it, but no in game testing yet. Ill let ya know what happens.

Tony

EDIT: ah, just got a cool idea. I think you should try another version without the stats on the left and get rid of the exp bars completely as some of us have the two exp bar mod. Then the inventory would only be a tiny slit of space taken up.
AND since you get rid of the tradeskill exp bar there on the bottom, you can move everything down a tiny bit and put those ?X buttons above in the space that was freed by moving it all down
Ill be watchin for it!
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