Reviving TabletsII

Agathorn · #1 10-13-2005, 09:49 PM

Hello all,

I've been away from EQ2 for a long time and recently came back to find that Tablets II suffered a fall to the wayside when Talyns left EQ2. While I wasn't suprised as this happens to UIs a lot, as we all know, I was disheartened. Having contributed some to the development of TabletsII and having used it as my own personal skin I was hoping to be able to use it still. I do'nt blame Talyns though. We all burn out. I did too

So anyway... I've started working on reviving the interface. Its going slow as i've been away from EQ2 for so long that i've kind of forgotten all this UI stuff but at the moment i've managed to at least get the basics up and running with LU14, though still lots of bugs to fix. As things start to come back to me work will progress faster. I am NOT making any promises here, and even once/if I get it all up to date for LU14 I make zero promises on me sticking around as I tend to play these games in burts of a few months at a time. But I just wanted to let everyone know that I was here and doing this. I'm not releasing anything right now as theres still loads of bugs to fix, but hopefully within the next few days at the latest.

Raesoth · #2 10-13-2005, 11:34 PM

This is good news

I too have been a user of this UI since beta and though I've found a new UI that I like a lot I wish you luck in this endeavor.

If you need people to help test your work count me in

Agathorn · #3 10-14-2005, 01:19 PM

Just an update on this. At the moment I have everything for the most part WORKING and useable now with LU14. It isn't all pretty and theres a bunch of skinning I still need to do, but its all functional as far as I could see at a quick run through all the various elements.

If anyone is desperate to get thier hands on a working Tablets II let me know and i'll see about uploading the current state of it, but otherwise i'm going to hold off until i've at least reskinned the major elements that need to be redone.

Agathorn · #4 10-15-2005, 12:06 PM

Just another update to say that I now have everything working as far as I can tell and all the major windows skinned.

Attached is an in game shot.

I will be uploading this to the system sometime today once i've had a chance to go through and clean things up and type up instructions.

Findarato · #5 10-15-2005, 06:31 PM

Thank you, trying to maintain 2 diffrent UIs was annoying.

Agathorn · #6 10-15-2005, 08:28 PM

Sorry I haven't gotten this up yet. Unfortunately shortly before I had to head off to work I found a few more serious bugs that I want to fix before submitting and I didi not have time before work to fix them. I'm home now and working on things and HOPEFULLY I can get a release out tonight.

s3rial · #7 10-19-2005, 12:34 PM

Agathorn, I'm having a similar problem to the one others have described. Here's what's happening:

I installed TabletsII as per your instructions (I'm using the grey - not fantasy - folder as images, if that's relevant). I logged in from the launcher directly to one of my characters, and I got through all the loading screens just fine. I get into the game, and can see some of the UI elements (I've deleted all my UI configs and have started over from scratch), but the game is frozen. I can hear the music playing in the background, and it's not looping like in a crash. I can alt-tab out and have some limited ability to switch to other windows (although I can only see that in the taskbar, and can't see the windows themselves until I kill EQ2 via the task manager).

I'm really looking forward to using TabletsII. I'm new to the game, and have been entirely dismayed by EQ2's default UI and most of the mods available for it. I came here looking for a tutorial how to make my own, and came across TabletsII, and figured all my problems were solved.

So, I can't wait to get this one working.

If it's of any consequence, I don't have DoF, and I run the game at 1680x1050. My experiences with TabletsII have been strictly since the 10/19/05 patch.

EDIT: And just a suggestion -- all the color schemes are cool options, but it'd be nice if you could maybe include a screanshot of each in the distribution so we can see what they're like?

Agathorn · #8 10-19-2005, 08:32 PM

Ok. For those of you having the loading problems, please do me a favor and give this a try. Some of the windows won't work, others will look funky opr downright wrong, and others are totally unskinned. However I need to find out at this point if its going to load properly or not.

Let me know what happens. If it still doesn't work, let me know if it doesn't work any differently

s3rial · #9 10-19-2005, 11:05 PM

It seems to be working.

One request, though (and I know you're very early in the process), but I managed to get it (sort of) working with /loadui earlier today, and I noticed then (and with this build, it's currently the case) that the main menu button, even though it's not locked, isn't movable. It'd be really helpful if it was.

But as far as not crashing, this build didn't have any problems. Thanks for all the work you're putting into this, Agathorn.

Agathorn · #10 10-20-2005, 09:05 AM

Great to hear that its working. I can move ahead on it then.

As for the EQ2 button, you actually can move it. to move it you have to mouse over it till the frame shows up and if you move the mouse onto the frame you will be able to move it. I think the default UI is the same way because I don't think you can make the button itself draggable.

Agathorn · #11 10-21-2005, 10:02 AM

Just an update on this to let you all know how its going. I am almost done with the stage 2 release. Theres still afew windows to do, but I should be done sometime today, probably this evening after work but MAYBE before I head in. There will still be a few of the less used windowd unskinneds but i'll slowly bring those into the fold over time.