Been playing with EQ2 UIBuilder but.

[Jlobel]

i am new and have been playing with eq2 ui builder and opened the default one to play with it, i can see the stuff but i dont really know how do edit and convert to a sweet thing, also were would i get like things to make it different

[Laffs]

Yeh I been playing with it also and thats about all I been doing "playing" lol

what I dont understand is how the hell you get the image files to load into the other window along side the main editor ? , And is that thing used to edit the images or do you have to do that in something like paint shop pro..... All very confusing lol and the manual in my opinion may as well be written in chineese for what use I can make of it (nothing against chineese, just I dont understand it, in fact did I even spell it right? lmao). With some help I managed to add stuff I wanted to a eq1 ui window using good old notepad but this thing lol...... It would make me feel better if it had like 100's of buttons and forms and stuff like a VB editor has, then I would have an excuse for not knowing what to do with the damn thing, but this has like next to nothing on it.... Maybe thats it !!! all the buttons and stuff fell off when I opened it !! , going to have a look on the floor to see if I can find them

[tonyis3l33t]

images work like this. You have a DDS. A dds must be a square. Most for this game are 512x512 or 1024x1024. Inside this DDS you can have several images, or just one image. Either way, when you want to insert a portion of that DDS as an image into a UI, you must specify the top-left and bottom right pixel coordinates of that DDS portion.

If you click on an image inside the UIbuilder and look at the little properties window, you will see

source %pathtoDDS%
sourcerect 0,0,512,371

the 0,0 means the very top left of the DDS is where the inserted image starts. The 512,371 says where it ends. If you wanted to add the enire 512x512 image, you would write 0,0,512,512
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[Drumstix42]

For example, some DDS files you may open will have black strips on the bottom, side, or both. This is just to make the image square (if I'm theorizing correctly), and then the coordinates of the real image are used, not matter if it's square or not.

[Jlobel]

well also what i am wondering, how do i like create my own ui, and what other programs will i need, i can buy em or whatever, i am looking also for ones that have images maybe like paint shop pro from jasc or something

[Laffs]

Thanks for that info guys

So images work more of less the same way they did with eq1 then, I did have a bit succes with editing a few of them just small changes like.

So to add say an sv stat to a window I guess I need to look up what the dynamic data code number is for it then kinda plug it in and use something like this

<Pieces>myNEW_Poison</Pieces>
<Pieces>myNEW_PoisonNumber</Pieces>

as to where I want it displayed on the window? As you guys know that's straight out of a eq1 window does the new system work a whole lot different to the old one? or is it just some new names for the old bits of code, if you with me..

Think I will try open some stuff up in good old notepad lol and see what happens..

Thanks for your time and help guys



*EDIT*
Lol oks I just found out why notepad is not an easy option here! have you seen the state of the code its a pure mess hehe not easy to read through at all, Back to the UI builder then and let it read through its own mess hehe

[Jlobel]

ok but what should i search for i belive u that its there, makes sense, but what words should i try i tried for like 10 min and nothing, any ideas

[tonyis3l33t]

Jlobel,

http://www.eq2interface.com/forums/showthread.php?t=858

try this for starters
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[Laffs]

Yes I read that a while back, whilst it is very good guide, I still have questions that I cant seem to find the answers to, but I will keep on looking before asking I guess...