Most customisable UI

BlowFish · #1 11-26-2006, 06:40 AM

Hi there I wondered which of the main mods offers most control over how it looks.

In particular Im finding most mods make things a wee bit too small at high resolutions and stuff is still too big at lowe res. Particularly bags, guess my eyesight sint great). Is there anything that gives control over scaling? (the more items the better) Much how you can scale chat text and hotbar icons with the default UI.

Generally I'm really looking for ergonomic improvements (so usually less is more!) or added functionality (so stuff like implied targets, click to heal, auto grind (well maybe not the last one

Any advice recomendations?

**lordebon** · #2 11-26-2006, 11:47 AM

Well scaling like the hotbar is a hard-set thing (although SOE is going to try to add it to bags). Chat scaling is a different thing, but also hard-set for that window.

The look of a UI should be relatively customizable for any, just replace image files and alter colors in the files themselves.

As for resolutions, there are some for pretty much every resolution around. I suggest you try out the featured ones here: ThorUI, Fetish Nightfall, ProfitUI, etc. and see how you like them.

BlowFish · #3 11-27-2006, 07:43 AM

Thanks for your quick reply. I guess if its a case of going in and editing yourself then maybe a roll your own UI is the answer. Being new to EQII I wanted to spend most of my time playing! Maybe that'll change later. I guess another aproach is to pick an mix the smaller individual mods, thats probably the best route. I am no too intrested in seeing anything but the game world and the bare mninimum of tools to get the job done. So removing borders and optimising sizing is pretty much it.

I guess a lot is to do with the client not exposing enough of its self (hehe). I shouldn't use the Wow word for fear of lynching, but love hate or tolerate the game bliz did a pretty good job on what it allowed to be customisable. Also seems that you can change a lot of that from in the game too. Used to love how your hotbuttons could change context depending on if you where in or out of combat or if you had a friendly/hostile targeted - all sorts of other neat stuff. I noticed one mod for EQII that does a 'click to cure' on the party window I havent tried it and wonderd how it works that would suggest that some hocus pocus is possible.

That was the other thing I was kind of searching for ....extra utility... without anything extra on screen. Things like the map project fit in here even though its on screen. Great job there!

Seems that a lot of the things you can change (or are changed) in the UI mods I have looked at are fairly cosmetic. Not being disrespectable here, clearly a lot of hard work these guys put in. I am no expert but I guess they are working agains obstacles in the client. For example if the client dosent scale stuff for you and expose the mechanisms to do that to modders you are kind of stifled.

Anyway thanks again and any more opinions?

**Savie** · #4 11-27-2006, 05:56 PM

If you are looking for minimal UI on your screen, I recommend Fetish Nightfall. It's a very sleak UI, not a lot of clutter on your screen, and things aren't duplicated everywhere. I've seen a few that have 3 or 4 xp bars, 2 or 3 player windows, etc... I play on a very small monitor, so it works great for me. I'm not knocking the other UIs mentioned above, but out of all those, I personally prefer Fetish. It has a cure bar, as well as click to cure, and out of game you can change sizes and displays of windows (Im not sure if all of them have been updated and old ones removed since soe changed some of the modable things, but I'm sure most are still functioning fine).