Oh, thank god!

Dynon · #1 03-06-2008, 10:19 AM

For a while I thought maybe you had stepped down from the mod scene, and the thought of using a different UI or *shudder* default was painful. This had me thinking, next time you have some spare time (HAHA) would it be possible to whip up a "fetish lite" that has some of the bare basics (like the fetish HP bars, personna bar, core features like that) that we could possibly patch to between updates?

Secondly, Would it be possible to, I dunno, 'expand' the personna bar a bit? couple extra lines would still be streamlined but allow for a TON of more info (CA dmg/crit/etc) that could be useful at a glance.

Thanks

**Zonx** · #2 03-06-2008, 10:51 AM

I have been anticipating the introduction of ColorStyles, which should make it possible to skin the entire UI by changing just 1 XML file and a few images. This plus the addition of a file specificly for including custom windows will give me reason to overhaul the entire UI.

Assuming they do add ColorStyles and/or I find the time sooner, this overhaul should restore all core files (eq2ui.xml, eq2ui_mainhud.xml, eq2ui_inventory.xml, etc) to default. This will likely affect window possitions in-game, so when the overhaul is issued, everyone will need to rearange their stuff. Yah I know that sux, but the upsides are as follows...

No more window off-screen issues.

New SOE windows will automaticly get included. I'll still have to skin them, but at least the defaults will be available with none of the Notepad hassle.

I'll be able to issue a multitude of themes with different color schemes and graphics. Really the only hinderance to this atm is that almost all colors are defined locally in every file, so a different color scheme means a whole new set of files and paralle updates.

I've also been considering changes to Personabar now that we have some extra useful stats and window atributes to work with. I'd love to give this window some real love, make it multi-form and smart. Do some crazy stuff with it not possible untill recently. Just gotta find the time

opstar · #3 03-06-2008, 03:19 PM

That I appreciate your work Zonx. Its amazing. I'd rather go three months with some notepad tweaks than use something other than your UI!

<3