Loading Screen Art

[Nutsun]

To start, I'm referring to those art pieces that randomly display during a loading screen. I had successfully changed 5 of them through the UI folder and yet, there were so many more that were unchanged and no corresponding file for them in the "random" folder.

...And so my search began.

After 4 hours of searching both in my UI folder and online, I found everything except for the information that would point to where the rest of the Loading Screen backdrops were located.

That's when I thought that maybe they might be in the same folder as all the 3D art assets for characters and environments within the game.

- "\paks\loadscreens.vpk"

Same name as the folder where the 5 loadscreen dds files are located.

- "\UI\<custom folder name>\images\loadscreens\random"


And that's where my tale ends. So far, my glances at the xml code has not revealed to me an option that would grant me a redirect back to the "random" folder for the rest of the backdrop images.


PS:

I have no idea if this means anything, but there are 2 xml files where the name "RandomScreen" comes up:

"eq2ui_hud_zoning" and "eq2ui_newcharscene2".



PPS [March 22nd, 2015):


The game checks the "paks" directory for the "loadscreen.vpk" file first. If it doesn't find it, it then checks the folder of the same name in the UI directory of the UI your using. So simply deleting that "loadscreen.vpk" after the patcher checks for files will force the game to use whatever is in the UI folder that you chose to use.