It was kinda difficult, since I had no idea how you got those rounded corners in the first place. If you could attach your PSD (did I say this already?) it would help me to get a better one


PS: Call me DC, or Fanz ... being addressed by my surname is wierd.

Heh sorry, I figured DC was a clan name, DC is easier to type tho!

Attached is the psd, Ive labelled the layers to make it easier to understand, and Ive actually smoothed a fair bit of it up anyhow now, feel free to play tho!

Im currently trying to do a totally different look with a more EQ2 theme. Wish me luck....

Oh Laffs, if you wanna use the round one, Ive attached my latest dds of it, its smoother. One for DC is the _rnd one, other ones for you!

Heh, the embossed one eh? Yeah, I liked that one, but some elements looked strange cos Laffs stretches them outa shape :mad:

The raid buttons are exactly that. When you're in a raid, you can turn off the raid window using that button rather than Alt-R, the 4 coloured boxes are to allow you to quickly close individual boxes down, which represent the groups in the raid.

Dont use a letterbox. Please :D

Not sure what box you're missing tho.

** Aha, think I know what box it is, its a triangle corner. Right click on it and select properties, just choose the frame option that lets you see it :)**

Oks me at work just stopped by to see whats been going on lol...

Will have a look at the backgrounds later thanks DC for the help on that.

The little triangle box has a frame on it to start with to make it easier to position then yes you just turn it off, Close button dont work because of the visiblity settings.

:)

Erm I knew I meant to ask something!

Is it possible does anyone know, to see the effects the dds will have on the various elements without loading the game up??

UI Builder buddy, its found under the main Everquest 2 folder as a zip. I extract mine into my UI folder, so that when I go to Open, all I hafta do it select my custom UI folder, then eq2ui.xml.

Bah I been using that, but loadin in the elements not that file heh.

Ok attached is a graphic Im *very* happy with. Corners need cleaning up and a coulpe of parts need a little love but its ace!

If yer agreeable Laffs, can we go with this? Ill do you a blue one when you say yes.... :D

Not sure about the white edge along the top, what do you think?

It needs some Laffs lovin tho. Raid thingy needs to drop down. Ive adjusted the position of the top time on the clock downwards from -5 to 0, cos it was off the top of the screen!

As you can see from me screeny, the stats bars on. I would think if you can put them details along the bottom of the 2 journal windows, and move the location name up a smidge, that would be fab. I dont mean put the stats on the 2nd layer (erm they there already ahem), I mean on the single layer one. Youd need to squish em up a bit more than they are, but would look awesome.

I still think centralise the start button and put the bag, map, notes etc icons on the perloc. If you have to lose owt, lose the emotes. You could also put the experience element back to normal without the right edge being cut off.

If I think of owt else Ill be sure to let you know! :D

What will go in the dead space where the paperdoll was then? if we move the start button out?

I was thinking of putting the stats, compass, profiles and maybe icon buttons all in one window.... It will get the same effect and I can reduce size of the active quest windows I guess... Gotta remember this still needs to be flexible enough for peeps to set all this stuff up how they want ;)

Round background looks good.

Keep the start button on that element, where the paperdoll was, just have the start button on it, but lower down was my thought.

And make it one element again not the 2 it currently is.

Round one will stay as it is btw, just need to clean up a few bits, but the size etc will stay the same. Corners and box edges mainly need cleaning up.

Cant put the start button in the same page as the exp, same way the compass wont work on any other page, same as the hotkeys wont work on any other page etc etc ... lol

Thats why we have to have 2 windows / elements (pages) somtimes for stuff to work..

If have a look at my alt Nedra group window that contains nearly the max number of diff objects that will work in one page and there all stuffed into the group page because the group windows wont work in anyother page but all the other stuff in there will.... Not being sarcastic just trying to explain why stuff has to be split up kk

Not going to have any progress on this tonight as you have drove me to hit the bottle me's going on the pizz tonight, Will do some more when I eventualy sober up tomorrow lol :D

P.s Cetering up the start button means wasted dead space around it if you with me... Way I was thinking is to get as much in a window as you need without it being clutterd?

Just thinking raid control box & perf panel could go in with the compass and have another small arrow type switch to expand the window to make them visible if and when needed? What you think of that?

Ah ok, didnt realise that, I assumed cos you'd put the paper doll in there before, you could put in anything else you wanted, didnt know there was a limit on what you can put where :)

The current exp bar doesnt work btw. Theres nothing showing up in the gauge, only thing Ive seen is debt in it, and no, I didnt die to test that out, it just happens *giggle*.

Attached a screeny so you can see.

Ok dont centre up the start button, it actually looks ok where it is, now theres a similar light bar edge along the top.

The effects box btw, works fine, can resize it any shape you want, in any direction you want, had a bard with me earlier and had 3 rows almost heh, just dragged it up along side of screen, looked great.

Think you will be able to put the stats along the bottom of the journal boxes? On the 1 layer main one, not the title one or whatever it is?

I think the raid thingy should stay where it is, just recentred now Ive done a skin Im happy with :D

Put the rest on there tho!

Experience however, can go in the start button

By the way, I cleaned up the round style a bit more from your PSD and made it a DDS file. Attached.

Really? Where? I dont see it >_<

Ahem, I forgot. Its on here now.

Thanks for the dds, Id cleaned one up tho! Have a look at my last attachment heh. Ill look at yours tho in case its cleaner *giggle*

In fact in case I hadnt, thats on here too.

Ive put on my ini this time too btw.

I really wanna see the stats someplace less....awkward.

I like your other mod Laffs, not sure how/if we could use something like that, be good if we could cos its got everything on it, and room to put in icons for notes etc.

Could you upload the psd file DC pls? Its more use to me if that ones ok cos I can change the skinning then :)

Ummm, nope >_< sorry. Basically all I did was put an inside stroke on everything, 4px wide then I had to flatten everything in order to get the lines to appear

One more thing I noticed tonight while playing is that the experience bars are not showing progress. The % listing works, but no indication on the bars that you're advancing.

Ok one totally cleaned up dds, and one ini file. Im happy with this dds now, wish I coulda used DCs which woulda saved me time but i need to be able to change colours etc on it heh. Still DC gave me the encouragement to do it :)

The exp bar doesnt show up any gauges apart from debt.

Oh I attached the bag mod I use too, Id seriously encourage you to use this one as it fits in with our philosophy!!

Ill do you a blue one later Laffs!

Blue dds attached, please let me know if it looks arse, I aint tested, just done it whilst in an exp group :D

Looks oks , but lost the little corners off the frames you had in the grey version I set the windows up to line them all up nicely as they looked kool :D

The frames is the small box on the right near the bottom on the canvas

Messed with a few windows here.. The active quest window and the quest journal window will need re-sizeing to full hight after you put these files in...

Got the stats page in there nice and neat so can loose that window now..

Been playing with the compass a bit also yes i know the background not lined up right and the raid window buttons dont work on there etc... the little box below the compas itself is the button to change the view...

Let me know your thoughts on this... The raid control can still stay in the clock window .. but you will need the correct raid file as to what control box you plan on using to work the raid window...

As it stands its only the one in the clock that will do anything with the raid window..

Please try not to alter the size / shape of the perdi .dds anymore guys as all the backgrounds and frames will need lining up again it got most of them set to that last round grey background you posted ty..

:)

First thing, this UI is my favorite. Thanks for all the hard work from everyone. I only have 1 question, are you going to make the necessary changes to all the perdigraphics colors? I really like the glowing red one. I switched it into the UI and the stats didnt show up on the bar, the compass fades to nothing at the bottom, and there is a space at the very bottom of the quest window to the stats bar.

The one in post 98 is the one Im using, and the blue one in the very last post is just a blue version of the one in 98, its done!

Ill post more in depth when Im at work, but, initial thoughts:

1. Why not put the raid doobrey under the start button? Just have the 2 of them on that element?

2. Put the icons someplace else, and which icons do we *really* need?

Erm need to go to work heh, Ill post more there!

Oh btw, love the stats there, they look great!

Harbinger, the only perdigraphic that will work with this UI we are doing is the one I provided in my last post with attachments.

Laffs, might be an idea to change the name of the files to avoid confusion and to allow me to do different versions that dont get confused with the old style?

You lost me on the corners, looks fab on mine!

Can you put in that bag mod pls? Now we got a graphic thats settled, might be an idea to re post a full folder with all the stuff in.

Restricted on the size I can post in here.. It will have to move to the downloads to do that and its not ready for propper download as such..

I thought about putting the raid control in with the start button as well.. The bet bet would be to move the start button down and put raid above it (the reason being you use start more often less chance of a mis click)

Far as the icons go.... Me likes the icons.. So there! :D

Anyway they could go in with the compass on my new idea so if you dont want them you dont have to see them... the performance panel seems to fit in there nice also... Thats somthing else you dont like either you grumpy old git... hehe :p ,

Since there is no plans as such for the compass me thinks thats probably the best bet then?

Also I agree with the change of names for the graphic files to ward off confusion.... To do this I will have to do a search and replace on all the files,

So this aint going to happen untill we are done here and its all working properly.. Makes it a lot easier for me to debug that way!

Yeah I like the icons too, I meant if you moved them and found you couldnt fit them all in, which is least important? I dont see the point of the emotes one tbh is all, ffs Im a gnome, I KNOW all the emotes. Its like jumping, its what gnomes do. And giggle a lot.

The perfromance panel....isnt there 2 buttons on there? 1 turns shaders on and off. Like the icon. 1 turns on night vision. Wtf is that for?? I can see fine ta! Explain to me why you would want that??

Hard to think while at work, Ill post some more later.

Any luck on a guage back on the exp bar btw??

Lol... I dont know hardly any of the emotes so that saves me lots of time :p

Only 2 buttons on the panel at the moment because I havent hooked up the other 3 preset files that go with it ;)

Night vision, it gets damn dark in and around Freeport when its persistantly raining.. So at times this helps....

The gauges should be working now ? .. They worked for me all the time lol I will make sure I got all the changed files in there..

See if I can get another update tonight.

What would be LEAST needed would be the open/close bags button/icon, because there is a shortcut you can make in the options menu for it. Just my two cents.

theres a short cut for all of the, C is default emote open, M is map etc etc, some stuff you just wanna click a mouse on.

Laffs, yeah, yours might be working but since it broke, you aint put anything new up :)

actually O is default emote open. :D
C = crouch

And open/close bags ISNT quickkeyed by default, you hafta go in the options page and manually map it yourself

Oks so lets just bin them all... I mean likes who needs notes in game you got pen and paper right? , Dont loot you wont need to open any bags LOL

Point me trying to make there is loads of stuff in any number of these UI's you could class as being part useless because of other default alternitives (yeh i know my spelling is useless as well)... But personaly there is somethings I like to have a clicky for.. What me trying to do here is still have the clickys but if you dont want to see / use them then maybe an option to hide them all someplace.. not that difficult to do.... ;)


Anyways this what we go so far...

The little filler page.. You change the view you change the clicky icons frame and titlebar shows the shaders one only ... for Madhog as he dont want a performace panel ... frame shows emotes and bags in there insted as I use the panel and dont need shaders there.. Its a comprimise...

The compass now holds the performace panel .. with a button to show/hide it like i say you dont want it dont click the button ;) it will sit there quite happy with zero other files if you not going to use it and all you gotta look at is the little button ... or you can even use the default compass if you wants..

Start menu... looks better now has raid control box in there.. and notes and map clickys... Raid controll been removed from everything else now... As the raid window and the raid control box need to be paired up it will only work in one window or another not both at once.

There is a few minor size problems with some of the frames still in a few windows but nothing that cant be fixed :) Problems being when you get text like "Your equipment is not attuned!" etc

Dc will appriciate it can take a long time to do the smallest of task with this stuff and yet what seems to be complicated to do is not and seems like you make loads of progress.... Its the little things that matter!

So here's an update guys...

BTW...

DONT click on any of the presets in that panel as they are set up for my system!!! ... If you going to use it then make your own with the parser, as mine will probably bugger up your display settings big time lol ... I have only put them in so you can see that all the buttons do show up when you have the files in place ;) (I am talking about the perfromance panel in the compass window btw)

Coo cant wait to get home tonight now and try that, looks fab.

I know what yer trying to do with the icons Laffs, so shush! I love the look of that now, waaah wanna play now!!!

Erm you are using an old dds there. Use the last one!! You saying you like th corners the wrong coulour and sticking out?? If you do I can change them. Use the other dds tho pls, cos its cleaner. Dont worry, it aint a different size or owt, just looks nicer.

Did you not bother with the blue one?

Had a quick look before I came to work *giggle*.

Looks fab!

Couple of questions tho!

How come I got the compass with the performance panel AND a seperate performance panel too? Do I need to remove an xml?

I love the icons on the bottom, but, can you make it so it has shaders and bags on one, and the emotes on the other layer? Could do it as an alternative for us folks who dont want the performance thingy on the compass! Keeps everyone happy then eh?

Love the bar at the top, good job with that, stats look fab, start button looks fab too.

I got that many .dds on here its hard to tell whats what lol .. I will go up the list here and use the very last one that I find..

Pleased you like it.. Start button looks much better now
The backround needs removing from the exp to next bar likes as it is shadeing part of the main bar when its visible.. easy to fix that.

Also I can just pair up a bags icon with the shader np.. and still just have the one version.

It will be the player window and the mainhud file that is making the other panel show up as well... This zip here should stand alone now! but will try that myself first..

Gotta clean up a load of water before I can do anymore likes... Fitting a new bathroom at home and just got a long waste pipe sticking outta the wall to empty the bath with, to test for leaks, the pipe is on top of the conservetory ....Me pulls plug out of bath..... Kool waste system dont leak :nana: ........ But wasnt a smat idea to have the damn window open whilst all the water is running off the roof ! Hence indoor swiming pool me gots now /sigh ..... Wont do that again.... Well not in my house anyway ;)

all going well so far :)

the icon for the bags does not appear on my screen it only has the emotes?????

There is no size restrictions on the little "filler" page at the moment try making it a bit longer.

:)

yeah i tried and it didnt appear

You messed with turning frame and titlebar off / on and none?

Next...

Me been messing with exp bars again... I always liked the look of the Fetish Turbo one so mainly the little vitality progress bar so I made one :) .. Made the bars a bit deeper also.

I have noticed that the resist stats are going to go FUBAR once you get over 999 on them .. solution is to either abreviate the txt even more or use icons to gain the extra space needed.. personaly I think the txt abv is the better idea to keep it same as other txt ... Besides I never know what icon means what for the dots.

I liked the little different color corners on the the frames in the last 2nd last update of the .dds likes anychance you can add them back in please?

Heres a SS and a few more updates for you horrible lot :D

Dunno if its just me or not but I cant right click on windows to change opec and stuff and the text under the "EQ" button is not there or either its black????
Also didnt there use to be a Arrow that would show you where you double exp would take you to?
Can you also toss in a 1600*1200 UI file also when you get a chance =)

Lmao... Bakes, Looks like your a few windows short of a full house there bud hehe :p

I had to strip stuff outta the last zip here to get the size down, for posting in this section,, go back to the next zip up here download that then install the last one over the top that should work.... If it dont then please hold fire untill I have this up in the downloads section ...

As I said I think the folder would work alone but havent tested it as yet we have all been putting the new windows into Laffs alt Perd etc-- folder



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Ok I decided to play on my little would be necro... and found some problems with the pet health in the target window etc no biggie but a pain none the less, That also means a resize of the target window up .... Thats not good for this version....

So looks like next stage is to make / squeeze in an uber pet window someplace :D