Madhog,

Something about the coloring has been bugging me and I finally figured out what it is. On everything but the chat windows your color goes from grey on the top to black at the bottom. On your chat windows you reversed it, going from black to grey. Was this intentional??

Eagle

hey laffs could you uplaod yur ui settings cos mine is all messed up. im still getting the bar that u used to have for the stats on my screen and also still got 2 graphic ops boxes on screen

cheers

also

have you checked out "MyUI" in the completed UIs?

it has some very nice bars in there could incorperate them into yours?

if only i knew how to do it id give it a go

Yes Eagle, that was intended!

Laffs, sorry, but, I aint playing EQ2 atm, Im playing WOW. I havent quit EQ2 or owt, just not playing it, all Id really been doing was this UI mainly heh, and my bestest mates play WoW so Im trying that out with him.

Ive attached the last proper dds, the blue dds, and the PSD files of both too so if anyone else wants to fook about with them, they can.

Have fun!

Hmmm....

Oks, this on hold for a short time till I find out exactly what else is broken since LUD 10 ... I havent seen the new fonts yet so dunno what they like.. I have a backup all all the old one's anyways so I can put them back if need be..

Also the pet window needs some more work to it... Since I actualy have a toon with a pet now.. I will be able to see what works best.

<watch this space>

can any1 have a pet? and how?

mage types

Still messing with the pet window for this, So hold tight anyone who is actualy waiting on this mod.

:D

hey this place has been quiet for a bit

whats up laffs, near a new updade yet?

Sorry been out all weekend will work on this again later today :p

slacker!! haha :p

now thats just not good enough now is it!!! :D

Lol nope.... Still got hangover :eek:

:D

dude thats not good!

ive had to revert to a crapy UI cos yours hasnt been working with the new quest helper!

Try this then :p

Idea with the pet window is (if you actualy have a pet) Its health and power bars appear in the middle of yours.... If you turn the frame on for the pet window the pets health and power in % will appear in the left of the pet window and the pet health and power over the top of yours will dissapear...

Not properly tested as yet..

No file?

i aint got a pet anyways wish i cud take my lil dragon round with me!

sounds like a good plan anyways, u mean just like the breath bar?

ok got the file. this is an update file right? which original do i need again?

Sorry see above again for the file... edited and added it in

Yes just like the breath bar...

Only thing is the pets health is a bit hard to see when its at 100% but I didnt see that as being much of a problem.... I have been playing with my little toon with a pet and found it oks

This file should work on its own now..

cheers, ill check it out now,

check out this ss lol, its well cool!

Hmmm thats Laffs alt Perdition its not this UI lol

It should look somthing like this

trust you to only look at yur work lol

i ment the bloody people in the pic!!!!

hey im having a crap at skinning!

Oh lol ........... :D

Update!!
 

Oks had a bit of a re-thinky here !!

The frames are on show so i can line the windows up... but I think they look oks ?
In the SS its only the bottom windows that are using a background the top ones are transparent and make use of the letterbox, As it does improve FPS well for me anyways...

So I am thinking, skin the letterbox area insted and have all windows with the background or tranparent or not ... etc etc

Best part here is I got the damn group window down to 30 pixels in hight :nana:

I still have some ideas left on this... But have been playing the game with it to see how it all comes together so to speak ... ie usability ... Good so far!...

I think I have gained about 90pixels in play area without looseing much of anything,

Well just look at the SS and gimmie some feedback lol...

P.S thanks to my bud Nightmare who held captive some wench, he was grouped with in able for me to test the group window after I had made some tweaks to it ;) .... He never did give her phone number lol :p

That is the best incarnation yet. Perfection. :)

fantastic!

i love the group window! its def the best iv seen! so small and stylish

any chance of the zip? i wona start messing with in, see what i can do.

oh also iv been skinning the previous graphics and things seem to be chopped left and right, like the start button, it doesnt fit in with the original perdigraphics? its like its been taken from the left and put in the middle?

how do i create a template of this new idea you have had for the ui so i can skin it?

oh and yeah skinning the letterbox is a good idea, sooo how do i do that then lol

I have no idea, but kudos to laffs if he can.

Some small observations, maainly be bing picky i guess:

1 || Group window looks good, but I would like to see some sort of seperation tween the health and the power. Maybe also create "solid" gradient version of the group windows too

2 || I still think that start button is way too dang big, and the clock too

3 || Looks like that stats are split into two seperat windows, i'd still like to see them in one page together, with maybe a way for multiformat Also, looks like the stats have way too much space tween them (max is only 3 digits) whereas the saves ("resists") have too little space (at least 4 digits)

4 || If you use the mook Hotbars( or maybe ger's), you could prolly save some space also.

5 || I'd like to see what this looks like using TyeJae;s old steel skin, or even your alt perdition version.

Enuff criticism, looks awesome, well done

Thanks :p

Well the file you need to alter to skin the letterbox is this

images/window_elements_background.dds

Its style is called background_black not sure if any other windows use this file but it dont realy matter if they do as all windows are custom anyways.

Reason your having problems skinning the perdition style windows is all the backgrounds are offset and quite a lot bigger than the actual windows some lined left some right some center the reson behind this was to match the marble pattern up properly with whatever view you decided to use... So it works but not very modder friendly lol

I am going to make a new frame and hole for the windows that use it also like the player window etc probably somthing silver maybe, Dunno will see how it turns out I guess.

There is going to be a lot of redundant image files and stuff in this UI that I need to sort out and remove refs to them before I can post a zip (next day or so)

DC,

Firstly, sorry I had to cut our convo short lastnight, They made me MT and was expecting pulls all the damn time lol so was hard to give you much response :p

Oks back to this,

1. It was soild to start with but was too in yer face lol.. Been thinking about puttin them in a frame, still work to do on this the SS you see is only beta ver 2

2. If you get as drunk as I do when playing Eq2 then you would know why they are big Hehehe ;)

3. Yes they are across 2 windows due to it being that way to start with and also its hard to get them all in one window without hight problems or fonts being to small..... Also I know its messy it needs sorting out, Its on the todo list lol

4. Size problems again if I did that I would need to alter 3 other windows to make it fit again.

5. It looks better with those skins... Hence the need to make a new frame..

;)

Dont have time to play with this at the moment .. anyone care to make a .dds up for me please it just needs a solid rectangle along the top and a small box with a transparent hole in the center and corners on it in a different color....

Thanks
:)

a dds of what tho?

how big do u want it?

I made a small brushed metal bakground for you to try, i havent made the "hole" yet though, I havent figured that part out yet.

Thanks....

Somthing like this... maybe you could clean it up a bit for me please :)

the gray dont look to good, but it gives you a better idea of what I need

Actualy that box me got on there is crap lol :p

What would be real good is somthing like the box in the original Perdition take a look at the SS below.... See how it kinnda looks like a line of rivets...

Anybody able to make somthing like that ? insted of my crappy thing please :)

OK, here is a frame, but Not sure how good it is. Its hard to duplicate perdi's stuff

Thanks DC... Looks good in PS7

I will mess with this tomorrow..

Sucessfully managed to skin the letterbox area likes, not hard to do at all as for the usefullness of it I am not sure lol... Maybe if you turn off all the backgrounds then can place windows anywhere and still have the pattern match.... Yeh that was the idea, I remembered now lol :p

Heres the latest SS using the skin from my other version..

Only real thing left to do I think is maybe a few tweaks to the group window (if anyone ever logs in I know lol) Then this maybe ready for the downloads section .

I was looking at Vert classic and made me think.... Hang on nearly all the hard work has been done converting the image styles etc to eq1 look alikes I wonder how hard it would be to use that as a template to make a Lodi Dodi style UI for eq2 ...... Hmmm :D

Pending
 

I have put this up in the downloads section now after a few more tweaks to it, Last thing left to do is the damn skin... Personaly it looks good with the blue version of the original... But will work on another still

Gimme some good feedback guys or I will ...... I will .... I will ..... erm ... like ... yeh....... go away and sulk for very long time :p

Thanks for surgestions and testing help guys, you got a mention :)

my laptop res.
 

Hello , alos loved your UI . I am wanting to use this compact version of it but I am still have trouble with the org.
My laptop uses ares. of 1920x1200. I have also gotten use to using this setting . Is there anyway you could make this ui for this screen res. I am currenty not using it do to all the spaces in between the windows even using the 1600 res you offer i get the same thing. I would insert a screenshot I have taken but I am not certain how. Also on my map all I get is the world map and nothing else. :nana: well tried but image to big due to laptop res. being 1920x1200

Absolutely love it. :) Only thing I have trouble with is there is no compass. Other than that, it's perfect. :o

/show_window MainHUD.Compass

dunno why its not showing.

Things I have changed
 

1) Incorporated the Mook: I noticed that your chatboxes had a FullBar and a Chatbar, just like DB's mook. From this I surmised that it must have been there originally. To make this look right, I had to change a few things First, I seperated the frameperdi from the perdihole. Frameperdi is positioned before Chat Display on the Z Order, and perdihole positioned below. This arrangement prevents the chat display from appearing over the top of the frame. I tried this out, and seems to be working splendidly. I also scooched out the edges of the chatframe window so that there wasnt quite as much dead space around it.

2) Toyed around with color on object until i found a perfect blend. It looks great. the hex value is #7991BB. I used that for my scrollbars, close buttons, etc. YOu can see them in my chat windows. the color LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE THIS!! See how nice that blends?

3) Useless because it doesnt save any space, but I moved all of the macro *buttons* to the start button page, and added "earth" and "norrath" labels to the clock. Later on I am going to see if I can get the round compass and the clock in the same window there. One above the other, see where that gets me.

EDIT: silly me, I forgot to attach the pic