New to using UI
 

I downloaded this UI and I am experincing only one problem. When I bring up the map it is barely visible and has absolutlely nothing on it other then the basic shape of the zone Im in. If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it. This UI is awesome, but I miss my EQ2 Map !

Thank you in adavanced !

Target Health Bar
 

Target's health bar is 1/2 size when not targetting another. Then if Target is targetting another Main target goes to 1/4 size and target's target goes 1/2 size as it should on right side.

And

How can I get Black background back on Chat boxes?

And

(heh another edit)
Were the Bag sizes made for the seeing impared? Can they be reduced to where they were?

Whoops, Another Edit...
Forgot to Thank You for keeping it alive :)

Awsome mod!! and thanks for the fast update. However, I am having a hard time reading text on those grey backgrounds. Is there anyway to restore them to the orginal background color (Beep Blue / Black)??

You can go to the download section and there is a addon part in the extreme download that has alt backgrounds to use.

Oh, I'v prob included the map from eq2map, just delete the eq2ui_mainhud_map.xml file

I'll add in somthing for a tented background for chat.

I used a dark background from an optional download on this page. Fixed that problem. Just tell the UI control panel to Not overwrite the background.dds in the image folder once you replace it.

I've ran into the target/implied issue you are having a couple of times. Not real sure how/why that is happening as the target has a fixed min and max size and its going way below the fixed min size when it does that. The only thing I've found to fix it is to delete my ui settings file:/ Try deleting eq2ui_mainhud_target.xml and eq2ui_mainhudimplied.xml and run the game. Forcing the game to use default and reset it's size etc. Then run the AUCP to get the target and implied back. Maybe that will work with out deleting the ui settings files.

I'll be updating in a min or two and your black background in the chat window will be added. IF it's not there, open up the chat windows settings and set the background opacity to the desired lvl.

As for the bag, ATM changing the size of the icons size causes the bag not to size properly. There are some authors that do this in there UI but having the window size incorrectly and cutting off some of the slots just isn't acceptable to me.

Issues after Faydwer update...
 

It appears that I have some windows using the default UI, and some still using Extreme. I didn't change any UI settings, and I ran the update before playing (and deleted all foreign files), but windows like the bags, the hotbars, and the target window is back to default. Any thoughts on how to fix this and get everything back to using Extreme?

-Thanks

Make sure them files are not listed in the exclude files list. If they are remove them from the list as the AUCP will not update files listed there.

Any chance of a resizeable bag setting? - the standard ones are enormous, especially for characters toting around 150 slots plus of bags and quiver. My old standby eq2ui_inventory_bag.xml which had tiny slots is no longer compatible.

Edit - saw post above re losing slots - I simply can't satisfactorally fit all my bags in on this resolution. (if i want to see where i am going lol)

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Originally Posted by mattmandude
It appears that I have some windows using the default UI, and some still using Extreme. I didn't change any UI settings, and I ran the update before playing (and deleted all foreign files), but windows like the bags, the hotbars, and the target window is back to default. Any thoughts on how to fix this and get everything back to using Extreme?

-Thanks



Make sure them files are not listed in the exclude files list. If they are remove them from the list as the AUCP will not update files listed

I'm a dummy on some things, so I have no idea where them files could be. much less how to fix em. Also, on the action bar, I no longer get the name of the combat/spell I am using?

"lost my UI for dummies"
P.S. My milquetoast infocenter window went black too.

/agree with bags issue
/agree with chat background issue
/thank Landin for working on them.

There is an additional issue I have had that I have not seen posted. It is the pet window. As instructed with the AUCP splash box, I removed all "foreign files" when I first ran it and received the update for GU29. The pet window has chaged in a major way since doing this however, I think it is back to the default (not sure what default looks like to be honest, so not too sure on that... I live in extreme). It no longer has the trapezoidal shape, and the nice thick health bar that my normal targeting window does still have. Instead, it is now a rectangular box, with the health and power above one another and are very thin lines. Is there a file I could be missing, and if so, where can I get it, or can you double check that the AUCP is checking this file as well? I do not presume to believe that I did not delete something that may not have been in my UI's best interests, and I suspect that other summoners would have mentioned this already if it was across the board.

Thanks once again for all your hard work on this UI, and /cheers for having the update ready to go live before SoE even had the servers up. :)

Its all under settings in the AUCP.

Yes for now the pet window is the default one:( I didn't get time to finesh this window. ( yes playing in beta got in the way lol) I'll be working on that also.

As for the InfoCenter, go to it's download page and get it. unzip it into eXtreme's directory and it'll by pressing the info button.

I'm no longer including it in the updater as it's hard enuff to keep mine going and files there much less a 3rd party's mod.

Thanks for your response, at least I can feel a little better that it wasn't me screwing things up, lol. The default is working fine, it just isn't as nice as yours. Looking forward to it's completion :)

Bags / Graphic problems
 

Hi Landiin,

I know you know about the problem with the oversized bags in your inventory but do you know about the few windows that are missing a graphic and there seems to be a 'maintained spells' window in the bottom right corner. I'm posting the screen shots so you can see what I mean.

Anything we can do to fix this so you're not overwhelmed??

Greetings Landlin...

First I just want to say that I've tried playing other UI's.. and Extreme is the BEST! Ok.. now for my problem... I'm not getting the screens that come up when others invite you into a group, target window, and such. Also, bags are not coming up. What am I doing wrong?

Noticed the missing end on that header today myself. It's there in the UIbuilder but not in game. Going to have to dig for this one lol.

As for the maintained in the corner, yea, I added back in a real modded maintained window. With all the new AA and stuff it's beginning to fill up the maintained window pretty good and the one integrated into the one window gets a bit small. And now that I play a buff bot ( Troub ) I needed to see when things expired better. You can turn it off by closing the maintain window. I'll be making a new background to fill the spot it was used for.

ME TOO.. lol ( pun on ur name)

Be sure to base your UI settings off one I've included. If you didn't use the AUCP to set up your eq2.ini file, your target window is prob hiding behind the group and start button. I'm a bit tired ATM, if this didn't help let me know, I'll go more into detail when I've slept some lol.

Peace all.. I'm enjoying playing again:)

Issues I have found
 

Couple issues I have found since eof release....

Chat windows are odd. There is a bar at the top that does nothing it seems and the chat scrolls right over it. Not breaking but annoying.

Pet control window is gone. All I can access is the default one. I read above not to delete the old one but unfortunatly didn't read that until the old one was gone. Really miss the extreme pet window.

Cannot get rid of the hotbar number. All my hotbars have a number on hotkey 1 with the up and down arrows. Used to be able to get rid of this in the window settings.

Bags are too big =o( I understand this may be an issue with soe? I hope it can be fixed somehow as 12x32 slot default size bags onscreen makes baby jesus cry.

That's all I can find for now. Can live with chat, the old pet window would be really nice as default ui windows suck the nut.....But to me the most important problem is the bags.../shakes fist at the sky "DAMN YOU SOE!!!!!"

The chat window is redesigned to allow one to extend the tabs above the dash. A combination of turning off the frames and title bar will remove the back ground from the tab area. This is an issue with it not sizing correctly, but thats just a minor adjustment I need to do.

Hotkeys are semi hard coded. You can hid the selector by right click and picking hide selector bank from the context menu. Sadly the numbers/labels can't really be removed. If you remove them you lose all text that includes charges left on items and etc.

Bags are well just there, nothing can be done ATM. I'm busy hacking away trying to get a smaller version out but SOE's hard codeing is winning the war ATM.

Background color on chat windows.
 

Hi Landiin.

I must say I love the new look of the UI, looks refreshing. I do have one minor problem though; with the update the background color of the chat windows got changed from black to grey, and now it's almost impossible to see most of the chat unless I change the text colors to dark colors, but I'm rather fond of the default ones. Wish SOE would allow you to change the colors of the windows w/o having to use the UIbuilder, but oh well. Would it be possible to please, please, please change the chat window background back to black???

Thanks

Crafting Writ timer
 

Hey Landlin,
I've been using your UI for ages now, and I love it... did you ever get a paypal donation option?
Anyway, on to the issue at hand... When dooing a crafting rush order, the timer almost completely obscures the view of the top item to be made. Normally I just do all the items below first and then just guess at what the top one must be, but I've gotten it worng, and it costs valuable time.
Thanks!

I seem to have a fairly large problem.

I can't seem to click on the first slot for ANY of my hot bars. It is being covered by the hot bar selector.

Right now I am just selecting the hot bar I want to use for the moment and then turning the selector off (AKA the Spinner).

Also the background box on the right side (where all the hot bars are) seems to be missing.

Ummm, where is the EQ2 button, I can't locate it?

BTW I am using 1600x1024

Uh oh?
 

Well I just updated through AUCP and it seems to have downloaded about 5 new files, then I tried to play the came. It won't load straight to a player (could just be an SOE problem), but when I load to character select I have no words, no buttons, no nothing...just my toon standing there with his back turned to me....all I can do is cntrl+alt+del to shut off the game....help plz? Thanks!
Oh yeah, my eqII button in game has been gone since the GU as well. Thanks for your tireless effort with this...I've looked at other UI's for fun and they still haven't updated to be compatible!

aucp_QuickCharSwitch.xml updates every time.
 

Just noticed that aucp_QuickCharSwitch.xml under user_settings updates every time I run AUCP even though I haven't changed a thing.

disapointed
 

if it aint broke dont fix it. i used your ui since you first started making it and loved it, now the numberone slot on all my hotbars is covered by the stupid numbers (used to be able to hide them by turning off frames and such. and the chat window looks awfull. when i disable it the tinted background doesn stretch to fit the rest of the chat area. im not saying you or your work sucks or anything but xtreme ui went xtremely a different direction then that which brought most of us to love and chreish it. im sure im not the only one thinking this but alot of people dont feel like getting flamed. well FLAME ON im just being real and telling you my thoughts. not to happy with 2 seperate maintained spell windows close one and they both disapear. i liked having the one under the middle hotbar the other one just gets in the way and takes up too much room. i use 1440 by 900 and even then im starting to feel clostriphobic and find myself ducking to see under the UI lol makes me feel like a total idiot ducking to see something on a 2d screen anyway.... just my 2 and a half cents. i know your all going to say if you dont like it dont use it well im loyal i ahve stayed with him through thick and thin but WOW... im just hoping you revise somethings like making the UI a little thinner from top to botton like the old on was fixing the hotbars and the maintained window (make it another file and extension so we can turn that off seperately and keep the other one) and give us more options with the chat windows otrher then that i can live with it. still beeter then the EQ2 original one :)


pardon my typos i had a cigerette in one hand and a soda in the other :)

ok truth be told im 33 and suck at spelling

Oh boy, a lot to respond to.

First let me say, sorry for slow updates/fixes as I've been enjoying playing so kind of been playing more then modding:/


You should be able to make the background of the text area darker by inc the background opacity in window settings.

I haven't made any changes or added any crafting windows (yet) so that must be an issue with default unless I am misunderstanding you.

I normally just set my hotbars and turn off the selector and forget about them. I'll look into finding a good place where they will be out of the way.

The background was the real maintained window. Being I've included a real maintained window the background needs to be remade. It's on the todo list.

ROFL I guess I should of posted this. Over over your class icon just over the casting bar. That is now your start button.

Delete all yes ALL foreign files. You can do this by going into settings on the AUCP. It will tell you all files that are foreign to the current eXtreme build.

Hmm I'll look into that.

First off don't ever hold back:)

I understand where you are cumming from trust me. Trust me I wouldn't of changed much if i didn't have to. But most of the windows that changed was changed because I was forced to by SOE. The skin isn't any thing but graphic files, while the windows them self are the meat of the UI.

Hotbar: Numbers can't be hid any more because of the way SOE changed the bags. Well they can be hid, but you lose the charge display of items with charges.

Chat: THe chat window was *blush* thrown together at the last min and your all are using a work in progress.

I've never noticed turning off one maintain would turn off the other one also. I used two this time around for buffers. With AA's the small one below the target just don't have enough room IMHO.

SOE just made some little changes that made me have to do a lot of changes. I thank you for being a loyal user and eXtreme will be tweaked and fixed. It's just going to take take for me and other authors figure out hacks to work around some of the new hard coding.

I can't spell worth crap either, thank goodness I found a spell check for my browsers else no one would be able to read what I typed lol.

Thanks For all the work!
 

Thanks for all the work.

You should definitely enjoy the game first.

Heve Fun!! :nana: :nana: :nana: :nana:

Skills tab in Persona window - Bag fix
 

I've noticed tonight that the skills informatoin does not appear to be complete any longer. When I open the persona window, there is still a tab for skills, however it only displays the adventure skills (spell abilities, piercing, etc) but not any of the craftig skills (Which I'd like to see considering the new skills, such as tinkering). I'm suspcting you are aware of this already, since there was so much to update witgh LU29... do you have an eta for the return of the adventure/crafting/utility subtabs?

Also, Deacon has completed a 32x32 bag mod that you may be able to use as a template (if you have not noticed his post already), it is frameleess, and has the charge numbers on the right of the icos. I rather like it.... this may also be good for those of you waiting for Landin's incorporated bag mod, since a bank full of 32 slot strongboxes takes more real estate than the screen posseses in 1024x768 res =/.

It is posted on this site also.... see link below

http://eq2interface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=4379

Thanks again.

-Rat

nm :nana: :nana: :nana: :nana: :nana: :nana:

1st Time User Problem - possible bugs and feedback
 

First, appreciate the hard work. Hopefully you'll find my feedback helpful.

Ok:

Installing the interface for the 1st time, at 30% on 2 different machines, the download stopped at 30% and disconnected.

Re-running the AUCP continued the download.

The AUCP asked me twice if I wanted to make eXtreme the default, then took me to the settings page. Seems clunky since all I need to do is press SAVE, although you tell the user they need to "make the change" the change has been made for them. This screen should only come up is someone clicks "advanced" and wants to make customizations before continuing, my opinion.

The AUCP stays open while the game is running. This seems a bit unusual for loaders...

Ok, off I go to test-drive the UI...

In the settings under AUCP you can choose to have the AUCP stay up (default), minimize, or close when EQ2 starts.

The reason it has the options Fearra said is; It use to have a MP3 player that allowed you to add play list etc. So it had to stay open to read the log file. No one ever used it that much so i removed it. I've just haven't got around to removed that part of the code. Prob never will being I'm currently working on a version of the AUCP that every one can use. Not just us lucky people that use extrem.

Hey there, love the UI and I recomend it to all my guildies and friends =)

ok so first thing is the Target bar, it messes up when my target targets something. It seems to go real small, as a main healer at times, this is very hard to deal with. Is there a fix ? do you need a screenie of it ?

Second where is the pages that used to be in the window when you pressed "L" ? I see the AA stuff but I dont see anything as far as my skills and stuff.

and last but not least Can you please put the current level of my toon back on the bar just below where it shows my current % into level ? it used to show a bar below the % and it said what my class and level was, now there is nothing there. this isnt a big deal but I did like having it. again I can get a screenie foir ya if you need to see what I am talking about.

any chance of getting the old extreme pet window back? AUCP won't download it.

ARGL I have the same windows like Aeromier (#1776).

I hope you can fix all this windows...

some skills got moved.
 

Some of the skills shown on the L key window got moved to the 'P'ersona window. However, it only shows my combat and defensive abilities. Its supposed to include general, utility, tradeskill, and harvesting skill levels as well.
I still haven't gotten my milquetoast infocenter working either, but I am seeing what help I can get from that forum, good advice btw.
Also, on the action bar, I still don't get any names of the current skill being used, nor any interrupted messages. I get the blue bar filling during use, but that is all.
I've noticed the heroic opp is back to the round shape, altho I liked your old one better, took up less screen space 8(

Other than that, I've been using you UI for over a year now, and I will say it has been uber and leet, and all that good stuff!

having the same problem with the persona window, it seems the tabs at the bottom of the window are missing, i also miss the old extreme HO window and the missing text in the casting bar but i am very impressed with the new look and still think this is the best ui out there!!!

Just why the Click to cure, ward, heal, save! not working on the group bar plus you also made extra small? Click to cure stopped working after latest Update