You didn't bug me at all; I just didn't get your point at first. As I said, I'd never given the name of the zip file any real thought. I don't save multiple copies of mods myself, and don't even keep the current zips of the mods I use, so it hadn't occurred to me that anyone else would. *Shrug*

Anyway, you'll note that the new Info Center upload includes the date in its zip file name. :)

-- Darryl

Not at all, and I can totally understand that. :)


That would be awesome, I've used those a lot, specifically the claymore one. It's perfectly laid out with all the quests in order, no picking through a related quests list, and has proven extremely helpfull in my own progession through that along with those of guildies. Eventually it will help with progressing my alts. :p

Keep up the good work.

Walkthroughs back in the center please
 

Your work deserves alot of credit and it's a shame it wont be why im writing to you this time .. It's the walkthroughs could we please get them back inside the info center.
The infocenter is the singlemost usefull tool together with eq2map and this latest change took it down a notch :confused:

Yours

Brorim

OK, I've decided to bow to the inevitable.

With the next release -- which I'll hopefully get out this weekend -- I'll put the quest walk-thrus back, as submenus off of the "Quests" tab.

HOWEVER....

I stand by what I've said regarding the relative worth (and work for me) of walk-thrus in the Info Center vs. the readily-available walk-thrus on Allakhazam's site and EQ2i.com. So while I'm putting the existing walk-thrus back, I will not be updating or adding to the Info Center's walk-thru collection.

Hopefully, this will keep everyone reasonably happy. ;)

-- Darryl (Milquetowst)

Nice, you've already done enough for us. Can't ask for more.

Thank you

drago

:nana: THANK YOU DB!! :nana:

I really dislike the browser Soe put in and I miss the info center.
Im glad, at least for some of it anyway, that your going to put it back in.

Thank you
 

You're the man :)

Thats really really good of you
5 Bananas

:nana: :nana: :nana: :nana: :nana:

Yours

Brorim

Walk-thrus are back.

-- Darryl (Milquetowst)

stuff above the sword of destiny up to and including
heritage quests doesnt work for me ..

is it just me ?

yours

Brorim

I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you mean. What, exactly, isn't working? Are buttons not doing anything, and if so, *which* buttons? (Some of them, including the Sword of Destiny button, are "grayed out" and inactive by design, since there aren't any walk-thrus for them to lead to.)

-- Darryl

It DOES work
 

OHHHH i just figured it out .

It's like only a little bit of the button is active . Like in the lowest left
part of the button ..

It does work i'm so sorry . the button is just wierd :)

Yours

Brorim

That's certainly not how it's *supposed* to work....

Are you using the Info Center in conjunction with any full set (or other mod) that alters button styles?

Is anyone else out there having a similar problem?

-- Darryl

Thank you for maintaining this mod. Has to be the best out there. Much appreciated. :nana:

Every time I access this mode I am ever so grateful to its creator. So before I go on about anything else I want to say thanks to Darryl for the hard work and excellent product.

Just when you think there's isn't anything else that could be put into this mode, Neccessity has once again created a Need.

I created a Provisioner (correct term should be Provisionary accord to Webster but who the hell is he anyway?) Having reached L20 I needed to seek out Advanced versions of L20+ but no matter what city in which I searched the broker the return results didn't spit out ANY Advanced Volumes for a Provisioner. Because Provisioners don't use rares I thought that maybe their recipe book system didn't include Advanced Volumes and I STILL don't know what the story is. Seeing as in 2 years I've NEVER seen or possesed an Advanced Volume for a Provisioner I'm going to assume there just isn't any.

And then it dawned on me that the only reason I knew WHERE and HOW to acquire Advanced Volumes was that I had already learned it by crafting to L30 with my Jeweler.

Anyways, a blurb in the notes section on where and how to find Advanced Volumes would be great. My wife is about to begin crafting and I know she's gonna drive me nuts for just this very information.

Thanks,
Sacraed

(Please see my response already posted in the separate thread you created for this same question. -- Darryl)

Hello there!
Not to encourage folks posting the same questions in different threads, but I read Sacreds and at first, I thought he was going to ask what I have just been thinking but then he derailed so I will ask... Not about the advanced books but rather about the higher level crafting books 50+, 60+ I know different crafters have different locations to purchase them, as in the case of my tailor she could, if her faction were high enough, buy them in Maj Dul.
Someone in the guild asked just the other day where he might find the crafting books for his Alch. It might be a good thing to post where THESE books can be found ( I think he finally located the ones he needed in Whisperwind)

As I have said before, the browser that SoE has given us is ok but I seem to be having a lot of trouble with it, locking me up and even causing me to crash to desktop a few times when trying to open it. It would be so nice for us (old timers) if you could keep some of the pertinent stuff within the info center.
I know it's hard work doing that, and I REALLY do appreciate your efforts in this, but maybe just a few things that don't really "change" so you wouldn't have to update them, like the info on housing and mounts and I even saw you had info I was curious about on the gods of Norath. stuff like that would be ever so appreciated and IMHO USED!

Thats all I wanted to say, Thanks for reading!


Lexi :)

I thought all high-level advanced books were for sale in Maj'Dul, but since my highest-level crafter is my 54 provisioner, it's not something I'd given a lot of thought to. I can check into it, certainly.

I've had no trouble with it myself, and have heard only a few scattered reports of problems, so I'm not entirely convinced it's really the browser at fault. Regardless, though, I have no intention of getting rid of the in-game Info Center. The *only* information I had even considered removing from the mod in favor of the browser window was the quest walk-thrus, and those have been put back due to popular demand, though I don't intend to spend a great deal of time or effort adding to or updating the ones currently available.

-- Darryl

Thank you very much, I know it seems to take forever getting ones faction up high enough in Maj Dul to even be able to purchase items. I think your right and they DO have them there, but Im sure the even higher level or the 50+ for those who don't have that expac are available elsewhere, Im just not sure on who has what but I most definately would appreciate it if you (or anyone for that matter!) could verify this.


I have had varying amounts of trouble from one character to another and from one machine to another ( I use 3 diff comps) from just being slow and hard to view it to totally crashing a toon to the desktop but I also agree that some of it may be operator error (or UIs) and not so much the browser... then again since I refuse to update to IE7 and I don't use mozilla natively it might be a clash there as well.

In any case I appreciate VERY Much you putting the original walk thrus back in and am glad to hear that "info center" isn't going anywhere.

I don't really think there is a need to update the standard quests, unless the needs for them change significantly.

There is one provisioner recipe that comes from Unrest that may be considered sort of rare, but maybe not "Mastercrafted" like normal rare crafted items. After a quick search I found this thread:
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/p...opic_id=350287

So, I don't know the details but it sounds like the recipe itself is LORE, has 5 charges, makes 5 Halasian Icebrews from a pristine combine (for a total of 25 from one recipe) and requires Halasian whiskey harvested from the bar in Unrest. Each run through Unrest yields two whiskeys. I don't know the recipe book name but my guess is that it might be Bartending for Sadists. I haven't seen any of this in-game myself, but next time I'll try pasting those links in to have a look.

For most general crafting questions I usually look in the eq2 forums:
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/p...opic_id=347090

Or, go straight to EQ2 Traders Corner:
http://eq2.eqtraders.com/articles/ar...hp?article=g53
Naimi normally keeps her information pretty up to date.

I love this interface but i will put this info here so you can make note of it and if you have a solution, can let me know - if i get a solution, i will post it here.

I use ThorUI. It does not like your interface, apparently. I tweaked it and forced your UI back into the folders where it needs to be - otherwise, your interface showed as a big black box. v_v

However - now that i have your interface working, thorUI notes does not work... and the timer does not work. the notes i can see - why have 2 sets, i guess. but the timer? I can't figure out why that one won't work. Off to ThorUI forum to see if they have a solution.

help please
 

I DL'ed the Infocenter into my custom UI folder, and then created a macro to start it. When I hit the macro I get nothing. No error message but no menu appears either. I DL'ed a map mod and it works so I know I followed this site's instructions eq2 use it.

At this time I have eq2ui_journals_infocenter, eq2ui_mainhud_startmenu, eq2ui_journals, and eq2ui_mainhud all in my custom UI folder. I modified the eq2ui_mainhud file in my custom folder to include the line "<include>eq2ui_mainhud_infocenter.xml</include>" and I put that in alphabetical order with the other lines of code.

Any help would be greatly apreciated.

-j

You don't need to edit the eq2ui_mainhud.xml file. The infocenter window is included from the eq2ui_journals.xml file so you don't even need a custom eq2ui_mainhud.xml file. What folder is your map mod in? You said the map mod works. All these other xml files should be in the same folder.

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I extracted all files to UI\EQ2MAP along with the modified .xml file. I now get a black box that I can minimize when I use the macro I created so at least I am moving in the right direction.

edit* I changed the eq2.ini file to reflect moving all files to the EQ2MAP dir. The map mod still works fine but not the Info Center.

As a friend of mine pointed out I think I need a prg degree to figure this stuff out. Next time if it involves shooting something with my m16 I can do that without help.

-j

What's your macro? It should be:

/show_window Journals.InfoCenter

because the info center is a Journals window, not a mainhud one. That's also why you don't need to have the include line in your eq2ui_mainhud.xml file; DBurg has already included it in the customized eq2ui_journals.xml file that came with the InfoCenter.

He also included a customized start button that includes the InfoCenter which, based on your list of files that you have, I'd say you've also installed. Click on the EQII button in-game and you should see the InfoCenter option there.

Hi
First of all I just wanted to thank you for this great addon. It has helped me greatly. I do have some suggestion, questions on changes to it. When I open the browser it would be great if I could get some kind on minimize function of that window so I can keep it open but out of the way. What I do now is manually resize the window and drag it open and close as needed. I know eq2map has a minimize button and I hoping you could put a similar function on the browser. Also not sure if this can be done but is there any way to make waypoints clickable and sent to map like the built in waypoints? Or if that doesnt
work to make it so I can copy and paste waypoints from infocenter. Once again thanks for all the hard work.......................

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I figured it out. Ty all for your help. The issue came from having created an eq2.ini along with the map mod creating one on its own. I deleted the one I created and it all works now. Thank God as I really need some help with this game. Its good but its far different from eq1.

-j

Your request actually has nothing to do the Info Center. You should check out the various browser window mods available here, and see if any include a minimize button. (I don't know offhand if any do or not, but if not, it probably wouldn't be difficult to convince the creator of one or more of them to add the functionality.)

-- Darryl (Milquetowst)

First of all, I love the infocenter. Thank you for it.

Though there is now an in game browser, I'd still like to mention that the quest notes in your infobox are infinitely more useful - they're quick, don't have to search and wait for laggy pages filled with ads to load, only to have to do it over again for the next step. Not to mention your guides are all way more accurate than most on the popular sites - generally have to look through everyone's additional comments to find the truth, and they all contradict each other.

That being said, I understand not wanting to continue to write your own notes for every thing they add - I'm sure it takes a lot of work. What I would like though is if you could make it possible to add our own quest guides to the places where you hadn't put them yet - something simple like the notes tab that we can edit, but for the quest buttons like the last few heritage quests. That way, I could at least copy the guide from the web into the box so I can get to it more easily. (I can edit the text files of the missing quests, but the buttons are still unclickable)

Hello,

at first sorry for my bad english but i hope you can help my.
I downloaded this mod today and follow the instruction:

1. Copied eq2ui_journals.xml and eq2ui_journals_infocenter.xml in my ui/ folder
2. copied the infocenter folder within all his subfolders and files in my ui/ folder
3. started the game and type /show_window Journals.InfoCenter in the cat
4. NOTHING happens!

No black window, absolutely nothing. But this is all i find in the install instruction so please help me, what do i wrong?

- do i need to modify my eq2.ini to say Eq2 where are the files for the mod and when, how?
- what to do with the file eq2ui_mainhud_startmenu.xml? No word in the instrauction on this site about this file?
- And why is any Install instruction missing in the archive?

Thanks alot, Darky

Check the FAQ at the very top of this page for instructions on how to install mods.

Hey Darky! You're just a little bit off. Correct instructions can be found here.

Essencially, you need to put the custom files inside a folder within your /UI/ folder. And if you've never installed a custom UI before, you'll also need to edit the eq2.ini file.

Hope that helps!

I read it more then one Time, it says:

I do, look my first post
Ok i now have checked this, made a new folder, now ui\infocenter\
i do.
i dont have other mods
i have this file for eq2maps and it looks:
So i read it and follow it as good as i can, but .. nothing happens.
Look point 5, i don't want to do anything with a skin, i will have the infocenter!

So can anybody help me?

Darky

Thanks you, this link helps :)

Darky

Inside you UI\ folder create a folder, for example UIMOD.
"Everquest II\UI\UIMOD"
¨
Copy all the files into UIMOD.

Then edit or create EQ2.ini with NOTEPAD.
"Everquest II\EQ2.ini"

Add these lines:

cl_ui_skinname UIMOD
cl_ui_subdir UI/

Hope it works :)

You have EQ2MAP?

If you have that, then there should be a folder in your UI folder called EQ2MAP - put the InfoCenter files and folders in there.

Otherwise you are creating multiple custom UI setups, and your EQ2.ini file can only reference one.

Hi,

yes i have eq2map.

Ok now i moved the complete infocenter/ folder into the EQ2Map folder

my now eq2.ini looks like:
so now i try to check it ingame :)

Update: Checked

EQ2Map works well!
typed /show_window Journals.InfoCenter in the chat ---> NOTHING happens!

What do i wrong? omg

my eq2.ini is done like the info from last post, and ell the infocenter files and subfolders moved to the eq2map folder within the ui folder.

Darky

Did you also move the eq2_journals.xml and eq2_journals_infocenter.xml files into the EQ2MAP folder?

Sorry if I wasn't clear before, when I said all the infocenter files and folders, I meant all the files and folders included in the .zip when you downloaded it need to go into your UI/EQ2MAP/ folder.

Yes i moves all, the two files and the subfolders

My folders are now like:

ui\
ui\EQ2MAP\
ui\EQ2MAP\infocenter <-- this folder contains the subfolders like alchemiy\ cookbook\ etc.

and the two files are at:
ui\EQ2MAP\eq2ui_journals.xml
ui\EQ2MAP\eq2ui_journals_infocenter.xml
the infocenter subfolder with his own subfolders are now at:
ui\EQ2MAP\infocenter

and my eq2.ini looks like:
cl_ui_skinname EQ2MAP
cl_ui_subdir ui/

and now, after many moving and editing, all works fine!

Thank you guys for your help :)

Darky

If you press the EQ2 button , there should be a InfoCenter button at the top.