Hi Laffs,

thanks for taking over this excellent UI. I would like to make some suggestions for this UI (which I normally have to add after every new version myself):

I reduced the size of the zone name to 1 line instead of 2 lines and put into the gained place the location output (see attached gif). The advantage is, that I often have to run to a specific location for questing and very often the wisp doesn't show the correct (aggro/mountain free) way to the location. With the location in the UI I can easily find out the direction where I have to go. So the goal is to have a constant location output. Would be cool if you could add it somehow to the UI (like I did it or any other way you would prefer)

The second thing I have is a minor bug: The mouse over tool tip of the Power Bar shows "Memorized Spells" instead of "Power".

The third thing: Could you somehow make it possible to turn off the hotkey labels? I don't care about the keys but the labels make it hard to recognize the spell icons (and I think this is more important than the darn keys). Would be ok if I can turn it off in the settings somehow (even by editing the xml by hand). And yes, I am aware of the add on patch for the hotkey labels. It simply doesn't work for me (way too big hotkeys, doesn't fit into this UI).

Thanks for listening and your work m8!

Hi,

In my version of it I have done that with the zone name to make it all fit in properly...

Hotbars I put a lot of work into the ones on my version also, They still not 100% how I wants them but they work for now lol..

My promise was to keep this UI updated and not changed unless it is realy, realy needed to be, Like somthing breaking big time lol... but for what you mention in your post is not changeing the visual look of it so I guess yes I can do that.. Give me a few days likes as workload quite high at the moment.. if after a few days I havent done it send me a pm as a reminder lol :p

Please Help
 

I love the UI perdi however when i downloaded V8 into PERDV8 file i can get the UI up correctly but all frame backgrounds are white

hopefully you can help

cheers Tutdai

You are missing the "Images" folder within the PERDV8 folder...

Delete BottomV8 folder
May as well Delete PerdV8 also

Go back to the zip file you downloaded..... Unzip it again.... Now place the eq2.ini ... Into C:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest II and PERDV8 folder into C:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest II\UI

And all should be fine... :)


(there is a quicker way to do this yes... but this way ensures it should work as expected)

ummm.....
 

umm... did that and still no image folder in PERDV8 folder or LAFSV8 was no folder in the zip file .......

not sure if i stilldoing something wrong have extracted zip into my eq2 directory (d:\everquest 2\ui\PERDV8) and add eq2.ini to (d:\everquest 2) but still no frames

sorry hope this helps

Woot fixed it
 

doh hehe is easy when ya stop thinking eq1 interface lol maden images foldermoved all dds files to images and hey presto thanksfor all the hard work you do Perdi and Laffs

:nana:

I have just downloaded both of them from the DL's section and they are all intact with the "images" folders..

Only thing I can think of is you say you extracted them into d:\everquest etc etc..... Extract to a different location and then move the files that are needed into the proper directorys from there...

And have a look through your eq dir to make sure there is no extra folders/ files in there that shouldnt be.

The group member health on mine is a bit wonky. It shows everyone's health/power as lower than they actually are (when everyone's at 100% power/health the bar is only 3/4ths full). Is their a fix out for this by chance?

P.S. Great work laffs! Glad to see someone still working on my favorite UI. Dunno what the hell I would do if I had to attempt to fix it myself lol.

You need to DL the updated version bud me's fixed that issue ;)

Be sure to read the notes though as I have changed the folder names and stuff

*EDIT*

Oh and thanks for the thanks :)

hotkeys issues
 

Hi there!

First of all, I simply *love* this interface - it rocks, and thanks for putting in the time and effort it took to get this to where it is now. really great!

Now, just downloaded the latest version, and it fixed some issues etc - but I do have a new problem - everytime i start EQ2, my hotkey bars are messed up. The keys would all maintain their button assignment, but I would end up with 2 primary and secondary/tertiary hotbars. So, my top bar would be primary, but so would be my bottom bar. The bottom bar would then have "focus" as primary bar. Image me trying to cast invisibility on A Firerock Scout. and the ensuing frenzy as you try to figure out how to kill the damn thing :nana:

If I remove the bottom two bars, and open new hotkey bars, they pop into life "unassigned" ie with no keys assigned to them. Is there a way I can fix this?

Thanks

Easiest way is to just avoid the firerock scouts and find some nice beetles to play with insted :p

Yeh yeh ok I hear you... You dont like playing with the beetles...

Had this problem before some guy (sorry I dont recall exactly who) found that it was to do with the char settings file I set up :( .... Personaly I never had this problem with any of my toons new or old...

Back up then delete "eq2ui_mainhud_hotkeysav.xml" and see if that fixes the problem...

hey there.

Followed you suggestions. The beetles did not take kindly to my efforts to provide them with an Aquaous Stone. Something about them being land-based animals, and the salt water wreaking havoc with the chitin in their shells. More frenzy ensued, and after some righteous slaughtering of beetles, the difference of opinion is now resolved, and there is a family of baby-beetles that are now orphaned. My heart cries for them....

Anyway, also changed about the xml files, but alas - still no joy - I will try to remove them all and place them by hand afresh. I will keep you informed.

Thanks for getting back to me so fast!

removing all the hotkey windows, and placing them all back by hand seems to have done the trick

Glad you fixed it... seems like the problem is in the char set up file.... And I just noticed I havent altered that said file for this UI.. So its probably been like that for a while... and will be like that for a while longer as well hehe ;)

Everything is working great Laffs except (you knew it was coming =P) the part of your addon that lists crushing/piercing/slashing resists on the mainhud (to the right of the stats and spell resists).

It always reads as zero even when I have a couple self buffs that add to all of them. Any possible idea on how to fix this?

Freakin great UI man thank you so much for the work you put in. <3

Thanks...

SoE has either disabled or broke that DD for those stats... but they are down as "999" each when you log in then they set to "0" so the DD is still working... I figure leave it the way it is and see if they fix / enable it properly again :)

hey dude,

So this whole hotbar thing started all over again - rearranged all the hotbars etc, and it seemed ok for some timew, but now the issue is back. This whole thing is supremely annoying, and i have no idea where to begin looking to fix it. Do you reckon its an issue with SOE or with the interface? I /bugged it, but they will undoubtedly give it little priority.

Things that are different with the default hotbar and this one are:

1. The icon sizes
2. Background
3. Inclusion of name labels
4. The ability to show / hide hotkey numbers and labels

1-2 dont affect how the bars work
3 just a text box with show hide events linked to a button and the tooltip data that is sent down (basicly)
4 all this consists of is 2 buttons that toggle the visability of the numbers

Far as I know there is nothing that will affect how primary etc works off the window settings..

Have you tried to install the default hotbars and see if the same happens with them? I guess you would need to use them for a few sessions to give it a fair trial..

Problem With New Button In Guild Window
 

Hiya,

Love the UI. Has been working great until this last update. The new button SOE added to the guild window under event filters, that lets you turn off rather you send guild events is just floating around in the window. As you scroll it scrolls. I was able to check the button but now I cannot uncheck it due to it shows up behind the other filters

Thanks For the Help

Interesting...

there is no guild window in this UI so if you have one delete it ...

eq2ui_mainhud_guild.xml

If you cant see that file in the folder then it must be a problem with the button styles file... pls send me a PM to let me know if this is the case,

Thanks

Any update coming?
 

Hi Laffs,

since the last live patch there are some problems with this UI and no update was delivered yet. I myself have problems with the quest hint window showing no background and there are buttons on the guild window that look strange (pure white background etc.).

I am not sure if this is really a problem with the UI or the work of my patching from the last live update. I would really like to see an update of this UI that I can install without the need to patch it afterwards (for this state of the UI version).

I also would like to see some improvements of this UI. As I understands you are just "maintaining" the UI and are not interested in improving it actually. So if anyone is interested in taking over this UI for really improvements, plz go ahead.

No offence to you Laffs, I really appreciate your work. My lack of UI knowledge stops me from mainting this UI by myself, so I am happy that someone with the knowledge jumped in. But you have your own UI and I think we need someone that really loves this UI and improves it further. Otherwise this UI is dying slowly...

Besides the visual HUD components, the UI uses default windows. Just delete the offending window from your directory and all should be fixed.

Well, I am talking about the Quest-Hint Window (the window showing the current selected quest). And this is a visual HUD component....

If you take a look you will see that there has to be at least 5 versions of this UI already and another offshoot of it on the way by the looks of it... So what is the need to throw more stuff into this one?

In what capacity gives you the right to issue a statement like that?


In my view it is better to preserve it the way Perdition left it and keep it running out of respect for Perditions work... And as long as I am it's keeper thats how it is going to stay I sorry to say, If somthing has to change visualy it will only be because some LU requires it...

People are free to copy the whole UI and change it anyway they see fit... But the original is going to be the original...... Besides the download count is still going up...


I will load this UI up later and recheck everything possible myself to make sure it is all still working as intended..

What I would like to see is, that someone really thinks about this UI and tries to improve it, not just fixing stuff it is not working anymore. There may be other UIs based on this one, but they differ too much for my taste.

That's exactly how I understood you and that's what I am afraid of.

That's perfectly ok with me. By saying "taking over of this project" I wasn't requesting from you to give away the maintenance of this project or the original name. I really appreciate your work; without you, this project would be dead already. But I think this UI is dying now too, it just happens slower.

What I wanted is to encourage someone to copy this UI and really try to improve the UI in the spirit of perdition, keeping the basic layout but still trying to work on it to make it more useful.

Is that not what I have already done in my 2 other versions of this UI ???

There is only so much you can do to keep in the style and after that the style starts to fade........

If you want more usefulness as you put it, I surgest you mix and match some of the other windows from the other UI's in this style to gain what you need ??

Question
 

For some reason on the upper part of the UI under the journals im missing the stats below there apparetenly its one window unfortunately i can only see the Journal help window and not my stats is this a 1 file issue or what cuase no matter what i do it wont come back can anyone help me please


Meayen

Also is there anyway we can get the guild window setup like the one for Milqetowst??

Thanks in advanced

Have you tried to change the view on that window ? like frames etc in window settings as its that what shows/hides the stats.... Failing that set that window back to it default location and try again.. That works if you been using other mods as some windows will still hold old settings..

As for the Guild window I dont see the harm in dropping a 'skinned version' of that one in with this UI as it dont have its own version.... Send me a pm in few days if I forget to do that then lol

:)

Laffs
 

Greetings when i goto window settings change from frame to no frame and nothing happens other then a white line around the box i run this UI on two accounts one is fine the other isnt.... Using

Addons

Mookzoning

Jaxels Skinned Journal

Both computer are set up identical i even started over lol is there a certain file that i can replace to reset that particular window ?

Thanks again.

Meayen

P.S i cant wait to see the skinned version of the guild window :D

Never had that problem with eitehr of those mod's unless jaxel slipped somthing in to bork the active page lol I dunno...

But this is the file you need to replace 'eq2ui_journals_active.xml'

And that should fix it... as I use a slightly alt skinned version of Jaxels quest journel in my other mods

Doh hehe
 

:nana: Directions Tell you to Delete that eq2ui_journals_active.xml

In any case i replaced the eq2ui_journals_active provided in your zip and Bingo that was it who knows maybe i deleted it two times rofl

thank you so much for you quick responses, i appreciate all your help


Meayen

Np bud .. me pleased it fixed for you :)

I just downloaded it and it is a awsome UI but im haveing one problem. When i open a bag it only shows the firts 2 slots of the bag and the rest are cutoff. It wolnt let me resize the box and changing the opacity ets does nothing

Love this UI , and the Laffs addon, but I'm having a problem with the hotkeys and anything that has text when you mouseover.

I think I'm missing a font or something, all of the text is missing?

Any idea what this is about?

SoE has been changing so much stuff as of late I have left this and the other version till last to update... As you seem to fix somthing then they break it 1-2 days later... I will get this updated in next few day guys along with the others

this getting patched for 11.9.05 ?

Yes eventualy... as it shares some common elements with the other UI's and once they is working correctly its easy to change them to work with this one...well normaly it is..

so far i've just fixed the glaringly broken things... like newcharscreen and the windows for the market and merchant.

so is this UI abandoned?

No its not abandoned !

Just last on my update list thats all .... as far as I know its all working atm ... apart from the effects in the target windows .. but they only work on page V1 (simple) atm .... and I think that is about it mate ...

Update to follow ;)