Different UI's for different characters?
 

Hi everyone,

I'm just wondering if you can have different UI's for each of your characters? There's some bits and pieces I like to have when playing a healer, that just take up space when I'm playing anything else.

I didn't see anything in the FAQ or a post search, hopefully someone knows.

Thanks,
-Rob

Not possible at this time, unless you play each character from a different EQ2 folder, or log out completely and change eq2.ini when switching characters.

only way to do this would be to build a batch file on your desktop for each UI.

First make a copy of the eq2.ini file with some other title ex: BOBSUIeq2.ini
Make a copy of the eq2.ini file for each other UI you want to use ex: JILLSUIeq2.ini
Then use a text editor to make a batch file for each UI.
File BOBSUI.BAT would contain
REN C:\progra~1\sony\everqu~1\eq2.ini eq2ini.old
COPY C:\progra~1\sony\everqu~1\bobsuieq2.ini eq2.ini
save this to your desktop
File JILLSUI.BAT would contain
REN C:\progra~1\sony\everqu~1\eq2.ini eq2ini.old
COPY C:\progra~1\sony\everqu~1\jillsuieq2.ini eq2.ini
save this to your desktop

Now when you want to use BOBSUI for one character click on the Bat file.
Then run EQ2.
If you want to switch to JILLSUI for another character camp to desktop click on the bat file and run EQ2 .
It may be possible to add a line to run EQ2 within each batch file
something like C:\progra~1\sony\everqu~1\eq2.exe but i haven't tested it

xianthar has the right idea but his syntax is wrong.

He is renaming which means that on the 2nd attempt to run the batch file it will not be able to rename since he is trying to rename the files to the same filename and will error out because the file already exists.

Also, no need for paths just perform the operations within the directory. It would be better to create a "template" file and just overwrite the eq2.ini file with the template you want. You can also launch EQ2 just as easy from the same batch file.

Example:
First create two eq2.ini template files (or however many you wish). Name these in some sort of standard or maybe with a description you wish. For instance, I would suggest naming it after the particular UI. Something like UITye_St.ini for Tyejae Steel.

@echo off
cls
REM run Tyejae Steel Interface
echo Launching EQ2 with Tyejae Steel Interface ...

:START
REM change below to match your drive letter and proper path
c:
cd \games\eq2
copy uitye_st.ini eq2.ini
goto RUN_EQ2

:RUN_EQ2
eq2
goto END

:END

Name the batch file the same as you named the template ui file only with a .BAT extension, then just link to it from your Desktop. You could run as many interfaces as you wanted and just switch between them by running the different batch files.

NOTE: Yes, I have a lot commands that aren't "essentially" needed (IE., goto and echo off, etc., however, I tend to write extensive batch files so I always stick with a more proper format).

Utilities section of dwnloads, grab the beta UI Switcher. It'll make this a lot easier.

that wouln't be needed if and when SOE fixed /loadui
Honestly, I don't even see how it could be broken, but I ain't no code guru, so *shrugs*