[kez717]

The last 4 years I've played WoW and gotten used to the highly graphical ui set up I have on it. I just started playing EQ2 for a bit of a change and am greatly disapointed in the ui and none of the ones iI'e found come all that close to what I'm after. I can easily get the graphics together and such, but the xml and UIBuilder are turning out to be roadblocks for me. I can code HTML just fine yet I have been trying to puzzle out xml for about a year with little to no luck so any help would be greatly appreciated.

What I am looking to do to at least make EQ2 more playable for me is fix up the player and target displays. Hoping to do something like a cross between WoW's default, X-Perl (a WoW mod), and the normal EQ2 displays. A portrait depicting the character being played is a must. I have the character creation ones ready to use although if at all possible I would prefer portraits that are of the real character (animated or not) that update as gear or form is changed, even if its just the pics i have ready it still needs to be able to determine race and gender and display the right one. From what I have read on the forums here that is beyond what is possible, but then the few posts I found reguarding it are at least a year or 2 old. Also if possible, I would love a way to get class icons on the displays as well.

Could also use some help with the UIBuilder. I can navigate the tree view just fine, but when I go to the graphics window it always puts the center of the entire ui file in the top left corner so I can't edit or even see 3/4 of the stuff. I can't find any mention of a similar problem or even any real documentation on it, the file included for it isn't much help at all and the only other info I found was a doc file that I keep getting a "file is corrupt" message when i try to open it.

Any help with this will be greatly appreciated. I have been searching both google and the forums here for answers the last weeks with no more then hints that what im after is possible, but not how to do it.