07-29-2002, 02:12 AM
No more dumb buff icons, buffs still click-offable. Now I am happy.
Edit: See it here (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/UI2.gif)
Howto:
**Pet classes**
If you're a pet class, you may be in trouble. I don't play pet classes, so I used the pet info window (EQUI_PetInfoWindow.XML) for the stat block in the bottom right corner. Nowhere in any of the mods I have done will you find a pet health bar unless you put one in yourself somewhere.
I run EQ in 1280x1024 mode. This should all still work with any resolution; I made everything as small as I could to use as little space as possible. The buff window is 75 pixels wide for example. The buffs/group/stat info stack down the right side will only fit on 1024 or more pixels top to bottom though - you may need to arrange creatively for smaller resolutions
I am using /viewport. /viewport 0 0 1205 790 is what I use for a 1280x1024 screen. This gives me a black border at the bottom and right side of my view of what's going on.
All of the windows I customized are transparent, so they show the black background through the text. If you like the grey rock texture, or are not going to use viewport, you need to go into each XML file and find the true tag in the "screen" block at the bottom of each file, and change true to false.
To bring up the right click menu for the chat window with no titlebar, I find it's easiest if you right click on the line dividing the top and bottom of the chat window. Most titlebar-less windows, you can bring up the right click menu by right clicking somewhere near the top edge of the window - the chat window is a bastard because it's got nested windows I find.
The buff window most people like so much comes with a new copy of CS_Buttons.bmp. It has all the button backgrounds changed from blues and reds to... black. If you want the buff buttons to be something other than black, bring up Paint and fill em in with whatever colour you want - though you may then need to change the font colour of each label in EQUI_BuffWindow.XML to something else. I've not found any other window that uses those colours for backgrounds of anything.
Playing a mana class? Use the EQUI_PlayerWindow.XML found in EQUI_PlayerWindowWithMana.xml.zip instead of EQUI_PlayerWindow.xml.zip
The PlayerInfo and Target windows that have no borders can be tricky to grab ahold of and move - I find best success by clicking on the percent health numbers and dragging frrm there.
How do I do this?
First, go to your Everquest directory (usually C Program FilesEverquest.) There's a subdirectory there called uifiles. Under uifiles is a directory called default. Make a copy of the default directory in the uifiles directory, call it whatever you want. Now unzip all the files you want from my set into that new directory, overwriting the default files. If you just use the default directory, I believe it will overwrite the changed files every time you patch - not useful.
When you get into game, just do /loadskin whateveryoucalledthedirectory. Now move the windows around as you need to.
The PlayerInfo and Target windows that have no borders can be tricky to grab ahold of and move - I find best success by clicking on the percent health numbers and dragging frrm there.
Known Issues:
All of your stats and saves, AC and ATK are in the stat block that I changed the pet info window into. Normally, these numbers are displayed in your inventory window. The bug is this: If you have a number in two places, one of them will be the correct number, the second one will be garbage. It looks like the stat block takes precedence over the inventory since it is displayed first on the screen. This means that the stats, saves, etc. on your inventory window will be junk though. The EQUI_Inventory.XML that I provide has the original UI's layout of equipment, and removes all the stuff that I display in the stat block window. If you don't like my inventory screen, then live with the bugged display till VI fixes it, or modify it yourself <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/tongue.gif ALT=":b">
Since changing the Fade-To Transparency in the options menu seems to do jack and shit, I take each window that I don't want to fade when it loses focus and bring up the right-click menu, and go Window->Alpha->Faded Level, and set that to 100%. No more fading out windows.
If you set the starting corner of your viewport to anything but 0,0 (e.g. /viewport 100 100 1000 800,) you will fuck up your lagmeter. The lagmeter numbers will remain in the top left corner of the viewport, the lagmeter bar will stay in the top left corner of the screen. Let's hear it for thorough testing!
You still can't get a display of how many mana points you have. EQUI_PlayerWindowWithMana thus has a mana bar and mana percent since it's all I can give you.
Files:
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_PlayerWindow.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_PlayerWindow.xml.zip)
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_PlayerWindowWithMana.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_PlayerWindowWithMana.xml.zip)
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_ChatWindow.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_ChatWindow.xml.zip)
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_Inventory.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_Inventory.xml.zip)
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_GroupWindow.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_GroupWindow.xml.zip)
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_PetInfoWindow.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_PetInfoWindow.xml.zip) (this is the stat block window)
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_HotButtonWnd.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_HotButtonWnd.xml.zip)
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_TargetWindow.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_TargetWindow.xml.zip)
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_BuffWindow.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_BuffWindow.xml.zip)
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<TR>
<TD ALIGN=CENTER>
<FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE=1>
Tilric Bearmagnet (http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=7159)
Celestial Fist
</font>
</td>
<TD ALIGN=CENTER ROWSPAN=2>
<FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE=1>
<Legacy of Steel> (http://www.legacyofsteel.net)
The Nameless
</font>
</td>
</tr>
<TD ALIGN=CENTER>
<FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE=1>
Tileena Mangeena (http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=12910 )
Fear The Gnome!
</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table></p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub35.ezboard.com/utilric.showPublicProfile?language=EN>Tilric</A> at: 8/29/02 3:45:36 am
Edit: See it here (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/UI2.gif)
Howto:
**Pet classes**
If you're a pet class, you may be in trouble. I don't play pet classes, so I used the pet info window (EQUI_PetInfoWindow.XML) for the stat block in the bottom right corner. Nowhere in any of the mods I have done will you find a pet health bar unless you put one in yourself somewhere.
I run EQ in 1280x1024 mode. This should all still work with any resolution; I made everything as small as I could to use as little space as possible. The buff window is 75 pixels wide for example. The buffs/group/stat info stack down the right side will only fit on 1024 or more pixels top to bottom though - you may need to arrange creatively for smaller resolutions
I am using /viewport. /viewport 0 0 1205 790 is what I use for a 1280x1024 screen. This gives me a black border at the bottom and right side of my view of what's going on.
All of the windows I customized are transparent, so they show the black background through the text. If you like the grey rock texture, or are not going to use viewport, you need to go into each XML file and find the true tag in the "screen" block at the bottom of each file, and change true to false.
To bring up the right click menu for the chat window with no titlebar, I find it's easiest if you right click on the line dividing the top and bottom of the chat window. Most titlebar-less windows, you can bring up the right click menu by right clicking somewhere near the top edge of the window - the chat window is a bastard because it's got nested windows I find.
The buff window most people like so much comes with a new copy of CS_Buttons.bmp. It has all the button backgrounds changed from blues and reds to... black. If you want the buff buttons to be something other than black, bring up Paint and fill em in with whatever colour you want - though you may then need to change the font colour of each label in EQUI_BuffWindow.XML to something else. I've not found any other window that uses those colours for backgrounds of anything.
Playing a mana class? Use the EQUI_PlayerWindow.XML found in EQUI_PlayerWindowWithMana.xml.zip instead of EQUI_PlayerWindow.xml.zip
The PlayerInfo and Target windows that have no borders can be tricky to grab ahold of and move - I find best success by clicking on the percent health numbers and dragging frrm there.
How do I do this?
First, go to your Everquest directory (usually C Program FilesEverquest.) There's a subdirectory there called uifiles. Under uifiles is a directory called default. Make a copy of the default directory in the uifiles directory, call it whatever you want. Now unzip all the files you want from my set into that new directory, overwriting the default files. If you just use the default directory, I believe it will overwrite the changed files every time you patch - not useful.
When you get into game, just do /loadskin whateveryoucalledthedirectory. Now move the windows around as you need to.
The PlayerInfo and Target windows that have no borders can be tricky to grab ahold of and move - I find best success by clicking on the percent health numbers and dragging frrm there.
Known Issues:
All of your stats and saves, AC and ATK are in the stat block that I changed the pet info window into. Normally, these numbers are displayed in your inventory window. The bug is this: If you have a number in two places, one of them will be the correct number, the second one will be garbage. It looks like the stat block takes precedence over the inventory since it is displayed first on the screen. This means that the stats, saves, etc. on your inventory window will be junk though. The EQUI_Inventory.XML that I provide has the original UI's layout of equipment, and removes all the stuff that I display in the stat block window. If you don't like my inventory screen, then live with the bugged display till VI fixes it, or modify it yourself <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/tongue.gif ALT=":b">
Since changing the Fade-To Transparency in the options menu seems to do jack and shit, I take each window that I don't want to fade when it loses focus and bring up the right-click menu, and go Window->Alpha->Faded Level, and set that to 100%. No more fading out windows.
If you set the starting corner of your viewport to anything but 0,0 (e.g. /viewport 100 100 1000 800,) you will fuck up your lagmeter. The lagmeter numbers will remain in the top left corner of the viewport, the lagmeter bar will stay in the top left corner of the screen. Let's hear it for thorough testing!
You still can't get a display of how many mana points you have. EQUI_PlayerWindowWithMana thus has a mana bar and mana percent since it's all I can give you.
Files:
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_PlayerWindow.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_PlayerWindow.xml.zip)
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_PlayerWindowWithMana.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_PlayerWindowWithMana.xml.zip)
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_ChatWindow.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_ChatWindow.xml.zip)
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_Inventory.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_Inventory.xml.zip)
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_GroupWindow.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_GroupWindow.xml.zip)
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_PetInfoWindow.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_PetInfoWindow.xml.zip) (this is the stat block window)
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_HotButtonWnd.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_HotButtonWnd.xml.zip)
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_TargetWindow.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_TargetWindow.xml.zip)
members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_BuffWindow.xml.zip (http://members.rogers.com/tilric/EQUI_BuffWindow.xml.zip)
<table align=left cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 border=1>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN=CENTER>
<FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE=1>
Tilric Bearmagnet (http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=7159)
Celestial Fist
</font>
</td>
<TD ALIGN=CENTER ROWSPAN=2>
<FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE=1>
<Legacy of Steel> (http://www.legacyofsteel.net)
The Nameless
</font>
</td>
</tr>
<TD ALIGN=CENTER>
<FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE=1>
Tileena Mangeena (http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=12910 )
Fear The Gnome!
</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table></p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub35.ezboard.com/utilric.showPublicProfile?language=EN>Tilric</A> at: 8/29/02 3:45:36 am