Spell Gem Request Please!
 

Hi, I like the new UI except one thing.

I absolutely HATE the new UI gems and casting.

Is there someway someone could possibly make a UI Gem Casting thing that looks like the original spell gems? If so this would be soooooooooooo much apreciated

Thank You

-Ryan

What class are ya?

I Play an enchanter / wizard / bestlord in that order so enc would be a higher priority

:\ I made a half decent one for druids, only thing keeping me from doing other classes was that I didnt know what spell icons and gems icons go with other class's spells. There might be somewhere out there that has that info, lucy doesnt, atleast not that i see. but if you wanted to list the icons for every spell id do it hehe. that would take time to list em out tho probably. sorry i couldnt get u a quick solution

That is I dont know what the corresponding spells icons were in the Old UI. I can find out what the new icons are but I dont know which old ui icons to change them to. Re-read it and it didnt sound clear

That would be great! I am a little confused on what to list. The spell gem pic? The spell name? The types of spells?

hey thanks so much for doing this :)

just wondering.. where did you get the graphics for the old icons? i may be able to help a bit.. if i could find a source of the old icons! :P

Maybe we can use the spell the gemiconsX.tga to get the old icons?

If you look in your everquest folder, open up the uifiles folder and than open up the default folder. In there is a file called "Spell_Icons.tga" that contains the original spell icons. I am not sure where spell gem icons are stored, if they even are. For those I logged into the game and took multiple screen shots of different gem icons and than did some ghetto cut and paste. But pretty much all you do is manual cut and paste the old ones into the new icon's place. Also, you need a tga file reader to view them. Ill look through my folders and see if I still have sreen shots of all the spell gems since we can't even use the old ui now

oh, and if we wanted to do it i would need to know the name of a spell and its old ui icon. not every single spell has to be listed since many lines of spells use the same icon. Like for me i knew skin like XXXX all had the same icon so I didnt check each spell individually. But just list all the major ones and than smoke test it to weed out the spells that got missed

I can list all of the major spell lines to you but should I just describe what the old gem looked like?

yup pretty much, the icons are easily distinguishable...Sow is a boot, aego is a shield, root is a plant (atleast for druids).

OK - see IF i can get all of these

Charm - red head thing
Clarity - blue head thing
root - dirt mound
our DD's - lol I forgot! pick something that looks magical
Strengthen - Blue arm
Invis - eyeball
Illlusion's
Tashani - druid dot symbol i am pretty sure (the dog)
enchanting things - summoning symbol
shielding - yelow shield
bind - the cancel magic thing
str debuffs - look like red arms i think
hastes
fears
PB stuns

I believe those are all of our spell icons... did I give u what u wanted?

and our dots... lol forgot those

Good start, I got started and after a few spells into it there was already a bunch of missing data... It's ok tho, I'm looking at this site for spell name reference to look up on lucy. It breaks down the spells into 42 categories, a bunch, but if you could look at that and see what spell icons u remember it would help. like Mez, haste, stun, I'm not sure on. Anyways check this out and tell me if u are able to remember anything http://members.tripod.com/xornn/Spells/spell.htm

hmm ok ill go through some of them tonight - too tired to go through all =P

mes - the red head
PB stun - its green and yellow and bluish
attack slows - wolf icon
berzerker line - blue arm buff thing lol
AE mes - green head
whirl till you hurl line - looks like root
eye of confusion - red head
agro reduc - red head
mem blur - red head
animations - summon item one
int wis debuff - red arm

Thats all 4tonight.. mad tired =P

Aye, long night, I'm gonna crash here soon. I got a list of stuff needed for tomorrow... Need to know spell icons for: Nuke, PB Stun, DOT, Shaman Debuff, Manatap, Manadrain, AoE Nuke, Cha Buff, Int/Wis Buff, Remote Viewing, Faction Buff, Bottled Mana, Setinel, DMG Shield....

But Wait the list goes on lol. Ummm lets see, The spell that uses a red arm icon. I have the spell book icon of the red arm but I don't have it of the spell gem. Perhaps u can look through screen shots in ur eq folder and see if it is caught in there, that's all I need to get it is a screen shot. Also, you said animation is the summon icon, i used the magic wand icon i can change it if its wrong but i think i remember it being the wand. Single and AE Mez share an icon, I think i made them both green heads.

Sorry for making ya get all this info, hopefully you'll be set up with all ur old icons soon. For now this is what I have play with it and see if anything is wrong so far. If you don't know how to use it, just unzip all the files into ur custom UI folder. It'll ask to rewrite, say yes.

lol and there probably are errors, i was tired heh

It's making me do it in parts,

Dododo,

Done,

Are you asking for the spell gems from the original UI?

Yah the spell gem from the old ui, not the spell book icon, just the gem. And now that I've slept I remembered i forgot something, I also need a spell gem from old ui of the blue head for crack. So Blue Head, and Red Arm Gems

ok - these are some links of some pics i uploaded. and btw you were right about the wand but single target mes is a red head ;)


you MUST copy URL and enter it into the URL box and hit enter!!!

angelfire people are jerks and dont let u remote link pictures and what not!!


OK - these are the spells in the SS per pic

www.angelfire.com/nj/zeldacheats/EQ_3.bmp

DD
DD
Tash
Mes
Charm
root
clar
gate


www.angelfire.com/nj/zeldacheats/EQ_1.bmp

The PB stun is blue head


www.angelfire.com/nj/zeldacheats/EQ_4.bmp

This is a one with many spell gems. (this was also during the Wk cleansing on rallos zek lol, I took natro getting his corpse after he got the BP from GM event and people tried to jack it)



So lets seee.... DOT i still have no *(%ing clue what it was lol umm... mana tap i forgot.. so lets make it a dispell or something?... same thing with mana drain, AOE nuke i forgot =( lol it looks greenish though (gravity flux)

cha buff with blue arm

int wis buff = blue arm

remote viewing?.... i dunno what u mean.. i guess an eyeball

Factionbuff = redhead

sentinel = wand

dmg shield no idea.. so how about a fire icon since I dont have any of those lol

I am going to try what you have so far! =P

grav flux was the same thing as shock of lightning.. i remember now =P

Great info, I added to the files. Try it and and let me know what is missing or wrong. BTW is it turning out like you expected?

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Done

umm, guess i forgot one

sorry lol im so n00bish wish new UI - I never played it cuz of the (*&%ing icons!!!

How am i supposed to load these into UI?

Aight, no problem. Goto the everquest directory where everquest is installed. Than open up the "Uifiles" folder. In there is another folder called default. Leave the default folder alone for now. In the Uifiles folder create a new folder and name it whatever u want, like NEW or SUPERUI! lol. Than go into the default UI folder and copy everything in there to the new folder u just made. Now the final step is to unzip Gemicon 1-2 and Spells1-5 into the new folder u made and rewrite the old ones that are already in there.

After you have that done load up eq. In the game type /loadskin <new folder name> 1

itll pause for a second and load it. test it out and tell me whats wrong or missing. Also don't install the first set up zips i posted, use the second set