Here's the other part.

Enok

I'm going to have to figure out how you got the buffs to go from right to left.

Every UI I have seen had them going left to right.

I thought that it was a limitation in the UI as for how they are drawn.

It might be nice to have a screenshot for people to see what the UI looks like before downloading, that way they can see the concept.

Just a suggestion.

As far as the buffs filling in left-to-right instead of right-to-left, that's simple; you have to realize I'm the second best EQUI XML coder. :D With Tinkfu being the best...

Posting a screenshot's a good idea. Getting one to post now.

Enok

P.S. - /kneel in response to post below.

WOOHOO MORE IDEAS TO STE.. err nice UI I like it /evilgrin

Master Tinkfu The Gearless

ahh Haliken is learning his place in the modders world, now BOW before your master... come on bow.... come on.... please?.... /whimper pretty please :P

Ok I jumped the gun here, the lag meter works great. My Bad.
Thanks again for great UI!

---Margrave

Hey there Ellyana, just wanted to address what you posted. :)

1 - 3.) That is the basis of the skin is the unique format of these two elements. Neither of them will be going through any major changes...

I'm curious as to what you feel is lost in fuctionality...

2.) Please note the first comments in this thread...

4.) I entirely disagree, that is the exact format I was looking for in the skin. :)

5.) Glad you like that. ;)

6.) Right now that is the majority of the skin, I'm going to work other elements as inspiritaion hits. :)

7.) Another thing that I think is great. :)

Thanks for your thoughts though I don't think you're going to care much for the final any more than this beta. :(

Ok went on a raid and found some things wrong.

Group Window - Percentages or off center
Fifth name font size bigger then others

Spell Book - Memming bar is oddly placed so its under several graphics of the book.

Chat - Cant click on the text input part where the typing would occur and cannot click on equipment links.

Inventory - This is cosmetic but the size of all the text could be bigger

Buff - Would like to see those icons put in regular order, cant seem to figure out a reason why you would want to reverse them.

Background - Be nice if it were darker, had to change a lot fo text colors and rearrange a lot of windows

Hey Neiloch,

Group Window, I am not a grouper. ;) So I've never noticed that. :) Enok, check that will you? ;)

Chat box, simple fix. Look above the Up Arrow, there is a little lock there. Click it. I think that will be going away shortly, not sure but I think I'm going to ask Enok to kill it. It just drives me nuts. ;)

Inventory, hrm, I thought about it but anything bigger makes the window even larger than it is and much more makes it hard for lower reses...

The buffs? Hrm, perhaps a place to have a mod made for normal also. I like the Left to Right personally. :)

Background? Hrm, might need to check into that, it use to be REALLY bright. ;) This is much lower than the original but worth looking into.

Ok, time to fire stuff off.

Group window was completely untested. I can get every window to work perfect first try except that window. There's just so many repeats that I forget to change somethings (font size of last member for example). I'll fix that.

Spellbook, the bar doesn't ACTUALLY go under the graphics. 50% of the bar is on the left of the thingy, 50% on the right, totalling 100%. This used to be symetrical when there was a close button on the right, I'll redo this a little.

Chat, yeah yeah, I LOVE the lock but it's in my own personal UI so I can live with cutting it out of this one.

Inventory, I could increase font size to default without moving any of the labels, so no space loss. They just wouldn't match most of the UI being at font size 1.

Buff window. I'll just make a normal version as an optional downlaod. No biggie.

Background, I'lls ee about making a slightly different background for chatbox so it's more readable (just as an option or something).

Enok

P.S. - Elezibeth, what do you think of me changing the spellbook from
XXX SPELLNAME XXX SPELLNAME
XXX SPELLNAME XXX SPELLNAME
XXX SPELLNAME XXX SPELLNAME
XXX SPELLNAME XXX SPELLNAME
XXX SPELLNAME XXX SPELLNAME
XXX SPELLNAME XXX SPELLNAME
XXX SPELLNAME XXX SPELLNAME
XXX SPELLNAME XXX SPELLNAME
XXX PAGE_NUM. XXX PAGE_NUM.
to
XXX SPELLNAME SPELLNAME XXX
XXX SPELLNAME SPELLNAME XXX
XXX SPELLNAME SPELLNAME XXX
XXX SPELLNAME SPELLNAME XXX
XXX SPELLNAME SPELLNAME XXX
XXX SPELLNAME SPELLNAME XXX
XXX SPELLNAME SPELLNAME XXX
XXX SPELLNAME SPELLNAME XXX
XXX PAGE_NUM. PAGE_NUM. XXX
?

Go for it Enok, I was actually thinking about that a little earlier myself. ;)

Go ahead and kill the lock for now and see if people seem to say they want it, if they don't, then I think the kill is a good idea. :)

I can't test the UI until I get back to my PC (On my notebook right now) but I'm sure that any fixes you put into effect will be fine. :)

Are you sure you two are not married? You guys seem to think alike alot or are you two seperated at birth? :D :nana:

Love this UI. The only real problem right now that I have is the backgrounds for the chat windows is to light. The moving part is not that much of a problem after I read your post on the lock button thingy. They realy should put a move command in the menu like Windows.
I like the new spell idea and that is another thing, the spell book has the same problem as the chat windows. If your in the sand, you realy can't read it.
But anyway, I think I am going to make this the default for all my characters. Think I am going to try out the other spell book for now.
Thanks for the great UI.

You are probably right. maybe because it is such a departure from the EQ norm. after years of playing EQ it feels awkward for my eyes to travel to the top left corner to see my hp,mana etc..
Heheh although I didnt seen to have a problem with this layout AC :) Also I tend to like my fonts larger...my eyesight isnt that great and any alleviation of eye strain is a plus. You two have done a nice enough job twisting the AC interface to fit EQ but it just doesnt work for me.


Goodluck and Happy Hunting~

Well so far so good for me except the obvious problems.

Font size in group window
Problem with links not working in windows- seems that u can make links from your inventory but not click on them
Also found that only way to type in main window is to hit enter, click in the area with the mouse doesnt work

Still would love a stats box someowhere possible such as the major ones , STA STR HP AC maybe in a horizontal bar just below the HP and Compass box would rock.

Also just the problem with the hotbutton window.

Besides the obvious I think it rocks.
Great job you two and keep up the good work

Spell problems I dont see cause I am Tank

See ya soon

I'll upload an update either tonight or tomorrow morning. Busy playing EQ.

Enok