DarthT8r

wow, you are a coding machine, egras. i hope you make a 640x480 someday, because i can never find one that works anymore. it could have pink unicorns and teddy bears all over it, and i'd still use it!

Egras

EgrasUI 8.0 Lite doesnt fit well with that resolution? See what it would look like for me. Your not gonna have a ton of view space, but might fit your preferences. If not, you have to give me something to go on for changes.

The EgrasUI 8.0 Lite Download Area:
http://www.eqinterface.com/download...nfo.php?id=4690

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Egras

I noticed that the files are acting up. Im assuming its the compression I used. I am working on them as we speak. I will have them fixed if it kills me.

DarthT8r

yeah, its pretty big for 640x480, even though it fits well in 800x600. i'm attaching a screenshot below.

it basically covers the entire screen, without chat windows included. some of the pieces would be very good for a 640x480 ui though. the micro hotbars (2 and 3) would work really well for all 4 hotbars, with no slots above. then you could just opt not to use the actions menu, which is huge in that resolution. the micro inventory+options button is also very nice in this resolution.

the second attachment is a screenshot of menuetop ui by sylphan in 640x480. its also better suited for 800x600, but the buff bar and spell bar shown are about the right size.

it used to be you could just piece together all the smallest stuff you could find, but even pieces that are made to be standalone, and are up to date, don't work correctly a good ammount of the time since PoR came out.

edit: one idea to add, although i'm not sure if its possible. for interfaces aimed at low stress, it would be cool to have sliced out clip plane sliders. you can't bind to mousewheel, and binding 2 keys for actor and 2 for main kind of sucks. that'd actually be pretty handy on just about any interface.

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	menuetop8.JPG (53.3 KB, 20 views)

Danyca

How do you get the timer to work? Im being blonde right now lol.

Egras

Danyca,

Ya need to downlaod the 60 minute mp3 file and open it in the timer in game. The other files I think I compressed too much to work right. Im fiddling with them now.

DarthT8r,

You surely pose a interesting idea. I honestly dont want to limit my UIs use to those above 640x480. Lemme get the brain turning and see if I cannot do a couple windows at a time. I bet with my coding and your needs, we can make something the smaller resolution players can use.

Danyca

Thanks for replying so quickly. I love your UI and has been most effective in my playing style for both melee and caster. Keep up the good work.

DarthT8r

thanks, man. i'd appreciate it. it really helps a ton to be able to run in that resolution in a lot of the new zones, especially for raids and things like that.

there are some things that i don't think people realise when they attempt making micro uis that are probably worth mentioning. for instance, trimmed is good, but 100% trimmed is bad. a lot of times people dont think about it, because they set up their ini throudh editing, but it can be a real bitch to move things with absoultely 0 border, especially spell bars.

another thing is chat window scroll bars. in super low res, the default size scroll bar is pretty fat, so if you want to use 3 or 4 chat windows, the bars eat up a lot of space. i don't really know if scroll bar width is changable or not, but i'm sure that you do.

anything hard coded sucks, so a micro ui should be made to do without as much as possible. i like to use the socials pages, but its probably better just to mod one of the hotbars instead. there's nothing under any of the action tabs that you can't key anyway.

maps are a big problem. i love the guy's small map mod for people that don't edit, that has no buttons or trim. the problem is, even small maps are huge 640x480. i think that's an easy one though, because as far as i can tell, eq maps will scale to whatever size box you put them in. i have a small map that i just keep up in the corner of the screen on my larger res ui, and being able to use mousewheel to zoom in and out makes it fantastic.

off screen information is good. most people playing in that res dont really care if they have to open inventory to check out their stats or exp. there's a ton of neat mods that piece out different stuff to be up all the time, but the only ones i like for small uis are stuff like your micro click box, maps, and clip plane adjusters (if that is indeed possible).

another thing that doesn't work well is street fighter style target bars or life bars. most of the space along the edges is going to be crammed with stuff anyway, so that makes it pretty tough. i've never really liked those much anyway, because i think its too hard to look at that and something else at the same time. in that minuet shot i posted, there's a good group window for small res. it has the player window joined at the bottom, and mana right be low that. its really more sized for 800x600, but its the right kind of piece for the job. something like that, but slightly more compact, with a target bar to match and go below would be perfect.

anyways, i've rambled enough. hopefully that gives you at least a couple of ideas that you like.

Egras

User Requested Update (Doranur, MasterLoki's wife and more)
The following is a combined user request by alot of people. The request was to make the hotbutton window 2 and 3 like window 4 or just window 3 like window 4. Either way I decided to make all 3 options available.

This is a legend of sorts to show which is which in the downloads below:


And here are the 3 seperate files:

Configuration A/A/B File: the original file for EgrasUI 8.0 with Hotbutton 2 (Style A), HotButton 3 (Style A) and Hotbutton 4 (Style B).
Configuration A/B/B File: the file for EgrasUI 8.0 with Hotbutton 2 (Style A), HotButton 3 (Style B) and Hotbutton 4 (Style B).
Configuration A/B/B File: the file for EgrasUI 8.0 with Hotbutton 2 (LittleHawkf Style), HotButton 3 (Style B) and Hotbutton 4 (Style B)
Configuration B/B/B File: the file for EgrasUI 8.0 with Hotbutton 2 (Style B), HotButton 3 (Style B) and Hotbutton 4 (Style B).

Egras

Repaired the Timer audio files for the Timer mod I did. All the files have "10 second", "5 seconds" and "Time's Up" IN the audio file if your sound is on.

Here are the files again: 1.0 Minute, 1.5 Minute, 2.0 Minute, 2.5 Minute, 3.0 Minute, 3.5 Minute, 4.0 Minute, 4.5 Minute, 5.0 Minute, 8.0 Minute, 19.0 Minute, 28.0 Minute, 36.0 Minute, and 60 Minute

firescue17

That is truely awesome.

hazimil

Latest patch (this week) has a Group button on the map, so UI needs updating to take this into account.

Please

Haz!

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Egras

I didnt release a mod for the map window yet. Delete the one in your EgrasUI folder if you have one. Still not sure how I want that window to look yet.

hazimil

Have done, but its in the .zip of your latest release (egrasui_80_052706_1330.zip) so assumed you had done something to it?

Haz!