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Old 05-18-2003, 07:31 PM   #1
Elezibeth
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Default ACUI - Design Model

By no means it this done, but it's my first venture into the EQ Modding Scene in quite a while. I'll do my best to explain the screen image below...



Starting Top Left and working around Clockwise...

Lag Meter:

Simpler Lag Meter, Green Good, Yellow Partial Loss, Red Drop pending...

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Stats Center:

Two main bars complimented by sub highlights for Pet Health and Casting time.

Perhaps placement of a yellow bar for stamina in-between the two primaries.

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Spells and Effects:

Using the normal small tKing G2 Spell Gems to provide a small yet visable spells and effects window.

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Long Target Window

Displays a long named target window

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Group Window

Traditional Simple Group Window, Red for Health, Green for Pet Health.

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Inventory Window:

Standard Inventory window with minor offsized icons and transparencey standard.

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Chat Window:

Normal Chat Window (Custom Scroller)

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Bottom Command Interface:

A mix of Hotkeys and the Window Selection box. Allowing the use of several commands or windows from a simple, non-intrusive selector..

Preferences
Map (For LoY Users)
LFG
Combat Mode Toggle

Hot Buttons
Hot Button Menu Selector

Inventory
Skills
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Chat Options

Before anyone says anything, this design and the basic imagery is borrowed from another online game. I feel this style of simple interface is what EQ has needed for a while over all the extremely oversized windows that are common....

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Spell Selection Window:

Normal window used to cast spells.

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Please give me your opinions and thoughts, I'm surely not a coder here so I'm just working up a concept I might be able to work with a coder on if any showed an interest.

I'm still working on the other windows, however they are not complete and I will update this thread from time to time.
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