shadriel

ok i've been trying to get all these new changes to the UI (from TSS release) added into my custom UI for over a week now. so far i've gotten alot of things solved, but no matter what i try i can't seem to get some of these new features to work at all. Here is a list of the files I'm having trouble with:

EQUI_CharacterCreate.xml
EQUI_CharacterListWnd.xml
EQUI_ItemDisplay.xml
EQUI_PlayerWindow.xml
EQUI_SkillsWindow.xml
EQUI_SpellDisplay.xml

If i try to just replace my old EQUI_PlayerWindow.xml with the new default one, it breaks my UI. If i try to add the new timer and its graphics to my old EQUI_PLayerWindow.xml, it breaks my UI just the same. I've been playing around with this thing for several days now and i can't seem to isolate the problem so it can be fixed. Any ideas? I do have the new EQUI_Animations.xml in my custom UI, and i have all the new .tga files added in. I am having the same problem with the rest of these files, too. (Yes i edit the EQUI.xml accordingly first, for the new files.) If i try to add any one of these files to my custom UI, it breaks, if i try to add any of the new features from inside the xml files to my custom xml files, it breaks the UI. I've been hunting and hunting for the problem and tried everything i could think of, nothing seems to work. Any help would be appreciated.

I could also use some suggestions on a better editor for .tga files. I have been using a very old file for my window_pieces01.tga, i like the graphics it has for my chat windows and for the way it makes all my bars and gauges look, unfortunately, this old file is not compatible with the new EQUI_Animations.xml. the placements of things are just a wee bit different, for nearly everything in the new file, vs old file, plus the old one is missing the graphics for a couple of newer things. I very much so would like to have my old graphics for gauges from this file, (if nothing else), but so far all of my attempts to transfer them have not worked well. I have been using the GIMP to do this and the major trouble seems to be that the new window_pieces01.tga has a black background on it, whereas my old window_pieces01.tga has an invisible background. When looking at the old file, the background appears to be a 2-toned gray checkerboard, but selecting images off that file will only select the images, you do not get any of the background in it. If i try to select images off the new window_pieces01.tga, with the black background, it will not differentiate the images from the background, it picks all of it up together, as if the background were part of the picture, and once i save the file with the black background, that black background shows into the image, in game. Which makes for a very sh*tty lookin UI. If anyone knows how to get the GIMP to ignore the background, to change the background to that invisible one, or can recommend a better editting program for this, it'd be greatly appreciated.

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Lady Shadriel Valshara'Slyan of Bristlebane
Exemplar of Innoruuk (100)