EQInterface Forums - More UI changes in late Sept.

09-18-2005, 01:09 PM

Rundle

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Join Date: Apr 2003

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More UI changes in late Sept.

From the EQ Upcoming Updates page.

Quote:

Upcoming Updates
We will be doing some UI updates on September 28, 2005.

Any rogues here who could find out what's up?

09-18-2005, 01:13 PM	#2
Drumstix42 A Snow Griffin Join Date: Jan 2004 Server: Posts: 50	Maybe just some fixes for things? Not to sure here. Noticed yesterday that the Color tab in the options window no longer displays color selections for chat channels

09-18-2005, 01:19 PM	#3
Desideratus A Shissar Disciple Join Date: Feb 2005 Server: Venril Sathir Posts: 125	More likely they are implementing the Escape to Norrath UI as the default. After all its a bit daft atm to have folks come out of the tutorial to a worse looking UI ...

09-18-2005, 03:46 PM	#4
*Dolby* Lord Dolby of Veeshan Join Date: Jul 2002 Server: Veeshan Posts: 2,397	Aye, run the EscapeToNorrath.exe in your eq folder at your own risk and you can see the new UI graphics. Looks like the function is mainly the same. Just a large graphics change.

09-18-2005, 07:36 PM	#5
ArcherPhate A Predatory Creeper Join Date: Feb 2003 Server: Ayonae Ro Posts: 293	yea i just checked out the EtN ting. Its just new graphics. New gauges, bg, spell icons. __________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” Anne Frank

09-18-2005, 10:02 PM	#6
mikitta A Snow Cougar Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 43	One note, the Escape to Norrath UI files are a tad different in some respects. If you create a folder called SOE and put a copy of your EverQuest folder into it and then patch Escape to Norrath from out of that folder - you will have an instance of the new UI. Take the Inventory window and copy it into a folder in your UIFiles in your main EQ directory (Everquest in your Programs folder, not SOE/Everquest ... ). You will default to the the older Inventory UI, not the newer one. So if they are going to the newer format, we will have to all do some reworking of our UI's to work with that format. I'm not sure how comprehensive it will be though. I'll try playing around with it tonight. God Bless, mik

09-19-2005, 12:43 AM	#7
danny91643 A Lost Soul Join Date: Nov 2002 Server: Zek Posts: 420	Looks like just window Graphics, I didn't see any major changes to window functions. Looks like a new Default on the horizzon. NM if it effects My current UI I'll just make another mod.... __________________

09-19-2005, 01:58 AM

KendallWolfsong

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Join Date: May 2005

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Drumstix42

Maybe just some fixes for things? Not to sure here. Noticed yesterday that the Color tab in the options window no longer displays color selections for chat channels

Yeh I notcied that as well it was rather annoying as one of my chats I am having problems viewing

Btw does anyone know if there is to be an update for tablets_brown-wood UI I really like this one and I'm afraid I don't know enough to do a mod myself since the last patches.

and I now get my xml files are not compitable

09-19-2005, 11:00 AM

Kavrvnwlf

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Join Date: Dec 2002

Posts: 77

The compass is wrong on the EtN UI, the directionals are listed in this order... E W S N .... insead of E S W N. just something I noticed.

on this note :

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikitta

One note, the Escape to Norrath UI files are a tad different in some respects. If you create a folder called SOE and put a copy of your EverQuest folder into it and then patch Escape to Norrath from out of that folder - you will have an instance of the new UI. Take the Inventory window and copy it into a folder in your UIFiles in your main EQ directory (Everquest in your Programs folder, not SOE/Everquest ... ). You will default to the the older Inventory UI, not the newer one.

So if they are going to the newer format, we will have to all do some reworking of our UI's to work with that format. I'm not sure how comprehensive it will be though. I'll try playing around with it tonight.

God Bless,
mik

I DLed the EtN and made a complete copy of the default folder and gave it a new name (EtN) and was able to load up the new default settings without any problem.

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Last edited by Kavrvnwlf : 09-19-2005 at 11:06 AM.

09-19-2005, 11:01 AM

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Caetenne

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Join Date: May 2004

Server: Fennin Ro

Posts: 96

Quote:

Originally Posted by KendallWolfsong

Yeh I notcied that as well it was rather annoying as one of my chats I am having problems viewing

Btw does anyone know if there is to be an update for tablets_brown-wood UI I really like this one and I'm afraid I don't know enough to do a mod myself since the last patches.

and I now get my xml files are not compitable

Read the thread on the UI. I've posted fixed XML files in it that will get it up and running. New zips are coming, I'm performing some overdue cleanup to a few things in the UI (they don't affect the functionality at all, they're just maintenece) that are taking me longer than expected. If you get the XML files I posted (two on page 7 and one on page 8) and use the instructions posted, your UI will work fine.

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