Bolas

I'm trying to customize my skins to get them the way that I like them for pvp as an ogre shadowknight. In other words, melee, caster, pet class... gotta know a LOT o' stuff at once.

I started out by picking an inventory screen layout that was very similar to the old style of layout, with the shadowknight (or whatever class graphic) superimposed over the auto-equip area. So far so good.

The only problem I've had with the old-school inventory screen is that the done key is too small and too far to the right -- I'd like to see the auto-equip area moved up slightly and the done key moved to the lower left corner of the inventory screen and enlarged. It would also be nice to see the name of the slot show up if nothing is equipped there (i.e. "wrist" if there is no bracer). Other than that, I really like this inventory screen.

Then I added a custom small-footprint spellbook, the one with the pages that turn by clicking on the upper right or upper left corners and the spell mem timer centered at the bottom. I like this spellbook, no problems with it yet.

Then I added a custom buff bar -- the one tha thas smaller icons, the name of the icon to the right of the icon, and color-coded blue or red as to if the buff is good or bad. VERY helpful for pvp -- I can tell at a glance that the spell that I just got hit with was Winged Death and I can tell what buffs are between me and the WD that I will need to dispell or click off in order to get to the WD and dispell it. The only problem here is that "unknown spell" displays after a buff wears off... that's kinda annoying, is there a way to get rid of that or have it fade after a few seconds?

Then I tried to add in custom player/group/target bars to give a better readout of health, etc. When I did this, it messed up the hitpoints displayed on the inventory screen -- they changed to 0/0 instead. I figure this was since the hitpoints were now dispalyed in the same area as the red bar showing the hitpoints and that there was some problem with displaying the same information in two places at once. Is there a way to get the hitpoints/max hp to display both on the inventory screen and on the quick look status area?

The next thing I did was try the "Quartz" UI mod from scratch. Once I got the resolution fixed and the mod loaded properly, it was a pretty sweet mod, other than the inventory being screwed up. Is there a way to use the "old school" inventory display above with the Quartz skin? I couldn't get it to work right.

Also, the buff bar for Quartz left a lot to be desired for a pvp character. I loved the smooth look of the Quartz skins, they were very aesthetically pleasing -- but I need to have color-coded good/bad buffs along with the names of the buffs to be displayed. I couldn't get the mod I had used earlier to work properly with Quartz... is there a way to do this?

Thanks,
Bolas

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Duke Bolas Bonesmith - Dread Lord