Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Custom UIs

This is sort of a link holder for me to reference later, but I'd like to share a few custom UIs I've come across and see if any of you have used them.

Right now, I'm using The Incendiary UI Compilation Pack, and it's serving me well, but I'm looking for a few changes. Primarilly, I would like to see bigger player/target frames and the group/party buttons along with the Latency monitor.

So with a bit of looking, I've come across the Tisra UI package and will probably give it a shot tonight.

The main appeal to me of Tisra's is that is retains the lag meter along with the various group buttons. Also, the larger player/target windows (with an easier to read font) are great. A few potential downfalls is the lack of the mini map (though I use the regional map more, anyway) and the fact that in a recent update, buffs have apparently been removed from the character & target windows. That wouldn't be good.

Also, this one doesn't seem to take advantage of Marz's Hide Gem which makes it much easier to tell where/when you can hide, but that's not hard to add later on.

For those wondering, addons are very simple to install. Download and extract the .zip file containing the addon you wish to install. Navigate to your AoC interface folder at
*:\\Program Files\Funcom\Age of Conan\cd_image\ (if you followed default installation)

At this point, back up your /GUI directory located here, save it somewhere not in the AoC directory.

Now, copy the GUI folder you have extracted over the existing one, in the cd_image directory. Select OK to overwrite any current files.

Now, when you load the game, it should use the custom UI. If you ever wish to revert, simply delete the GUI/Custom folder and the patcher will take care of the rest. (Or, you can copy your old GUI folder back in.)

One thing to note is that after patches, version numbers may need to be updated to ensure functionality (The game will give you an error if this is the case) Follow the path indicated by the error message, open the .xml file in notepad or something similar and simply change the version # to whichever the in-game error indicates.

You guys have any addons you like? Thoughts on these? I'll post a screenshot sometime in the near future.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mirage is pretty basic but I am enjoying it

Anonymous said...

If you forget to backup your UI folder just rename the gui folder to something like Gui.old and start the game. It should then download the missing files from the welcome screen.