Let me 1st say that this info was posted previosly, and Ive simply cut & paste here, but this is such a great help to me I wanted others to see it again .. The old spell Gems are just so much easier to diferentiate.
It seems I'm not the only person who absolutely hates the new buff icons. I open my spell book and I can't find the spells either. Looking at my gems, what spell is that in gem 1?
The only way to figure it out is to hover the mouse over it.
Memorizing the new images seems to be more difficult, since the images are all smaller.
Per someone's suggesting in General chat, I made a merge of the new ui with the old icons. Now I have the new system with the old images! MUCH better. I can actually find my spells again!
TIP: Probably don't want to be running everquest when you do this.
When I first tried this, I wasn't aware that if EQ doesn't find the files in the UI you select, it reads them from the DEFAULT. This means we only need to copy the old image files to our new UI folder.
The steps I followed: In Windows Explorer, in the Everquest folder (or Everquest Trilogy, or whatever yours happens to be called), is a subfolder called UIFILES. For me, it's C: program filessonyeverquestuifiles.
1: Create a new subfolder in uifiles. I called mine default_witholdspells, but you can call yours SONYSUCKS. Anything you want. It will be the name of the UI you load when you run eq later.
2: FROM the DEFAULT_OLD folder, copy and paste the following files to DEFAULT_WITHOLDSPELLS:
gemicons01.tga
gemicons02.tga
gemicons03.tga
spellbook01.tga
spellbook02.tga
spellbook03.tga
spellbook04.tga
spells01.tga
spells02.tga
spells03.tga
spells04.tga
spells05.tga
spells06.tga
spells07.tga
3: load up everquest, and use the loadskin button in Options to load DEFAULT_WITHOLDSPELLS or SONYSUCKS, or whatever you called the new folder.
Edited, Fri Mar 17 10:13:09 2006 by MorganT
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#2REDACTED,
Posted: Mar 18 2006 at 2:38 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) I have to dissagree. Th eold icons were pixelate, old and disgusting.SOE did a good thing by updating them. They go with the rest of thegame now. and they ARE much easier to find your spells. You just need to pay attention to what you are casting, it goes with 'learn your class'
Cool.
Spre's so low now that one ratedown drops him below default.
Spre's so low now that one ratedown drops him below default.
#4REDACTED,
Posted: May 12 2006 at 1:20 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) lmao... I have never posted much... but you will be reported for being a rate camper. every post you are in that I pst in you rate my down.. it's irritating.
The new graphics appear to use a higher bitdepth so I think EQ was like, "Let's make it flashy!!"
But they really murdered it in the process.
Everything is tiny, small, and colorful.
It would be like windows replacing dekstop icons with flashy animated gifs. Users would be completely lost and their productivity would suffer for it.
Of course, in eq, if you don't click in time, you die.
The EQ people need to hire a KISS general from the ARMY to kick their asses anytime they get a bright idea like that.
(Keep it SIMPLE stupid!)
But they really murdered it in the process.
Everything is tiny, small, and colorful.
It would be like windows replacing dekstop icons with flashy animated gifs. Users would be completely lost and their productivity would suffer for it.
Of course, in eq, if you don't click in time, you die.
The EQ people need to hire a KISS general from the ARMY to kick their asses anytime they get a bright idea like that.
(Keep it SIMPLE stupid!)
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