Drox UI 2.1.3

What's New in 2.0: * New color scheme for all health and status bars. * Added a new compass/clock display that has location, real and game time. Thanks to Mother9987 for permission to use parts of his excellent Compass/Clock mod ported from Jaxel's OCD EQ2 mod. * Added a massive 12x12 hotbar! This hotbar has slightly smaller icons and can be resized in layout mode so that you can crop it to any size you need. * A new attribute data window that shows your base value, current item buff, spell buff and total. Thanks to Cylus for the sample code provided for this window. Open it by clicking on any of the six attribute information bar text items. * Golden mobs are now indicated by a golden lock icon in the upper right corner of the offensive target window. * A new mob visibility indicator, an eye icon, is shown in the upper right corner of the offensive target window. This indicator is always there when you are visibile and target aggro mobs and when you are invisible the eye will go away unless the mob can "see invisible". So if you see the eye icon, they can see you too! * Added a diplomacy container bar. * Moved the dismiss button on the pet bar to the right end away for other buttons that are more frequently used. * Expanded the healer hotbar to allow five spells per group member. * Added an information bar option to show Adventure XP as x/2000. * Removed the old reference to VgrdGlow.xml. * Reverted to the default crafting window that has seperate progress bars for each action. Features: * Customizable Design - Drox UI Settings window can be opened from the game menu (ie. the escape menu). * The Quest and Abilities journals have a cool book design. * HUDs: Vertical Group, Horizontal Group, Defensive Target, Pet, Vertical Encounter and Horizontal Encounter. * Healer hotbars for use with the vertical or horizontal HUDs. * Buffer hotbar with automatic group member targeting. * Smaller hotbar icons with three horizontal hotbars and three vertical hotbars. * Logitech G15 Keyboard hotbar. See the readme.txt file for more info. * Nostromo SpeedPad N52 hotbar. Support for the N52 provided by Kilatre, see the readme.txt file for more info. * Over 30 seperate text information displays that can be used to make a custom information bar. * Multi-function experience bar that displays adventure, craft, diplomacy or harvesting xp and stats when you switch clothes. * Expanded container bar to include utility bag and and more. * Vertical and Horizontal options for reactions bar, forms bar, and pet abilities. * Added melee and ranged weapon bars. * Optional Text or Icon displays for player buffs, player debuffs, offensive target spells, and offensive target weaknesses. * Customizable backgrounds let you choose between two styles and resize and reposition up to 4 seperate background panels. * Support for standardized map mods. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation Notes Installation instructions for first time installs and updates can be found in the README.TXT file included in the zip. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Credits Miggy - For the initial work on the Abilities and Quest journals. Agathorn - For the expanded Work Order selection window and for the expanded crafting table setup window. Kilatre - For extensive help creating and support the N52 hotbar. ...and many other mod developers for their help and inspiration along the way. Mother9987 - For the excellent Compass/Clock mod ported from Jaxel's OCD EQ2 mod.

What's New in 2.1.3: * Fixed the encounter windows caused by some incorrect settings in my file that didn't have any side effects until patch 1849. What's New in 2.1.2: * Fixed the skill labels for outfitters and increased the number of possible presense entries. What's New in 2.1.1: * Added crafting attributes and skills and diplomacy presence to the attribute data window. Click on one of the six info bar attribute displays. * Fixed a bug with overlapping icons in the target spells and weaknesses window. Weaknesses are now displayed above the larger buff and debuff icons. What's New in 2.1: * Added a new Buffer Hotbar! * Fixed the Healer and Buffer hotbars so that they automatically target the appropriate group member. * (No more turning spells into macros!) * The Healer and Buffer hotbars are now resizeable in layout mode so you can choose how many icons you want per group member. * Click the group member name in the buffer hotbar once to select them as your defensive target and a second click will set them as your offensive target where you can see their active buffs. * (This game feature seems to be bugged and may not show everything. Please don't bug me about it, there's nothing I can do about it.)

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Drox UI 2.0 ---------

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The latest version of the Drox UI can always be found at my VGInterface author portal. (http://www.vginterface.com/portal.php?id=7)

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Credits

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Miggy - For the initial work on the Abilities and Quest journals. Agathorn - For the expanded Work Order selection window and the expanded crafting

            table setup window.

Kilatre - For extensive help creating and support the N52 hotbar. Mother9987 - For the excellent example Compass/Clock mod ported from Jaxel's OCD EQ2 mod.

...and many other mod developers for their help and inspiration along the way.

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First Time Installation Steps

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1. Download the DroxUI.zip

2. Open the zip file and copy the DroxUI folder and its contents to:

    C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\VGUIAssets\Shells

3. Open the vgclient.ini file found in:

    C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\bin

4. In the [UI] section change the ShellName to (or add it)

    ShellName=DroxUI

5. Copy the user.ini file from the DroxUI folder to:

    C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\bin

6. Copy the UILoader files from the DroxUI\Layouts folder to:

    C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\bin

7. Start up Vanguard.

8. Once the game is loaded hit escape, click on the Drox UI Settings button,

  and then click the "Load Layout 1" button. (Layout's 2 and 3 also have 
  alternative sample layouts.)

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Update Installation Steps

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1. Download the DroxUI.zip

2. Delete your current DroxUI folder from the Shells folder.

3. Open the zip file and copy the DroxUI folder and its contents to:

    C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\VGUIAssets\Shells

4. Copy the user.ini file from the DroxUI folder to:

    C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\bin

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IMPORTANT NOTE ON LAYOUT PROBLEMS !

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If you have problems where your game refuses to remember the changes you make to the UI layout, then try one of the following.

If you are running Windows Vista, find the vgclient.exe file in your Vanguard/bin folder, right click on it and select "Run As Administrator". This will ensure that the game has permission to change the files that store the UI layout.

If you are running Windows XP, you may have the same problem with permissions, but you'll need to fix it by making sure you log in with an account that has administrator permissions or set the permission appropriately for the Vangaurd folders. I won't go into further details on the solution for Windows XP as the methods are too varied to get specific and they don't always seem to work.

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IMPORTANT NOTE ON PERFORMANCE !

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All users of this or any mod which provides you multiple versions of one or more windows, such as vertical or horizontal group and encounter windows, will cause some degradation in FPS and possibly UI freezes. This can be minimized! Read on...

The reason for the lag is that Vanguard was designed to keep all windows constantly updated even when they are not visible. So each version of the group, encounter, and buff/debuff lists are all constantly being updated. This causes your computer to do a lot of needless work. On some computers this isn't very noticeable, but for most it does cause problems when you are in a large encounter with a group. While I could remove all but one version these windows, that would be counter to the goal I set out to achieve when I created this mod, that was to give users the flexibilty to choose how they wanted their UI to look and work.

So, how do you overcome this problem?

In version 2.0 I split out nearly every important window into it's own file. This will allow you to selectively load only the windows you end up using. To control which files are loaded you need to edit the index.xml file found in the DroxUI folder.

If you stick with the default layout that I provide, then this will be fairly easy. If not, then you'll need to look through the list of windows and figure out which ones your using and which not.

Below is an example of what you'll see in the index.xml file. You need to cut and past any windows references that you are not using into the area between the "BEGIN: WINDOWS THAT WILL NOT BE LOADED" and "END: WINDOWS THAT WILL NOT BE LOADED". Theare comment markers for XML files and by moving the windows into the afore mentioned section, you will be commenting out the windows you don't want to load.

<Window filename="Drox_Compass.xml"/> ... <Window filename="Drox_ReactionAbilitiesHorizontal.xml"/>

If you have any missing windows when you log in next, then you'll want to re-edit this file and figure out which windows you need to move back to their original location.

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Notes about the DroxUI Key Mappings

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The user.ini file is needed to enable all the additional key mappings supported by the DroxUI mod. Listed are the key combos that differ from the default UI.

F11 = Take Screenshot (was numpad minus) F12 = Autorun (was numlock) ` = Cancel Ability (it used to be auto-attack)

1. = Main hotbar

Ctrl-# = Horizontal Hotbar 2 Alt-# = Horizontal Hotbar 3 Shift-# = Horizontal Hotbar 4

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Changing Hotbar Banks

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The horizontal, vertical, G15, N52 and 3x4 hotbars all support 4 banks (or sets) of abilities. The following key combos let you rotate through those 4 banks on their respective hotbars.

Ctrl-F1 = Horizontal Hotbar Up Ctrl-F2 = Horizontal Hotbar Down Ctrl-F3 = Vertical Hotbar Up Ctrl-F4 = Vertical Hotbar Down Ctrl-F5 = G15 Hotbar Up Ctrl-F6 = G15 Hotbar Down Ctrl-F7 = N52 Hotbar Up Ctrl-F8 = N52 Hotbar Down Ctrl-F9 = 3x4 #1 Hotbar Up Ctrl-F10 = 3x4 #1 Hotbar Down Ctrl-F11 = 3x4 #2 Hotbar Up Ctrl-F12 = 3x4 #2 Hotbar Down

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Sample Layouts

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If you copied the files in the layouts folder to your bin folder. There will be four sample layouts attached to the UI Loader buttons found on the first tab of the Drox UI Settings window.

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Optional Logitech G15 Keyboard Setup

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If you have a Logitech G15 keyboard, may may want to use the game profile I've included for Vanguard. This profile sets up the G keys to match those assigned to the optional G15 hotbar. To use the profile, you will need to open your Keyboard Profiler and choose Profile->Import and select the Vanguard.lgp file found in the DroxUI\G15 folder.

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Optional Nostromo SpeedPad n52 Setup

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• • • Many thanks to Kilatre for lots of help creating the N52 hotbar! ***

If you have a Nostromo SpeedPad n52, may may want to use the game profile provided here by Kilatre. This profile sets up the Nostromo keys to match those assigned to the optional N52 hotbar. To use the profile, you will need to import the Vanguard.n52 file found in the DroxUI\N52 folder.

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Is there an option not to use the book journals?

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If you would rather use the default quest and abilities journals, I've included an alternative index.xml file in the DroxUI\NoBookIndexFile folder. Simply copy the index.xml from that folder into the DroxUI folder (overwriting the existing one).