Adra

Version 6.22.1 - April 02 2018

- Renamed " _Erebor ..." theme profiles to " Erebor ..."
- Redesigned the travel to instance button

I've updated most of the screenshots on the download page.

Version 6.22 - April 01 2018

- JRR Erebor theme is no more an addon and is now a part of the main JRR pack, porting to 28 the number of themes and variations included in the main pack !
If you had the Erebor theme previously installed, please delete its old installation folder to avoid conflict with the new one.
- Delving Hills theme have now a third toolbar profile.
- Based on the Update 22 skinning pack, many icons are recolored (no more blue based).
- A few portraits have been enhanced.
- 2 loading screens have been changed.
- A few enhancements in Monsters Lair theme.
- Some other changes and enhancements here and there.


A new toolbar profile revisits the default blue Lotro toolbar : JRR - Delving Hills *Large II*




@ Myrthian
Hi and sorry for the late answer, I didn't saw your question before.
The files you need to edit to change the background color are located in the sub folder of delving hills named "silver".
the center of the background and its borders are separate files.
the center is named center_silver.tga
The borders are upper/lower/side/bottom beginning files.

@ Jae Onasi
Hi, and you're welcome.
Lotro is able to find the skins folders locations, no matter the depth of the tree path, same thing for the name of the folder(s) containing the skins.
Nevertheless, optional skin addons like "greyskin" or "smallbar" won't work correctly is the tree pathing and naming aren't exact.

Myrthian

Thanks Adra.
I've messed around with them and I'm quite pleased with the result: no more brown-ish backgrounds and instead a clean black one.

https://img1.picload.org/image/dapocgwi/001.jpg

As I've really enjoyed my short editing session I might even tinker more with it.

Crayzee

Many thanks for this, Adra.

I had basically the same question as Myrthian but with regards to the Monsters Lair skin. I too would like a solid black background for all my windows as the translucent type causes some difficulty for me as I have vision issues. I've tried the B.G.M. "Opaque" but the issue with that is the 'x' to close windows becomes almost invisible for me unless I mouse over it.

If you could point me to the right files I would need to modify I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks again for all your hard work.

Adra

@ Jae Onasi

- In BGM theme the almost invisible cross when the mouse is not over it is a skinning choice, but you can easily replace it by a more standard cross, for this :
create a copy of the file named titlebar_X_2_mouseover.tga located in the folder JRR Skins collection\# BGM #\opaque\
Then rename the copied file as titlebar_X_2.tga and then replace the original titlebar_X_2.tga file with it and you're done.

- In Monster Lair theme folder, the file center_silver.tga is located in "basebox" folder.
Border files names also contains the words upper/lower/side.
you can, for example replace center_silver.tga by the one from BGM opaque located there :
JRR Skins collection\# BGM #\opaque\base_box_center_silver.tga.
copy it, rename it center_silver.tga and replace the file in
JRR Skins collection\# Monsters Lair #\basebox
You're done. The borders of the panel will remain a bit translucent but the center will be perfectly opaque.

@ Myrthian

Well done
Tweaking skin is an interesting experience

Juraviel

Hi there!

I love this compilation, great work!! I have installed the latest version and have been trying out the different themes. I think I like the JappMe *short* one the best.

I have a question about the JappMe *Short*. When I use this one I see a couple of issues with it and I'm not sure if it is me or the mod itself.

1. The "hidden" button icons along the bottom left and right that are in the *large* version are still there and clickable, just invisible. There is also a stand alone icon for the filtering (alt+R) sitting to the left of the backpack all by itself. I assume this is the only one visible because it is a fairly new feature?

2. The menu arrow on the left works fine but the icons for each category are missing and just showing a strange image.

3. The backpack on the left by the combat/pip when clicked opens the lotro store. There is also a lotro store chest/coin icon on the far right end by the exp bar that seems really out of place. I'm guessing the backpack should open the inventory and the chest should open the store?

If it is me please let me know. I'm not sure how to do much when it comes to custom UI's but I can give it a try if need be.

Thank you for the wonderful collection of skins

Invizet

Heya! I have a question. Where can I find .tga for LotRO logo from loading screen? Because i am using JRR *A*, and i want to change logo with leaves for my own logo. Thank u!

Jethpriel

Heya
After last update I got a problem with the check box for Completed Quests.
It is located behind the new search field which makes it impossible to use.
Anyone know how to fix that?
I am using Eorlingas skin

Jethpriel

Update!

Found a solution.
S:\Dokuments\The Lord of the Rings Online\ui\skins\JRR Skins collection\# Eorlingas #\_ Large toolbar

File: SkinDefinition edit
Search for:
<Element ID="Quest_ShowCompleted" X="68" Y="62" Width="10" Height="10"> </Element>

Changed X to 178

<Element ID="Quest_ShowCompletedText" X="74" Y="57" Width="180" Height="20"> </Element>

Changed X to 180

Don't know if that is the right way, but it is working

Juraviel

Thanks for the update! I tried this fix for the JappMe *short* UI skin and it worked great!

Cygx

Any way to widen the Task bulletins window?
It's just way too narrow most of the time.

Doesn't look like the skins have an entry for this window.

Thanks.

Adra

Hello everyone and sorry for the late reply, I didn't noticed till now that the last messages notifications I received were sent to the spam folder of my webmail before the were redirected to my mailing software.

@Juraviel
about universal toolbar based skins

1 - On universal short toolbars icon on the left and on the right of the main toolbar can be turned invisible but cannot be disabled.
In the option menu you can replace a function button by another one, so for example with the filter button which was not yet updated to be turned invisible, you had the ability to replace it another function button to get to turn it invisible. On some other skins, only the hobby button is turned invisible in order to let you choose to display or not not the buttons you want, except the "hobby" one (Kenobi ?).

2 - The menu panel icons and the side buttons form the toolbar are the same icons ingame, this means if the buttons at the left and the right of the toolbar are turned invisible, the are invisible to in the left arrow vertical menu, it only appears the background of the buttons which is a different picture, common to all buttons.

3 - You can assign the FX button of your choice in game, shortcut button to access the choice menu is the very small button at the bottom left of the auto attack button.
The big lotro store button at the right end of the toolbar is the default design of the toolbar. Its location cannot be changed in an universal toolbar based skin (a skin which fits to any screen resolution which doesn't require the final user to manually edit the skindefinition.xml with a text editor file to properly place the toolbar by changing X and Y values to locate it at the middle bottom of the screen, depending its resolution). To say it simple, an universal toolbar only change the pictures applied on the default toolbar, so it behave exactly as the default toolbar since there is zero line of code to modify it.
This is a limitation of the game. Modifying the "internal mechanics" of the toobar breaks its ability to self-locate at the bottom middle of the screen, so there are just a few skins of that kind included in the JRR pack to avoid frustrating most of the users.


@Invizet
ingame main loading screen

The .TGA file corresponding to the fiullscreen loading screen in game is :
...\Documents\The Lord of the Rings Online\ui\skins\JRR Skins collection\JRR CORE\misc\theater_top_bottom.tga

There is a second picture acting as frame of the loading progress bar, it is located in the same folder :
larger_overlay_silver_theater.tga


@Jethpriel
extended quest book issue introduced by lotro update 22.3

Thank you for warning me about the issue with the extended quest book panel, as I'm no more active in game, so I didn't knew about it.
Your code was on the very good way !
I've re balanced the location of many elements and applied it all the JRR skins v6.22.4
I cross fingers it will be as well balanced for english and german lotro clients that it is on mine french one


@Cygx
The default task panel is narrow

I totally agree the task panel quests list looks like a bad joke
In order to customize it, its default code has to be featured in the lotro skinning pack, which is not the case for every panel from the game.
And even when the code is there, it not very simple to recognize it among the numerous panel codes.
And I'm not sure it doesn't shares the code from another panel...
Anyway, I had a look in the skinning pack and did not found it, sorry
EDIT : It as been fixed in a lotro update : Now there is a handle to extend it on the fly

Nadia

Thank you so, so much! You are THE best! Tons of kudos! <3

Elheriand

I just came back to LOTRO and I wanted to say Thank You.

Playing without my JRR Erebor UI would definitely not be the same!

Tobardus

Hello, thanks for the fantastic compilation. Simply awesome.

I have a small issue with the quest panel. The text does not stretch all the way to the bottom and the Aa font size button also is to far up.

Here is an example:

Raegaen

I really enjoy the skins and I particularly love the JRR - Erebor *Custom toolbar* and was wondering if there was any way that I could use that toolbar for some of the other skins, in essence, replace the toolbar they use with that one in the file?

If not, can a toolbar like this Erebor custom one be made for the other skins as an option?