Katarnus

Just want to say this UI is awesome man. Very pretty.

I absolutely LOVE the slim casting bar.

I don't have color-blindness, but I do find that without maximum contrast I have difficulties seeing certain elements of the standard UI. The contrast provided by your UI makes those elements stand out for me so that I can see them clearly, without things being garish.

Much appreciated!

Valteron

The letters look excellent, thank you for all your hard work, excellent UI

Brygard2007

I'm still working on them just slowly then regularly,sorry.

I did try making them like my avatar pic but it turn out bad looking since the letters are smaller then my avatar.

It's also of the lack of skills I currently have for editing them smaller to look better,I'm still learning and experimenting.

But this letter's in my opinion are improved and better looking then my first prototype lettering attempt.

I been learning through tutorials that are limited for this paint program and experimenting on my own.

So far this the result I got for now.yes I'm almost finish just need to do the T letter now.

Pic:

Brygard2007

Done,its uploaded and should be available under the addons box section on top.
Once the files are approved by mods they be ready to download.

Pic:

Tumdace

Is it possible to make a "mini" version that gets rid of the sides of the bottom bars above the xp bar (the part with the buttons for main menu, crafting panel, social panel, etc). Im used to having that gone and expanding my chat box to where it supposed to be (im currently used JappMe Ivy glass 1.3, it doesnt have that part of the ui there so i can expand my chat box). Im just wondering if you can maybe tell me how to do it myself or perhaps alter it and label it as mini? I would be so appreciative.

Brygard2007

Hehe.yeah kinda.

I wasn't happy with what I was doing so started to experiment some more what else I can do with what I have.

Only had free time abit yesterday so that's what I was doing.
Also I don't want to make Some drastic changes to my UI for this theme for B.G.M that doesn't fit for it.

On hat note,yes I planning to continue my halted project that I had said for long time now,but instead of grey I be going with black with only glow effect when you select something by using the 4 colors.
As always I want to keep simple and clean style but still make it look cool.

My halted project info:
http://www.lotrointerface.com/forums...p?t=517&page=2
The name at that time was Opaque grey glass but now I be changing it to
Stealth mix once I'm finish with the first stage.

Pic of my Old project:

fwaits

Hey Brygard, I noticed your new avatar, is that a hint for the new lettering style for the Deed tabs? =)

Goldnessel

The letters are looking great...
I think, I´ll wait for your english letters - instead of creating german ones

Brygard2007

I'm still working on the deed panels for the letters for English version buttons.

I'm trying to improve the letters from previous version.
I've been experimenting with different fonts and stuff and so far this fonts work best with what I got.

Trying to make smaller fonts will turn out very ugly so I had to make the button area little bigger and fonts then previous version.

Been playing with this most of Saturday and come up with this,its readable and better I think.

Hope this looks good for ya'll folks.

Preview



P.s
My thought light pop up over my head ,going make another style that has no buttons and just leave the letters floating and when you select a tab letter it be bigger to show the selection you pressed.
I have to see how it looks.

fwaits

Ah ok, no problem. Sorry I missed that in the notes apparently. It's no big deal currently, I just wanted to make sure I didn't have some unique problem. I can wait for whenever you get around to finishing the update. No rush. Thanks.

Brygard2007

Yes there blank cause of different language its on the readme Nov 20 2008.
If you wanted the letters back you have to use the older version of BGM and copy the folder quest book to the main UI, the only thing you don't overwrite is

blue_selection_accomplishment_highlight.tga
blue_selection_accomplishment_highlight_active.tga
blue_selection_accomplishment_normal_new.tga
parchment_npcchat.tga

I be working on them next,I want to improve the letters abit more then they are.
I will release them as optional,I will see if I can finish them on Saturday or so or sooner.

i'm also going to have to re update the minimap with numbers,I just notice today while playing abit that Moria changed this wierd hope and dread thing numbering.

fwaits

Hey Brygard, one question. I seem to have blank black tabs for the Deed window, where before (In 1.4) I had the first letter of each area on the tab. Is this normal now or is something wrong on my setup? Let me know what you think or if you want some screenshots to show. Thanks.

Brygard2007

Heya man!
Yes finally made the minimap with numbers you requested a while back.
Sorry about that but hope this will work for you.

You can download them in the addon section box on top.

I did try to make some in the past but came out really ugly.
But yesterday or so I came around a tutorial to make them sorta.

I use his tutorial to make them:
http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewt...p?f=37&t=27322

I plan to make something like this for the deed tabs for english version as
optional.

Also I been thinking of releasing every optional stuff at a time instead a whole pack,cause lack of time to make them in one bunch.

This way people don't have to wait for them.

So for the first optional release are this minimap you requested.

Brygard2007

All my UI are edited with paint.net @
http://www.paint.net/

I don't use photoshop,sorry.

On the paint program I use 32bit to save instead of auto for the tga.

As for fonts, I get them here:
http://www.1001freefonts.com/

Or for Lotro style fonts here:

http://www.thehutt.de/tolkien/fonts.html

Goldnessel

Great update - first, the mouseover effect confused me a bit, but no i´m used to it looks good!

P.S.
You´re not the only one using purple my wife and me too

P.P.S.
I´d like to inscripe to quest-book-tabs. And i´m thinking about writing e.g. "Shire" instead of "S" respectively the german counterparts. Can you give me a hint for a suiting font?

What program do you use for the tga-files? I want to edit the tabs with ps. What are the tga-saving-settings?