Request a UI skin, get a UI skin.

[Tunst]

DISCLAIMER: If I get many requests, I may not be able to complete all of them. I am sorry if I don't get to yours.
DISCLAIMER2: The more detailed, the more likely I'll do it.

Alright, lets get right down to it.
There isn't many good UI skins out there, a few, but not that many.
And it could very easily be that a lot of ppl don't like those skins. They just don't fit them.
Well, here's your chance.
Figured out how to do it, been taking a lot of classes at college, a few including photoshop and graphical design and stuff. So why not?
If you want a UI skin made for you, here are the things I want.

Colors. Details!!!
Anything special? *stars instead of bubbles for ranks, Link as your arrow avatar on the minimap, etc*
Do you want it to be simple and down to earth, or try and make it showy? Like the giant Old English letters with the designs and whatnot.

Keep it detailed. I don't want to see a request say something like I want it to be blue and cool.
I will ignore it.

Note: It may take up to two weeks for me to finish a skin and upload.
Expected time is about a week though.

If I choose yours, I will private message you and let you know that I like the idea and will take it on. And I will private message you a link to download it after.

Please post in this thread instead of private messaging me.
I try to reserve my PM's for important things such as trades and guild stuff.

Links:

Link Map Avatar
http://www.lotrointerface.com/downloads/info560-LinkMapAvatar.html

[Tunst]

really, nothing?

bummer :(

[Grimgore]

How about some elemental skins for the savants and maybe a Pale Master one (very necro specific)?

Earth: Green + Brown tones (maybe a slight radioactive type color for the acid) with small rocks as the level dots?
Fire: Red and Orange with small flames
Air: White/Pale transparencies with lightning bolts*
Cold: Deep and light blues with similar transparencies with snowflakes

Necro: Go very goth with deep reds and blacks. Skull markers on the levels and corners?

*key for me at this time

[mindlessdrone1991]

If you can actually make Link the symbol on the mini-map instead of the little blue arrow, I'd love that.

But it might be too much effort for just one change. And I wouldn't know how to apply it to my game anyway after downloading. :/

[DougGlyndwyr]

Ok:

A blue backing-white text UI. Relatively no frills, maybe make the verticals look Roman-column-ish. Trajan style font.

Ivy-pattern instead for frilling focus orb / map circlet, maybe with SPQR for the orb.

:D

[Tunst]

the savants and necro arent bad ideas. i may give it a try. :)

and, i actually already made link. i use that file for all my skins :D


uhm, the last request...
im using a powered up version of paint.
or a dumbed down version of Photoshop CS5.

plus i cant change the fonts. >.>

[zex95966]

I'll take a stab at it:

I want it blue and cool looking.


j/k j/k...

More serious:
I'm currently using the ddo lite skin, and love it so that I have less menu stuff to look at while playing the game.

Basically I want something very minimal yet still look great on things that are unavoidable!

on another skin, that only changes one thing... (but a good idea imo.) is the compass has N, E, S, W on it so you always know which direction your going. I'd love to have the same thing.

on the minimalist side, any menu's/bars/etc that can be made see through, I'd like that.
Square menu's reduced to circles is another thing I'd like.

I'm very happy with the way ddolite treats the skillbars - so that can stay the same. (but im sure you'll have to make it anyways.)

For the leveling bar, how about make the progression different colors:
first dot red,
second dot yellow
third dot green
last dot blue

instead of dots how about the letters:
L V L
and then for the last dot, an upwards arrow!

and lastly when the experience bar is already leveled, instead of turning blue, how about white?
In fact for anything else where there needs to be a color, and can't be made see through - white is the default color I would like.

[geoffhanna]

How about a Halfling Commandos skin?


All of the frames would be as small as possible, maximizing viewable play space.
Anything that can't be made invisible would be Forest Camoflauge.
Square, sharp corners, except where doing so would decrease viewable play area.
The focus orb should look like a targeting reticule (scope?).
The mini map should look like a compass.
The quest goals UI should look like a briefing folder (when the UI is visible)
The major UIs should have a title "Halfling Commandos" (using Army or a similar stencil font) and a subtitle "An Army of One Half". Or maybe this should be on the main game menu only? Not too big tho, don't want to accidentally decrease viewable play area. Maybe as a watermark?
If that is hard or looks bad, some way to work this in as a watermark? http://my.ddo.com/guild-sarlona-halfling_commandos/wp-content/blogs.dir/2205/files/avatar/halflingcommandologo-avatar2.jpg Or a better version of it? Or maybe not on the UIs but somewhere? I can get a cleaner version of this if it is something you think you could use
I don't know if you can change the paper doll on the inventory UI but if so it should definitely be a Halfling outline
The experience progress bar should be Camo too
Instead of open dots for ranks, have a silhouette of this guy http://www.hannasolutions.com/Freemen/Images/ThumbDaBoss.bmp Then when the rank is acheived, cover him with the international sign for Not (circle with a diagonal bar through it). Or maybe I should ask for a better version of that guy (my MSPaint skills are lacking :) )

Too silly?

[AZgreentea]

the savants and necro arent bad ideas. i may give it a try. :)
If you are going to go that direction, you could do something similar with the other classes. A wild, but strong appearance for a barbarian, for example. Something artsy for a bard. Stealthy and shadowy for a Rogue. Armor and weapons for a fighter. Curls of arcane energy, vials, and velium scrolls for wizards. Of course, Druids would get an earth, tree, and plant feel... Oh wait, nevermind.

You could do skins for races. Wood, Metal, and Stone for warforged. Greys and blues with sliming, delicate lines for Drows. Horcs could be tribal, and Humans could have a sort of construction/industrial feel. Dwarves get a stone/construction theme.

**EDIT
You know what would be really awesome? A Tasty Ham and a Broccoli Theme.

[Tunst]

halfling commandos....
i just....
i dunno what to say.


btw guys, i cannot do the following things
change xp bar color, it will always fill purple and change to blue.
i can change the dots on the right of it, even the purple/clue part.
but all 5 must remain the same since it uses one file for all 5 of them.

[Aeolwind]

How about an example? Eq had a ui skin package called Vert. Clean, subtle. Cant find a pic though dang it

[geoffhanna]

halfling commandos....
i just....
i dunno what to say.


Hey you asked :)

[Vellrad]

Maybe Baldur's Gate I themed?
Panels, menus, hotbars etc made of stone, spells with icons made from 1 color (red for offensive spells cast on enemy, blue for devensive spells cast on allies, white for others, including offensive buffs) and simple, sugestive shape.

[darkminstrel]

I would love to have one that has 70% transparency. The lack of monitor spanning in Win7 has me down to only one monitor, and annoyed at that fact.

[Wizard_Zero]

A nice navy blue background. The background wouldn't be just plain navy blue, it would recede to a regular blue tone, but not too light, but have a shiny feel to it. Also, i would like nice shiny gold borders around my UI. Also you can make a twilight theme like my forum avatar, I like the space feel of it.

Can't go wrong with Navy Blue and Gold.

Some of the custom UI make the map change color too, so I would like the map color to remain the same.

[fluffybunnywilson]

I would like it to be blue and cool.

In all seriousness, the thing that I would most like changed in the DDO interface is tick marks for player HP and enemy HP at 25%, 50% and 75%.

Being able to call out "Harry's at 50" when he actually is at 50% would help soothe my OCD.

[nucphyschem]

If at all possible and I don't know if it is. Something like the cockpit of the x-wing fighter from star wars IV A New Hope would be greatly appreciated.

[Tunst]

as for the starry, night feel asked.
you could try this one
http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=281647

and i know blackbird has 25%, 50% and 75% markers for both your hp, sp, and focus orb hp/sp.
http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=315299

[Tunst]

Maybe Baldur's Gate I themed?
Panels, menus, hotbars etc made of stone, spells with icons made from 1 color (red for offensive spells cast on enemy, blue for devensive spells cast on allies, white for others, including offensive buffs) and simple, sugestive shape.

i cannot change spell icons. :(

[Tunst]

alright guys, as for now, im going to go with something that was a bit simple as you really test this out
the air savant with lightning thing that was requested. :)
should be done next week by wednesday. the 8th.
latest by the 15th.

seeing as the savant are all fancy and new, and air seems to be one of the most popular, this seems a good choice.
i hope you'll enjoy it :)

[Vellrad]

Is it possible to change how party member list (names/mana/HP/icons) is displayed?
Currently its
1 7
2 8
3 9
4 10
5 11
6 12

Can it be changed to
7 1
8 2
9 3
10 4
11 5
12 6
(so you can put it on rigth side of screen without gap between list if not in raid party)
Or just list one below other
1
2
3
...
10
11
12

[Grimgore]

alright guys, as for now, im going to go with something that was a bit simple as you really test this out
the air savant with lightning thing that was requested. :)
should be done next week by wednesday. the 8th.
latest by the 15th.

seeing as the savant are all fancy and new, and air seems to be one of the most popular, this seems a good choice.
i hope you'll enjoy it :)

!w00t!

[Tunst]

Is it possible to change how party member list (names/mana/HP/icons) is displayed?
Currently its
1 7
2 8
3 9
4 10
5 11
6 12

Can it be changed to
7 1
8 2
9 3
10 4
11 5
12 6
(so you can put it on rigth side of screen without gap between list if not in raid party)
Or just list one below other
1
2
3
...
10
11
12

very sorry, but if this is possible, i cannot do it myself.
this is more than just the way files look and are named.
its the order they are placed in, which i cannot personally control.

EDIT: link for the Link Map Avatar is up incase anyone wants it. :3

[Aeolwind]

How about an example? Eq had a ui skin package called Vert. Clean, subtle. Cant find a pic though dang it

AH HA! Found a decent screenshot I think.

http://home.comcast.net/~savok/vertui/uifull.jpg

[bigolbear]

id like one thats very similar to the default we have now but with the following changes.

1. biger mouse cursor, I often loose the mouse pointer.
2. the quest objectives window should stay closed when i want it to stay closed. not feel it has to re open all the **** time whenever i complete an objective.

thats it realy.

another good one would be a skin with a targeting reticule to show where your arrows/bolts and spells are going (probably).

also... could you make one that fixes the lag, make it bloo and cuel ;)

[Vellrad]

Can you make (or link if someone already done something like this) a pale master themed skin- you know, black or dark grey window backgrounds, empty hot bar slots (without transparency), white bones and skulls everywhere, and window names bars in evil purple color (like death aura's color) etc.

[Grenada]

Is there a way to make the party member health bars change color when they go into different forms? (palemasters and clerics would love you)

[dennison_brillo]

maybe a tron theme or sifi theme

[sacredguyver]

AH HA! Found a decent screenshot I think.
There's already one similar to that called BlackBird (http://www.lotrointerface.com/downloads/info548-BlackBird.html):

http://www.lotrointerface.com/downloads/full1690.jpg


maybe a tron theme or sifi theme

Could you define "sci-fi" theme?

[Lyzern]

Hello, I'd like to request a build that goes like this:

Blue/White, soft to the eye, colours fading into each other. Music theme (some musical notes spread out on the UI, maybe at the top of Menus or covering one side of the hotbars) Waves also sound nice, specially on the menu tabs.

I also wanna ask, is it possible to do menu changes? Like changing the feat order/adding new menus etc (check my sig).

Thanks

[Barashkukor]

Can you make (or link if someone already done something like this) a pale master themed skin- you know, black or dark grey window backgrounds, empty hot bar slots (without transparency), white bones and skulls everywhere, and window names bars in evil purple color (like death aura's color) etc.

I would love something like this, so far the closest I've found is Blackbird but it's not eeevil.. ahem, I mean, True Neutrally.. enough.

Just remember OP, more often than not, LessIsMore :)

[cobright]

First, I have no idea what is and is not possible. I am a parent of a 5 yr old who loves this game. But this presents some problems. If any of these issues can be fixed with a custom UI I will consider it a victory.

1. I would like to load some DDO points onto his account but the last time I left points on his account he decided to spend them all on lvl 1 hirelings. He's a sharp kid but a few of the finer points of economics he just doesn't get. Would it be possible to require a password before launching the DDO store in game?

2. Is it possible to prevent him from joining or inviting someone who is not in his guild or friendlist? We have a guild set up just for members of his family.

3. Can an auto-reply be set up for tells? Something that will explain to a person sending him a tell that he's 5 and doesn't read well, and maybe give a couple names that the person can get through to?

4. An automatic dump list? So any loot that meets a wildcard (rusty, masterwork, oil of repair, etc.) gets thrown out.

Like I said, I'm clueless. It seems like all of this would require a scripting option that I have no clue if DDO offers.

[Backley]

First, I have no idea what is and is not possible. I am a parent of a 5 yr old who loves this game. But this presents some problems. If any of these issues can be fixed with a custom UI I will consider it a victory.

1. I would like to load some DDO points onto his account but the last time I left points on his account he decided to spend them all on lvl 1 hirelings. He's a sharp kid but a few of the finer points of economics he just doesn't get. Would it be possible to require a password before launching the DDO store in game?

2. Is it possible to prevent him from joining or inviting someone who is not in his guild or friendlist? We have a guild set up just for members of his family.

3. Can an auto-reply be set up for tells? Something that will explain to a person sending him a tell that he's 5 and doesn't read well, and maybe give a couple names that the person can get through to?

4. An automatic dump list? So any loot that meets a wildcard (rusty, masterwork, oil of repair, etc.) gets thrown out.

Like I said, I'm clueless. It seems like all of this would require a scripting option that I have no clue if DDO offers.

1. Not possible.
2. Not possible.
3. Could use the /afk command. Try /afk This character is played by a 5 year old child, and he doesn't read well. Please contact ParentName for help.
That message would then be sent automatically to anyone that sends him a /tell. /afk a second time turns it off. You would have to set it up each time he logs in.
4. Not possible.

[paraplegic]

First, I have no idea what is and is not possible. I am a parent of a 5 yr old who loves this game. But this presents some problems. If any of these issues can be fixed with a custom UI I will consider it a victory.

1. I would like to load some DDO points onto his account but the last time I left points on his account he decided to spend them all on lvl 1 hirelings. He's a sharp kid but a few of the finer points of economics he just doesn't get. Would it be possible to require a password before launching the DDO store in game?

2. Is it possible to prevent him from joining or inviting someone who is not in his guild or friendlist? We have a guild set up just for members of his family.

3. Can an auto-reply be set up for tells? Something that will explain to a person sending him a tell that he's 5 and doesn't read well, and maybe give a couple names that the person can get through to?

4. An automatic dump list? So any loot that meets a wildcard (rusty, masterwork, oil of repair, etc.) gets thrown out.

Like I said, I'm clueless. It seems like all of this would require a scripting option that I have no clue if DDO offers.

i really dont know if its possible or not. but

i think the easiest solution (by far) is a looooong speach, about guildies+TP +etc


if it worth to you. :D

[darkminstrel]

Why not a skin that eliminates the DDO store button from the UI?

[Backley]

Why not a skin that eliminates the DDO store button from the UI?

Because UI Skins in DDO can only change the look, not size/layout/function of UI elements. So, you could change the DDO Store button to be flat black or transparent, but clicking there (between the buttons to either side of it) would still open the DDO Store.