Created for the players of The World of Aenea PW, I am releasing this to the general public.
This is an upgraded, unabtrusive, informative, and transparent GUI for Neverwinter Nights. It was designed so that the game interface would not intrude as much on play of the game.
Take a look at the screen shots. Some of these images are big files, but detail is needed to really show the differnces from the original game resources.
Featured in this upgrade are:
- An informative hit point bar (that tells you at a glace how wounded you are)
- Transparent chat bar, chat windows, and quickbar
- Transparent windows for everything in the game, from character sheet to journal
- Transparent player menu buttons
- Upgraded versions of all my Hall of Fame winning Colorized Icons
- Upgraded emote icons
- Colorized domain icons
- All in-game icons (not cursors, just icons) have been upgraded to blend in
To Use:
1. Pick your download version (ZIP or RAR).
2. Download.
3. Decompress into your NWN/override directory (folder)
4. Overwrite any conflicting files from my previous icon packages
5. Enjoy!
6. Come back and vote...I like votes :)
If you like this and want to see more of what I've thought up, feel free to visit www.amethyst-dragon.com/nwn and then log into The World of Aenea PW.
Quick Fix 01: 3 minor file fixes based on feedback. Download and decompress into your override folder AFTER you have done the main GUI package.
Quick Fix 02: A minor fix for the missing alpha channel on the cursor, plus a few new cursor colorations. Download and decompress into your override folder AFTER you have done the main GUI package.
Quick fix. Decompress AFTER the full GUI is in your override (this overwrites 3 files). Fixed: Timestop spell icon for non-Aenea players, True Seeing effect icon, hench/summon hp bar.
Quick fix. Decompress AFTER the full GUI is in your override (this overwrites 3 files).
Fixed: Timestop spell icon for non-Aenea players, True Seeing effect icon, hench/summon hp bar.
Any chance a variant of this with the colors and the HP bar could be created? The colors and HP bar definitely look good, but....
I do not like transparent GUI's, it can make reading things annoyingly difficult for me. Unless someone creates a different mod or a sub-mod that can be stacked on top of this specifically to reverse transparency from clear to solid black while leaving the colors and HP bar as you've done them (judging from screenies here) I don't think I'll be dl'ing this, at least not unless I decide to spend the time to hunt through it and try and do something like that myself (which will probably never happen knowing me)....
Posted by LeurnidHand at 2012-04-11 19:25:28 Voted 10.00 on 04/11/12
Fantastic GUI! _________________________ All good people are asleep and dreaming...
I feel much better now.
Posted by AequivalenZ at 2011-11-02 07:32:20 Voted 10.00 on 11/02/11
Just Voting :)
Posted by Styxx42 at 2011-08-14 12:24:41 Voted 10.00 on 08/14/11
Love this change.
Colour were you need it and clear were you don't.
Great work. Would like to see it in one download package instead of three but it works.
Thanks AD
Posted by elagneros at 2011-04-30 08:55:08 Voted 8.00 on 04/30/11
A bit too transparent for my taste as well, though good work overall. A bit of a shame, because I liked the coloration on the tabs on the character sheet, journal etc.
Going to keep using the icons though, they mostly look good.
You can alter the file "gui_boxes_ingame.tga". The hitpoint bar is the section in light blue. You can change it back to red if you like (or pick any other color). _________________________ World of Aenea (Hall of Fame PW and the origin of all my works)
Vault Entries: The Complete List (50+ entries, including 17 Hall of Fame awards)
Self-Promotional Honesty: If you have opinions on stuff I've made, or if you use any of it (as a player or builder), I like comments/votes/feedback...so do other content makers and builders. Keep us motivated. :)
I noticed that you are an expert with the graphic user interface of Neverwinter Nights. Are you able to disable the character information screen? If so, that would be of great use to me. I am in the process of creating a custom dialog.tlk file that removes all number related information from weapons and armour in order to make the game more mysterious and fun, but alas, the character information screen still displays these numbers. Any assistance you can give would be most appreciated!
Posted by Dante-K- at 2010-08-26 07:09:27 Voted 9.75 on 08/26/10
Excellent! :D
Posted by seanval411 at 2010-03-22 20:32:40 Voted 9.00 on 03/22/10
any tutorials in GUI alterations???
Posted by Dontella_Kell at 2010-02-26 22:57:57 Voted 10.00 on 02/26/10
This is very nice, even finding it after all this time.
With the health bar, I have no trouble with the color or even changing it should I be inclined.
Would you be able to point me at the file for the back of the healthbar, the green, yellow, orange, red.. etc? I find this harder to keep track of. Thank you.
Posted by Desi2009 at 2009-12-02 14:39:32 Voted 1.00 on 12/02/09
Sever has plenty of griefers and if you have the audacity to report PKing , abusive language and your NOT part of the in click ( political , DM friends ect ) you will be punished even if your the victim and your account erased , even if you have screens to back everything up.
Great server if you can keep to yourself or like heavy political clickish servers .
Very little epic content , all players get bottle necked into one to two areas that serve the entire player base from level 20 to 40.
Posted by daveyeisley at 2009-11-27 23:02:19 Voted 10.00 on 11/27/09
Dropped the ball by not voting for this one... a couple years late.... but fixed. Been using this since I joined Aenea, and cant stand the original scheme anymore.
Posted by ShaDoOoW at 2009-06-10 06:00:39 Voted 3.75 on 01/26/09
"Spell/feat icons not logically colored? Orange = fire spells, golden yellow = healing spells, green = acid spells, purple = defensive spells... / ...blue = combat/fighter feats, golden yellow = healing/holy feats, purple = defensive feats like expertise. Each color was chosen for a theme or to be visibly different from the themed colors."
Ahh but I meant something different, hard to express, I ment that you just changed whole picture to blue/red/whatever, instead than recolor one part to blue and one part to red. This way its just reskin and even I can do it in irfanview, each icon will take 5seconds.
(ofc very few icons are colored in that sense, but mostly its just reskin) _________________________ [Boost System] [Door System] [Devastating Critical Immunity] [HIPS remake] [Circle Kick Mode] [1.69 Full 2da Source]
Posted by colanah at 2009-05-31 13:17:43 Voted 10.00 on 05/31/09
This is fabulous and you should be paid for the ease it brings _________________________ Shit happens. Either start growing roses or flush.
The green/yellow-green/orange/red in the hitpoint bar show up as you get wounded. Look to the top edge of the blue to quickly check you status...if you see red (fading to black) there, you better get some healing! _________________________ World of Aenea (Hall of Fame PW and the origin of all my works)
Vault Entries: The Complete List (50+ entries, including 17 Hall of Fame awards)
Self-Promotional Honesty: If you have opinions on stuff I've made, or if you use any of it (as a player or builder), I like comments/votes/feedback...so do other content makers and builders. Keep us motivated. :)
If/when the emote icons and 1.69 icons hit Hall of Fame, I'll put everything together for a "The Amethyst Dragon's Combined GUI Changes" package (and I'll throw in the colorized DM icons, too). :)
_________________________ World of Aenea (Hall of Fame PW and the origin of all my works)
Vault Entries: The Complete List (50+ entries, including 17 Hall of Fame awards)
Self-Promotional Honesty: If you have opinions on stuff I've made, or if you use any of it (as a player or builder), I like comments/votes/feedback...so do other content makers and builders. Keep us motivated. :)
"There is just too much transparency for me, especially Game options menu looks horrible. And it's unlogically colored (same as your spell/feat icons)..."
Personal taste, I guess. It may be too much transparency for some folks. I personally don't use the game options menu much, since I don't often change my game settings, and for exiting the game it looks just fine.
Colors? The colors make sense to me. The "examine" icon gets a blue iris and color to the lids. The various tabs on the character sheet get some color to make them more appealing and differentiate them.
Spell/feat icons not logically colored? Orange = fire spells, golden yellow = healing spells, green = acid spells, purple = defensive spells... / ...blue = combat/fighter feats, golden yellow = healing/holy feats, purple = defensive feats like expertise. Each color was chosen for a theme or to be visibly different from the themed colors.
"I like the red flowing damage and the *idea* of HP Bar is good too. But why blue color ????"
To be different. The HP bar, when depleted, shows the relative health at a glance now, matching up with the status displays you get from mousing over any creature. And since red (fading to black on mine) is "near death", it makes sense to use something other than read for the "meter" part of the HP bar. Plus, I tend to see red as related to bloodied and beaten...or full of freshly gained blood, which would be good for vampires, but not the normal living. I could have gone green, but that's already associated with being poisoned, so blue was my next choice.
"I just couldn't adapt, maybe I'm too conservative for this..."
Overrides are optional. Isn't NWN great? _________________________ World of Aenea (Hall of Fame PW and the origin of all my works)
Vault Entries: The Complete List (50+ entries, including 17 Hall of Fame awards)
Self-Promotional Honesty: If you have opinions on stuff I've made, or if you use any of it (as a player or builder), I like comments/votes/feedback...so do other content makers and builders. Keep us motivated. :)
Posted by ShaDoOoW at 2009-01-26 17:34:35 Voted 3.75 on 01/26/09
This looked cool but then I tried that...
There is just too much transparency for me, especially Game options menu looks horrible. And it's unlogically colored (same as your spell/feat icons)...
I like the red flowing damage and the *idea* of HP Bar is good too. But why blue color ????
Posted by Zuzie at 2009-01-19 15:23:40 Voted 9.75 on 01/19/09
This is just lovely. I can't quite imagine playing without it anymore. The only minor problem is that sometimes certain messages are hard to read because of the transparency, but I don't see anything that can be done about it without making it look very awkward and out of place. Great job!
Posted by tltlvilus at 2008-12-08 22:08:20 Voted 10.00 on 12/08/08
Posted by ffbj at 2008-11-09 13:37:24 Voted 9.75 on 11/09/08
A really fine addition to the game, both aesthetically pleasing and imminently practical.
Posted by Envy Dragon at 2008-10-21 10:08:29 Voted 10.00 on 10/21/08
Very cooly. ^^
Posted by RustyDios at 2008-10-19 18:03:30 Voted 10.00 on 10/19/08
You know I swear I've voted for this once already.. I have been using this since I discovered it.. with a few alterations of my own (I didn't like the full removal of "boxes around things"..) .. this is the best GUI I have found.. and so what if it adds a few plugs to the PW?.. that is a great PW and I wish more people would do similar so that all that stuff in your override gets a little recognition of source each time you play.. ..and AD is there any chance the GUI can be up-dated to include your newer 1.69 releases?
Posted by NineFires at 2008-10-11 17:00:20 Voted 10.00 on 10/11/08
Good stuff. _________________________ Until Dragon Age Comes, maybe
Posted by onion eater at 2008-09-09 10:39:46 Voted 10.00 on 09/09/08
This may be the most game improving add on out there. I can't tell you how many time the transparent menus have saved my butt. Rock on.
You can remove the blue bar (and return to the red) by either removing (or preferably) editing gui_boxes_ingame.tga. Removing it may affect a few other minor parts of the GUI. If editing, just zoom in on the light blue space and replace with the color of your choice. _________________________ World of Aenea (Hall of Fame PW and the origin of all my works)
Vault Entries: The Complete List (50+ entries, including 17 Hall of Fame awards)
Self-Promotional Honesty: If you have opinions on stuff I've made, or if you use any of it (as a player or builder), I like comments/votes/feedback...so do other content makers and builders. Keep us motivated. :)
Site
at 2012-07-27 00:50:47
at 2009-11-27 23:02:19
at 2009-03-05 13:22:35
