I present a early testing version of the Enhanced Stock UI Mod.
I am not calling this my mod, because it combines work from other people on this forum.
It is a combination of the stock UI and DLPB's older Menu Overhaul Mod, and also includes icons from InsertNameHere menu overhaul mod for the new catalog 3.0 on 7th heaven.
My motivation was to have a nicer looking UI which included all the features from the stock UI, as some features are lost on the menu rehaul MOD.
This Enhanced Stock UI has the following enhancements.
Some of the Menu Rehaul design changes are present in the menu, including optional thinner bars.
It uses the Sleaker and Thinner font from the Menu Rehaul Mod. So for those of you who have added text in text boxes, this UI supports more text content.
It extends battle screen size to full screen.
It has field UI enhancements same as menu overhaul.
It is higher resolution, so aside from the issues with stock icons listed below, it will have very little blockyness.
It also maintains the fast menu opening speed that stock has (menu rehaul opens very slowly).
The support materia information inside battle is present.
It keeps the original barrier bars in battle UI.
It is worth noting this mod is not perfect.
The known problems are listed below. I consider none of them gamebreaking.
In battle UI, the barrier bars have no outline. The fix is probably to update one of the menu image files, but to do this I need stock texture files converted to png, as and so have not managed to find any. A tool I used to convert .tex files to .png is creating corrupted files. What I may end up doing is just ripping game images from stock to insert into the necessarily files manually. - PARTIALLY FIXED
In battle UI, the TIME text at top right is missing the last one and half letters, fix and cause is same as above. - FIXED
In menu UI, the bars on main screen have no proper borders, fix is likely same as above again.
In item's menu, the weapons and consumable items have the old stock ugly icons, I have not fixed this yet for the same reason as stated above. All materia's, armour, other weapon types, and accessories do have the enhanced icons. - FIXED
Loading screen bar is not sized correctly, but you only see this for a second when loading a saved game.
In the 7th heaven config, when selecting no change for icons, you will actually have coloured icons and enhanced materia icons as default, this is because stock icons are not yet available in the files. Every single known problem is menu.lgp related. Same causes and fix. - FIXED
Double/Triple growth equipment slots, have same icon as normal growth.
Previous nasty problems, but should now be fixed.
Crashing PHS screen (was also present on namehere's menu overhaul mod) - FIXED
Crashing config screen - FIXED
Dialog boxes with npc/shops crash - FIXED
At least for now this mod will only be available for use in 7th heaven, its by far the easiest way to use it, it does not require a custom exe, any required exe based modifications are done via hext loading. It is fully compatible with the majority of other mods such as avatar mods, texture mods, gameplay mods etc. The only mod you shouldnt be using with this mod is of course menu overhaul mod.
Note the mod itself does not change any game text or avatars as seen in the screenshots, those are present due to other mods in my game.
Of course I welcome other bug reports. This has not been extensively tested, no chocobo racing, no battle square, no full game run.
Or rather, in this case, release what's reasonable and easy to do (and it sounds like you've already got a huge amount done), then go back and do the nutso parts later in an update to the original mod, or as a second stand-alone. I'm not sure what EQ2Alyza has in mind for v3.0, but I *think* an easier update mechanism is part of it. From what he's posted publicly, I think whatever DLPB has in mind for his mod management method makes updates something the author can push (or at least advertise) themselves, rather than sending them through a catalog "gatekeeper."
