How to get custom GUIs to work in 18.1

[Technogen]

EDIT Ok, masta just pointed out to me that this does not work 100%, the skin is loaded but the GUI points arent correct, you will infact have to wait until they update the gui file to point to the path of the folder and not just the default directory.


This is actually fairly simple and I have tested it twice to make sure it works.

18.1 brought us "Added support for custom guis outside the 'Guis\Default' directory (we still don't give any customer support on third party GUIs though)." The problem is that the old way of doing it was to over write the default GUI, this will no longer happen as EACH gui will be its own entity in your folders now.

Step 1. Download your GUI. For this write up I am using Notum Dovvetech Dark Here
Step 2. Open the zip file, you will see a Folder called CD_image
Step 3. Click on GUI then Default.
Step 4. Open a new windows explorer and go to \Funcom\Anarchy Online\cd_image\gui
Step 5. Make a new folder in \Funcom\Anarchy Online\cd_image\gui called Dark
Step 6. Open the Dark folder and copy the contents from the "Default" directory from the zipfile into the \Funcom\Anarchy Online\cd_image\gui\Dark folder
Step 7. Go back to the \Funcom\Anarchy Online\cd_image\ folder and go to Textures.
Step 8. Go to \Funcom\Anarchy Online\cd_image\textures\archives
Step 9. Copy the folder named Dark4 from the Dark-4.18.0a-1.zip\cd_image\textures\Archives to the \Funcom\Anarchy Online\cd_image\textures\archives
Step 10. Launch Anarchy Online.
Step 11. Click on settings -> GUI
Step 12. Click SET DEFAULT
Step 13. Click Change, then direct it to Funcom\Anarchy Online\cd_image\textures\archives\Dark4\GUIGFX.UVG I

And thats it, you can have more then 1 skin now for your game.


!NOTE! From now on when you start AO there will be an error message, just click OK until this is fixed in future patches.

[Marinegent]

Fantastic, I knew there was a work around some how.

+1 for you for figuring out before me.

[Technogen]

well its not working 100% the GUI locations are not loading up correctly. Im attempting to correct this currently.

[Metafly7]

Yep it works except for the location of the bars indeed. Im just theoretically speaking here cause i know next to nothing about these things but the text going black.. wouldnt that be only affected by the "TextColors" and "TextColors.xml.Skin" files? Meaning that is u swap all the files within the "default" folder u get from ur custom Gui EXCEPT for those TextColor files, u should get the placement right but not the crappy black text?

Im reluctant to try this myself cause i already reinstalled AO like 4 times now :P

[linfix]

Runnings this one, almost got it to work, but my sidebar isent showing ... well, it is, but somewhere far right so i have to unstick the window and pull it out. Is there anyway to set location for sidebar? (Using notum4 original)

[Metafly7]

Okay ive fixed the location of the bar now

What ive done is cutting and pasting the folders named "ActionMenu" and "Views" out of the "default" folder into a folder named to whatever u want but outside the "default" folder. This to make sure u dont loose the old stuff.

Then i went to the Custom GUI folder and copied the same folders as above (ActionMenu and Views) pasting em into the default window.

For the rest just do what Techogen did and start AO, bars should now be correctly in place.

[Metafly7]

Ow i also found out that pasting the MainPrefs file from the Dovvetech Custom GUI Default folder, into the real default folder, is the reason that ur text becomes black.

Thanks btw Tech

[balthazarguy]

Okay ive fixed the location of the bar now

What ive done is cutting and pasting the folders named "ActionMenu" and "Views" out of the "default" folder into a folder named to whatever u want but outside the "default" folder. This to make sure u dont loose the old stuff.

Then i went to the Custom GUI folder and copied the same folders as above (ActionMenu and Views) pasting em into the default window.

For the rest just do what Techogen did and start AO, bars should now be correctly in place.

This worked for me, thanks.