XI View V2.2.1 (Sept, 1, 2017) - [USER INTERFACE]

ok thanks a bunch, will try that

mmm thats right, as polutils save them by name, the ones with same name are not saved unless you save one by one which is a lot of work. Extract and resize for that addon took me several hours lol

 

Anyway I tried now with the FFXI-IconChange, extracted the image as bmp and the background was transparent using PixelFormer to edit it, resize to 20x20 and export as png with premultiplied alpha.

 

If you are using another program to edit I suggest to change to PixelFormer.

Thanks to this i starter googling something that would do batch work, came across some free software called ImBatch. I was alble to open all my images as a batch file to be processed, when opened in this the files did the same as in pixel former and had transparent background, so i used the batch program to resize and change the files to PNG. done. thanks again for your help kenshi

Will XIView be updated?

It's been updated since day 1

I only saw a link to your version?

Yea I haven't seen Caradog here or IRC for a long time, so dunno if his version will be updated.

Anyway if you like the Caradog version, you could use the UI from him, cause the UI was not changed, and use the icons of my version, which should be the same than Caradog one or very similar.

I think the icons is what i was missing, i noticed a few were different between yours and his.

Hey to everyone - my apologies I haven't been around, I had an issue in the New Year wherein my Pc decided to die

I've since built a new one, I have been keeping an eye on FFXI View, the previous update didn't change much so I didn't update

I've updated it now, you can get a copy here: https://github.com/Caradog/XI-View

As always, if you guys need anything, please let me know

Hey to everyone - my apologies I haven't been around, I had an issue in the New Year wherein my Pc decided to die

 

I've since built a new one, I have been keeping an eye on FFXI View, the previous update didn't change much so I didn't update

 

I've updated it now, you can get a copy here: https://github.com/Caradog/XI-View

 

As always, if you guys need anything, please let me know

Thank you, sir. Appreciate your work.

March version update checked all dat files instead of the normal way it did and overwrote custom icons and font files back to original.

Yea I checked them and old version should work fine.

March version update checked all dat files instead of the normal way it did and overwrote custom icons and font files back to original.

I've taken a look and can't see any changed that should need XI View to be updated   All good to go!

Theres no 21:9 support and very little documentation on making custom icons. Was a bit of a learning experience for a person like myself, but I managed to make a set of 21:9 icons. Unfortunately, text will always be stretched and there is nothing that can be done about it, but at least the icons can look ok.
 
Installation is the same as XIView. Unlike XIView though, I kept all icons and fonts stock. This will only fix stretched icons on 21:9 displays.
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Hello!

I'm looking into modding the UI background, but not sure what tools to use to recolour,

got to edit some regular dat files with change tex and photoshop but cannot figure how to deal with these other files:

http://imgur.com/sbx4647

I would like to make them more like current XIV menus:

http://imgur.com/3MAz6rE

Anyone could help me change it or tell me how to do it please? 

Hello!

I'm looking into modding the UI background, but not sure what tools to use to recolour,

got to edit some regular dat files with change tex and photoshop but cannot figure how to deal with these other files:

http://imgur.com/sbx4647

I would like to make them more like current XIV menus:

http://imgur.com/3MAz6rE

Anyone could help me change it or tell me how to do it please? 

Dats Rom/0/14-21 relate to the UI settings 1-8 in game respectively, if you look at the add-ons section of XI View there's a number of other backgrounds available

As to altering and creating your own, essentially you'd have to use Changetex to remove the correct parts of the dat, use software capable of editing dds files and then attempt to inject them into the file again and see how it looks

I've just opened up one of the custom .dats for background and it only contains 4 elements - you'd need to alter these

Hope that helps, if not lemme know

Dats Rom/0/14-21 relate to the UI settings 1-8 in game respectively, if you look at the add-ons section of XI View there's a number of other backgrounds available

 

As to altering and creating your own, essentially you'd have to use Changetex to remove the correct parts of the dat, use software capable of editing dds files and then attempt to inject them into the file again and see how it looks

 

I've just opened up one of the custom .dats for background and it only contains 4 elements - you'd need to alter these

 

Hope that helps, if not lemme know

I got Altana View and I can search the files, I then export the 4 components to dds with change tex and then open them in photoshop.

I do have the dds addon for photoshop but I think its either the format I  save them in wich should be either DTX1 alpha or no alpha.->   http://imgur.com/fgqY6Sb

(tried them both)  

Am I missing some of the photoshop settings to save file to dds once modified? ->  http://imgur.com/lj1MPm6

After putting back the modded dds using change tex into the dat it seems like nothing happened it stays the same original colour.

Using the same method I could recolour some character's hair and it worked fine but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here in these menu type files  ><

I got Altana View and I can search the files, I then export the 4 components to dds with change tex and then open them in photoshop.

I do have the dds addon for photoshop but I think its either the format I  save them in wich should be either DTX1 alpha or no alpha.->   http://imgur.com/fgqY6Sb

(tried them both)  

     

Am I missing some of the photoshop settings to save file to dds once modified? ->  http://imgur.com/lj1MPm6

 

After putting back the modded dds using change tex into the dat it seems like nothing happened it stays the same original colour.

 

 

Using the same method I could recolour some character's hair and it worked fine but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here in these menu type files  ><

Going to be honest, I've not used Altana View or Photo shop in my work on Xi View, Changetex seems to convert them back/forth quite happily from dds files

You would likely want the alpha layer because that's what allows FFXI to know which parts of the image are supposed to be transparent

Going to be honest, I've not used Altana View or Photo shop in my work on Xi View, Changetex seems to convert them back/forth quite happily from dds files

 

You would likely want the alpha layer because that's what allows FFXI to know which parts of the image are supposed to be transparent

I use Altana to locate dat file, then change tex to export DDS files of that dat file.

What I'm trying to say is after I extract the dds example :

http://imgur.com/mRxpELh

then retouch em in photoshop, save in dds format (DXT1         ARGB   4 bpp | 1 bit alpha) :

http://imgur.com/AnN4yQL

Then put them back in the DAT using change tex it looks like nothing happened.

I have used chnage tex to mod the ingame cursor to POL style and that worked.

But even if I try swapping elements from one UI window to another they don't take effect even if its not edited in any way in photoshop.

I use Altana to locate dat file, then change tex to export DDS files of that dat file.

What I'm trying to say is after I extract the dds example :

http://imgur.com/mRxpELh

then retouch em in photoshop, save in dds format (DXT1         ARGB   4 bpp | 1 bit alpha) :

http://imgur.com/AnN4yQL

Then put them back in the DAT using change tex it looks like nothing happened.

 

I have used chnage tex to mod the ingame cursor to POL style and that worked.

But even if I try swapping elements from one UI window to another they don't take effect even if its not edited in any way in photoshop.

Its strange that nothing is happening - firstly are you copying the file away from the FFXI directory prior to editing? Even in admin mode Changetex may have trouble altering files that require admin access (though it'll quite happily report it was successful)

Dats Rom/0/14-21 relate to the UI settings 1-8 in game respectively, if you look at the add-ons section of XI View there's a number of other backgrounds available

 

As to altering and creating your own, essentially you'd have to use Changetex to remove the correct parts of the dat, use software capable of editing dds files and then attempt to inject them into the file again and see how it looks

 

I've just opened up one of the custom .dats for background and it only contains 4 elements - you'd need to alter these

 

Hope that helps, if not lemme know

Best thing to do is copy the files elsewhere prior to making the changes, then move them and overwrite ROM/0/14.dat - set the in game option to 1 for this to work

If you're still having issues and are able upload your dds files and I'll see if I can get them to work my end