IT'S HERE!!!!
...Almost.
After almost a year of development (fine, at least 90% of those months were spent doing nothing), there's finally something to show to the good citizens of ESO.
Behold the two screenshots below.
[Me:] What's that I hear you say?
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[You say:] *GASP* a fully functional spectator UI that works for team games? Impossible!
[Me:] Well yes, kind sir. Sadly, you're right. It's NOT fully functional. This is an initial version for public testing, to iron out any bugs before I pile on more and more features for the final release.
... but that's why you're here, isn't it? YOU WANTED TO COME HELP ME TEST THE AWE INSPIRING SHINY NEW SPECTATOR UI DIDN'T YOU?
[You:] *nods head frantically*
[Me:] I KNEW IT! I perceive such things very well. Oh... you're wondering about installation huh? Hmm yea it's a bit complicated to do manually isn't it...
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But wait.
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WHAT A COINCIDENCE! LUCKILY, ESO'S RESIDENT SURE-I-CAN-DO-IT-FOR-YOU PROGRAMMER HAS MADE THIS NIFTY INSTALLER!
Look at this!
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[UPDATED 1st November 2015]
(courtesy of @musketeer925
- he's helped out so much with this mod and many other things too, so many thanks to him!)musketeer925 wrote:notification
Just download and run the installer!* :w00t:
*[But make sure you have no pre-existing UI modifications first, please. This includes the UI 1.7 uimainnew.xml file and Ekanta's UI]
When hosting, choose the UI 2.01 Open Beta map from the list of custom maps. Observers should have the minimized UI enabled.
The base map used is the default edited Andes by RF_Gandalf made many many years ago for the AS fanpatch.
To uninstall, go to your control panel, 'Uninstall a program'and select 'Age of Empires III: Spectator UI'
[font size="2"][If you uninstalled that way with the old installer, it'll mess up your fonts- but if you do, [attachment id="2164"] is the default one that I had. You'll need to place that in Program Files/.../AoE3/FONTS ][/font]
You can still play regular games with the UI installed, but you will need to enable the maximized UI.
[You:] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :verysadtomato: :verysadtomato: :verysadtomato:
[Me:] Yea, it's brilliant isn't it...
Features are in the next post.