AddOn Request - Center UI elements for Multi-monitor

Zultan · 03/18/14, 09:55 AM

Hi Folks,
First off, sorry if this has come up before! I'm not really sure just how much is possible with add-ons but I hope this is possible!
In the last beta, I had great fun but found that the eyefinity experience was a bit off. Is it possible to force the UI elements to display on the central screen? The dialogue and party windows are currently stuck to the edges and you can't see them when you're playing in eyefinity!
The Cutscenes cut off the tops of peoples heads and the character creator was the same. I'm hoping that the widescreen fixer programs will be able to solve that one if an add-on cant!
Are there any add-ons in the works or is this something an add-on can fix? Thanks in advance!

Zulunia · 04/01/14, 12:04 AM

Im sure soon an addon will cover this, at least I'm hoping and have seen the ability to move UI elements is on a few TODO lists for addons such as Wykkyd's Immersion description http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.ph...#entry12697948.

I'm surpriesed the UI can't be arranged as it seems pretty standard in MMO's these days I'm sure it will at least be in the first major patch.

A few addons here have been based on WoW addons due to being LUA. I've been looking at WoW's moveanything and Blizzmove to work with ESO wth limited success. Hopefully someone with more skill can do a better job.

The other major issue as you mentioned is camera position during NPC dialogues. I have a feeling this wont be adjustable in the addon API and will have to be either a 3rd party program like FlawlessWidescreen or WidescreenFixer, a UserSettings.txt variable we don't know about yet or even Zenimax fixing it (they did mention a FoV slider on the TODO list too)

Sorry not very helpful but this is what I've learned about the problem so far.

frogmale · 04/02/14, 07:25 PM

most problem with me is when talk to npc text is way offer to the right side

Tinuviel · 04/05/14, 05:03 PM

I'm trying to find ways to do this myself. I have modified Pawkette's LootDrop addon (http://www.esoui.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=35#info) to work with the resolution already, and the SlowDialogs addon (http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info6...logs.html#info) gives me some idea on how I could hook into default UI functions and make them offset correctly for ultra-wide resolutions (this mainly to handle dynamically-placed and scaled elements). It seems like some of the addon developers have inside knowledge of the default UI LUA/XML and know what functions exist for them. At least with the wiki globals dump (http://wiki.esoui.com/Raw_globals_dump) I can see the default elements (most of the stuff starting with ZO_). I can begin with the ZO_ elements that look like the right ones and try to change offsets, but I think that will just mess up the UI without seeing the code more.

If anyone knows a way to extract the lua from the .dat files, that would help immensely. I found this thread (http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/elde...rce-files.html), which I'll try to get the code in there compiled so I can extract the lua. Crossing my fingers it works!

Tinuviel · 04/05/14, 05:24 PM

Another kindly author pointed me to this: http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info24-Zgoo.html. Hopefully this will be enough to get started as I have done LUA in the past with WoW

Tinuviel · 04/06/14, 10:18 AM

This didn't take as long as I thought. About 9 hours later and I have my first release. While it has some issues - most of them limitations - don't hesitate to download! I will probably eventually release a UI overhall that overcomes those.
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1...tySupport.html

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