Dark UI Mod 1.07

MisterBenn · #1 January 28th, 2007, 09:19 AM

Hi there,

This looks great, but I am having a problem. I'm running an existing game with v1.20 and Balance Mod 1.02.

I installed the Dark UI 1.03 and the 1.04 update. The main screen looks fine, but when I browse my Ships List, I get a CTD with a 'stream error'. Reverting my Pictures\UI folder removes the problem once again. Has anyone else seen this?

I hope I can get to the bottom of it - this UI is a great improvement!

Raapys · #2 January 28th, 2007, 10:21 AM

Oooh, this is in fact a known issue: for some reason saving the main UI parts directly from photoshop would cause the game to crash with a stream error upon entering the screens, so I had to start copy-pasting into paint and saving them from there, which removed the problem. Since all files should be saved correctly, I'm not sure why you'd be having problems. Let me check it out.

Alright, think I've found it. Looks like running the game in higher resolutions than 1280 x 800 will crash it when opening certain screens with the UI installed. I'll see what I can do, but it's sort of annoying since I've no idea what's causing the crash.

Problem fixed, just re-download the 1.04 update and install it again.

Fyron · #3 January 28th, 2007, 03:31 PM

Try saving as "OS/2" format in Photoshop. The "Windows" format makes weird file headers that SE4/5 does not understand.

Raapys · #4 January 29th, 2007, 10:22 AM

Thanks Fyron, that should save me some extra work. Strange how it only seem to matter with the full-screen UI parts, though.

MisterBenn · #5 January 30th, 2007, 02:33 PM

Aha! Everything is fine for me now with 1.05. That was a quick turnaround! Thanks for putting your time into this, I really like the results.

Incidentally I spotted something else you can update if you are striving for perfection!

On the Designs screen, when you select "Create Design", the sub-menus between there and the main design screen are not skinned as of 1.05. It's the smallest of small points since you see those so rarely, but I'll bring it to your attention in case you're unaware.

I would have posted this last night, but once I confirmed 1.05 was working I was "forced" to play some more turns of my game to deal with an incursion into one of my systems... before you know it, it's 2AM and I had to go straight to bed!!! I'm sure you understand

Raapys · #6 January 30th, 2007, 10:01 PM

Strange, they should be. You did reinstall the mod after installing the SE 1.25 patch? I'll have a look into it at any rate, as I need to repack the 1.05 version.

xierxior · #7 February 1st, 2007, 01:06 AM

ah, looks much.. better then the default UI color scheme. thanks, I almost went blind.

boromeo · #8 February 6th, 2007, 10:01 PM

Was wondering why you deleted my post in which i was saying thanks to you for your excellent work and that i loved your theme very much Raapys..Maybe you don't like when people say thanks to you after all...