Hi Ransroth and congrats for your new position !
Thank you very much for the release of this update pack before the deployment of U11 on regular servers.
It's actually appreciated, by opposition to the previous packs which were released after all the users have their skins broken
Unfortunately toolbar buttons are still not featured in this skinning pack :
- Instance finder / simple / advanced
- Lotro store
- Mounted combat
The stable master blue background seems to be also missing.
I did not found in the new pictures list the silver border and the blue background from the hobbit gift panel
Concerning the embedded panel codes :
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The wallet <PanelFile ID="ID_UISkin_PaperItemPanel"> is deadly bugged.
The code provided in the U11 skinning pack makes my (french) lotro client instantly crash when attempting to load the character !
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The instance finder <PanelFile ID="ID_UISkin_FellowshipMaker_Window">
Skins based on custom toolbars (as 6 of the 7 embedded in
JRR Azure Glass) are not user friendly at all !
Depending the users fullscreen/window resolution they have to manually edit the skindefinition.xml files to indicate corresponding "X" and "Y" values to position the toolbar !
Before the Rohan expansion, only "X" value was necessary, "Y" could be set to an excessive value (as 9000) and always work. Now if "Y" isn't exact, all the toolbar buttons cannot be "pushed" any more !
This is an actual issue for people playing in window mode since they don't know the effective height resolution of their window !
Shouldn't be possible for the client to calculate "X" and "Y" toolbar values depending the user resolution in the same way it does for the default toolbar ?
Other issues occurring on the default UI (I mean when not a custom panel code) :
The dedicated dressing room panel and the character preview from the inspect window unfortunately share the same background picture.
The consequence is that extended dressroom panels (with a large background image) induce an ugly "sample" background in the inspect window.
I felt disappointed noticing (on Bullroarer) that the option panel from the English client doesn't displays full skin names, contrary to the French client
The french client option panel self fits its select box width to the largest skin name.
What a pity the English client does not behave the same way
- The auction house panel doesn't saves it location on the screen : on every character connection, it returns to the top left corner of the screen.
EDIT : Same issue occurs with the plugin manager panel.
EDIT 2 : Same issue occurs with the reset quest cooldown panel.
- The "mail open letter" and "mail compose" windows don't save the user's defined placement on the screen : on every mail opened/writing they spawn at their default location.
EDIT : Same issue occurs with the "Hobbit Gift" panel.
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Its panel code is missing from the skinning pack, I think its name is "ID_UISkin_MailElement_OpenLetter" or "ID_UISkin_MailElement_Letter", both exist as I saw one time in a skin)
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Its panel code is missing from the skinning pack, I think its name is "ID_UISkin_MailElement_ComposeMail" )
- The mail main panel ( "ID_UISkin_Mail_MainField" ) is bound to a bug which disables the camera zoom controlled from the mouse wheel.
Apparently, its scrollbar should be the source of the problem :
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...Summary-Thread
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...-wheel-problem
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...-Stops-working
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...intermittently
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...el-Camera-Zoom
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g...for-2011-.html
Maybe fully rewrite the mail "main panel" internal mechanics would definitely be the cure for this bug as old as annoying ?
Regards.