Game not seeing the UI mod.

[Aalwein]

i dunno if this will work, but try removing the special characters from the folder name. perhaps just cut it down to:

C:\Documents and Settings\Mine\My Documents\The Lord of the Rings Online\ui\skins\nui

there is a user pref file and such in the ..\The Lord of the Rings Online\ folder right?

[Tenebrous]

I am having the same problem. Im relatively experienced in installing ui's/mods and the instructions for installing lotro skins are very simple, however under ui settings/misc, there are no options for me to select in the dropdown menu.

this is an example of the file structure i have

C:\Program Files\Turbine\The Lord of the Rings Online\ui\skins\FenirWood

is there a place to enable uis that is not in current faqs? i have changed alot of settings under options prior to trying to load a skin.

[Rotorin]

Originally Posted by Aalwein

i dunno if this will work, but try removing the special characters from the folder name. perhaps just cut it down to:

C:\Documents and Settings\Mine\My Documents\The Lord of the Rings Online\ui\skins\nui

there is a user pref file and such in the ..\The Lord of the Rings Online\ folder right?

Aalwein, hello, the second skin set I tried does not have special characters, and it still did not work. Yes, there is userpref file in the Lotro folder. I am attaching its contents in the hopes someone notices something. Thank you for your interst.

[Sound]
DMTextVolume=1.00
MaxPlayingSounds=61
SoundFeatures=Hardware
SoundDisabled=False
EAXEnabled=True
UIVolume=0.10
SoundProvider=OpenAL
MusicVolume=0.12
MusicDisabled=False
SoundVolume=0.62
PlayerMusicVolume=1.00
VOVolume=1.00
[Render]
PermaBloomIntensity=0.00
LandscapeShoreEffects=High
ModelDetail=UltraHigh
MultiPassDistance=15.00
Contrast=1.00
ObjectDrawDistance=UltraHigh
DisplayAdapter=0
SurfaceReflections=UltraHigh
MeshCombining=True
GlowMapping=True
MultiPassStencilShadows=True
Gamma=1.01
StencilShadows=UltraHigh
AllowGammaChanges=True
Brightness=1.00
FrillDistance=UltraHigh
AspectRatio=16x9
TextureFiltering=Anisotropic
AtmosphericsDetail=High
LandscapeDrawDistance=VeryHigh
VideoPostEffects=True
MaterialDetail=High
EnvironmentStencilShadows=True
MaxHardwareClass=0
OverbrightBloomFilter=True
LandscapeStaticObjectShadows=High
BlobShadows=True
AnisotropicFilterQuality=1
AnimationDetail=High
TextureDetail=High
MultiPassLighting=True
SpecularLighting=True
BlurFilterQuality=High
MemoryUsage=0.60
GraphicsCore=D3D9
DistantImposters=True
LandscapeLightingQuality=VeryHigh
PlayerCrowdQuality=1.00
EnablePortraits=True
AlphaToCoverage=False
AnisotropicQuality=4
BloomIntensity=1.00
[Net]
ConnectionSpeed=0.00
ComputeUniquePort=False
BindInterface=
UserSpecifiedPort=0
[Misc]
TooltipDelay=0.30
TooltipEnable=True
[Input]
InvertMouseLookYAxis=False
PitchKeySpeed=60.00
TurnKeySpeed=150.00
MouseLookSmoothingAmount=0.00
MouseLookSensitivity=0.25
JoystickDeadZone=0.25
[Voice]
DevicePlayback={BD6DD71A-3DEB-11D1-B171-00C04FC20007}
HandsFree=False
DeviceCapture={BD6DD71B-3DEB-11D1-B171-00C04FC20001}
NetworkLatencyThresh=250
MicVolume=1.00
MicCaptureThreshold=0.10
VoiceVolume=1.00
[Display]
RefreshRate=Auto
Resolution=1440x900
AllowFakeFullScreen=True
FullScreen=True
TripleBuffering=False
SyncToRefresh=True
AllowWindowResizing=True
Antialiasing=6x
ConfineFullScreenMouseCursor=True
WindowedResolution=1152x864
AllowDesktopCompositing=False
[International]
UseIME=False
[Troubleshooting]
EngineSpeed=VeryHigh
MaximumFrameRate=121
[Camera]
AlignToSlope=False
ResetYawWhenPlayerMoves=False
[UI]
FloatyTextScale=1.00
FloatyTextOnTop=False

[Aalwein]

Originally Posted by Tenebrous

I am having the same problem. Im relatively experienced in installing ui's/mods and the instructions for installing lotro skins are very simple, however under ui settings/misc, there are no options for me to select in the dropdown menu.

this is an example of the file structure i have

C:\Program Files\Turbine\The Lord of the Rings Online\ui\skins\FenirWood

is there a place to enable uis that is not in current faqs? i have changed alot of settings under options prior to trying to load a skin.

It needs to be in the \my documents\Lord of the Rings Online\ui\skins\ for skins to work, not the folder with the game files.

As for the OP problem, I'm at a loss. LotRO is obviously aware of the settings folder because you have a pref file, so it should recognize that the skins folder is there as well. All I can say is doublecheck the directory structure within the skins themselves (some of them have subdirectories for images and such) and be sure there is a SkinDefinition.xml file in each skin subfolder. If all that is correct, it should be working in-game, so you might want to bug this in-game and seek assistance on the official tech support forums as you seem to have exhausted all the ideas here.

[Cairenn]

Yeah, I'm completely stumped at this point too. If it were a case of him running on Vista, I know that there are various problems with it and I know a couple things to suggest trying, but since he's running XP none of it applies. =/

[Frosty]

is your XP running English? or is it a foreign language version of windows. we have seen issues with Greek already (iirc) where the name of the "my documents" folder wasn't english and that was causing a problem...

-P

[Rotorin]

Originally Posted by Frosty

is your XP running English? or is it a foreign language version of windows. we have seen issues with Greek already (iirc) where the name of the "my documents" folder wasn't english and that was causing a problem...

-P

Helloy Frosty,

Yes, English. Is there anything else I should ck? I havent done a windows update in a while, but did not see any mention where I need the latest and greatest anything. However, at this point guess I should try it.

[Reven]

there is one trick you could try and that is making the UI you want to use the master UI thats done by loading the UI into the C:\Documents and Settings\Mine\My Documents\The Lord of the Rings Online\ui folder instead of the sub-folder "skins" if the UI still doesn't appear on your UI list after you start the game back up try the following more drastic measure.
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nuke your UI folder and starting it again so your path would be
C:\Documents and Settings\Mine\My Documents\The Lord of the Rings Online\ui\skins\

then unzip the packaged UI of your choice into skins so your path looks like
C:\Documents and Settings\Mine\My Documents\The Lord of the Rings Online\ui\skins\uifoldername

now back into the C:\Documents and Settings\Mine\My Documents\The Lord of the Rings Online folder and find your settings INI and just delete it, let the game make a new one with the UI folder already loaded.

[Rotorin]

Okay, you wont belive this.

Reven, I followed your instructions, both first and the drastic measures with no avail. However, after moving usepref.ini and starting then exiting the game, I went back to C:\Documents and Settings\Me\My Documents\The Lord of the Rings Online\ and noticed that a new .ini was not created. So a light bulb went off, how can game run w/o one? So, I went to D:\The Lord of the Rings Online\ and found userpref.ini. Therefor I went I ahead and created a D:\The Lord of the Rings Online\ui\skins\nui(bossy ed.) directory and VIOLA it worked.

Definatly not per instructions, but it works. Now the only thing I can figure out, and I am not sure, is that this installation (if I remember correctly) is the same installation I've used since Alpha 5 in all its incarnations since then. The folder in \me\My Documents must be for that "other" version of the game.

How this happens I dont know, but it is the way it is. So, hope this helps others in the future.

[Reven]

weird it still keeps my INI in the screenshot folder (recent reinstall)

congratulations on getting it to work.