Custom UI?

[Drebian]

So I'm restarting play AoC, however I am now operating on Linux using Proton built into the Steam for Linux client. No problems there!

My problem lies with that I hate the default UI, however every custom ui requires the use of the UI Installer program which will not work in Wine (Windows Emulator for Linux). Has anyone had any success on manually patching their UI? If so, can they walk me through it?

[Fully Sick Monaro]

I don't suppose you ever resolved this?

[Drebian]

I had some success in manually installing a custom UI following these directions I found on the Age of Conan forums:

extract the files you downloaded and copy/paste the ones inside the CUSTOMIZED folder to the folder ../data/gui/customized that is located inside the game folder

Modify the ini file to point to the customized UI by name of the folder.

You can't make any changes to the Custom UI's hotbar configurations without modifying the ini located in the custom UI folder (which can be tedious). Overall, it was so much easier to use the UI Installer, as if the manual install process is not completed 100% in it's entirety, you'll get a lot of errors and have to go back into the main ini file and make the appropriate changes. It takes a LOT of trial and error.

[Greg]

Easiest way is to download AOCUI installer https://aoc-ui-installer.software.informer.com then use it to install StrangeUI https://forums.funcom.com/t/strange-ui-for-1440p-beta2-1-feb-2021-aoc-ui-installer-others-ui-4k/154850

[Drebian]

Originally posted by Jim:

Easiest way is to download AOCUI installer https://aoc-ui-installer.software.informer.com then use it to install StrangeUI https://forums.funcom.com/t/strange-ui-for-1440p-beta2-1-feb-2021-aoc-ui-installer-others-ui-4k/154850

Jim,

As mentioned in the initial post, I am using Linux and the AOCUI Installer will not run in Linux...

[Fully Sick Monaro]

Vanilla AoC wont even start in my Manjaro in Steam, using pretty much all the recent proton versions. I swear it worked about two years ago. Will have to sink some time in it when I get a chance.

[Fully Sick Monaro]

Well, I got AoC UI Installer installed, along with StrangeUI 2.63. AoC launched with the usual AoC banner with Conan, then wne black screen with the default icon (I chose FireUI's one...) =D PROGRESS BABY!

Moving on back to AoCUIInstaller, I believe there is a two-fold issue and it involves firstly creating a 32bit environment to work from (this could introduce issues later I believe such as max addressable memory, but still), and then the actual dotNetFX environment, a la Mono which is installed by default.

So..

Create a Windows 32bit prefix with:

"WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/win32 winecfg" << /win32 is just an example name. Add drives to suit your directorial tastes. Configure any "drives" you need to map to, such as your games directory.

Then, run:
"WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/win32 winetricks dotnetfx35"

to install dotNetFX 3.5, duh, which will also remove Mono.

Also, as a FYI, if you're like me and have old Windows system installers lying around, you can copy them to your winetricks cache located in ~/.cache/winetricks/*packagename* as per a:

"winetricks list-all"

dotnetfx35 is simply ~/.cache/winetricks/dotnetfx35/dotnetfx35.exe

That's annoying layout, but also makes sense.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#WINEPREFIX
https://wiki.winehq.org/Winetricks#Options

P.S. Pretty sure this can be easily done in a 64 prefix. I'm on 64bit Manjaro KDE, but kept this as simple for starters considering the age of the game.

Oh, and don't forget your \ slashes in your blank spaces ie ~/Age\ of\ Conan/AgeOfConan.exe

I'll update as I can.