An Old UI

An Old UI

Posted by on Aug 4, 2010 in Commentary | 2 comments

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I’ve been thinking about writing a UI post but I keep forgetting to take screenshots when I’m at home. I then decided to take a look at my web albums and found pictures of Sin’s early days. This is from a set of a Scarlet Monastery run. My pants are funny-looking.

I’m sort of a UI nut. I used to be obsessed with finding the right-looking one and, after going through a multitude of them, ended up designing one of my own using existing addons. Note that while the design and layout are original, none of the actual tools are. Anyway, that UI will show up in a different post. For now, here’s a picture of an old one, featuring a level 40 Sin.

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Blizz Broke My UI

Posted by on Mar 28, 2010 in Commentary |

Logging on to WoW has become an adventure of its own lately. All of my addons obviously became outdated after patch day, so I tossed caution to the wind and checked the “load out of date” box anyway. Only one of them wasn’t working. Unfortunately, it was an addon that was responsible for how the bottom half of my UI looked. When my screen finally loaded, it looked like someone had walked all over it. I had no choice but to disable it. I did so with a heavy heart though. It was kgPanels. What made it tough was that I used it to design a custom UI of my own. I’ll check for an updated version and see if there’s a way to save it.

I’m also running into the loading screen problem. I’d log on, select a toon, then wait for the loading progress bar to go from left to right. If this was the first time I ran WoW since I turned my computer on, it would fill the bar to the max then stop there. It will not load the actual game screen. I have to shut down WoW then reload it. It works fine afterwards. Our guild’s main resto shaman, Itsuki, told me that he was also running into the problem so at least there’s the consolation that it’s not only happening to me. Is anyone else running into this?

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