Howdy,

I joined this shard a few days ago and I'm having a great time. My in-game character is GeFuzzles, you may have seen me poking around.

I think Dante and Kane have done a wonderful job on this shard and the staff overall seem attentive and active. It's really great and super refreshing to see this. The community also has been wonderful to me over the last few days. As I've got older my patience for multiplayer and online interactions has slimmed down a lot, but here I'm starting to rekindle my digital interaction with people and I'm quite enjoying myself.

There are a few things though that I've not enjoyed, and I don't believe it's the fault of any of the staff or people. As I said, the staff have created a great shard here. It really comes down to personal preference on my part so I decided to solve at least one of the issues myself.


I *really* didn't like the coloured spell and skill icons. I personally think they're hard to look at, distracting, and they don't flow with the wonderful art direction of UO.... So I fixed it. And I'm sharing with the permission of Dante.

I had to edit the gumpart files that came with the custom client. As I don't know the full extent to which they've been modified here I opted for editing rather than replacing with a different version from an unmodified install.

**PLEASE BACK UP ANY FILES BEFORE YOU MODIFY THEM**

1. Download the zip file HERE.
(Mega is great file host for many reasons, but you may need to download a plugin for your browser. Please don't worry, it's legit. Mega is fast, with minimal to no ads, and no annoying wait-times.)

2. Browse to where you've installed the the 'UOEvolution Custom Client'.

3. Locate the two files 'gumpart.mul' and 'gumpidx.mul' and make a back-up of them.

4. Extract the two files in the zip to your UOEvolution directory.

5. Enjoy your icons!


If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.

I may be looking into further minor modifications in the future.


Thank you!!


**BONUS: I found this after looking for someone else. If you like the original T2A-style midi music I'd take a look at the link below. I don't think it's perfect as EA made too many changes, but it's an option.

http://uoancorp.com/wiki/index.php/UO_Utilities

Oh. My. Goodness. It works and I couldn't be happier to have the classic icons back! I am overjoyed!

Now if only we could get the old dragons and ostards back or added as new monsters...

Yeah... Actually I was going to start looking into some creatures as well and see what I could manage.

I'd like to fix llamas, and get the old original dragons/ (pre-3Dlike) demons back.

No promises, but I plan to investigate the options. Maybe over the weekend.

EDIT: I should update this post and say it's not possible to do in an easy-ish manor, so I stopped after a roadblock and speaking to staff.

Bump, happy anniversary Evo!!

Thanks so much GeFuzzles. So much better

Nice one GeFuzz... glad to see your back!

~ Reside

Just ran into a problem with the files. The Evo Key gump will not open using these files. If thats something that can be fixed that would be great.

I'm sorry, I'm not too certain what problem you'd have with that, I just checked and my Evo Key works fine! I honestly just took the files provided with the Evo client and substituted the images out with a .mul editor with some trial and error, didn't touch anything else.

All I can suggest is maybe trying to download and replace them again, in case something got corrupted?