Recently restarted Oblivion. Anyway, stock interface looks horrible as usual (my opinion and I'm welcome to it ), so I'm wondering what's current and/or best in UI mods.

I have always liked http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10763 or http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11280 (currently the latter.)

My favorite: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11280

which is a color variation of the original http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10763

I wouldn't look any further.

And get Trolffs Loading Screens, there are also versions for DarkUI Darn and Darnified! You will not recognize your game anymore... :woot:


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I second both gentlemen above, who are obviously people of refined taste and culture since we agree. Dark UI Darnified is a delight. Been using it since shortly after it came out, and have never looked back. Trolff's loading screens are great, too. Just be sure you get the version for Dark UI Darnified if decide to go with that UI, or you'll have some odd visual effects.

I use Dark UI Darnified as well and love it.

Ditto. Couldn't play without it (1680x1050 W).

Or with DarnUI for FO3 and FO:NV.

Darn, Darn, he's our man, if he cant UI it, no one can!
:pompoms:

That would be http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10763 or http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11280.

EDIT: I should learn to refresh the thread before I post.

DarkUI'd Darn with wz_Inventory is my 2 cents.

OP: Don't get huffy over your opinion now, especially when that opinion is actually fact. :wavey:

I place yet another vote on DarkUI'd DarN. Once you install that, you'll wonder why Bethesda didn't do it in the first place.

You could even be like me, the guy who cross-bred DarnUI with Immersive Interface and the vanilla system menus. Yeah, I guess I enjoy pain or something, but no one interface mod had everything I liked.

I wanted the large map from DarN initially and would have been happy with JUST that had the rest of it not been so intertwined.

I played until just recently with only Immersive Interface and the rest strictly vanilla and loved every minute of it. Not all of us think Bethesda should be shot. The vanilla interface works and works well.

I use BTmod with wz_Inventory. IMO this gives the minimum set of changes required to have a useful interface.

DarkUI's color scheme just doesn't appeal to me, and I find DarN's font changes unnecessary and frequently unreadable (particularly annoying in the console, and just plain bad if you're stuck at a lower resolution).

Nah, not huffy; just a disclaimer to deal with any "That Guy's'" out there. If I was huffy, there'd be a lot more sarcasm and no smiley.

Anyway, good to see DarkUI is still going - First one I tried, ever and liked it back then.

It works - true.

I play on a 28" monitor and the inventory on that size and max resolution is just like reading kid print with huge tabs for each item. I don't have bad eyes - it is annoying.

Yes, this is how it looks to me as well. I play on a 30" monitor (2560x1600) and without DarN my menus and fonts look like they came from 'Toys R Us.'

I agree with tejon about DarkUI's color scheme though. I just don't care for the burgundy theme. I use Luchaire's recolorings: mostly http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16387 or http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16897

I find the black in black and gold variant to be too blue.

Just a little humor insert. If I knew you were actually huffing, I would not have put the smiley, either. :foodndrink:

Me, playing on a 36" monitor (really an HDTV), at about half console distance away (almost takes up your entire focused vision, it's great for immersion :wink_smile: ) at 1360X768 resolution, even I thought the vanilla UI was way oversized. Now, with DarkUI'd and TNO's HUD Status Bars mod, my HUD looks like this:

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/4018/hsbenemyhealthdemo.jpg

(Please ignore the unsporting slash I gave that poor Altmer)

I would like to use the Black and Gold color variation by Luchaire, but the gold is too yellow-bright for my taste. I installed in once but went away again after a day. If the gold was a little darker (pretty much like the Dwarven Yellow in the game I guess) or a bit red-golden I liked it much better.

DarkUI Darn fan too, found something interesting recently which promted me to finally get round to doing a Bain enabling easy integration of this - - > http://tesadventures.com/forum/index.php?topic=2177.0

All that link does is lead to a sign in page. No info on what you are pointing at.

Oh right - Yes I forgot you have to be signed in to see the link, if you are a member there after log in the link does take you to where I intended....

But to clarify its a little merge of Extended Interface and Dark UI DarN Ziitch has made to enable the EI Compass and Minimap in DarN (I just used the compass) - have a look at the uploaded screenshots here http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35896

Easily installed if you have a Bain of Extended Interface (no need to use the esm and esp from that), overwritten with a Bain of DarkUI, then further overwritten with Ziitch's files (if you just want the compass - use the menus\main\hud main menu.xml and menus\prefabs\hud compass circ files)

errr - you link went to streamline 311

Yes the uploaded screenshots (Images tab - User uploaded images) I put there, show the compass in use with DarkUI

Ohhh - kinda nice ... anything else on that site justify signing in?

I'd like it more if a bit smaller.

Well if you want to follow Apachii's progress with the goddess store 1.6, or a lot of other famous artistic types such as Gizmodian relz and wipz... its quite a large forum. I only joined recently so have not explored it thoroughly, 2 posts noob .

How did you obtain that effect with HUD status bars?

Back to the OP: I really love the Darnified UI with classic colors. Long time ago I used Dark UI DarN, but I like the original color, and sometimes with DarkUI you can't see black letters and values.