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Doc's Greyscale UI  1.1

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Minor Update  03-26-2014 8:00am

 

Description:

 

I present to you my customized greyscale UI.  This is now a final product.  This is a full transformation that removes the blue colors from your interface, including all buttons, and replaces then with shades of grey.  I also have adjusted some text and some location of elements.

 

You'll find this is a small file that doesn't noticeably impact load times.  I have not noticed any sort of performance impact.

 

I hope you enjoy the change!

 

Note: Urgent advice dialogs (which can be turned off) are still default colors.

 

 

Install/Uninstall:

 

Unzip the download and place the .dat file into your ..../SimCity 4/Plugins folder.  Remember to remove any previous versions of this UI or any of my other UI skins to avoid conflicts.

 

 

Notice:

 

I have designed this to work with UI translucency turned on in the graphics options AND a minimum resolution of 1024x768.  You will experience different results without UI translucency option turned on, such as ugly shadows, jagged edges, missing or solid colors where pieces of translucent UI belong, and some old blue UI remaining.  Please bring any anomalies to my attention and I will attempt to address them.  Please play with UI translucency turned on for intended results.  I have figured out how to make my UI work better with the option for translucency turned off but I will not be refining that version to look better since there isn't a reason UI translucency should be turned off with a decent PC.

What's New 1.1   View Changelog


Released

  • Fixed an issue where a player could not scroll down screen if mouse in lower-left corner.
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docj101

This will conflict in one way or another with other mods that adjust UI.  With that said, a mod that does nothing more then change the news window can still be used with success as long as it loads after my grey mod.  Append the prefix z_ to the front of your news mod file name and it will load after this mod.  That should fix you up.  I do not intend to change the size of the news window or other elements of this particular UI, sorry.  I also play on a high resolution screen and would like some text larger other then news window; perhaps a whole new UI for high res screens is called for if I get motivated.

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There was an issue with v1.0 that prevented scrolling down screen if you tried while hovering in the lower left corner.  Today I release 1.1 with that problem addressed; all scrolling now works properly.

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