
DOVVETECH HUD UPGRADE (skin) v2.1
http://peacefairchild.tripod.com/

A replacement GUI for Anarchy Online with a dark and moody high-tech
feel. Inspired by the great Omni city of Rome.

Although I am no longer taking suggestions (as I no longer will be playing AO or making updates to this map) please feel free to send your comments to: peacefairchild@hotmail.com I'll still check my mail from time to time. Please also see "Usage and Distribution" at the bottom of this document. Thanks so much to everyone for all their support and kindness. I will miss you all dearly.

Special Thanks

To all of my beta testers for their fantastic feedback and endless
relogging. This skin would not be what it is without your ideas, time
and persistence. Thanks tons!

Quirks

1) On the main logo screen the logo appears scrunched and funny looking. This happens using my skin or the AO one. It seems that no matter what size you make the logo, the AO client always scrunches it down about 2 percent or so. Becuase of this it is impossible to make the logo display properly. 

2) I could not skin the NPC chat interface because the graphics for it do not appear to be in the skin file. 

3) In-Range indicators. There are no "in-range" graphics anymore. The exisiting graphic gets tinted slightly instead. This makes it hard to see when things come in range on both my skin and the default Funcom one.

4) The time remaining on nanoprograms is too dark. All text colors in the AO interface are hard coded so this cannot be changed. To make it clearly legible the background would need to be very light in color which ruins the look of the skin and is very distracting. 

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Installing the DOVVETECH skin

1) If Anarchy Online is running. Log out (quit out)
2) Launch the Anarchy Online program
3) Click the "Settings" Button on the log in screen
4) Click "Advanced Settings"
5) Click "Choose Skin File"
6) Browse to: "dovvetech2.1\GUIGFX.UVGI"
7) Select the "GUIGFX.UVGI" and click "Open"
8) Click "OK" twice
9) Log in as usual, you're all set :)

NOTES: If you had a previous download of Dovve's Icon Pack
for Dovve's Map you will not need it anymore. This skin
includes all custom icons needed for the map.

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Revsion History

2.1
- Fixed the Mob HP bar
- Resized the accepted missions window

2.0 
- Changed all increment marks on health, nano and exp to work in a 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 increment system. Also reworked the look of these idicators and much of the stats window
- Added accurate increment marks to the "easy/hard" slider in the mission terminal window. Its now easy to find the available quality levels
- Changed the targeting cursor to red
- Fixed the "Back" clothing slot (it had been mistakenly labeled "Neck")
- Changed "team group" to the correct term "temp group" in the friends window
- Modified the system fonts to fit better with the theme

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Usage and Distribution

As I will no longer be playing AO or updating this skin all restrictions have been removed.
You are free to modify, distribute, upload, and host these map files to your heart's content.
Please leave me a credit and include what you have changed in your read me file.  I am 
sorry that I can no longer be the one to make updates but I hope the AO community will 
take this and run with it. Have fun! :))



