Streamlined User Interface

This project aims to streamline the graphic user interface of NWN. This means: to make it more organized and efficient from player's perspective while blending in with the established themes (no fancy colors, etc).
 
This task is done by modifying many icons by removing their backgrounds and by changing their color schemes to match respective action groups. For example, all actions that are skill-based, such as open lock or heal are made green when PC is the actor and yellow when it's an associate.

One could say that this project makes NWN's interface like it should've always been. Of course, your mileage may vary, but changes introduced by this are subtle and shouldn't interfere with what players are used to.

A demo module is provided.

CHANGELOG

1.1 (2017-11-22)

• Added hak file containing all files from the override folder to allow other form of project installation - as a patch.
• Tweaked Rapid Reload icon.

 1.0 (2017-11-21)

• Initial release.

DESCRIPTION

This project removes opaque backgrounds of all GUI icons except spells. Spells were not modified as they are often moved around the interface (spellbook) and transparency makes it harder to see them. In accordance with NWN icon theme, black pixels surrounded by non-black pixels were in most cases left in place (example exception: class icons).
 
Some icons were modified by re-using unused icons found in game files. This was done to avoid seeing same icons activating different actions.
 
This project defines four icon "themes": feat theme (blue), skill theme (green), spell theme (violet) and radial menu theme (yellow / gold). All icons now conform to these themes in following fashion:

• all feat-based abilities (metamagic, called shot, etc) are blue
• all skill-based abilities (open lock, heal, etc) are green
• all spell-based abilities (except grenade throw) are violet
• all other icons are gold / yellow (after "use" icon's colors)

This project also adds new (also transparent) effect icons, darkens the game's panels (character sheet, inventory, etc) and restores pre-HOTU main menu looks. Main menu music is not affected.

This project uses files from following projects:

• Transparent Feat Icons by fire&ice
• GUI of Clarity by Eleazzaar

Half of feat icons provided by this project are from Transparent Feat Icons project. Almost all of them are weapon-related (weapon of choice, critical hits, etc). Other half of feat icons were modified manually for this project.
 
The only image borrowed from GUI of Clarity is a grey band added at the circumference of central radial menu image, slightly modified to prevent the satellite circles from overlapping it. With a darkened background, this makes it easier to see the menu, especially on inventory panel, where there is a lot of different images tightly packed in one place.
 
This project performs similar tasks to many other projects, however none of the files contained in those projects were used here. This is not a "compilation". Unless mentioned otherwise, all images were modified from the standard base. Some of these other projects are:

• Fixed SoU Scroll Icons by fire&ice
• Immunity Icons by Mordaedil
• Original NWN Main Menu by Juha
• Consistency Fixes for all icons by Arakhor

This project does not include extra emoticons as there are already few projects that provide these:

• Melliuc's emoticons by Kage Melliuc
• Elders emoticons by Acatoshi

An almost-complete list of changes introduced by this project is available in attached readme file.

INSTALLATION

Because of large number of files provided by this project, there are two alternative ways to install it:

1. Extract contents of override folder from project's archive into the override folder of the game. Overwrite all files when asked.
2. Extract hak file from patch folder from project's archive into the patch folder of the game and modify nwnpatch.ini (in root folder of the game) by adding a following line to it:
   PatchFileXXX=streamlined_ui
   where XXX is a 3-digit number unused by other  patches, probably 000.