Interface Mod help?

[Karakuri]

Hey, Kara here:

I wanted to make an interface mod, kind of like Tearless's Metal Storm mod, and I don't know the first place to start! Could anyone explain to me how to do this?

[Ingredient]

First of all i would suggest having a program such as GIMP http://www.gimp.org/ Be sure to create a back up of all the original textures.

Go to your Feralheart's "textures" folder and you will find a lot of images. The images that have the word "button, scroll, tab, text, name, target, title etc" are the ones you want to edit. I would start with one of the titles so when you open the game you can see it straight away without logging in.

Open one of the images up in GIMP and make a new layer (CTRL+L, there is a button in the layer window shaped as a piece of paper). When you get that options menu just click ok, as long as the fill type is on Transparency.

Have the new layer selected and change that layers mode to "Multiply". Now you cant paint over the images without losing the patterns and stuff in it.

When your finished, click Save As and go to your textures folder and replace the existing one.

[Karakuri]

Thank you so much!

[Ingredient]

Your welcome

[Tearless]

One thing that's incredibly useful to do, if you plan on modding much, is to just have two copies of the game. That way you can mod the bajeezers out of one of them without having to worry about messing your game up, and you'll always have backups if you need them.

[LaffyTaffie]

Mod can you tell me why I can't get onto Fluorite Plains. It keeps telling me that it failed to connect to the map server and then i'll click cancel and then log in and click the character I want and then it will go to bad token and then i'll log back in and then it will say the samething about the map server. Can you please tell me what to to?

[Tearless]

There aren't any actual mods in this thread; Karakuri was referring to modifications. However, there were probably just a lot of people in Fluorite when you tried to log in (if you hover your mouse over the right side of the forum you can see how many people are in each map). Try enough times and you WILL get in eventually.

[LaffyTaffie]

Thank you soooo much!

[LaffyTaffie]

Do I have to try more than once to get on?

[Tearless]

Most likely. It usually takes me between two and seven tries to get to Fluorite, depending on the traffic.