Simple UI (UI Replacment)

[Little Anarchist]

Over the last few days I've been slowly creating a new skin for blockland to suit personal preference because in my opinion, the way the default skin looks is just too generic, flashy, ugly and really unfitting the game itself, my goal was to create a simplistic, modern re-skin that fits blockland.. The scroll bar was derived from ShadowZero's Metro skin because I've run out of time to work on this project for the time being. Not everything has been replaced yet but once I get more free time I will be actively updating this skin.


Screenshots:

Download:

replacement.zip (6 KB)

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This isn't your traditional add-on, you do not simply just download a compressed archive and move it to your add-ons folder, you'll have to follow these special steps if you wish to use this skin.

First, Download and extract replacement.zip, there should be a folder called "replacement" that contains everything required to replace the skin,

Next, you'll need to drag all the files in this folder to "yourblocklanddirectory/base/client/ui" and overwrite if prompted.

Finally, set the Read / Write properties of the UI folder in your blockland directory to "Read only" and then, launch blockland and enjoy. Keep in mind, if there is ever a game update that modifies any UI elements you will have to make the UI folder in your blockland directory readable and writeable otherwise the game wont update and you'll probably crash, this will overwrite the replacement so you unfortunately, will have to repeat the above steps if you wish to continue using this skin.

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[Zeblote]

First, Download and extract replacement.zip, there should be a folder called "replacement" that contains everything required to replace the skin,

Next, you'll need to drag all the files in this folder to "yourblocklanddirectory/base/client/ui" and overwrite if prompted.

Finally, set the Read / Write properties of the UI folder in your blockland directory to "Read only" and then, launch blockland and enjoy. Keep in mind, if there is every a game update that modifies any UI elements you will have to make the UI folder in your blockland directory readable and writeable otherwise the game wont update and you'll probably crash, this will overwrite the replacement so you unfortunately, will have to repeat the above steps if you wish to continue using this skin.

Woa what kind of lazyness is that

I think it could use less gray and more white, it looks so unhappy :c

[DrenDran]

Wasnt there a gui replacer addon you could have used?

[Derroith]

Nice GUI, for once this is something I might use.

[PurpleMetro]

eh, i was hoping for that all white GUI

[DontCare4Free]

Keep in mind, if there is ever a game update that modifies any UI elements you will have to make the UI folder in your blockland directory readable and writeable otherwise the game wont update and you'll probably crash, this will overwrite the replacement so you unfortunately, will have to repeat the above steps if you wish to continue using this skin.

Not true, what happens on updates is exactly the same as on other launches with modified files, except it downloads the update first (and writes it to the cache.db).

[Ben Grapevine]

Woa what kind of lazyness is that

I think it could use less gray and more white, it looks so unhappy :c

You must be new to gui replacement

[Randomness]

Should be renamed to Blockland Metro.

Fits something akin to the style of Windows 8.

[Zeblote]

You must be new to gui replacement

Nope

[otto-san]

You must be new to gui replacement

Everything having to do with replacing default content could be easily put in the same sentence as "pick your poison".

Read-Only (blocks updates)
User Content (file replacement may not be great for hard drive)
Custom UI (GUI takes longer to create, incompatible with some mods)

Nobody should ever recommend just one method.

[Klocko²]

This looks alot like my Metro UI Edit

[ShadowZero]

This looks alot like my Metro UI Edit

Its sort of easy to make these you know.

Ontopic:I'm glad you decided to release it, I'm hoping that I forgot who it was that made the Impact style menu will be willing to convert some ui's into the correct addon format so we don't have to use the sketchy methods of adding them.

[Shell]

That doesn't even look good.
And why all of the centering? It's not that important.

[Evar678]

That doesn't even look good.
And why all of the centering? It's not that important.

/opinion.
This looks just fine to me, but that's my opinion, because I like simplistic stuff.

[Shell]

The problem isn't that it's simple. It's so mismatched and the filters button is offcenter.

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