I am at work right now, so I donât have time at the moment to look into it in too much detail for now, but this should be a fairly simple modification to makeâŚ
@radar3301 there is some progress, but as we can see, but not everything went smoothly.
Iâm going to try also, but unfortunately now I have no opportunity.
Proof of concept:
Granted, there is some slight ugliness going onâŚ
Edit: this took literally all of 60 seconds to put together; writing this post and trying to get a screenshot took longer.
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shhhhh, just donât tell them youâre replacing HWR UI lua files with those from HW2 
Of course not! Who do you think I am?
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shhhhh, just donât tell them youâre replacing HWR UI lua files with those from HW2
[/quote]By the way, I did try this initially⌠But it failed miserably.
I suppose some of the harcoded parts have changed a little. And with the new layout system, there must be some internal changes in the way the UI works.
I think that only a long period of trial and error can make a classic interface functional on engine of HWRs/ I was hoping that someone already did it once and have a classic Game interface.
In HWRs, All interface was changed to adapt the game for the Complex mod. I see it, because I know this mod.
Having worked on the HW2 UI for more than 10 years (and currently working on my ârainbowâ mod which offer an interface to change ships colors directly ingame), I can tell you that most of the logic behind it hasnât changed at all. The only real new thing is the layout system for graphical elements, but the old system still works (the two can even be used together)
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Oh man, youâve got that very, very wrong. If anything, the members of the HWRM team before release who are doing Complex hated the new UI system.
What everyone forgets is that the âoldâ design was a bunch of hard-coded massive images, that worked only for a limited # of screen resolutions, etc. Our UI scales to most resolutions, takes way less RAM, is sharper/cleaner, faster - and even though few have tried, oddly easy to âskinâ.
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Believe me, not everyone forgets that. I still remember when I was trying to code a system to make the UI automatically adapt to 16/9 screens⌠it was a nightmare, I never managed to have something that worked for every resolution. Graphical elements would never really place themself as intended because of the coordinates rounding which where different between each resolution. For example, I would try to have an element centered in one resolution, and it would be too much to the right or left for bigger or smaller screens. A nightmare I tell you !
Thatâs why the new layout system is fantastic I must say <3
By the way @BitVenom, will we have UI function to control it like there was for the old system ? (UI_SetElementPosition & UI_SetElementSize)
Agreed, the classic UI was horrible for HW2. Shame HW2 didnât use the same âhiddenâ UI of HW1 Classic, but thatâs a topic for another day 
Unless itâs an UI mod, UI is the last thing to change in a mod. Everybody is focusing in something else, because the current is good enough and brand new. New UIs will rise naturally.
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pretty true. Iâd love to reskin the UI for hwat, but even designing a desired UI is labor intensive, let alone implementing it. Thereâs other things that need that time more urgently.
I could help you if you want to tackle this one day 
Then how do you explain the empty space on the panels classes?
In the classic game it was completely full! In turn, the complex uses many advanced classes!
If you answer my question, then I believe you.
When I look at these panels I see only compex mod/
Seem my picture:
I really respect the team Complex, but I think they got too big impact on the new version of the game. Thus some of the classic design, are left behind.
You canât read?
I asked that no need to praise/criticize any interface!
Please keep your opinions to yourself. My thread is about how to bring back the old interface, but not about praise for this new interface of this game
A tip, mickeyâŚinsulting the Devs is not going to go over well.
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You may be better off having this conversation someplace else then. If you come here for info/help - people are free to express themselves in whatever way they feel relates to your thread - just as youâre free to ask these questions. Telling others what to do isnât acceptable.
As somebody who wrote the entire new UI system, did all of the initial porting for it, built many of the early layouts, and was there for the entire process, I can say with absolute authority that your opinion is not grounded in reality, at all. At no point in the process did we cater in requests from Complex members for features in the UI. Indeed in some cases theyâve asked for changes we were unwilling to make, and they havenât been made.
If you want the âclassicâ UI back, you are going to have a very, very long road - but donât let that stop you.
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