character select Screen

[drelk001]

Does anyone remember what the old character select screen looked like?
Well, i was patching live EQ and they got a new one today, i was watching the files
that were being patched and I saw a file named "CLZ" i have a hunch that that stands for character loading zone, in the project 1999 directory there is one as well.
If we get a Modder or hacker or what have you, replace those files with an one old or something I dont know but i want this to be the most classic experience i have ever had and im sure whoever is reading this does too so...

[Telin]

It changed depending on what race you were I think. There was a temple with torches, rock in the outdoors, a casters temple with red sparks behind and darker places for evil races.

[drelk001]

It was just one big zone an the models showed up in different area IIRC, I remember glitching it out once and seeing the different areas

[Telin]

I'm sure it was one zone since it changed instantly upon selection

[mtb tripper]

I remember the different backgrounds for the different races that was badass! I miss that

[drelk001]

okay! so i want to live EQ and moved the CLZs from live to my P99 directory and it was the "character loading zone" i had expected.... one problem though.... the cursor was missing, this would potentially cause problems but YAY!... lol

[drelk001]

Update: if you move the recourse sky files over as well the cursor will show up

[drelk001]

another update, you can actually do this with every zone, just copy and paste the file to the desktop then rename all the individual files "clz.*filetype*" be careful though there a bit of chr_ssd or something like that.

[drelk001]

lol tquad update, you need the EQG and environment emitters for each file you rename, you cant use any zone that dont us those kind of files

[a_gnoll_pup]

I've been wanting to do this for a while - It's not as easy as you'd think. There are actually three variants of the character loading zone total:

CLZ, load, and load2.

load is the pre-Luclin loading zone, load2 is the Luclin-GoD era zone, and clz is the OoW onwards loading zone.

The client by default can load all of these zones (and you can even spawn NPCs in the zones if you #zone to them) it's just a matter of modifying the client to do so.

DLL injection can prove successful just I haven't had time to do it yet. The locations for each of the class's loading area is also hardcoded in Trilogy, so I would have to investigate them too.

[Telin]

I've been wanting to do this for a while - It's not as easy as you'd think. There are actually three variants of the character loading zone total:

CLZ, load, and load2.

load is the pre-Luclin loading zone, load2 is the Luclin-GoD era zone, and clz is the OoW onwards loading zone.

The client by default can load all of these zones (and you can even spawn NPCs in the zones if you #zone to them) it's just a matter of modifying the client to do so.

DLL injection can prove successful just I haven't had time to do it yet. The locations for each of the class's loading area is also hardcoded in Trilogy, so I would have to investigate them too.

I was bummed that it wasn't able to load the zone file so easily. I tried both older versions including the object files, but it didn't work. It only loaded the sky and environmental emitters for the clz

[drelk001]

well, thanks for that :) i will try to study up on that, I am a bit new to this sooooo.....

[Enxienty]

I actually browsed a lot on the forums yesterday trying to find if anyone had info about old character select models, was bummed finding out not yet hehe

[drelk001]

well, I guess follow this and hopefully we can get it done

[Mirakk82]

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[Vandamwtc]

I miss the real old one with the stone border, and the lava background for evil races.

[drelk001]

I miss the real old one with the stone border, and the lava background for evil races.

Thats what I am talking about... I want to find a way to bring that back :)

[Vandy]

http://www.iniziopartita.it/file/2/190/Image/everquest_1.jpg

[Vandamwtc]

http://www.iniziopartita.it/file/2/190/Image/everquest_1.jpg

Love it.. someone please make this!

[Trosh]

This would be amazing to see implemented.

Also the Character Select screen looked very similar, with your character's names on the left in the "stone look" with a viewing window to the right with the character rotating.

This would definitely make me feel like I was playing the old game again.

I would love the old awful UI also, if it could be at a larger ratio with 2-3 chat boxes instead of 1.. even if it isn't exactly like the old one, function and feel would combine really well with that, I think

[drelk001]

Gnoll pup is working on a EQmac/titanium client that will implement this and the old UI, fully functional I sm trying to learn codde so I can play EQ with it :)

[mtb tripper]

hows this coming along?