   _ _____ _   _   ___ __________
  / | \ __\ | | | /  _\ | \_   _/ |   __                          __
==|   |  >| |=| |=| |=|   |=| |===*- /\_\ *** CUSTOM GUI MOD *** /_/\
  \_|_/___/___/___/___/_|_| |_|   |  \/_/       for UT2004       \_\/

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*** *** ALPHA 1 *** ***
***   19.05.2004    ***

W O R K   I N   P R O G E S S !

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(1) Installation
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Extract the contents of this archive into your UT2004 folder and leave
the folder information of the archive contents intact!!!

Open your UT2004.INI and locate the following entry:

[Engine.GameEngine]
MainMenuClass=....

Change this entry so it reads:

MainMenuClass=XInterfCat2k4.UT2K4CatMainMenu

Done :-)



(2) Changing the GUI
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* 2.1 - Changing the images
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If you know UEd it's pretty damn easy.

Fire up UEd and open the "Cat2K4Menus.utx" texture package from the UT2004\Textures folder.

At the moment the changing of the following images is supported:
(I'll list them as "groupname.texturename")

MainMenu.2k4Logo       - The UT2004 logo diplayed on the top of the mainmenu
MainMenu.action1       - First image to be cycled usually on the left bottom corner
MainMenu.action2       - Second image to be cycled usually on the left bottom corner
MainMenu.action3       - Third image to be cycled usually on the left bottom corner
MainMenu.highlight     - "Underlay" of selected mainmenuitem
MainMenu.char01        - First "portrait" choosen randomly, usually at the right side
MainMenu.char02        - Second "portrait" choosen randomly, usually at the right side
MainMenu.char03        - Third "portrait" choosen randomly, usually at the right side
MainMenu.mmbgnd        - The background image of the mainmenu
MainMenu.ScrollHuge    - The biggest scroller
MainMenu.ScrollBig     - The medium scroller
MainMenu.ScrollSmall   - The small scroller
BkRenders.Bgndtile     - Backgroundtile of all other GUI pages (serverbrowser, e.t.c.)
BkRenders.Char01       - Image to put on top of the above tile
BkRenders.Scanlines    - The scanlines put over the result of the two above things

There are actually a few more, you will find them when browsing through the package,
but that stuff doesn't work propperly ATM, so I'll not mention it here.

* 2.2 - Changing positioning of main-menu items
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Now this is the really easy part.
Open "XInterfCat.INI" in your UT2004\System folder and just edit the values
like you want to have them.

The positions are scaled from "0" to "1" where "0" is farmost left/top and
"1" is the farmost right/bottom :-)



(3) Planned stuff
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Quite some things.
Replacing even more GFX of the GUI and changing of the textcolors in the mainmenu
and the serverbrowser.



(4) Enjoying your own and unique UT2004
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Have fun!

In time I will put a gallery online where you can submit your 2k4-GUI-Theme
like we did it with the 2k3 version!


So long!


mfG
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