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Added replacer for QuickLoot menu (only unofficial updated "RE" version supported, link in the FOMOD installer and sticky post)
Added replacer for Wheel menu from UIExtensions
Messagebox: fixed hotkey functionality in Russian version
FOMOD: the Extended UI option for Skills menu is now available only if the Extended UI mod is installed
Version 3.0.4
MCM: added search widget in the mod list (filter mods by name as items in the inventory menus)
Messagebox: now the button selection can cycle from the last to the first button (and vice versa)
Messagebox: now "Better Messagebox Controls" hotkeys feature works with any language supported by the game, not only English
Tutorial menu: slightly decreased text size and aligned by center
Fonts: added more special symbols support, fixed some symbols look, Ukrainian language support; old wide font option removed as it's leading to texts cut-off and not needed
General: fixed French translation (thanks Irwine)
Version 3.0.3
New features:
Added external skins support (SE skins supported, just download any of them manually and then install)
Inventory, crafting, etc: new columns added - armor slots, total weight, base weapon damage, weapon reach, weapon speed, weapon stagger
Inventory, crafting, etc: added Immersive Jewelry support (custom jewelry type names)
Map menu: added option to hide player marker from map making it invisible and unclickable, bNoPlayerMarker in config.txt
Map menu: added option to hide all map markers from map, bRemoveAllMarkers in config.txt
Map menu: added config.txt option to make the player-set map marker look like red drawn cross. Works with any SkyUI map marker replacers.
Inventory, Magic, Container, Barter, Crafting menus: Frostfall presence in game detects automatically, corresponding config.txt setting removed
Favorites menu: added Extended Hotkeys System mod support, bExtendedHotkeys in config.txt (in case this mod will be backported to LE sometime)
Favorites menu: integrated SkyUI Weapons Pack mod (new icons for weapons like spears, guns) - thanks for permission to Ashingda
Favorites menu: new selection indicator (like in inventory menus); scroll now bar has wider clickable area; option with longer list reworked to be more consistent with other UI
Favorites menu: added new "Shouts" category (all player's shouts will be displayed here, not in "Magic" category)
Favorites menu: added option to change the scrolling speed, iFavScrollSpeed in config.txt
Favorites menu: added option to show or hide button tips for SkyUI groups, bFavoritesTips in config.txt
Levelup menu: changed text colors and applied dropshadowfilter
Levelup menu: it is now possible to use keyboard for choosing the attribute right after the menu appear (like in "Better Messagebox Controls" mod)
Loading menu: added option to set transparency via config.txt like for other menus
Lockpicking menu: added option to set timer for cheat mode to show up after opening menu, fCheatTimer in config.txt
Lockpicking menu: added config.txt option to hide the lock level
Fonts: added optional font replacer for menus - "Friz Quadrata"; it's pretty calm and cozy font, I like it (at least much more than vanilla font)
General: added SkyUI translation files for every supported language (to properly name the new weapon types, the new "Shouts" category, new columns and Immersive Jewelry types)
General: added dropshadowfilter to some texts (like in "No More Laser-Printed Book" mod)
General: current display resolution will now be detected only automatically; corresponding config.txt option removed
Fixes:
Inventory, crafting, etc: fixed alignment with different screen resolutions
Journal, Inventory: "Paper UI Sounds" mod now will be automatically detected and the new sound descriptors will be used for tabs switching (for future updates of that mod)
Map: config.txt file parsing remade, map markers now will be loaded much faster, especially noticeable with new map markers mods such as "Atlas Map Markers";
Map: the player marker is now also influed by fMapMarkerSize parameter of config.txt
Map: new setting for config.txt: bDirectionless; allows to make player map marker directionless (circle); works with any custom map marker replacers compatible with SkyUI 5+
Map: new setting for config.txt: fMapMarkerAlpha; allows to change map markers transparency, may be useful for paper map mods
Map: the default map markers size is now 20 (was 30)
Map: added opening sound for map menu, mostly for using with "Paper UI Sounds" mod
Version 2.2.3
MCM: header text now always fits in the allocated space
MCM: mod list and sub list are now left-aligned to make it easier to find the needed mod; extremely long mod names and sub-list entry names (>40 chars) will be shortened to fit the allocated space
Stats menu: the issue with "MARKSMAN" text flashing in Experience mod option was fixed, the same way as in the latest SE update of that mod
Loading menu: fixed the X offset option in config.txt, it will now work properly
Journal, MCM, inventory, favorites, map: this menus will now use their own "buttonartDD.swf" file to prevent conflicts with other mods that are use the "buttonart.swf" file (such as QuickLoot)
Version 2.2.2
General: Enderal version release (has its own page on Enderal Nexus)
General: screen resolution will now be automatically detected by default
Tab menu: slightly darker icons
Tab menu: some text size and alignment adjustments
Favorites menu: different icons for destruction spells of different elements
Loading menu: option to adjust horizontal offset via config.txt
Cursors: old options re-added by request
Book menu: fixed bottom bar position for "square" aspect ratios (4:3, 5:4 etc)
Stats menu: fixed werewolf and vampire lord description texts colors in Extended UI stats menus
MCM: tip text is now vertically aligned
MCM: with bMCMImages = true in config file, the custom content will now have its own background texture (see screenshot)
Version 2.2.1
General: added support for 4:3, 5:4 and 16:10 aspect ratio (other ARs should work as well)
General: all semi-transparent options removed (read further for explanation)
General: some options in FOMOD removed (read further for explanation)
Fixes:
Messageboxes: fixed text cutting-off (sorry for inconvenience!), now these boxes can accommodate even more text than vanilla/Better MB Controls
Tab Menu: date text now shrinks to the size of frame automatically and shouldn't extend beyond it
Inventory: Health, Magicka and Stamina bars are inverted and now filling up left to right
Inventory: fixed issue with Workbench UI when item list was too long and layed over the button prompts
Journal: SKSE version text in System Menu shouldn't be cut-off with large fonts anymore
Journal: level label and value are slightly adjusted
Journal: fixed wrong colors of button icons in Help menu
Tutorials: fixed invisible button icons in tutorial texts
Skills/Perks Menu: Experience option, fixed HTML layout
Skills/Perks Menu: 21:9 and 32:9 options are now working properly
Skills/Perks Menu: health, magicka, stamina values are now colored properly depending on whether they are decreased or increased
MCM: highlight selection indicator is more visible now
Lockpicking Menu: now it displays more lockpicks (up to 999+ from 99+)
Cursors: old variants removed as they were ugly; added new dark red colored quill variant
Item Card: moreHUD Inventory Edition option updated to the latest mod's version
New features:
Added config file located in interface\deardiary\config.txt. For now it contains:
- Setting up screen resolution; if you are playing on anything other than 1920x1080 please change this setting
- Dear Diary version text displayed on System Page near the SKSE version (may be deleted or replaced with anything you like)
- Option to skip any dialogues on Quit button and go directly to desktop (disabled by default)
- Option to restore MCM images (disabled by default)
- Option to rename "Mod Configuration" line in System Menu
- Optional lockpicking cheat-mode in Dear Diary style (disabled by default)
- Map markers size scale (with default vanilla value 30)
- Option to hide book UI (disabled by default)
- Option to hide lockpicking UI, including cheat-mode (disabled by default)
- Option for showing Frostfall warmth and coverage values (disabled by default)
- Maximum sleep/wait hours value (with default vanilla value 24)
- Transparency levels for all covered menus (with default vanilla value 100)
(you can find more info inside this file)
Loading menu is now covered as well (new option in FOMOD); recommended to use with some "drawn" load screens replacer (see screenshots)
Version 2.1
720p and 768p options added
Inventory: all menus are now ultrawide-compatible
Inventory: stole chance text moved lower on the screen to prevent clipping with item card
Inventory: highlight mouseover indicator remade to be better visible
Inventory: icon colors for different schools of magic added
Perks menu: perk names arrangement fixed; there now two options for normal and ultrawide monitors in FOMOD
Perks menu: option for Experience mod added
Journal menu: selection indicators (arrows) at journal tabs removed to prevent text clipping; new selection indication: dark-green text = selected, grey text = not selected, dark-red text = disabled
Journal menu: date text is now automatically scales, so it will fit into the right place no matter what language is used
Journal menu: new objectives text colors: black = active objectives, dark-green = completed objectives, dark-red = failed objectives
Journal menu: color indication for disabled options (eg Save while the character is dead, or Save and Load while playing starting carriage sequence) fixed, now it's dark-red text for disabled options
Start menu: meshes folder that were added by mistake removed from FOMOD to prevent blue start screen glitch
Favorites menu: small version (vanilla-sized) added with improvements
Favorites menu: icon colors for different schools of magic added (same as in the Inventory, but all Destruction spells has the same icon due to limitations for which I can't find workaround for now)
Lockpicking menu: option with hidden interface added
This is the paper interface replacer for almost all SkyUI menus (and most of those UI elemets that are not covered by SkyUI).
Used Tools:
Photoshop - for textures Inkscape - for vector graphics JPEXS - for SWF files editing
1. Install the mod with mod manager, just follow the FOMOD installer instructions and choose whatever you like. I don't support manual installation, but if you really want to install it manually, of course you can. All the folders in the archive are named properly.
2. After installation you can open the file interface\deardiary\config.txt for enabling-disabling some options and to set transparency if you need it. There is detailed description for every option in that file.
Completely safe to install / uninstall / update mid-game (of course if using any modern mod manager).
It's a big section, but don't be afraid... Dear Diary is compatible with most mods, some mods are obsolete (Dear Diary has the same functions included), and even "incompatible" mods may be used without issues if you let them overwrite Dear Diary files, they just won't have a paper look or the UI will be visually inconsistent.
General rule: Let Dear Diary overwrite EVERYTHING unless stated otherwise
If you use another mod that modifies the config.txt file from SkyUI and you don't want for some reason to fully overwrite it with mine, you'll need to "merge" two config.txt files. If you don't know how to do it, try asking mod author to make a patch for Dear Diary.
I recommend using the included Friz Quadrata font (you can see it on screenshots), or Sovngarde font replacer by Mist, or Enderal font replacer (only for languages with latin alphabet).
I don't recommend using the Reshade with this UI replacer, because Reshade alters everything on screen (while ENB works only for the game and not for the UI elemets).
Paper UI Sounds by Muffloid - a project to replace Skyrim's UI sounds with paper sounds, to work with paper interface retextures and maps. Works great with my mod.
All the existing skins for now are available only at Skyrim SE Nexus. But you can safely download and install any of them manually and use it with Dear Diary LE.
Wood and Paper by uranreactor (me): overall darker textures, nice for dungeon crawling. Dear Diary Ui Skins by K0W4LSK1: hub for new skins; for now the leather version is realeased. Dwemer Readius UI by rob18: a reskin of the UI theme to an ancient Dwemer device display. The Wooden Pad by NismoMan: a wood and paper themed skin replacer for Dear Diary.
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