Immortal UI is a complete user interface replacer/reskin for Skyrim SE (including Anniversary Edition), reflecting the essence of Magic and Steel that define the land of Tamriel, Nirn, and the planes beyond.

It is built as a replacer for Dear Diary Dark Mode by uranreactor. Dear Diary comes with an abundance of QoL improvements and support for other mods built in and is a fantastic base to build reskins on to take advantage of these features. Check it's page for more details and a compatibility list




Installation and Requirements

• Requirements:
  

SkyUI - obviously the base for Skyrim's UI
Dear Diary Dark - WHITE VERSION ONLY, or you'll end up with some screens that mix the text colour.
SkyHUD - Required for the Compass reskin, and the HUD more generally if you're not planning to use TrueHUD
TrueHUD - Highly recommended for HUD replacement

I also recommend Oblivion-Like Loading Menus and Oxygen Meter 2 which both have patches included in the FOMOD.

Patches also included for Custom Skills Menu and Compass Navigation Overhaul and C.O.C.K.S

• Installation:
  

Simply download and install this mod with your preferred mod manager. A FOMOD installer will guide you through each step and allow you to choose which parts to install (incase you have a preference for Dear Diary Dark or even vanilla SkyUI on some menus - but I recommend you install everything for visual consistency). NOTE: The main menu is a bit creative with the way it uses overlays, and I've not tested it on a non-16:9 resolution. You may wish to skip that if you're using ultrawide (or give it a try to see if it works or not), and then take a look at the Dear Diary config file to move the buttons back centrally.

After installation, there are a few ways you can customise the appearance through the config features of Dear Diary and SkyHUD.

Dear Diary config can be found in interface\deardiary_dm\config.txt, check the Dear Diary Dark mod page for details of what can be configured, and the file itself explains quite clearly how it works

The SkyHUD config can be found in interface/skyhud/skyhud.txt, and if you're using TrueHUD you won't need to worry about many of it's options. You can however swap between the default compass and a subtle notched compass by adjusting the value on row 56 'bAltCompass= 1' will give you the default thin compass, and 0 the notched compass.

Maiandra Font

The final step of installation will offer you the chance to install the Maiandra font, adjusted to fit and align in SkyUI. This comes pre-configured to support Oblivion Interaction Icons. If you use font replacers for books and notes, you may need to manually edit your fontconfig.txt file to support those. See here for a thorough guide on editing that file.

Maiandra font is not required, and you can continue to use Dear Diary's default font, vanilla, or whatever font replacer you prefer instead.

Issues relating to Skyrim update version 1.6.1130

An optional files exist if you decided to update your Skyrim in December 2023 to the 1.6.1130 version and above. This fixes issues with the difficultly setting resetting and with various menus being squished.
Full credit to xcal68 who instructed me in the fix, their mod deserves an endorsement here https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/107216

Obviously don't use this optional file if you haven't updated past 1.6.640
Just overwrite the original mod files with these when installing.

I should note I don't have the update and don't plan to update any time soon, so these fixes are 'blind' for me. Comment if there are any issues.



Credits

uranreactor for Dear Diary and Oblivion-Loading Menu
Fhaarkas, creator of SkyHUD
Ershin for TrueHUD
Po3 and OsmosisWrench, for Oxygen Meter 2, Custom Skills menu
I think the new mouse cursor started off as the League of Legends cursor, so credit to Riot Games for that.