So I ended up making my own cause I couldn't find anything and couldn't make it work with hide/unhide UI.
What I had done was I took blackbird's skin and made some adjustments like hiding the shard icon, hiding the hotbar highlight (cause it was a very bright yellow), and hiding the hide icons on some buttons cause if you clicked those, it would hide the e.g. chat interface, but the button would still be there, making it very annoying.
After I was done, I realised that you can't really hide the exp bar, and the exp bar was pretty annoying cause of how bright it was, then I realised the hotbars were also too bright, and the healthbar could be darker, and the buffs were too bright too...
So I ended up making an autohotkey script that detects when the ddo process is highlighted (in focus, like you're in the game) and setups various bars/transparent windows to hide or darkent bits and pieces.
I eventually ended up with something like this:
Which I think is pretty good looking now and can be adjusted if it's too dark for you, or whatever. If you do need to have a quick look at the exp bar, you can always just press the button to bring up the mouse, and click the black bar at the bottom, it'll bring up the exp bar for a second. Or you can alt-tab out and in too.
Here's the link to it, it includes the authotkey script (you'll need the autohotkey software installed), my blackbird skin modifications, and also my hud layout I saved if anyone wants to use the same one.
Note that this was on a 4k screen, you'll probably have to resize, and move things around if you want to adapt to a different resolution and/or your own hud layout.
What I had done was I took blackbird's skin and made some adjustments like hiding the shard icon, hiding the hotbar highlight (cause it was a very bright yellow), and hiding the hide icons on some buttons cause if you clicked those, it would hide the e.g. chat interface, but the button would still be there, making it very annoying.
After I was done, I realised that you can't really hide the exp bar, and the exp bar was pretty annoying cause of how bright it was, then I realised the hotbars were also too bright, and the healthbar could be darker, and the buffs were too bright too...
So I ended up making an autohotkey script that detects when the ddo process is highlighted (in focus, like you're in the game) and setups various bars/transparent windows to hide or darkent bits and pieces.
I eventually ended up with something like this:
Which I think is pretty good looking now and can be adjusted if it's too dark for you, or whatever. If you do need to have a quick look at the exp bar, you can always just press the button to bring up the mouse, and click the black bar at the bottom, it'll bring up the exp bar for a second. Or you can alt-tab out and in too.
Here's the link to it, it includes the authotkey script (you'll need the autohotkey software installed), my blackbird skin modifications, and also my hud layout I saved if anyone wants to use the same one.
Note that this was on a 4k screen, you'll probably have to resize, and move things around if you want to adapt to a different resolution and/or your own hud layout.
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