Install new UI

Thora · 02-02-05, 08:51 PM

I'm sure somewhere this has been asked but I have looked and look and just can't find it.
How do I install my new UI I saw something about an addon folder but I looked all in my WOW folder and can't find one. Can I get a list of directions on how to install my UI?

Thanks
Thora

Inokis · 02-02-05, 09:01 PM

Typically this is what happens:
1. You open the zip folder
2. Extract the files to /wow/interface/addons/modfoldername/
3. Load the game and make sure that the addon button appears after logon.
4. Select the addon button and check the mods you wish to load.

**Note**
Each separate mod gets its own folder in the AddOns folder.

The other way to load a UI:
Default Files-
If you are loading a Default Modification UI, all the files should be extracted to your wow/Interface/FrameXML/ folder, unless otherwise noted in the installation instructions for your download/mod.

Default Graphics files will be in the wow/interface/framenamegraphics/ folder.

If there are any customized fonts, they must reside in the /fonts/ folder under the parent wow folder, not in any subfolder.

jookie · 02-08-05, 09:00 AM

I'm sorry, im very new to this and could not find instructions on how to install,

2. Extract the files to /wow/interface/addons/modfoldername/

Do I make the addons folder in the interface folder. then make a folder for my charecter, or a folder for the name of the UI? also, do I save the UI I downloaded to that folder, or do I save it somehwere else and extract it to that folder? sorry for being so ignorant.

Jook

Inokis · 02-08-05, 09:52 AM

If you don't have an addons folder, and one is not created when you unpack the zip file, then you would have to make one. Unless other instructions are provided in the zip file, everything should be extracted to /wow/interface/addons/modfoldername/. If the extraction doesn't create the mod folder, then you would need to do this yourself and move the files to the appropriate folder.

jookie · 02-08-05, 10:25 AM

where do I save it though?

***Cairenn*** · 02-08-05, 10:32 AM

Your final path should look (more or less) like this:

C:\Program Files\World Of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\MyModFolder\MyModFiles

Liquidor · 02-08-05, 10:38 AM

Hi dude.

Just do this:

1. Go to your WoW dir.
2. Find and enter the "Interface" folder.
3. Then you have to do one of these things:

a) IF the folder "AddOns" exists then you can just unzip your .zip file into the "AddOns" WITH AN OTHER folder called the same name as the UI Mod fx "CT_Mod".

b) Now if the folder "AddOns" DOESN'T exists in the "Interface" folder, then the "tricky" part comes:
You simply just add a new folder called: "AddOns"

Then it would be like this:
/Interface/AddOns/*****/unzipped-files-here
(***** = a folder with the name of the UI Mod)

Well explained?

Cullian · 02-08-05, 02:37 PM

I downloaded bloodeagles recompilation and cant get it rolling where is this addon button?

spider976 · 02-16-05, 10:02 AM

i downloaded gypsymod, and have all the folders that i think i need to have, in the right places. but when i log onto the game, nothing has changed. i typed /console reloadui , but the game freezes for a sec, and i get a bunch of action rejected noises. what am i not doing? are there files from WoW that i am supposed to delete, or is the mod just still installed wrong?

***Cairenn*** · 02-16-05, 10:17 AM

Were you using any other UI Mods previously?

tobias · 02-16-05, 11:29 AM

i too am hiving the same problem. I had cosmos prior, but i followed the installation to a "T" and still cant get it to work. On top of things now - i dont have an add on folder in my interface folder anymore. Anyone have any ideas? I cleared out the interface folder, extracted to my WOW folder, all that - everything appears in there now - but still nothing works. Please help me.