The loading screen doesn't involve either of those things...?

Originally posted by Frousties:

Originally posted by BT Littlecolt:

Gosh... is it actually different? I never noticed much of a difference. Only difference I notice is the sphere in the bottom left. It otherwise looks the same to me. Character health bars and such in the bottom right, enemy health over enemies and in the top right, bottom left is the ATB gauge and menus to use for selecting commands...

What's the difference?

well, it doesn't seem noticeable for everyone, but the interface in FFXIII 2 is bigger and more messy than in FFXIII where the interface was way thinner and simpler without being uselessly big (hence the big sphere that I find horribly useless). I also don't like the darker interface in 2

with a side to side comparaison it can be more easily seen (and for some reason it seem even more noticeable in the pc version, mostly the stagger bar) : http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/27/1/1499076939-sans-titre.png

However, it's just my tastes (and a global feeling). Can we get back to the question, now ?

I'll preface this by saying I still do not know if it's possible, but I highly doubt it. It's not like a game like World of Warcraft where the interface is all XML based or whatever. The game's graphics are locked to its function, so making a change this big would be quite the ordeal.

I was intrigued by the claim that it's so much bigger, mostly because I had never noticed it and it had never bothered me, so I did an experiment with a vector shape tool, and I think the results speak for themselves...

I created vector shapes over the interface: http://puu.sh/wArsR/52d5836898.jpg

I overlayed blue (2) over red (1) and changed transparency. Purple is spots where they both reside, red is XIII's interface, blue is XIII-2's interface: http://puu.sh/wArvl/d7cd6ff39b.jpg

Super interesting. They both take up similar screen space, but in different ways. XIII-2 is definitely hogging a lot more screen, but it's all periphery. The biggest space hog in XIII-2 is definitely the party frame. Interestingly, I also noticed that the stagger meter looked bigger in XIII, but I gotta say, this reveals that it's actually just about the same, there's barely any difference. Very slight height increase, pixels.

Originally posted by Frousties:

Originally posted by BT Littlecolt:

What do you mean about the interface? I found it to be fairly similar to FFXIII's, especially in combat where the paradigm menus and such are virtually unchanged.

But to add to this, no, I do not think it's really possible to mod the interface to any great extent. What are you wanting to do?

Well as I said, change the ugly FFXIII 2 battle interface to the one of FFXIII (yeah I didn't specify "batle", sorry)

Gosh... is it actually different? I never noticed much of a difference. Only difference I notice is the sphere in the bottom left. It otherwise looks the same to me. Character health bars and such in the bottom right, enemy health over enemies and in the top right, bottom left is the ATB guage and menus to use for selecting commands...

What's the difference?

What do you mean about the interface? I found it to be fairly similar to FFXIII's, especially in combat where the paradigm menus and such are virtually unchanged.

But to add to this, no, I do not think it's really possible to mod the interface to any great extent. What are you wanting to do?

Did the game run prior to installing the mod?

Other than that, I can say that you should always backup the files you change. Keep the original so you never have to redownload it. Try again.

It's been a few months since I did it, but I was able to patch successfully. Once you patch, just run the game. Steam shouldn't be checking the files every time you run it, certainly, and the patch should not be making the game unrunnable.

Would it be possible for one of the talented folks out there modding this game to create a mod that fixes the combat camera? If not fixed position, then make it so it doesn't move freely on it's own. All the camera rotation, zooming in on attacks, changing angles - it's a bit disorienting. I've spent well over a hundred hours in XII and XII-2 and this is one of my only complaints. I'm used to it, but I still say it would be much better if it could just, ya know, calm down!