There's not a fix, unfortunately. The current engine is limited to 7 texture atlases. Each new mods adding new skills that isn't using inherited icons from ingame, are bringing their own atlas. This is not excluding DOS2's atlases, so functionally there's only 5-6 slots available.

Meaning that if you have more than 5 mods that adds icons, typically skill/class mods most commonly, that'll start happening. This is why for example Odinblade added a core library mod for all of his mods containing all of the icons in one larger atlas, to help lowering the frequency of this happening.

As time goes, I imagine we may see a cross-modder library for all icons for their mods intertwined. Or at least that's how it'll have to be done to remedy this.

It is unfortunate that this major oversight with modding support still exists since the dos1 game. Shame Larian will never bother to acknowlede let alone fix the problem. :(

Originally posted by TommyGun:

There's not a fix, unfortunately. The current engine is limited to 7 texture atlases. Each new mods adding new skills that isn't using inherited icons from ingame, are bringing their own atlas. This is not excluding DOS2's atlases, so functionally there's only 5-6 slots available.

Meaning that if you have more than 5 mods that adds icons, typically skill/class mods most commonly, that'll start happening. This is why for example Odinblade added a core library mod for all of his mods containing all of the icons in one larger atlas, to help lowering the frequency of this happening.

As time goes, I imagine we may see a cross-modder library for all icons for their mods intertwined. Or at least that's how it'll have to be done to remedy this.

Man, this is such a let down, I love having a lot and lot and lot of content so I've download almost every class/skill mod and some custom item mods like crafting overhaul and now my game is a mess with icons disappearing everywhere.
Worse thing is I don't know exactly which mod uses atlas ; for example, some mods add a config book to configure their mods, and they often use a custom icon for the book, does it take one atlas for this ?
I hope we can find a fix/workaround to this (or Larian fix it themselves hopefully...), this is so frustrating.

Anything that adds a completely new icon / picture file requires an atlas. Like I said, typically skill/class mods wanting to put a bit of love and creativeness and uniqueness into their skills.

So just gotta hope other than odin the other couple of class authors will also compress their custom textures into a single atlas rather than with each class.

I know helenae is looking into it. I'll be doing it for mine as well. We're even jokingly mentioning perhaps we should all do one mega-crossmodder-core-mod :')

Originally posted by TommyGun:

We're even jokingly mentioning perhaps we should all do one mega-crossmodder-core-mod :')

That's nothing to joke about, but should seriously be considdered!

It's not impossible to get done at least. Just needs coordination and stuff :]

If I use skill bar 2 versus the main #1 skill bar with everything, the icons don't break. Only in act 2 with not many icons, but definitely weird that preventing skill icons to disappear is not an easily fixed solution.

But I say this with no modding knowledge.

Looks like the dev team knows about it though? http://larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=631641

As it was said before, icons break when a particular section of the UI hits the 7 atlas cap. UI sections meaning a character's inventory being one, a backpack being another, each individual hotbar, a trader's inventory, the two different sections between your inventory and the trader's in the trade menu, and so forth.

So you can mitigate the limit a bit by organizing your icons onto separate hotbars. For instance, putting all your grenades/scrolls/arrows on one hotbar, separate from your skills, will effectively free up ~3 atlases.

Additionally, if you start mixing mod icons from different mods onto one hotbar, and icons start disappearing, consider moving some of them from a particular mod to a different hotbar.