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new skin / TCS

Mar 13, 2021 rkerst link
I find that the new VO login skin interferes with TCS during startup. Setting skins=platinum seems to solve the problem. I can post the lua error messages if it's important, I will have to reconfigure everything to get it to pop up, though.
Mar 13, 2021 draugath link
Plugins are not supported by Guild Software. You'll need to take up issues with plugins with the community.
Mar 14, 2021 Ohm link
You are not wrong draugath, and personally I cannot use the fix above, as I use a custom skin, and using this skin throws the below errors, then I cannot start the game. For now I've simply removed the lines from tcs that inject a menu entry. But just in case this is an unintended side effect of the new UI update, I'm sure there is no harm in reporting it here.

These are the two errors, and once I click OK on the second one, the client closes (so with TCS installed and this new UI active, I cannot even get to the menu to disable the new UI). If you used the default skin, then the above fix works too. Here are the errors:



Mar 14, 2021 draugath link
As always, before reporting bugs, you should remove all plugins first and attempt to reproduce them. Those screenshots clearly indicate a problem with a plugin, not the game.

Those errors are from TCS attempting to insert a button into a location that no longer exists for one reason or another.
Mar 14, 2021 Ohm link
Like I said draugath you are not wrong, but as this UI change is the only thing that has changed, it is worthy of a report. Yes, plugins are un-supported, and I would usually agree with your assessment, but I think in this circumstance it is worthy of a report as it may actually be unintended side effect of the new UI update.

I understand this error is caused by TCS and not the game, but surely you understand that maybe the devs would like this feedback from plugin users when they are changing the UI (and therefore how some plugins work). If TCS needs to be changed that is also fine, but there is no harm in reporting this issue.
Mar 14, 2021 Luxen link
You sound like the change is relatively minor, but EVERYTHING about how its layed out code-wise has changed, and this was an intentional change based on how the UI will be built going forward...

There is no unintended side effect, its just built different, and plugin developers will have to learn how to work within the new interface, patching their plugin to handle how absolutely different the UI is now built.

No, there is no harm - except that this is the bugs forum, and this issue is not a game bug at all.