Both skins install the same way

Install guide

Five minutes tops, no technical knowledge required. The steps below apply to Cfmike Blackthorn Flat UI and Cfmike Eden Flat UI alike.

Download the zip

Grab the latest version of the skin for your server: Blackthorn or Eden. You get a blackthorn_vX.X.X.zip or eden_vX.X.X.zip file.

Unzip into the DAOC ui/ folder

Open the zip: it contains a custom/ folder. Copy that folder into the ui/ directory of your Dark Age of Camelot installation, for example:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Dark Age of Camelot\ui\custom\

If a custom/ folder already exists (another skin, or the other one of the two distributed here), back it up or replace it: two skins cannot share the same folder name.

Location of the custom folder inside the Dark Age of Camelot ui directory

Select the custom interface in game

Launch the game, open the options, interface section, and pick custom in the interface list. Confirm: the UI reloads immediately, no need to restart the client.

Selecting the custom interface in the game options

Tune the UI with the configurator

Each skin ships a small graphic tool in the custom/ folder. It runs on Windows without installing anything and rewrites the interface files for you: no XML editing, ever.

  • Blackthorn: double click Config.bat (game closed). Fonts (five families plus any .ttf you drop in the folder), four global sizes (M to XXL), bar styles Bysan or Atlantis Flat, quickbar variants, healer helper layouts. A .bak backup is written on every apply.
  • Eden: double click config.hta. Character sheet layouts, healer helpers, summary and bar sizes, chip colours, square or rounded shapes, fonts, icon sets, compass, and the English or French switch.

Reloading: layout changes (window sizes, labels) reload instantly with /uiload in game. Texture changes (bar colours, chips, shapes, icons, inventory, compass) need a full game restart: the client only loads textures at startup. The Eden chooser tells you which case you are in after every apply.

The graphic configurator window

Troubleshooting

The interface is invisible or scrambled

Check that the folder is named exactly custom and that it sits INSIDE the ui/ folder.

Configurator options have no effect

Run the configurator again after every UI update, then reload with /uiload. If the change concerns textures (colours, chips, icons, compass), restart the game completely: logging out to the character screen is not enough.

A window disappeared after a size change

Window positions are stored by the client, not by the UI. Unlock the interface and look along the screen edges: the window is probably sitting partly off screen.

How do I roll back?

Select the default interface again in the options. Nothing is changed in the game files.

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