The Lord of the Rings Online UI Skinning Detailed

Turbine’s official The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar website has been updated with an overview of how players can customize the game’s user interface.

All of the UI skins created by users must be located within the “…uiskins” directory. Each user-defined skin should be placed in a separate subdirectory under our pre-defined location, so you may have something like:

“…uiskinsChatRevamp”
“…uiskinsRedToolbar”
“…uiskinsTestSkin”

Inside each user defined skin directory a skin definition file (and accompanying images) is expected. This XML file is named “SkinDefinition.xml” for every skin (discussed below.)

The remaining files in this directory are the media files. The media files are generally TGAs (RGB + alpha).

Note: the “…” directory is where you can find the UserPreferences.ini file. It is usually something like

“C:Documents and SettingsusernameMy DocumentsThe Lord of the Rings Online”