NorthernUI

NorthernUI

A comprehensive UI overhaul for Oblivion, in the style of Skyrim and SkyUI developed over the course of some seven months. Includes several small engine fixes, and adds native Xbox controller support to the game including its menus. (No more having to set an Xpadder-enabled controller down to manage your inventory!) This mod uses hand-pixeled assets, handwritten XML, and an OBSE-injected DLL to reskin Oblivion's menus and add engine-level functionality.

Installation instructions

Extract the mod into your Data directory (or create an OMOD out of it) to use it.

Mod Organizer 2 requires that you follow special instructions in order to support OBSE plug-ins, including the one that this mod contains. If you're using older versions of Mod Organizer, you will need to manually install the contents of the Data/OBSE/ folder.

Note that in Oblivion, file timestamps actually matter. If the "Date Modified" on your vanilla BSA files is newer than the "Date Modified" on a mod's files, then the mod will not install properly. When you install the game, Steam sets the "Date Modified" on the vanilla files to the install date. You can work around this by changing the timestamps with a mod manager (if yours supports this) or third-party Windows utilities; alternatively, you can try installing SkyBSA, which was developed to fix the game's file handling.

Major features

A sleek, modern look: NorthernUI's handmade graphics capture the look and feel of Skyrim's official menu art.

Native gamepad support: The game's existing (but lackluster) joystick support is replaced with full support for an Xbox controller, and gamepad controls for the menus (e.g. xbuttonrb) are patched back in. A new menu is provided for customizing gamepad controls; multiple control schemes can be defined and edited, and you can switch between them freely. All of this means that gamepad users don't need to rely on Xpadder and AntiMicro, and can play far more comfortably.

A modern Alchemy menu: NorthernUI can optionally replace the vanilla Alchemy menu with one modeled after SkyUI, offering a much smoother workflow when brewing potions and poisons. The new menu lets you sort ingredients by category and helps you tell at a glance which ones are currently usable.

Numerous engine fixes: Menu art is no longer blurry and grainy, the RaceSexMenu no longer lets you put tabs in your character name, save files delete to the Recycle Bin, and pressing the up and down arrow keys doesn't insert weird invisible symbols into whatever you're typing. For a full list, see the Articles section.

A built-in options menu: The mod adds a "NorthernUI" submenu to the Options menu, with settings for the