Dragonbreaker UI Overhaul - Dear Diary based

Dragonbreaker UI is a complete user interface replacer for Skyrim SE (including Anniversary Edition), providing a more vibrant and colourful UI. It is heavily inspired by the menus in the Witcher spin-off games Gwent and Thronebreaker from CDProjekt Red.

It is built as a replacer for Dear Diary Dark Mode by uranreactor. Dear Diary comes with an abundance of QoL improvements and support for other mods built in and is a fantastic base to build reskins on to take advantage of these features. Check it's page for more details and a compatibility list

It also includes a full HUD replacer, notably aimed at TrueHUD - with a massive collection of alternate logos available here, that is well worth your time looking at to tailor that part of the UI to match your character.

Installation and Requirements

Requirements:

SkyUI - obviously the base for Skyrim's UI

Dear Diary Dark - either the Warm or White version is fine. Dragonbreaker UI overwrites almost all of DD's files anyway, to the extent it will technically work without DD being installed prior, but you would miss out on some of the beneficial sorting code in list menus. And I think DD's mouse cursor suits this UI perfectly also.

SkyHUD - Required for the Compass reskin, and the HUD more generally if you're not planning to use TrueHUD

TrueHUD - Highly recommended for HUD replacement

I also recommend Oblivion-Like Loading Menus and Oxygen Meter 2 which both have patches included in the FOMOD.

Patches also included for Custom Skills Menu and Compass Navigation Overhaul and C. O. C. K. S.

Installation:

Simply download and install this mod with your preferred mod manager. A FOMOD installer will guide you through each step and allow you to choose which parts to install (incase you have a preference for Dear Diary Dark or even vanilla SkyUI on some menus - but I recommend you install everything for visual consistency). The FOMOD will also give you an option to install a couple of TrueHUD presets that will colour the bars identically to the other menus, or to continue using your own config.

After installation, there are a few ways you can customise the appearance through the config features of Dear Diary and SkyHUD.

Dear Diary config can be found in interface\deardiary_dm\config.txt, check the Dear Diary Dark mod page for details of what can be configured, and the file itself explains quite clearly how it works

The SkyHUD config can be found in interface/skyhud/skyhud.txt, and if you're using TrueHUD you won't need to worry about many of it's options. You can however swap between the default compass and a bold paper-style one by adjusting the value on row 56 'bAltCompass='. 1 will give you the default thin compass, a