How to add a little spice to your PWI UI

Nowitsawn - Heavens Tear

This does not involve any editing of client files, so this should be entirely legal according to the PWI Terms of Service. It's just a program that shows up on top of your PWI screen.

(This works for both fullscreen and windowed mode.)

Ever got bored of the functions the PWI user interface offers? Ever wanted to have a clock displaying the current server time hovering below your minimap? Ever wanted it to look something like this (aside from the messy skill bar b:quiet)?

While fiddling around with this little program called Rainmeter I found out that it works perfectly with PWI (and any other game really) and I figured I would share this with the rest of you.

The Rainmeter homepage has enough of an explanation as to what the application itself contains, but there are a few things I'll have to explain so that you can get it to work nicely with PWI.

Rainmeter can slow your computer down a bit (which depends entirely on which and how many skins you have activated) so it's not advised to use this on slower computers.

After you've downloaded and installed Rainmeter, a few menus should pop up on your desktop. You can right click the ones you don't want and select ''Unload skin'' to remove them.

You shouldn't have that many skins available at this point, so you can pick out a few nice ones from the rainmeter DeviantART page. For most skins the installing process is pretty simple: just select ''open with rainstaller'' and you're done.

Now you just need to activate them and give them the right settings. Open the Rainmeter skins menu and make sure the skins you want to use are loaded. You can now drag them around the screen and place them as you wish.

The menu should look like this.
Those settings are just my personal preferences, but here's how the important ones work:

Position: For skins to show up while playing PWI you will need to set this to ''stay topmost''.
On hover: With this set to ''hide'' a skin will fade out when you hover over it with your cursor. This way they don't interfere with gameplay.
Draggable: Best to keep this off so you don't accidentally move your skins across the screen.
Click through: Best to turn this on. This way you can still use the parts of the screen that are taken up by skins.

All your loaded skins will stay like that until you exit the rainmeter program, so keep that in mind if you like to play in windowed mode and do other stuff while playing (such as browsing the forums). Your skins will show up there as well.

Enjoy b:thanks