Unfortenatly some text like charfacter stats are black for me? so i cant properly see them.... any ideas what can cause this?)

good of you! :)

@Allan Marques Feel free to do so. I haven't played Kenshi in a while, so I've unfortunately let this mod into the dustbin for some time.

This mod looks great cuz It captures Kenshi's state of decay after a thousand years. It also feels lightweight since it removes most of the black outline from the game windows.

@Rozdear, do you mind if I modify your mod? I'll change the HP bars' color because it lacks contrast. With reshaders on, it's tricky to assess limb health quickly.

The boxes look great. However, for some reason, the text is also colored dark, so I can't read anything on the menus and I had to turn it off.
Only using Compressed textures pack, Dark UI, and this mod. I tried fidgeting around with the mod load order to no avail.

I like it a lot, however some of the font is still too dark for me it was hard to read. For example, the explanations windows to understand an order the background of the window and the font were similar colors so its hard to read. Also, the construction requirements window is messed up and looks like overlapping. Overall, an amazing UI theme, I think just these slight changes would make it perfect. Great job !

beautiful and sexy
many thanks

@Rare Player
Thank you for the nice comments, and don't worry about it. Glad that you do like it!

btw this mod is nice for overriding other UIs since it keeps the vanilla feel, and it's my favorite Dark UI :)

oh my god i posted in the wrong mod and made a fool of myself.
let me go back to the circus where i belong.

huh, let me check

@Rare Player
Haha, I think you're confusing the changes another mod does for my own.

My mod, this one, ONLY retextures the UI, using Dark UI as the base for the changes.
What you're describing from the change in the enviroment like green areas and forests must be added by another mod entirely (perhaps 'Kenshi: Genesis' or another similar overhaul mod), because this one does none of that.

If you prefer the native Kenshi UI I suggest you just unsubscribe from Dark UI and this one mod, as it'd be rare for another mod to be dependent on them.

I like the zones that are changed to look more colorful, the green areas, the forests. Leviathan Coast looks great.
I also like the scary places. The Foglands look better. Arach looks way better.
There are zones that used to have more color and now they don't. Mainly all the desert areas which are now brownish, and also Gut which doesn't have those blue tones.
All that I said up to this point is subjective.
My big critique the UI. I'm a goober that likes Kenshi's default UI. It'd be nice if the UI and the rest of the mod were separated. It's better if a mod does one or two things, that way the end user can more easily choose what to change.
I hope you find this useful.

Wish I could thumbs up this a dozen times.

Thank you for this mod. I need dark mode UI for my eyes comfort, but I also need those rust gfx for the kenshi vibes. It's the perfect blend of aesthetic and comfort.

This mod only changes the textures of the UI. If you want to change the formatting of the in the UI you should look at Dark UI's files and edit it from there.

The text is very dark for this UI is there a way to make it lighter because I really want to use this

@Rohzdear: Thank you so much for responding! It does seem the latest update broke it, and they actually reverted the game back to 1.0.55! Hopefully they're aware and resolve this? I guess I will wait and see before digging in. Thanks once again!

@Deadmano If you wanna look at this mods files you'll find them in:
'...\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\233860\2109688072'.

For Dark UI the address would be:
'...\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\233860\1200632417'.

Haven't messed with them myself, but you'll probably find your answer in one of the .layout files in:
:...\Steam\steamapps\common\Kenshi\data\gui\layout:
Again, Eldryn1 will know more about this as they're the one that made Dark UI.

Looking at the .png files from before and after the update there doesn't seem to be any difference in the location of the assets that would cause this. Rather this seems like a change the game has made to the position of the UI, so all mods would be affected by it.

My mod only retextures the files Dark UI touches. Dark UI is the mod that changes the formatting of the UI and its shape, so Eldryn1 would have a better idea of what has changed.

@Rohzdear: The issue I mentioned, the squashed X in the crafting queue [i.imgur.com] for example, happens with this mod as well as with other UI edits. I think the latest patch ruined something. Any chance you remember which files I can poke at? I think it has to do with the height, as if you look at the image you can see the text being cut off.

Thank you, @Rohzdear, I appreciate you and for the work done here!

I've not played Kenshi in a while, and haven't updated this mod in even longer.

Those who are looking for a similar mod to this, you might want to check out 'Radiant True Dark UI' and its compliment, 'Radiant True Dark UI Retexture'. It's a very good replacement for Dark UI and my mod if you're having issues with it.

Did the recent Kenshi update cause an issue for anyone else? The crafting queue has stretched icons for example. :(

Good Mod-
However: Should have kept the Dark UI Limb Icon- the one with the eyes is too distracting / annoying. Also the Robot Limbs should have stayed Blue so it stands out- having it gray is kinda gross, blends in too much with the green and the background.

Good solid reading thanks to this mod and lore friendly.

this is a must normal dark ui doesnt fit the game at all

I think my original dark vanilla UI might work with russian since it's not using other mods.

@I BOIL DOGS ALIVE I'm afraid the 'stretching' is something that is not bound to the UI's texture, but is an effect the game itself uses on the textures to enlarge the UI boxes. Essentially, the game takes a single UI box texture and enlarges and shrinks it in width and height depending on what it wants to display, so it's the game itself stretching the textures rather than the textures already looking stretched. If you look in the mod's files the textures look fine until it's time to render them in-game. There's not much that can be done about that specifically, as I think the IO display is hardcoded

@казAXстанец I'm not entirely sure how Dark UI reacts to Russian, so I really don't know how iit would look paired with my mod.

@Goon Kidd The mod itself doesn't change anything about the text. It just changes textures to go alongside the changes to the text Dark UI does to text, and I don't really have any plans to change how my mod works.
However, maybe you can try UnCheat's patch for the mod. it could help with Health bar readability.

Haven't commented in my own mod in a while.

The reason this mod requires Dark UI is that I've left all of the messing with the text's font, color, and size entirely to Dark UI, while this mod only modifies textures.
You could probably use this mod without Dark UI but the text would not be changed to contrast with the new darker textures and be hardly legible.
If anyone wants to look into improving the text's readability they might have a bit of luck messing with Dark UI's font file more than my mod.

It looks disgusting in Russian(

Thanks so much for this amazing mod man

Indeed, its hard to read the black writing

please can u change the white colored text to something dark on the health bars and city tool tip as its very hard to see with the yellowish color

Than you for this. I really like the Dark UI layout but being colorblind I just cannot see the green progress bar when there is text on the way, like lockpicking. This also fixes that.

Great mod! Thanks!
Made a darker background patch so you actually could see Robotic limbs damage
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?edit=true&id=2372789030

@BrendanatorX: I agree. It needs more contrast for those bars. Those colours are the best for it.

I love the look of this but want a version with different coloured bars for health of limbs to be green/orange/red depending on hurt status :s

this is a fantastic ui but some things look a bit stretched like the notification bar thing at the bottom of the screen

I tried giving come transparency to the UI, but it really doesn't look good with how detailed it is.

What I might do instead is a recolor of the original Dark UI, with a color-scheme closer to this one instead of the original black with bright green you might see, and test some transparency on that one.

I would love if you could make a transparent option. Although I could see how it might not work so well with the rust effect.

I understand. I tried it myself and wasn't entirely convinced by it. A transparent effect is more fitting to a UI with a more minimalist style. Maybe I'll my hand at one later on.

Having downloaded and looked over the mod, I can confirm that Transparent UI and my own mod are incompatible with each other, as they both overwrite the same files. I think it's pretty reasonable to say that any UI mod that replaces that same files than I the other does will be incompatible with each other.

should be listed as "transparent UI", while requiring dark UI
taking a closer look, the "see through menus with rusty buttons" look I was envisioning isn't quite on the mark since both of these are mods to edit the background

Which mod is that?

The mod most probably would be incompatible with this one, as it probably adds its own version of the figure.png and kenshi_ui.png files. This means that whichever is lower in the load order would overwrite those above it, similar to how this mod overwrites the new UI files provided by Dark UI when placed below it.

how does this interact with the mod that makes dark UI translucent? I'd test it myself but I'm not in a good spot to atm

Re-uploaded the mod because I couldn't update the previous version. This one should stay in the Workshop.