Four pre-loaded UIs. One slash command to swap.
The Last Camp ships with four UI skins out of the box — chosen to span the eras most players remember. The bundled client defaults to crush1 (the 2002 Al'Kabor look). Type /loadskin crush1 through /loadskin crush4 in-game to switch between them, or /loadskin default to revert to stock RoF2.
Al'Kabor— default
/loadskin crush1The 2002-era Mac client look — what most veteran players remember from the Al'Kabor / TAKP server. Bundled as The Last Camp's default because it matches the era the server is locked at.
- ·Original SOE Default Old chrome
- ·Era-correct portrait, chat, and hotbar treatment
- ·Falls back to default for any post-PoP windows
Velious Style
/loadskin crush2The 1999 / Velious-era UI ported to RoF2 — right-side stacked spell gems, classic chat, classic portrait. The pre-Luclin look before SOE redesigned the chrome.
- ·Right-side stacked circular spell gems
- ·Pre-Luclin chat + portrait composition
- ·Two RoF2-only XMLs backfilled from default to prevent missing-window errors
1999 Stone
/loadskin crush3The raw 1999 / Stone UI — chunky pixel-art classic look, all the way back. For the full retro experience, run /viewport 119 0 400 320 after loading.
- ·Original 1999 pixel-art chrome
- ·640×480 designed; falls back gracefully on modern displays
- ·57 RoF2-only windows auto-fallback to default (Achievements, Bazaar, etc. — those didn't exist in 1999)
Modern (Sparxx)
/loadskin crush4Compact, dense, raid-friendly modern UI. Best for active raid play where vertical screen real estate matters — combat ability bar, modern target window, tight chrome.
- ·Compact target window with target-of-target
- ·Combat ability bar prominently placed
- ·MIT-licensed, actively maintained
How to switch
/loadskin crush1/loadskin crush2/loadskin crush3/loadskin crush4/loadskin defaultChoice persists per-character. If a skin is missing files for a window the RoF2 client expects, you'll see harmless UIErrors warnings — the client falls back to the default skin for those specific windows. Nothing breaks.
Why we ship four
Most players come to The Last Camp because of the era — Classic through Planes of Power, the version of EverQuest worth staying for. Which era you most remember varies wildly by when you played. Some folks need the 2002 Al'Kabor look to feel home; others want the 1999 spell gems on the right; others just want a modern raid HUD.
Rather than pick one and call it The Last Camp-canonical, the bundled client ships with all four. Default is crush1 because it matches the era the server is locked at, but every option is one slash command away.
Coming next
The bundled crush1 is Drakah's Default Old — a faithful update of the original SOE 2002 chrome. The true Al'Kabor UI is the qqui Calmethar Edition, which lives natively on the 2002 TAKP/Quarm client and won't drop into RoF2 without a full XML schema port. That port is the next UI work — The Last Camp-built "The Last Camp-AK" skin that no other RoF2 server has. When it ships, it will replace crush1 as the bundled default; the current Drakah-based skin will remain available.
Credits
Every bundled skin is community-built. The Last Camp redistributes them with attribution and permission terms intact. If you appreciate any of them, the authors deserve the recognition:
- Drakah — has been actively maintaining EverQuest UI mods since 2002. shakahr.com
- Shawk — community modder, ported the 1999 Velious-style UI to RoF2. EQInterface
- faBBe and dualentity — original raw 1999 UI build. GitHub
- xackery (Shin) — modern compact UI under MIT. GitHub