Radiant True Dark UI

A darkened UI Mod I’m working on for a whole year that I finally found perfect (or almost) not so long ago. Deeply inspired by "Eldryn’s Dark UI" and even more by "Rhozdear’s Dark UI Retexture" I reworked the whole thing almost from scratch, created new icons, in all sizes, corrected a load of texture clipping & stretching issues and adding a lot of nice modifications. Please read the rest of description and see the screenshot to see how it goes.

I made this mod because not a single one was meeting my ultimate expectations for Kenshi. I have almost 2000 Kenshi hours on count, played with tons of different mods including the most popular of Dark UIs (Eldryn’s) and I thought it was kind of fine at that time but when I discovered Rhozdear’s one it immediately felt better. Eldryn’s was missing a lot of Kenshi’s vibration and charm. The whole atmosphere was killed by something too "Microsoft windows dark edition" thing, you know ! So Rhozdear was right to bring back the rust although at some point it got too "sloppy" for my autistic eyes. I had to do something cleaner, sharper, but also little darker, with one unified style for icons and finally with all those glitches corrected.

• Icons : Each icon I made has been reworked multiple to insanely multiple times over the year. Countless times of saving, restarting the game adjusting something here or there, sometimes one single stroke of photoshop, sometime only one tiny pixel !
• Panels & Windows : Each panel has been cleaned, Textures adjusted (Compared to Rhozdear’s work, a lot of corrections has been made where the rust texture was stretched to a blurry state), borders tested in all kind of brightness to prevent bad pixel artefacts to appear in bright day or dark nights. Dark tone chosen to be slightly Darker than Rhozdear’s to preserve the rust mood.
• Buttons & Sub-elements : Lots of things have been repaired and tweaked. Each color has been tested with different constrasts/items around it. Blacks and limits have been reinforced.
• Fonts Rework : This mod was meant to work better with fonts from 15 to 18 preferably 17, make sure to tick that in Options menu. Fonts have been tweaked to be more unified : First fitting UI’s colors and mood at all cost and then meeting each other when in different areas. You’ll have the feeling everything is suddenly becoming more readable ! Also no more green skeleton mk or edge grade quality mention that burn your eyes or too discreet mention, furthermore I brought back the original international loot color chart in Kenshi for all your gears & weapons !

I would have never been able to make this or have all those nice ideas without the two mods I took as reference : Dark UI (by Eldryn) and Dark UI Retexture (by Rhozdear). The first one gave me new template shapes, this awesome new array of UI elements, ideas about the good way to darken certain parts of the UI, making this or that more readable and making me realize what was not working well / The second one gave an interesting take by bringing back more vanilla UI texture and also had several awesome ideas to compete with the first Dark UI, very clever guy. I’m grateful of their submissions, even if I criticized their babies I have a deep respect for what they achieved. Even if I feel like mine is now clearly superior, make sure to give those guys some love :

Eldryn’s Dark UI
Rhozdear’s Dark UI Retexture

UnCheat’s Patch for Widescreens

Darker version of this mod

Last updated on 11/01/2023

It should be compatible with other mods that don’t edit the same stuff.

Even if they represent hundred of working hours, i’m sharing my mods for free like most of mod creators. But deep down i’m really expecting you to do that little thing that would help me a lot : Liking my facebook artist page here [www.facebook.com]. Just that really ! It’s free and only taking few seconds of your time. I’m a comic/manga artist irl, i struggle a lot to put my personal project on the saddle, by liking this page you will see my work & updates but no worry, i’m not a spam guy. Please, understand this is my biggest motivation fuel to make more new mods, otherwise i’m loosing motivation. I deeply hope to see you guys joining me there.

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You can find all my mods by searching "Radiant" in steam workshop, nexus, or civfanatics, which is a recurrent word in all my mod’s tittles