IRL - Imgui to Rmlui

[E9er]

Hey gang! I use to do a bit of stuff till i kind of fell off to emu doing my own things and learning and experimenting with things. Outside of EMU dev work i really enjoy making MQ tools for my players and friends when they ask for some custom stuff or changes to things to better suit their play styles. Overall I just truly enjoy making things. One thing ive been toying with lately. Removing gui visuals ive never been a huge fan of those windows. They are absolutely best for what they are doing keep in mind with me saying that. Visually, though I just can't look at those windows anymore in 2026.

With that being said i had been exploring options outside of what i like to call primitive GUI windows. I found a very lightweight option that works alongside GUI and allows a lot more customization and creativity from people. What this system allows is for you to make windows in css/html instead of gui. Which, as you can imagine, opens the doors to insane amounts of possibilities and capabilities. For me, it brought back drive again in creating things and doing stuff again. Im in the final stages of testing/toying with things and finding my limits. Will soon PR it to the github to see if its something others would like to toy with or spark creativity.

I also understand some people don't like change and prefer their typical GUI stuff, which is why I opted to build it as a slide-in plugin for Verse MQ Core.

Below will be a of video showcasing what this system can offer, from basic window designs and styles to some more advanced, cool-looking windows without tanking fps values. A bit of tools will look unfimiliar or unknown as they are built for one of my servers.

 

[E9er]

Hey gang! I use to do a bit of stuff till i kind of fell off to emu doing my own things and learning and experimenting with things. Outside of EMU dev work i really enjoy making MQ tools for my players and friends when they ask for some custom stuff or changes to things to better suit their play styles. Overall I just truly enjoy making things. One thing ive been toying with lately. Removing gui visuals ive never been a huge fan of those windows. They are absolutely best for what they are doing keep in mind with me saying that. Visually, though I just can't look at those windows anymore in 2026.

With that being said i had been exploring options outside of what i like to call primitive GUI windows. I found a very lightweight option that works alongside GUI and allows a lot more customization and creativity from people. What this system allows is for you to make windows in css/html instead of gui. Which, as you can imagine, opens the doors to insane amounts of possibilities and capabilities. For me, it brought back drive again in creating things and doing stuff again. Im in the final stages of testing/toying with things and finding my limits. Will soon PR it to the github to see if its something others would like to toy with or spark creativity.

I also understand some people don't like change and prefer their typical GUI stuff, which is why I opted to build it as a slide-in plugin for Verse MQ Core.

Below will be a of video showcasing what this system can offer, from basic window designs and styles to some more advanced, cool-looking windows without tanking fps values. A bit of tools will look unfimiliar or unknown as they are built for one of my servers.

 

[E9er]

Hey gang! I use to do a bit of stuff till i kind of fell off to emu doing my own things and learning and experimenting with things. Outside of EMU dev work i really enjoy making MQ tools for my players and friends when they ask for some custom stuff or changes to things to better suit their play styles. Overall I just truly enjoy making things. One thing ive been toying with lately. Removing gui visuals ive never been a huge fan of those windows. They are absolutely best for what they are doing keep in mind with me saying that. Visually, though I just can't look at those windows anymore in 2026.

With that being said i had been exploring options outside of what i like to call primitive GUI windows. I found a very lightweight option that works alongside GUI and allows a lot more customization and creativity from people. What this system allows is for you to make windows in css/html instead of gui. Which, as you can imagine, opens the doors to insane amounts of possibilities and capabilities. For me, it brought back drive again in creating things and doing stuff again. Im in the final stages of testing/toying with things and finding my limits. Will soon PR it to the github to see if its something others would like to toy with or spark creativity.

I also understand some people don't like change and prefer their typical GUI stuff, which is why I opted to build it as a slide-in plugin for Verse MQ Core.

Below will be a of video showcasing what this system can offer, from basic window designs and styles to some more advanced, cool-looking windows without tanking fps values. A bit of tools will look unfimiliar or unknown as they are built for one of my servers.

 

[Sic]

if you need to change a video, just edit your post. please don't post and then delete and repost.

 

[Sic]

I also understand some people don't like change and prefer their typical GUI stuff, which is why I opted to build it as a slide-in plugin for Verse MQ Core.

this reads as confrontational escalation due to opposition to the code you posted as a PR.

just because some ai generated code "didn't make the cut" doesn't mean "people don't like change"

Here is a link to RMLUi which is what e9 is converting to a plugin

 

[Sic]

stop posting new threads.

 

[Sic]

I do like the look of rml - hopefully the integration will be easy to utilize. options and tools and whatnot are awesome.

how does your plugin integrate with Lua usage?

 

[brainiac]

> What this system allows is for you to make windows in css/html instead of gui.

lol lets ask the EQ team how well that went.

> Will soon PR it to the github to see if its something others would like to toy with or spark creativity.

I'm totally wiling to give this a chance, but theres a minimum bar required for a plugin -- just use the plugin template (mkplugin) and use the proper header includes and library imports.

Your previous PR had fabricated tons of stuff that would never fly and would break frequently. Don't copy stuff from the mq repo, don't use cmake (its not actually supported, but its really good for catching rogue ai agents). Use visual studio solution files. ezpz.

You don't need to make a PR, just serve it up from your github repo.

> With that being said i had been exploring options outside of what i like to call primitive GUI windows.

GUI is a generic term, it means graphical user interface. If you're referring to something specific, like ImGui, then call it that, specifically. You're not the only one who has made a new gui system.

 

[Redfrog]

E9er,
That work looks very nice, and a lot of effort in many options, kudos. Its nice to learn about something new, new to me anyways. Is this requiring the new UI engine on (for Live) or its only for EMU? Did you dislike ImGui or the EQ built in GUI? Others have created imGui overlays to replace the EQ windows on here, but it still requires some EQ things to be 'up' just hidden under the overlays, does the RMLui require the same or how have you been running? Thanks.