Status Contrast

Status Contrast is a Dalamud plugin that adds backgrounds to status effect icons in order to increase contrast and legibility

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How To Install

StatusContrast is available on Dalamud. You can install from the plugin installer

For developers

Prerequisites

StatusContrast assumes all the following prerequisites are met:

• XIVLauncher, FINAL FANTASY XIV, and Dalamud have all been installed and the game has been run with Dalamud at least once.
• XIVLauncher is installed to its default directories and configurations.
  • If a custom path is required for Dalamud's dev directory, it must be set with the DALAMUD_HOME environment variable.
• A .NET Core 10 SDK has been installed and configured, or is otherwise available. (In most cases, the IDE will take care of this.)

Building

1. Open up StatusContrast.sln in your C# editor of choice (likely Visual Studio or JetBrains Rider).
2. Build the solution. By default, this will build a Debug build, but you can switch to Release in your IDE.
3. The resulting plugin can be found at StatusContrast/bin/x64/Debug/StatusContrast.dll (or Release if appropriate.)

Activating in-game

1. Launch the game and use /xlsettings in chat or xlsettings in the Dalamud Console to open up the Dalamud settings.
   • In here, go to Experimental, and add the full path to the StatusContrast.dll to the list of Dev Plugin Locations.
2. Next, use /xlplugins (chat) or xlplugins (console) to open up the Plugin Installer.
   • In here, go to Dev Tools > Installed Dev Plugins, and the Status Contrast should be visible. Enable it.
3. You should now see backgrounds behind your status icons!

Note that you only need to add it to the Dev Plugin Locations once (Step 1); it is preserved afterward. You can disable, enable, or load your plugin on startup through the Plugin Installer.