1. Set up the new Control Center layout by specifying the top/bottom and left/right aligment of elements independently, assign them to fade groups or turn fading off and configure Sidebar/Rollup Panel behaviour
2. Generate the new Control Center layout data
3. Replace the previous Control Center layout with the new one in the ControlCenter.xml file

Since the GUI of the game was not meant to be modded like this (nor in any other way, for that matter), your options are still rather limited and you might notice some oddities in certain configurations. Still, using this tool should provide you with somewhat more freedom in customizing the Control Center layout than just using the pre-defined files in the ndGUI package.

Step #1: Set up new Control Center layout

Menubar
	Lock menu background bar position to menubar
	Lock Agg/Def and Creds bar positions to menubar

  Vertical position: Bottom Top     Horizontal position: Right Left
  SoftMenu fade group: Menus Shortcutbar numbers Other elements None (Disabled)     Perk Actions button fade group: Menus Shortcutbar numbers Other elements None (Disabled)

Agg/Def Bar
  Vertical position: Bottom Top     Horizontal position: Right Left     Fade group: Menus Shortcutbar numbers Other elements None (Disabled)

Creds Bar
  Vertical position: Bottom Top     Horizontal position: Right Left     Fade group: Menus Shortcutbar numbers Other elements None (Disabled)

Menu background bar
  Vertical position: Bottom Top     Fade group: Menus Shortcutbar numbers Other elements None (Disabled)

Rollup Panel
Displace top holder area:		Never		Only if Mini Toolbar is at top		Always
Displace bottom holder area:		Never		Only if Mini Toolbar is at bottom		Always

  Mini Toolbar position: Top Bottom

Shortcutbar Togglers
  Vertical toggler fade group: Shortcutbar numbers Menus Other elements None (Disabled)     Horizontal toggler fade group: Shortcutbar numbers Menus Other elements None (Disabled)

Shortcutbar Numbers
  Fade group: Menus Shortcutbar Numbers Other elements None (Disabled)

Notes:

• Fade groups determine which elements fade in and out together when the mouse is moved over any element in the group
• You can selectively disable fading on individual elements if you don't want to disable fading globally in Options
• The main menu (Char, Info and Misc) and Quick Options buttons are in the "Menus" group by default and their fade group cannot be changed

Step #2: Generate Control Center definition data

After having set up the new Control Center layout, click on the button below to generate the new Contol Center layout definition data into the textbox.

Step #3: Apply new Control Center layout

1. Completely exit the game
2. Start the AO launcher, click "Settings", then select the "GUI" tab in the Settings window
3. Click the "Open" button next to the "Skins" line in the "Folders" frame to open the custom GUI folder, then click "Cancel" in the AO Settings window
4. Open the "ndGUI\Views" folder in the custom GUI folder
5. Locate the "ControlCenter.xml" file, and open it with a plain text editor (eg. Notepad)
   Note: If your current ControlCenter.xml file contains any customization (such as aligned shortcutbar numbers or togglers), you will need to note down the values before proceeding to the next step, then restore them after step #5
6. Select all the content of the file and delete it
7. Select all the content of the textbox above and copy it to the clipboard
8. Paste the content of the clipboard into the empty "ControlCenter.xml" file
9. Save and close the file

If something went wrong...

If you encounter issues with your custom generated Control Center layout (such as most of the Control Center elements not getting displayed), you need to revert to any of the default layouts by replacing the current "ControlCenter.xml" file with one of the default layouts in ndGUI (as described in the "Customization / Changing the menubar position" section of the main page).

Should something like this happen and you can recall the settings which resulted in a bad layout, please notify me about the issue in the Notum Dovvetech GUI 4.3 thread or in a PM.