Small, helpful mod I made to center the Global Queue in the UI

Like many of, this quarantine has resulted in me falling back in love with AOE2. One new addition in DE that I really like is the Global Queue. It's a really great tool for avoiding idle TC time in the Dark, Feudal, and Castle Ages, as well as making sure your buildings still have units queued during trash wars. But I found the placement to be less-than-convenient, because the top left of the screen is not really somewhere I tend to notice quick changes in my peripheral vision, so I wasn't getting much use of it. I tried a couple different UI mods, mainly different versions of XavilUI. Many of these are really elegant an clean, but they move the resources and queue UI to the bottom, which results in a lot of game windows popping up when you hover over them.

So I decided to mess around in the UI files and move the queue to the center, where it's much easier to notice changes in it! (YES I KNOW MY GAME LOOKS LIKE A POTATO, BUT IT RUNS FINE AND STILL LOOKS BETTER THAN AOEK SO I DON'T CARE).

While it's a really simple fix (literally just change the variable "xorigin" for the "TechnologyProgressPanel" object from 0 to 1700 in the file technologyprogresspanel.json), if you're like me, you like to keep game-related files pristine and would prefer a mod. So I made one, which I've titled CenterGlobalQueueUI. It's easy to find in the in-game MOD menu, if you just type in "queue" or "ui".

I haven't tried it with any other UI mods, and I also haven't tried it on any other displays other than my own (which is a 1920X1080). I just wanted to share it to save anybody else the 3 hours of digging through javascript files, restarting the game dozens of times after messing with variables, etc).

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