So i know you can have your quest LIST shown as a popup like this
but is there a way to have your quest journal been shown as a pop up?
would be actually make more sense for this to be a pop up to show you what you are up to without having to click into a new window, making questing easier without relying on Youtube videos or Wiki Guides
External link →It's technically possible to add a HUD child window for the quest journal - the caveat is there's nothing in quests that tells the quest journal to refresh when any quest-specific variables advance state.
Historically the quest journal generates its text from your current state when you open the interface, depending on that player-triggered event to have the latest objective text.
So the popup would need a manual refresh button at the very least, which would somewhat degrade the benefits of passively having its objectives on your HUD while you continue through the quest.
Could refresh the popup on a timer, but slight performance impact to that (the quest journal is a very old interface from back before we had client-side infrastructure that generates all its data server-side then transmits it to the client - also fun fact, the quest journal long predates dynamic components so each entry is one of a finite set of static text components).
So would still need a manual button to trigger a server-side quest journal refresh, as a timer loop wouldn't always line up with the ticks when the user advances quest states.
The other factor is that the journal gets very long with longer quests, and there isn't a way to hide the completed past-tense objective text to suit a smaller resizeable window. Historically the same command is used to submit completed and objective entries, so the journal system can't distinguish between text that differentiate by embedded colour tags.
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