So lately I've not been liking my UI too much. The two chat boxes, one for chat and another for system and battle stuff was great, but having them stacked over on the left really ruined my peripheral vision over there. This is because of needing to use the log transparency feature to actually be able to read anything in these boxes 80% of the time.

So instead I've tried moving them both to the bottom like this.


Might take a little getting used to, since I need to look right for important information now instead of left, but we'll see how it goes.

What I'd like to do in future if SE let us customize the UI ourselves is:

1) Get all the action bars onto the screen at once. That scroll up down thing is super annoying.

1b) Set the action bars up in a way that mimics my G510 keyboard keys.

2) Replace that crappy buffs/debuffs icon thing with a list. It's hard to tell what the icons mean when a lot of abilities use similar or the same icons and the countdowns are hard to read at a glance when you've got a whole line of them.

Ironically, I'd probably put both of these on the left, but that's because they'd only really be visible during battle. Since I was bored I mocked it up in Photoshop quickly. So it'd be something like this I guess:


Lets hope they really do let us make custom UIs in future. I'll learn the language and implement some of this stuff myself if I have to.

I like the two windows on the right and left, may have to try that.

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That's an interesting take on things in the 2nd screenshot. I do agree that the chatlog needs a bit of work.

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I actually first tried to stretch the two chatlogs so they covered the bottom of the screen similar to FFXI. But then you're forced to put the action bar, help window, target bar and stamina bar right on top of yourself, and then adjusting the camera in config so it's low enough to put you back in the center of the screen looks weird as hell. I didn't have Fraps running at the time or I'd have taken some screenshots of it.

The action bar buttons on the left make a lot more sense if you use a G15 keyboard:

I just noticed something that could break that UI, what happens when you are in a party?! that big block of names has to go somewhere.

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I moved it above the right chat log, above the buttons, fits there quite well. It's nice to not have all the buff icons overlapping with the action bar and target/stamina bars too.

Completely off topic but since this is the take screenshots of my UI thread:

nice

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Grats! I hope my bomb fryingpan is +1

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Actually I blew that up.

oh man! did krellis make another handle?

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I got Arastos to do it, luckily its a relatively low synth.

When did they add boomerangs as weapons?

I kind of like splitting the chat logs like that, but I've gotten used to it on the left for me now.

Is there no way to program your keyboard to use the different skills? Like say, set a skill in a macro? Or do macros not work like that anymore?

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Heres the next version of my UI

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RIP Shiloh

I need to get a 1080p screen. You get so much extra room for chat logs than I do, lol.

Mine

I noticed I was missing a lot of chat and party requests for stuff as my eyes were always glued to the right of my screen watching health bars for cures and whatnot. Now I find it this setup easier as just about everything that matters is on the right. If something crazy happens I still have my battle log on the left side of the screen to refer to.

Chat Filters:

Left Box [General]

All are show except:

Linkshell [1]
Successful hostile Action by others
Failed hostile actions by others
Helpful action by/on others
Enhancing status effects by/on others
Enfeebling status effects by/on others
Other actions/information conerning others

Battle Log

Untouched

CKD Tab

All are hide except:

Say
Tell
Party
Linkshell [1]

Party Tab

All are hide except:
Say
Shout
Tell
Party

I'm still thinking about moving the Battle Regimen bar where it fits snugly between my action bar and just left of my chat box.

I actually originally had my logs set up so the chat stuff was not on the "General" tab too, but I found it weird to have the disconnect between typing some chat and then having what you typed appear in a different window elsewhere instead of the window you typed it in.

I'm liking the layout of my UI so far visually but I think it's usability has suffered. I find it difficult to keep an eye on the battle log during battle now because it's tucked away from the chat log. Maybe I'll just get used to it.