Post Your UI, Nubs.Follow

I'm still debating how I want mine, to tell you the truth. Because I really don't know...

Will you post the *.xml file for those who wish to share in your hard work?

I'm not sure, but I think you might be able to get rid of the arrows by disabling the "show background" option. I'm at work right now so I can't check, but if you look at the bars on the right side of my screen, you'll see there's a gap and they have no border. I later found that option and turned it on, and they now have that border and look right. I'm wondering if I can remove the background on that first bar.

I really really wish the UI editor put a grid on the screen. I'll probably take a ruler later and center some of the elements properly.

The quickslots might be a tad small; I might bump up the scale by .05 or .1 maybe. They're really just a visual reminder of what I have bound where, and for watching some procs. Only thing I ever click with the mouse is Seethe and its analogs.

A note on subtitles: If your subtitles are way off center and sh*t, that's because they decided to let you move the response wheel, and cutscene subtitles are centered above it.

I have to find a suitable place for my focus target, and probably resize my op frames a bit smaller. I like the target-of-target position. In WoW, I kind of had the focus frame in the bottom right corner of the top left quadrant of my screen.

I'll post an .xml when I'm finally happy with my layout.

Can you hide the main quickbar? Because you could just use the other 3 instead, right?

I guess you could put Quickbar 1 underneath the minimap and go three wide with it, or change the configuration of two others. The fourth bar could go somewhere like the side or wherever. It's a popular configuration in WoW, I've noticed, to have things you might click like medpacks, bombs, etc. on a sidebar.

I might move the chatbox to the bottom right corner of the screen, shift the ops frames up, and put the focus frame under those. Either that or move the chat box to the bottom right, and stack the ops frames above it, if you can have it grow from right to left. I think if they're too high up on the screen, they won't be accessible if I end up leveling a healer, and I like to have one UI setup across all characters.

Servers are back up, so here's the promised screenshot of my UI:
Default Custom UI (I know, I rock at making names for stuff)

And here's the *.xml file:
Default Custom UI.xml - 25.3 KB (choose the "Free download" option - it'll ask you to wait 45 seconds and then you can download the file)

Put it in your GUIProfiles folder located at:

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\SWTOR\swtor\settings

The AppData folder is hidden by default so you may have to enable showing of hidden folders. To do this, on Windows 7 at least, open a window, press Alt and then select the Folder Settings option in the drop-down menu of Functions. It's the bottom option. Once you open the Folder Settings, you need to click the tab called Show and then scroll down to Hidden Folders and Files and move the check mark from Don't Show to Show.

These are direct translations from Danish, so they might be named something else in the English version of Windows, but I'm sure you'll find it.

Edited, Apr 13th 2012 10:58pm by Mazra

Thanks. Still not sure if I want the minimap bottom center or top right.

I'm seriously debating with myself about what to do with my unit frames, chat box, and minimap. I know I'll have quickslot bars in the center, because you pretty much need them, especially since there are no macros.

I think my minimap will be put on the bottom right, with chat on the bottom left. I'm just so used to looking there, and I tend to ignore my chat now. I just don't know what to do with party frames with that. I'll definitely be keeping my/target frames in the center, though.

Meh, I'll experiment one of these days.

In the UI editor, click your target-of-target frame. Then, in the options box, make sure the "Enable" box is checked. I believe it's disabled by default.

Why hello there. Who might you be, good sir?

It's one of the default avatars.

And IDK about the chat windows.

Sorry, I don't know who RAW is. Yes, that is one of the default avatars. I've been a longtime lurker/poster on the EQ section of Alla's, and realized the other day that they had a SWTOR section when the Bioware forums were down along with one of the patches. I was looking for some UI ideas anyway and found you guys with a fresh discussion on it, lol.

I noticed the same thing happening with my chat windows yesterday: it would only default to the window that had the system messages going through it. I also noticed that the windows would always default to General for the left window, and Say for the right window. It was getting very annoying having to keep switching to the Ops channel every time I went into a warzone.

I took a bit more time last night redoing my UI. I'll post a screenshot when I'm at the SWTOR computer.

Also... has anyone been able to get the chat windows to stay transparent? I can only get mine to "fade".

I think that r/swtor has a pretty good community. Not that I'm trying to drive people away from here, but it's a decent sized group and there's a good amount of activity without the general sh*tshow that is o-boards.

Edited, Apr 19th 2012 9:27pm by Spoonless

This thread needs more screenshots and links to .xml files.

Srs.

What resolution are you running the game in, Raji?

1440x900 here - the highest my monitor can support is 1680x1050

Yeah, and they warned that you have to manually manage it. So it can become a space hog if you play a lot without purging it.