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Joined: Aug 09, 2005 Posts: 684 Location: California
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:26 am Post subject: Advise on UI
I know there is a whole section on UI's but most of the stuff there is really old. I'm hoping for some up-to-date advise on a good UI for a paladin main with growing beastlord and bard alts.
I'm not at all happy with the current UI but really unsure how to get or use a better one. If you are using one you like can you please let me know or maybe update the UI section?
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:34 am Post subject: AYA
I've been using AYA's UI for years. I can hardly function in EQ without it now. It looks like the cockpit of an airplane and is quite busy but almost everything you could possibly want access to is there at your fingertips (cursor tip?).
Positives - It uses EQ's viewport function so EQ is confined to about the top two thirds of the screen and the UI is mostly confined to the bottom third so there's nothing behind any chat windows and no waiting for something to fade out; access to inventory and bag slots; clicky bar; potion belt; 2 hot button bars; numeric display of AA, LAA, Raid LAA, reg exp; group; and the list goes on.
Negatives - This is the part that is a big negative...you must set your EQ resolution to 1280 by 1024. If you don't have a big monitor, as in 21 inch, this UI will be difficult to deal with; you can't just type /loadskin to get this one to work, you'll need to read the instructions. You'll be deleting your toon(s) UI file (NOT character file) and replacing it with the one supplied. It might sound complicated, but its really not...just unzip, delete a file, copy file supplied, and rename.
Franklaw had been using the default UI for years, never changing a single XML file to the best of my knowledge. After seeing mine, he said he guessed he was going to have to go ahead and go over to the UI dark side.
I'll include a links to AYA at EQInterface and a screenshot. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them.
edit: you'll need to jump through the usual hoops of creating an account to download from here.
i think i would have to actually see someone use that ui to understand it lol.. took me a while to fine the "group window" which really isnt a window anymore.. very busy hehe _________________ And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
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Joined: Jun 02, 2005 Posts: 1019 Location: Camas, WA
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:23 pm Post subject:
I like the new UI meself... here is how I have mine set up:
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I got my /attack over my /assist in order to click off attack incase of non-dmg aggro situation....I have my 2 aggro spells over one-another so I can quick spam without needing to move cursor much (plus bash/taunt are right there for quick aggro and mashing)...Got my clicky heal potions within easy reach and almost every other hot key corresponds to the hotkey above/below it. IMO, it's FAR more convenient.
P.S. - chat 1 = my battle spam + mob battle spam....chat 2 = Others battle spam....main chat = /ooc, /gu, /AH, etc (talk mainly)....chat 3 = /gu officer chat + my crits and important emotes such as rage, ramp, etc.
My next mod will probably be to add my own hp to the group window and add F1-F6 next to the names. and I need to fix the default songs window (first 2 songs are dinky icons, 3rd is normal sized...)
I also normally have a 3rd chat window for melee spam, just forgot to set it up on my laptop when I took the pic. _________________
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