Share your STO UI Layout
Hey gang!
I was wondering if anyone else would be interested in sharing how they've organised their UI, specifically in space (there's so much less HUD on the ground it's not so relevant). I thought it might be useful to show how you've laid things out, and note any particular reasons why.
So here's a screencap of mine (from a couple of days ago actually, made using '/screenshot_ui'). As you can see, personally I like the UI Scale reduced to fit in everything I want at the bottom of the screen taking up as little space as possible. I like to see the pretty graphics!
I use all ten of the hotbar spaces on three hotbar rows, though when it's only displaying two rows that means there are fourteen slots you can't actually see. To help me remember where everything is, I've arranged my various powers logically (to me), with my most used powers in 1-10 (I use the number pad btw, numbers 1 to 8, then slot 9 is the '-' key and 0 is the '+' key. No idea why you can't actually map to the 9 on the number pad, or at least I can't.), then mostly buffs and heals in Ctrl 1-10, and very rarely used powers and devices in Alt 1-10. I use the two row hotbar because I like to see my BO slots. No idea why, it just makes them seem more relevant I suppose. Anyhow, I've recently rearranged my powers tray to account for VA1 powers, so if anyone's any good at recognising the power icons, it looks like this:
Otherwise, I like the hull/shield ring indicator roughly centred as that's pretty much the most relevant thing in a fight; especially since I prefer the shield rings turned off. It's flanked by the powers so I can easily see the cool-downs on the more important abilities, with the map/power bars/throttle least important in an emergency to at the edges.
The chat box is where it always is in every MMO I've played, so I'm just used to it there. I can't normally be bothered to watch the combat spam, so usually the chat box is on my 'Fleet' tab, which only shows Fleet chat, PMs, and team chat.
So if anyone would like to/wouldn't mind sharing theirs, I'd be really interested to see! Ciao!
PjhN x
I was wondering if anyone else would be interested in sharing how they've organised their UI, specifically in space (there's so much less HUD on the ground it's not so relevant). I thought it might be useful to show how you've laid things out, and note any particular reasons why.
So here's a screencap of mine (from a couple of days ago actually, made using '/screenshot_ui'). As you can see, personally I like the UI Scale reduced to fit in everything I want at the bottom of the screen taking up as little space as possible. I like to see the pretty graphics!
I use all ten of the hotbar spaces on three hotbar rows, though when it's only displaying two rows that means there are fourteen slots you can't actually see. To help me remember where everything is, I've arranged my various powers logically (to me), with my most used powers in 1-10 (I use the number pad btw, numbers 1 to 8, then slot 9 is the '-' key and 0 is the '+' key. No idea why you can't actually map to the 9 on the number pad, or at least I can't.), then mostly buffs and heals in Ctrl 1-10, and very rarely used powers and devices in Alt 1-10. I use the two row hotbar because I like to see my BO slots. No idea why, it just makes them seem more relevant I suppose. Anyhow, I've recently rearranged my powers tray to account for VA1 powers, so if anyone's any good at recognising the power icons, it looks like this:
Otherwise, I like the hull/shield ring indicator roughly centred as that's pretty much the most relevant thing in a fight; especially since I prefer the shield rings turned off. It's flanked by the powers so I can easily see the cool-downs on the more important abilities, with the map/power bars/throttle least important in an emergency to at the edges.
The chat box is where it always is in every MMO I've played, so I'm just used to it there. I can't normally be bothered to watch the combat spam, so usually the chat box is on my 'Fleet' tab, which only shows Fleet chat, PMs, and team chat.
So if anyone would like to/wouldn't mind sharing theirs, I'd be really interested to see! Ciao!
PjhN x
