Setting up your UI

[Deliverator]

How are you guys arranging your UI elements? I'd like to see how other people are optimizing their screen to get some ideas for how to set everything up!

[Danth]

About the only thing I optimize is the buff window. I scale it along the top of the screen so it holds exactly 15 buffs--no more, no less--so I can see at a glance how much open buff space I have. Other than that, chat windows are left along the bottom and other windows get stuck in whatever corner/etc I feel like putting them.

Danth

[Xallis]

Going with viewport 4:3ish and moving chat/windows to empty space.

[ldgo86]

I love the way Lulz has it on stream. I’m replicating that.

[Fammaden]

Originally Posted by Xallis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Going with viewport 4:3ish and moving chat/windows to empty space.

You people are abominations and should be exterminated.

[Gustoo]

Thats a really good layout Xallis. I will do the same. Game works more correct at 4:3 and using dead space for all the other windows is winner.

[Xallis]

Originally Posted by Gustoo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thats a really good layout Xallis. I will do the same. Game works more correct at 4:3 and using dead space for all the other windows is winner.

Thanks! Will probably need some tweaking but I'm pretty happy with it. I agree 4:3 makes a pretty big difference, might as well use the rest of your screen for something though!

[Danth]

Originally Posted by Fammaden [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You people are abominations and should be exterminated.

I can't get too up in arms; that's more or less what the original "periscope view" UI did, although it did it in a much more artsy manner.

That being said, I'm too lazy to bother and simply run P99 in a straight 4:3 resolution instead, accepting that it does not wholly fill my modern monitor. Been playing that way for ten years, works well enough for me.

Danth

[Deliverator]

Does 4:3 make a difference because you can see more up/down than you can in 16:9?

[Danth]

Originally Posted by Deliverator [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Does 4:3 make a difference because you can see more up/down than you can in 16:9?

That is correct. If you want to be obsessive you can go to even narrower ratios and gain even more up-down vision, at the cost of the viewable screen area being quite skinny. A square-ish window probably makes for the best compromise. 16:9 is generally usable, especially for users who favor third person. Ultra-widescreens, wider than that, can cut off so much as to seriously hinder the user.

Danth