Configurations of Main Screen for Your Toons
By
Fusion_7,
Posted on: 2010-09-02 13:01 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
My screen setup is horrible for seeing the 3d action, but I tend to pay a lot of attention to combat numbers as they fly by and I chat quite a bit. It'd be absolutely impossible for me to see anything, however, if I didn't adjust the window scale. I keep mine set to 80% now (I think it was actually at 85% for this screenshot though, since it was before I got my larger monitor and text was a bit too small to read comfortably at 80%). Anyway, here's mah setup:
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I tend to open windows like Maps only as I'm using them and then close them immediately. Here's my layout:
Bar #1 (on the bottom) is my most often used powers (usually attacks or primary control set), Bar #2 (on the side) is travel powers including portals, temps and other stuff I don't need immediate access to and #3 (next to inspirations) is usually my secondary set and non-travel pool powers including toggles. Obviously I'm flexible as required depending on the archtype and power set.
Stuff I rarely ever use or there's never any rush such as the tarot card power gets popped into Tray 9 (as in I cycle back from Tray 1 to get to it).
I can't stand a cluttered screen. Chat is usually the same height as my trays but this is the only pic I have with the UI. I use Ctrl to pull up the 3rd tray with my rest and temps and base porters. Team window goes between the chat and power trays on buffers. Attacks on bottom buffs on top.
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I'm a weird one. I move using the arrow keys, powers in tray one are number activation, the first five powers in the 2nd tray are activated by QWERTY. 3rd tray is CTRL+#. Insps are F1-F5. So my mouse is only an occasional tool. It also bugs me to have a useful power hidden, hence the 3 extra trays (MMs have tray 6 flat on the bottom of the screen).
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I've been thinking about this for awhile now. I've seen some screen shots in some of these forums with people having different set-ups for stuff on their main viewing screen. The way I have had mine for the past year plus is my Nav tray in the upper left corner, my life & XP tray in the upper right corner, my chat tray in the lower left corner and my power tray in the lower right corner. I was wanting to move some of these things around and try some different looks but not sure what will work best on my 24" monitor screen? I know you guys out there must have some nice set-ups you can show to give me some ideas? I think I seen one person who had "all" their stuff at the bottom of the screen. I thought that hid too much of the action below, on the bottom of the screen.
My thinking is having the more practical stuff that you would need to see and that is somewhat necessary to view. Below, I had an old screen shot I took with other clutter on the screen that I Photoshoped out so you could see how I normally have my stuff positioned and set-up.
So, any screen shots you guys have that show how you have your main screen set-up would be helpful and I believe interesting because I know there has to be better ways to configure this stuff to make it more "friendly" on the user.