My New UI

[Sam DeathWalker]

Well after 20-30 hours of work I gots it where I wants it.

You can drool if you want.

Macaroon
X-Perl (Pitbull is a cpu hog)
Jamba

Auctioner (just using for informant and enhancetooltips right now)
Simpleminimap
Minimapbuttonframe
ArkInventory
Hitsmode
Titan
Tiptac


http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/748/uinewvv5.th.jpg (http://img377.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uinewvv5.jpg)http://img377.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

[thelastjay]

20-30.... hours? :O

[Rin]

20-30.... hours? :O

^ My thoughts... And, are you still in your 20s?

I have a question Sam, and I'm sorry, but I've been trying to figure it out: Why wouldn't you just level one of your teams up to 70 first, and then use 1 of the 70 characters to boost your other teams? It seems like its been 2-3 months now and you seem to be an avid player, yet you only appear to be in your early 20's for character level.

[pengwynman]

seems pretty bland for 20-30 hours :P

[Creazil]

I am drooling about 20-30 hours! Insane, that's a lot of time!

Anyway, it looks abit weird the actionbuttons overlaying the chat :) And I so not used to having the unitframes in the button .. There's not symmetry like you see in some ui's, which looks really cool!

[elsegundo]

thats 20-30 hours of leveling, playing, testing, etc? right? you did level and stuff while tweaking your settings, correct?

i'd imagine 2-3 hours. im still tweaking my macaroon settings.

[Sam DeathWalker]

That includes time searching for the right add ons and learning them and a bit of lua, and macros. And I still have to push them to the other computers (that wont take long though).

Anyway should be done with preparatory stuff and get back to leveling with my new faster computers and nice set up.

It should be bland, just giving you the information you use the most and not having other stuff clutter the view of the game.

I have been considering PLing (get the pal and 1 shaman (for raf)) to 60 or 70 then aoe instances ... we will see.

[Dominian]

Tbh i dont like it at all but that most likley just me...

[Kulzor]

need...more...buttons...

[Carnage]

I spent about 2 hours on my UI last night, i switched all my multibox to my mains UI :
http://s.wowinterface.com/preview/pvw19239.png (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info11255-CaithUI.html)

However, it was mainly because i was manually setting keybinds directly to macros, instead of having my keybinds bound to bartender4 buttons.


bind 1 MACRO Lightning Bolt
bind 2 MACRO Chain Lightning
bind F5 SPELL Astral Recall


ect.. quite nice acctually, should be much more reliable than bartender bindings would be. Also i acctually saw a great improvement in FPS, i guess its because i got rid of cartographer3 and questhelper.

[Ken]

Did you realize that your interface takes up about 40% of your screen?
[edit] Consider this:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3187/2871823009_2756dcba61_o.jpg
Titanpanel, XPerl UnitFrames, QuestHelper

(which took about 30 minutes to set up for all clients and probably an hour or 2 if you'd consider the other plugins that I tried in the past years)

[Sam DeathWalker]

I like that Cath UI for sure, very nice, but my experience with pitbull is that its really a hog costing like 4-5fps. But the Cath is like how I would do a UI. Note though you have a small minimap, no jamba, and no target of target from what I can see. But you have the grid thing which looks to be great for raid. I looked at that but it seems kinda like Jamba sort of. Also dont tell me that the maker of Cath didnt spend 20 or more hours getting everything just so, these really nice UI's dont just fall into place with no work. I gonna see what Cath uses for the chat screens though and rip those off muhahaha.

Ya my EQ ui is 18percent of the screen. My wow is much more... sadly. Well Im playing in 1280 X 960 to save cpu time (cept main is 1600 X 1200 so that both are 4:3 and I dont have to have different set ups for each), well I need jamba and thats like 10percnent right there. I would like to use up less but I like a big mini map and really like to see fast if my health is going down. I can reduce most everything if needed.

Kens UI would also be close to 40percent if you black out whats behind the text and add jamba, I dont see where its any advantage. I just prefer black behind my chat then some random colors.

[Ken]

I really like the X-Perl UnitFrames addon for party and raid members, because it shows you a lot of extra info (e.g. cast bars, targettargettarget, profile copying, buff filtering and lots more). I also use Jamba(I love it!) but the HUD interface is too limited for me.

Also, because my text 'windows' are transparent in my setup, they are sometimes(allbeit rarely) very difficult to read. I think I've been considering to give them a 20% transparent background or something.
Having a compact UI gives an advantage because you can see a lot better what is going on around you. Of course that's mostly useful in PvP, but less important in PvE, because PvE tends to have a more 'fixed' environment where you already know what is where.

[elo]

Jamba looks hot, I'll have to check that out.

Some people like symettry (hell some can even SPELL it) some don't, I'm in the former.

I can appreciate the time it takes to setup stuff like this. It usually gets just hacked together or people don't realize how much time they really spend on stuff. If you're a contractor in any industry then your estimate is going to be a lot closer than someone who isn't. Then there's me, I work for a contractor but am horrible at time accounting. :-(

[Moorea]

you can shrink (or even hide) the jamba list from the default (I made mine a lot narrower and used smaller font to take less space overall)

[Xealous]

Thought I'd share my interface too :)

It's the first I've ever created myself, so be kind ... and yeah there are a lot of buttons ;)
http://img522.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mbxscrnyl1.jpg
I do like wow's interface overall so wanted to keep most of that feel, but needed more buttons!

Using:
Bartender4
Titan Panel
ecastingbar
eepanels2
tiptac
and jamba \o/

[Sam DeathWalker]

That looks clean enough. Ya you guys are button crazy, with 26 I have to keep things really on the simple. Your 2nd titan bar at the bottem is a waste. And I dont like portrats in the unit frams.

I added chatter make my chat things look a bit better, and as you can see all my stuff is running on the low cpu usage.


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[Carnage]

I only put spells on bars that i want to track the cooldown of, its much more effective to bind stuff directly to keys. If you happen to have your WTF folder corrupted or deleted, you still have all of your spells / keybinds / macros fully functional.

[Kromtor]

i'm now using that minimap addon, it's great

you're inevitably going to take up a fairly large % of the screen when you're tracking the health of 36 people and you love a large minimap, i got some good ideas from this interface

edit: interfaces with tons of buttons are for people who went from Solitaire to WoW. Bind shit, buttons are for cooldown notifications not clicking

[Carnage]

Youve made me consider changing my minimap size ;)

Just finished writing a program that ive made to help me manage keybinds with ease:

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/238/keybindcreaterfl6.jpg ('http://img219.imageshack.us/my.php?image=keybindcreaterfl6.jpg')

Im learning VB.NET at college so doing this was quite good practice, i think i might work it to include more features such as macros - doing the icons is the part that makes me not want to do that though.

[Ifalna]

I fully agree that the less you have cluttering, the better.

http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/1940/uikw3.jpg ('http://imageshack.us')


I only use x-perl as an interface customiser, the rest of what I use, jamba, recount, bugrabbers etc are all hidden. The less you have on show, the easier it is to handle when you use another pc other than what you are used to.

While I love a lot of custom action bars, the original is still the best when it comes to playing at someone's elses house and not getting screwed over ;)