This edition's UI is, in my opinion, pretty good looking. It's clean and it looks like all the mods have been tweaked in their settings to look as though they belong to a coherent whole.
Zodak of Dark Iron provides an explanation of his UI is as quick and clean as the setup itself:
My UI goal is to simply display everything necessary in a straightfoward manner. Minimalism with the most pertinent information shown as possible without creating clutter. I've also focused a lot on maximizing my widescreen display.
The mods we can see include:
- FuBar
- EEpanels
- SWstats
- agUnitFrames
- Bartender3
- Prat
- Squeenix
- SimpleCombatLog
- Buffalo
What do you think of Zodak's setup? What I want to see from you in submissions for the next edition are some really WACKY UI setups. Let's see how outrageous you can get! Maybe we can put together a cavalcade of the weird, the cluttered, the unusable!
Show us what you got by submitting to: readerui@gmail.com
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-04-2007 @ 9:50PM
E said...
Ah,another Charcoal expatriate, I see. :-)
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4-04-2007 @ 10:18PM
jetsfan80 said...
his ui looks like shit its confusing as hell
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4-04-2007 @ 10:45PM
Shawn said...
It looks like to me that it is basically Spartan UI which I started using a couple months ago. I really like it for getting crap out of my way and consolidating information. Plus it uses a lot of Ace2 stuff.
You can check it out at: http://antipersonnel.org/spartan
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4-05-2007 @ 12:22AM
Baluki said...
I really don't understand why people like to block off the lower third of their computer screens. And the rest is a jumbled mess.
I've yet to see any of these things that actually improves upon the default UI.
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4-05-2007 @ 1:53AM
Longday said...
What is the user interface that has portraits appear like they do in WC3 (in moving 3D)? I want that one.
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4-05-2007 @ 1:59AM
Poddo said...
I'd like to know what skin you are using for SWstats...
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4-05-2007 @ 4:41AM
dotSeed said...
I'm going to have to agree #4. This UI is nothing special and is a jumbled mess. There's no flow. Everything is heaped together in the bottom third. It proves the point that a *vast* amount of users whilst thinking they know better than Blizz's UI designers, they don't.
(And this is *coming* from a UI designer.)
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4-05-2007 @ 7:21AM
E said...
@4. The reason is to maximize screen viewing. Unless you remove items from your UI (map, buttons, buffs, etc) they're going to take up screen space. What the submitter (and I) have done is consolidated all of that screen space (that I'm going to have no matter what) into one portion of the screen, where it doesn't obscure the game. The alternative is to have buttons covering up your view, which is a fine choice I guess but not one I prefer.
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4-05-2007 @ 10:57AM
Live said...
@5 Longday, Xperl will do that for you but after about 30 mins I found it so distracting I had to turn it off and make it into static frames.
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4-05-2007 @ 10:58AM
Odas said...
@5 - I believe that's FuBar
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4-05-2007 @ 11:23AM
Dracula Jones said...
Terrible use of screen space. The original UI is designed very well. Just use Titan to scale the UI down to 70% and clutter is no longer an issue.
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4-05-2007 @ 12:43PM
Flit said...
What about that mail up in the corner, showing he has 6 new messages and has read 0 of em. What mod is that? IS there a separate mod for just that functionality?
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4-05-2007 @ 3:32PM
Ahoni said...
@12 Thats a FuBar plugin called MailFu I think. You can find a big list of FuBar plugins at http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=4571
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4-05-2007 @ 5:01PM
stunrunner said...
@5. Yes it is Xperl. As Live said, it may be a bit distracting at first. (Sometimes I thought a mob was in my peripheral vision) But I love it now. Great addon.
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4-21-2007 @ 11:25AM
Tanick said...
How did the user bind the shift+numpad keys? I haven't been able to get around the fact that Windows automatically disables numlock when you press shift, so shift-Numpad-4 binds as left arrow, or shift-numpad-1 binds as home, for example. It also makes it impossible to bind shift-numpad-5 at all.
Anyone know any workarounds to this??
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