Non Addon Interface Customization Options

One of the things added we have in the current generation of mmorpg’s that we did not see much of before is the ability making large changes to the in game UI. This ability comes in two forms in Warhammer Online. First default built in customization options, the second is addon’s. In this article I will focus on what it is possible to change out of the box without installing any addon’s. I will cover the possibilities with addon’s in later articles, both from user and programmer perspective.

In the Customize Interface menu you are able to set the number of action bars visible at the same time. The options here are

1. 1 Bar - Centered
2. 2 Bars - Side by Side
3. 2 Bars - Stacked
4. 4 Bars - Small Cluster

Each bar gives the standard 12 ability slots. This is fairly standard for mmorpg’s, but from here on out we will see some possibilities that is not normally present without installing addon’s.

First is the option to set “Global UI Scale”. Values range from 0.5 to 1.5 with default of 1. This means you can reduce globally all UI elements to 50% of their size or increase them by 50%. But everything so far is merely puny options compared to the next thing, layout editing.

Layout Editing

In layout editing you can move and resize every single component of the user interface. If you check the screenshot, this means every single green marked component. Over 25 individual components to move around and each one can be given their own individual opacity settings. This is a level of customization, without addon’s, that we have not seen before and it will enable many more users than normal to change their ui. Of course with addon’s we will be able to do so many more things, but that will be the topic of another post.