Show Your HUD Layouts and Hotbars!

[Freyt]

Alt and Ctrl are set as buttons on my mouse, so I can use them for skills without any crazy maneuvers. I have small hands, so this benefits me greatly. I put in the ` key to start all my hotbars because I thought it made sense. I'm pretty going to rebind all my marking keys to the F1-F5 keys. I haven't tanked in a while so I haven't worried about it much.
Bar 1 and 2 are pretty much their default, besides the addition of the ` key and a little bit of condensed positioning. Bar 3 stands to the top left at 60% sizing, I only want it there to see cooldowns and reconfirming effects in case I forget things. Bar 4 is my "I barely use these skills" bar, also for cooldowns like defensive cooldowns I want to save for certain things while tanking, I mouse click these, because I generally don't use the stuff on there often.
Skills are generally ordered by the level they're obtained. Because I hate having to deal with pressing skills I don't have while in low level instances.
Bar 6 through 10 are universal across all classes. Bar 5 is empty as well as Bar 8 (technically... I'm not using the stuff on it for anything). Bar 6 is the bar you see above my core stuff, to the top right at 60% size. Bar 7 is the vertical bar at the very right of my screen. Pretty much completely for chocobo related stuff, with Limit Break and Sprint put on there, and access to Armoury Chest because that's annoying to access normally. Bar's 9 and 10 are full of my gear sets, 9 for gathering/crafting and 10 for battle.

[ElHeggunte]

I tried my best to fit as many frequently-used objects onto the screen at one time (so I don't have to menu dance) while at the same time keeping the center of the screen clear so I can easily see what's going on around me. I have no complaints so far, though I must admit some objects are on the bars just to make them uniform.

Not pictured:

- Alliance groups are right below my party, just above the chat log. There's actually a fairly large gap that I've considered adding another chat box to.

- The enemy list is in that little space between the focus target bar and the duty list so it's obscured by neither.

- The Limit Break bar is right below my exp bar.

[Morningstar1337]

You can also macro them with a text command, but I can't remember if this will give you that job's icon or not:
/gs change # (where # is the number of the set you want to change to)

I don;t think it gives you the gearset's icon by default. You may have to use /macroicon

I usually just use /micon too add skill icons to my gs macros

[xXRaineXx]

Here's mine.

I play on a very small resolution due to my crappy laptop (on lowest graphics settings too). Did what I could to maximize the resolutions potential in terms of HUD layout

[Jasmine_Aurelia]

Yeah, I have no idea how you can play like that. Way too cluttered for me.

My set up:

How can I duplicate this, as it's exactly what I want?

[Saseal]

How can I duplicate this, as it's exactly what I want?

There's a HUD setup - I don't know how to get to it on console controllers, but on PC you just hit ESC, select the HUD Layout link and then drag the outlined pieces around. If you want to deactivate a piece (such as an extra hotbar, etc) just right click that section (same with turning on a piece)

[3Jane]

[Jasmine_Aurelia]

There's a HUD setup - I don't know how to get to it on console controllers, but on PC you just hit ESC, select the HUD Layout link and then drag the outlined pieces around. If you want to deactivate a piece (such as an extra hotbar, etc) just right click that section (same with turning on a piece)

yeah I'm just wondering how he used it to get that, I really wish I could just download his hud layout from somewhere.

[Canadane]

yeah I'm just wondering how he used it to get that, I really wish I could just download his hud layout from somewhere.

Aside from the obvious that is moving objects to places you want, you can right click objects to turn them off. They'll change colour in the HUD layout section and no longer be in view.
The only other setting I think he's done was to hide unassigned hotbar slots, which is available from Character Configuration > Hotbar Settings.

[PantslessPrince]

Mine is simple and easy.