PS4 controller setup related questions

[MysticWoolie]

Good morning everyone,

Before I start i just want to express my appreciation for the amount of help I have been getting from everybody in this forum.
Seems the community is very helpful and quick to respond so thanks for that.

Now for my questions:

> In the menu, from the top of my head, there is a section that is called I believe 'click targeting'.
Does this refer to the X-press targeting priorities?
It sometimes feels erratic.
Niwashi pointed out the option to use the L1+button filters, but I am wondering if the X press can be customized.

> Is there a way to stop the R1 from cycling crossbars?

> I see some people using regular hotbars.
I cant seem to make them show up.
How would I do this?
And can I assign buttons to them as well? Or is this just used as a feature to track long CD's?

> Unrelated question: can i adjust the font size on the map?

[Niwashi]

> In the menu, from the top of my head, there is a section that is called I believe 'click targeting'.
Does this refer to the X-press targeting priorities?
It sometimes feels erratic.
Niwashi pointed out the option to use the L1+button filters, but I am wondering if the X press can be customized.

Unfortunately, no. The X button select isn't impacted by any filters you can set. It does have some built in preferences (for instance, although it can select players, it won't if there's an item in range, preferring the item instead, which is useful if you want to select a summoning bell that has a crowd of people surrounding it). But you can't configure it to make its selections based on what you're trying to do. (I keep wishing I could make it ignore mobs when I'm on a gathering class and trying to select the next harvesting node.)

> Is there a way to stop the R1 from cycling crossbars?

Under Character Settings -> Hotbars, you can select which cross-hotbars are included in that cycle. If you only include one of them, then it won't have anything else to cycle to. (Be sure you're checking / unchecking the boxes for cross-hotbars and not the regular hotbars.)

The cycle can also be different depending on whether your weapon is drawn or sheathed. I use that to include skills like Teleport, Return, calling a mount, and so on, on a bar that won't be used while I'm fighting, because that bar isn't on my "weapon drawn" cycle.

Once you acquire more combat skills than will fit on one bar, you'll want access to more, ideally without having to cycle between them. For access to other bars besides the one(s) that R1 cycles, you can set one to be an expanded crossbar accessible by pressing R2+L2 or L2+R2 (the order matters for which side of the bar comes up) and can set one as W crossbar accessible with a double tap of either R2 or L2.

You can also use R1 + any of the eight face buttons to bring up a particular crossbar as your main bar, regardless of whether it's one you'd normally cycle to or not. (When arranging where skills should go on your bars, you'd use this to bring up a bar normally used as extended or W bar into your main crossbar position, so you can assign skills onto it.)

> I see some people using regular hotbars.
I cant seem to make them show up.
How would I do this?
And can I assign buttons to them as well? Or is this just used as a feature to track long CD's?

Under HUD Layout, choose one (or more) of the bars, and there's a show/hide toggle (I think it's the triangle button, but I'm not in game so can't double check that right now. Anyway, it shows a button guide that will tell you which button controls the show/hide toggle.)

HUD Layout is also where you'd position the bar where you want it to go. There's another setting, though, that's in Character Configuration instead. Under the Char Config window's Hotbars section you can select whether you want the hotbar to show up as a horizontal row, a vertical row, a block of 3 by 4 buttons, or whatever.

For controller players, it's mainly used for display purposes, so you can see when skills come off cooldown if they're on a different cross-hotbar than the one you're currently showing. They can be used directly with a keyboard or mouse click.

By default, PS4 uses a feature called "Direct Chat", designed for players (like me) who only use the keyboard for chat and use controller for everything else. With that enabled, whenever you start typing, it will automatically move focus to the chat box and enter what you type there. By disabling it (It's in the General section of Character Configuration), you can use keyboard keybinds for hotbar skills, opening windows, and so on, but then you have to manually move focus to the chat tab before you can type messages there.

[MysticWoolie]

Under Character Settings -> Hotbars, you can select which cross-hotbars are included in that cycle. If you only include one of them, then it won't have anything else to cycle to. (Be sure you're checking / unchecking the boxes for cross-hotbars and not the regular hotbars.)

So let me get this straight:

Example:
I have 4 hotbars in use: set 1, set 2, set 7 and set 8.
Can i set it up so that whenever i hit R1, it will only ever cycle between 1 and 2?

[Darkstride]

So let me get this straight:

Example:
I have 4 hotbars in use: set 1, set 2, set 7 and set 8.
Can i set it up so that whenever i hit R1, it will only ever cycle between 1 and 2?

Do you want to be able to cycle through just 1 and 2, or also 7 and 8 separately since you use them all? You can set it just to cycle 1 and 2, but would have to manually select 7 and 8 if needed.

However, there are some options that may help.

Expanded Cross Hotbar allows you to assign a hotbar to R2+L2 and L2+R2.

W Cross Hotbar allows you to double-tap L2 or R2 to access another hot bar.

You can use one or the other, or both for maximum controller button allocation.

[Dzian]

So let me get this straight:

Example:
I have 4 hotbars in use: set 1, set 2, set 7 and set 8.
Can i set it up so that whenever i hit R1, it will only ever cycle between 1 and 2?

Yes you can. in the character config under controls you see cycling with R!. and then a bunch of check boxes.

if only 1 and 2 are checked. pressing r1 will only ever cycle those 2 sets. even if you use all 8. I use typically 5. but tapping R1 only ever cycles between 1 and 2
(you can set this differently if you want for weapons drawn and sheathed. so in combat it will only cycle 1 and 2. out of combat it might only cycle 3 and 4 or however you chosose to set it up.

I have just sets 1 and 2 where are all my actions for current job. set 4 is my expanded hotbar (r2+l2 or vv) for current job which I usually put all my buffs on. raging strikes, blood for blood, enochain etc. set 3 is quick access to things like teleports return. sprint, limit break. mounts & chocobo stance stuff and is accessed by quickly pressing r1+X.

set 8 is my w hotbar. which is mostly just macros like countdowns, putting the marks on players in soph ex. or telling the party which tower ill get in seph ex. or things like telling the other healer when my swiftcast will be ready or I put items there (potions / phoenix downs in potd for example)

[MysticWoolie]

Thanks all!

I now have my crossbar setup just the way i want.

R1 cycles through 1 and 2.
3 and 4 have my interface functions (such as logs and journal), markers and the like.

6 is activated by double tap L2 and double tap R2, and 7 is L2>R2 and R2>L2.

Glorious!