Help to Hud layouts and keybindings

[Kukulumi]

Hello

I want hud layout 1 be with abilities 1,2,3 on keys 1,2,3 - and hud layout 2 be with abilites 4,5,6 on keys 1,2,3.

Im using all of my hotbars and have none free, dont know if thats important though.

How do I set that up?

[Claire_Pendragon]

Hello

I want hud layout 1 be with abilities 1,2,3 on keys 1,2,3 - and hud layout 2 be with abilites 4,5,6 on keys 1,2,3.

Im using all of my hotbars and have none free, dont know if thats important though.

How do I set that up?

wouldnt it just be easier to move abilities around with a macro, or have a button to press, in which to swap which hotbar is being shown in ur default #1 hotbar?
while u can make hudlayout swap macros work, it just seems like its going to be an issue in the future, when u need to adjust the UI, and then need to clone it for the next hudlayout, but also keep the changed hudlayout differences.
im not sure why you picked hudlayout, so if hudlayout isnt whats important, we can try to set up an alternative.

(as a side note, u need to decide which button is going to help u cycle through your hotbars, otherwise 2 and 3 will be your "change to next hotbar" or "change back to prior hotbar" buttons, only leaving 1 as the only slot for an ability. If you have a mouse, you can use the scroll wheel to do this, but its not under keybinds, if i remember correctly)

[Rongway]

I want hud layout 1 be with abilities 1,2,3 on keys 1,2,3 - and hud layout 2 be with abilites 4,5,6 on keys 1,2,3.

Do you mean that you want to use 6-action or 12-action hotbars but you want buttons 123 to be able to swap with 456? In this case, set up one set of hotbars with your 123 actions on 123, and a second set of hotbars with 456 on 123, and use a /hotbar macro to switch between them, not a /hudlayout macro.

Im using all of my hotbars and have none free, dont know if thats important though.

I promise you you're not using all of them, and you have many free. You have 390 hotbars, 10 for each of the following sets:

1. GLA
2. MRD
3. CNJ
4. PGL
5. LNC
6. ROG
7. ARC
8. THM
9. ACN
10. PLD
11. WAR
12. DRK
13. GNB
14. WHM
15. SCH
16. AST
17. MNK
18. DRG
19. NIN
20. SAM
21. BRD
22. MCH
23. DNC
24. BLM
25. SMN
26. RDM
27. BLU
28. CRP
29. BSM
30. ARM
31. GSM
32. LTW
33. WVR
34. ALC
35. CUL
36. MIN
37. BTN
38. FSH
39. share

Red: you are not using these if you have unlocked the corresponding job
Green: you are using some of the bars in these sets, but not all because some are hidden by shared hotbars
Blue: you are using some of the bars in this set, but not all because you are not sharing all 10 bars.

You have all these sets, whether the class/job is unlocked or locked. If you are sharing hotbars, the visible bars are the unshared bar numbers for your current class/job and the shared bar numbers from share. However, the remainder of the bars are still accessible.

For example, if you are a BRD and you have bar sharing turned on on 7,8,9,10, your hudlayout will show BRD 1, BRD 2, BRD 3, BRD 4, BRD 5, BRD 6, share 7, share 8, share 9, share 10.

However, BRD 7, BRD 8, BRD 9, and BRD 10 still exist, as do share 1, share 2, share 3, share 4, share 5, and share 6. It is not the case that your shared bars are written to the class-specific bars on every single class/job.

This means that you can invisibly store alternate bars on current class/job hotbar numbers that are shared, share hotbar numbers that are not shared, and base combat class hotbars for all numbers. Note that "current" is an alias that always refers to the set of hotbars for your current class/job.


If you want a button on JOB that shifts your buttons by 3 slots, you should

1. Set up the alternate versions on JOB.
2. Copy the bars to CLASS.
3. Set up the main versions on JOB.
4. Write a /hotbar macro to swap back and forth between them.
5. Put the macro somewhere on main bars.
6. Press the macro. This will swap to the alternate versions.
7. Put the macro on the alternate bars in the same slot you placed it on the main version.
8. That hotbar button will now switch back and forth between the two versions.

So let's say that, for whatever reason, you want two BRD bars that shift everything over by three when you press a button. Set up the alternate versions on BRD 1 and BRD 2. Then use the following commnands to copy them to ARC 1 and ARC 2:

/hotbar copy current 1 ARC 1
/hotbar copy current 2 ARC 2

Then modify BRD 1 and BRD 2 to the main versions. Create this swapping macro:

/hotbar copy BRD 1 share 1
/hotbar copy ARC 1 BRD 1
/hotbar copy share 1 ARC 1
/hotbar copy BRD 2 share 1
/hotbar copy ARC 2 BRD 2
/hotbar copy share 1 ARC 2

Place this macro on your bars. Press it. Your bars will swap to the alternate versions. Place the macro on these bars also, in the same spot. Now you can swap back and forth between the two versions.

Just remember, this means you are now using ARC 1, ARC 2, BRD 1, BRD 2 and should not use them for anything else. The bar "share 1" is now a buffer for swapping bars, so you can't store a permanent bar in that slot.

Alternatively, you can use BRD 9 and BRD 10 if you want to keep the bars all on BRD.

/hotbar copy BRD 1 BRD 9
/hotbar copy BRD 2 BRD 10

/hotbar copy BRD 1 share 1
/hotbar copy BRD 9 BRD 1
/hotbar copy share 1 BRD 9
/hotbar copy BRD 2 share 1
/hotbar copy BRD 10 BRD 2
/hotbar copy share 1 BRD 10

Further, you can make a macro that swaps alternate versions of bars 1 and 2 for ANY class/job:

/hotbar copy current 1 share 1
/hotbar copy current 9 current 1
/hotbar copy share 1 current 9
/hotbar copy current 2 share 1
/hotbar copy current 10 current 2
/hotbar copy share 1 current 10

This last form can be useful for swapping between AoE mode and single target mode for any job.

[Rongway]

tl;dr: If you want AoE bars and single target bars for each job, do the following.

1. If you are not sharing bars 9 and 10, change 9 and 10 in this tutorial to bar numbers that you are sharing.
2. Set up bars 1 and 2 for single target.
3. /hotbar copy current 1 current 9
4. /hotbar copy current 2 current 10
5. Set up bars 1 and 2 for AoE.
6. Option A: put bar swapping macro on bar 1 or 2, press it to swap to alternate bars, then put bar swapping macro on those bars in the same slot.
7. Option B: put bar swapping macro on a shared bar, to use with any job.

Hotbar swapping macro for any job:

/hotbar copy current 1 share 1
/hotbar copy current 9 current 1
/hotbar copy share 1 current 9
/hotbar copy current 2 share 1
/hotbar copy current 10 current 2
/hotbar copy share 1 current 10