AfterWorld Survival Forum

I'm just curious, if any of you don't mind sharing, your preffered HUD customization, screenshots of how you like to have your chat box, map, quickbutton bar, private chat, inventory/stor/market so one whatever, how you like it best, because sometimes if i am doing multiple things at once in-game, its nice to be able to see a few different windows at once

thanks for sharing. noob question - how do you take the screenshot? i'm assuming it goes to one of the AWS folders? so then attaching it to a post here would be easy?
see i didn't even know you could have more than one "page" on the quickbar, i'll definitly check that out

For me it depends on what I am doing ... I rarely have the windows in the same position for all activities.
If I am moving inventory from/to storage - I have the two inventory windows next to each other. The [destination] view is  set to List; the [source] view set to Icon. You can then drag a [source] icon directly to any part of the [destination] list are and drop it. (i.e. you do not need for find an empty slot as per the icon view).
If I am putting on armor / clothes - I have the avatar and inventory windows side by side.
If I am hunting - the loot window is never closed - I move it to the bottom right corner of the HUD then press B twice to hide the loot window under the HUD.

I think the biggest factors in figuring out the best layout are 1) personal preference (natch) and 2) the resolution that the game is set for. As a result, I don't think there's any particular layout that works best for most people. I originally had 2) as "your monitor's resolution," but I realized that many people play AW in a window smaller than their monitor's full size and that personal preference might have someone using low resolution to make the window as small as possible. I typically have the game set for the highest non-fullscreen resolution for whatever monitor I'm using, then I maximize the game window to fill the screen so that I have the most visible space possible.

I forgot that I also move my inventory windows around when I'm transferring large numbers of items and when I'm crafting. During those times I usually move the avatar window to the right somewhere so that the other windows are side-by-side, then I make those windows as tall as possible to reduce scrolling. I also sometimes change one of them to List view to make drag-and-dropping quicker and easier.

I also forgot to mention the loot window completely, which I also drag to the corner and then hide with the HUD. If you close it after looting something, it pops back open in the same spot the next time you get loot even if you had moved it somewhere else previously. Just one of those window preferences that hasn't been addressed by the devs.

The option to enable the use of "Shift+1" through "Shift+0" to pick a quickbar "page" is on the Miscellaneous tab of the options window under "Use Shift+Number to switch quick-bar presets." Luckily this option is one of the ones that's saved by the game when you set it, unlike "Enable in-world item outlining on HUD" option. When you turn that one off and close the game, it's re-enabled the next time.

This ability was reversed recently (possibly with the start of AWS) so that the My avatar window always goes in front of the My Inventory window, so what you are asking is no longer possible.

However, what you can now do is move the My avatar (and any other window from what I can tell) almost entirely off the screen by dragging it from the very edge or corner of the title bar (the rectangular portion at the top of the window where it says the words "My avatar") and dragging it to the edge or bottom of the screen. Unfortunately if you close the window and re-open it the window will move itself so that it is entirely on the screen again at the place where it was dragged off. So you'll either have to keep the window open or re-drag off the screen every time.

Thanks for the info Jarod, good to know i can somehow hide it when im compelled to stare at my inv while running instead of watching where im going

just a tip players have there full names displayed on forum their in game name is the quotation marked ones.. e.g "" you say Jarod.. he's known to all in game as "Brickwit" (Odeon on old tech forum)