Please someone make it so I can bind the favorites to any keys, not just 1-8

New news to me. Makes me not want to get Skyrim (again). I can't handle terrible interfaces. Someone, please mod or I'll explode.

It's not a terrible interface. People just like to whine and complain. Chances are, most of the complainers haven't even tried using their mice in the menus. Hell, I bet most of them haven't even bothered using the scroll wheel.

I'm installing the game right now, with the expectation I'll be spending a lot of time with keyboard controls and whatnot... It would be fantastic if I could switch the inventory system to open with right-click instead of tab.

From the looks of things, you can - but what will you assign your left hand to?

No, it's not. Turn off mouse acceleration and it's much better (though it still has [censored] up X/Y values). Keyboard navigation by way of using the keyboard as a replacement controller is just awkward and tedious, and takes longer to utilize than with a mouse driven menu system. Additionally, the controls aren't even standard! Pick one [censored] button to accept for everything, not like three! Why does esc not go to the previous menu? Why does changing keybinds not reflect in popups? Why can't I see the whole map at once? sure it's pretty, as is the stat screen, but I don't give a flying toot about it looking pretty in menus, I want it to be fast and functional. This is a cornerstone of PC UI design. You don't make things to be slow and flashy, you make things to be out of the way and fast.

I had forgotten how bad the PC interface was in Oblivion; it's been years since I played it without a proper UI mod. I can't think of... anything good about the PC UI in Skyrim. I'd like to know what you all have to say on these points:

• Skills - I can't see my list of skills on one screen, I can't scroll quickly, I can't sort by skill level (which lets me quickly see the skills that define my character). I can't see my feats without waiting for scrolling left, right, zooming in, finding the magic place to click, etc. The entire skill UI should be removed and replaced with a menu with skill trees. Just like every other game.
  
  
• Inventory - I guess I'd give this one a C. Nice to see some sorting, but I can't sort by weight or resale value, so I don't know what to drop. Not without mousing over everything. Just too many fiddly bits getting in the way of my items. There's no paperdoll, either. I'd happily get rid of the view of each item and replace it with a view of my character. Perhaps holding/wearing the item in question.
  
  
• Crafting (Crufting?) - Why can't I make this? All the items are grey? Oh wait, they have to be white to craft them. Hmm. My monitor displays lots of colours. Even pretty icons! How about a bit showing my current skill, what skill level or feat I need to do something, a better color scheme than white/nearly white, and a part showing what crafting materials I have on hand? If I'm in my own home, can I craft with materials I have in a chest next to my forge, or do I need to put them in my pockets?

The mouse movement feels pretty clunky to me, but I suspect I just need to get used to it. I think it's a mouse acceleration issue. I knew the UI would be... non-optimal for the PC, but I guess I forgot how ludicrously inefficient it looked in the "aren't our menus awesome" videos from some time ago. Time to go play with the magic and try to get into the story.

Whoever makes the first decent UI mod for this game gets a beer, on me. Two if it includes a font that doesn't look like it belongs in a futuristic sci-fi game.

Here's another thought: How do I increase how much I can carry? There is no strength attribute. I find that hard to wrap my head around.

This is a game-breaking problem for those of us using Multiple-monitor setups.
We've already been able to adjust the FOV to the right setting using console commands. However the in-game menus are just god awful at anything above a standard 16:9 aspect ratio.

We've got Hayden over at the widescreen gaming boards looking into either a stand alone program to adjust the settings, or if need be a mod to the game.
For Oblivion, Fallout3, Fallout3:NV we've been able to tweak our way via .ini to get the menus to behave. However all of the normal ini settings seem to be missing in skyrim.

Well turns out they fixed the UI for us with the new 1.1 patch, i can now use the mouse on everything, menu, magic, items, much better thanks Beth!

Reading around the scaleform website a bit reveals that the scaleform sdk is only for companys and they dont have have a free standalone for modding purposes released yet.
However the free Unreal Development Kit UDK seems to include a version. Somebody who has that already installed should check if you can edit the skyrim files with that one.

UI is AWFUL. Please for the love of god someone give me the ability to map presets for my two hands to the 1-0 keys. Prime keyboard real estate being absolutely IGNORED. gamesas certainly cut corners for us PC users with the UI.

Looks like this will be the first step to make a own ui:

http://gameware.autodesk.com/scaleform/support/documentation


I'm not sure if its possible to edit existing swf files. If this is the case i think we're in need of help from bethesda.

*puts his hands in the air* TODD! I SUMMON YE! HELP YER FELLOW UI-DESIGNERS!

If your mouse doesn't work in the menus it means you either A. didn't download the day 1 patch OR B. you have a pirated copy.

Love Skyrim, absolutely hate the inventory!!

The mouse sort of works in menus now, but not reliably. Sometimes I have to arrow up and down to get it to register the mouse. So I don't think they fixed the problem completely yet, at least not for everyone. And I checked my steam settings for Skyrim and it is set to auto update.

edit: And I have a file called Update.esm in the data folder, which leads me to believe the update occured correctly for me.

Theres clearly an issue SOME people have with mouse in menus. I cant click on [censored]. Character creation broke for me if I used the mouse to change the angle of the character's face, as i couldnt click back into the menus.

Clearly this isn't an issue everyone has. This being said, my computer is high end with solid hardware, the latest OS, etc, so whatever the cause of this is, there's clearly some bug to squash. And believe me, I tried dozens of time.

Glad to know the problem isnt universal though.

EDIT: On a related note, I managed to both eliminate random 'mouse lag' and -somewhat- improve mouse usability in general by disabling vsync thusly:

"add iPresentInterval=0 to the bottom of the [Display] section of the Skyrim.ini file in the \Users\[Username]\My Documents\My Games\Skyrim directory."

The UI is pretty unintuitive, that's for sure, but what I'm most bothered by is the font. I love Art Deco but when that text flashes across the top of my screen notifying me about finding a new location, for example, it feels way too much like Fallout. Changing the font to Morrowind's Magic Cards font would amp up the Elder Scrolls feel in the game, I believe. Should be rather simple, too.

The second most annoying thing, to me, is that when viewing the inventory there's no way to sort after (or view a column of) weight or value, only the default alphabetical sorting. When you are over-encumbered and need to throw stuff away its a massive chore to look through all your items to decide what to get rid of. This is probably a lot harder to implement, but it'd be awesome.

The UI is no problem so far. Sure, it does take a bit of getting used to, but it's not obtrusively difficult. I think an inventory modification of some sort would be great - to help with sorting, viewing, etc.

The UI itself is okay, in parts nicely presented, but the inventory could still use some work. And yes, mouse usage in the UI is still problematic, regardless of pirates or patches.

All in all, this is one of the first mods I will be downloading when available. Looking forward to seeing a release.

The UI is appalling, they seemed to have done no optimisation for the mouse and keyboard at all. Just look at how log it takes you navigate the skills menu. Very disappointing.

The worst part about this UI is that if you are using Nvidia Surround or AMD Eyefinity, the menu's are smashed up on the screen and you barely see or do anything! Over at WSGF there is a thread about this, but if any one here has any ideas on what do to please go on over and include your input!

http://widescreengamingforum.com/forum/forums/multi-monitor-gaming/multi-monitor-gaming/18156/eyefinity-skyrim-confirmed-hor-broken-m

Here is what it looks like on my machine at 5760x1080.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/594701896634243592/171F2F3A943842E47EF145CE99E9E8E863E26866/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/594701896634361196/CD77E3F23E10B397E22E2DCDB29D5829B56422D9/

The problem with using .swf files for a UI is that most of the time (when used in games) the format is slightly different (or hugely different for that matter). Meaning a heck of a job to decrypt and re-encrypt them. Beyond that wouldn't be too hard, assuming one knows a thing or two about flash.

Pull up the system menu and select Help and scroll to the bit about Favorites. That's how I found out, much to my relief, that you can assign keys 1 to 8 (why not 9 and 0?) by highlighting the item/spell/whatever you intend to hotkey and then pressing the key you want to use.

That makes the terrible console type UI a tiny bit less terrible.

I'll try the w a s and d keys. If they work in place of the arrow keys that's a big help.

Thanks!

Highlight the item you want to hotkey and press 1 to 8 to do so.