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The Horizons client side (the part that runs on your computer) Graphical User Interface (GUI) provides for customization. You can configure it to run with no windows or with lots of windows. Let's explore some of the possibilities. Blue Button The first and most important item on the Horizons GUI is the Blue Button in the lower left hand corner. By clicking on this button, gives you the ability to open and close most of the other windows, allows to to exit the game, allows you to search for other players, view the map, and most importantly allows you access the interface options.
Options When you click on the Blue button and then Options, the options screen allows you to customize the audio and video settings, general came controls, camera settings, and most importantly assign actions to specific keys called Key Bindings.
To bind a key to a particular function, just click on the blue box to the right of the function and press a key on your keyboard. Most functions have a default key binding, this allows you to view what they are. IMPORTANT NOTE: Clicking on the Restore Defaults button restores all defaults for every tab. Say you wanted to restore your video settings to default and you were on the Video tab, clicking on the Restore Defaults button will also reset your key bindings, your audio, your Camera, and Game options. Take some time and explore all these tabs and all the options. If things get too messed up, you can always start over and Restore Defaults. Now lets look at a populated interface.
Remember that you can right click on any window selecting properties and change it's transparency, border, title and even lock it in place after you've resized it and moved it where you want it. And most of these windows (except as noted below) are opened or closed through the Blue Button. Chat Windows To talk to someone, just type in the one line box at the bottom of the chat window and hit enter. This is called Saying, people within a small distance around you will see your message (hear you). To talk to someone privately, you must Tell someone by prefacing your message with a /t. Tells are not limited by distance. Tells only require the characters first name. For example, to tell a player named Fel Tir hello, you would type "/t Fel Hello{enter}". Don't type the quotes "", they just denote what keys you are typing and the {enter} means press the enter key on your keyboard. Fel would get a message saying Player xyz tells you "Hello". If you have selected to receive tells in a new window (recommended) on the Game tab of the options window, then a window will pop up in the middle of your screen when someone sends you a tell. If you leave the default new tab, a new tab will appear in your current chat window. Although the new chat tab has a feint glow to it, it is often missed. People think you are being rude when you don't reply when in reality it's just easy to miss that little feint glowing tab. You can also access emotes and other system commands from the chat window. These are preceded with a forward slash "/". To see a list of commands type in /help and press enter "/help{enter}". To see a list of emotes type in /emote and enter "/emote{enter}". My favorite emote is "/somethingonshoe{enter}". Create a Separate Guild Chat Window You can have multiple chat windows and configure each one to display only specific information so all the messages, system, says, tells, and guild don't all run together. To create an additional chat window, type in /window chatwindow and hit enter "/window chatwindow{enter}". Then click on the configure channels button for that window and select the channels you want that window to display and you can even set a constant prefix so you don't have to type in /t for tells or /g for guild everytime you want to say something. For example, lets say you were creating a Guild chat window so you could see when guild members logged in and out and to see their messages and to talk to them. Create a new window and put a check mark next to Guild and Online Notifications only, leave all other channels un-check-marked. Then in the default prefix put in /g "/g"and put a check in the box. Now that window will only display guild chat, online notifications for people configured in your player list window, and you can just type in your message and press the enter key to send a message to the guild. Player List Click the blue button and click on Player list. In this window you can create folders and add people to them. Then when they log on and off you will have a graphical representation of it. For example, create a new folder called Guild and add members to the folder (only first name is required). When they log in, you will see a green dot next to their name, when they log out the dot will be blank. Compass Window The compass window is up by default. If it isn't, click the blue button and then click compass. You can right click on the compass then click show position. The coordinates shown are your present coordinates. This feature is useful for telling people where you or a resource you found is located. Effects Window The effects window is up by default. If it isn't, click the blue button and then click effects. This window shows what effects are presently on you. Hotkey Bars Very useful items, you can have a maximum of 10 hotbars, on each hotbar are 9 buttons. You can drag and drop items onto the hotbar from inventory, abilities, or spells. These give you icon buttons with quick access to use, equip or open inventory etc. You can right click on the button and configure it manually. To start one, click the blue button then hotkeys. To create another one, right click on the first and click new hotkey bar, then use the arrows at the top to increment to the next bar number. fps Window Usefull to determine what your Frame Rate (frames per second) is. type in /window fpswindow and hit enter "/window fpswindow{enter}".
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