If you get blown up using these settings no ship refund etc.

Has this been updated for the current version of the game? Once I have a nice looking, logical, and intuitive over view things will be a lot easier.

Which tab shows wrecks and containers? I'm mostly pve for now...

So... it's very interesting material to see what can be achieved through messing with the overview setting, but I'll most likely end up making my own since there's too much settings for my taste and either has too much things showing or not enough. But very interesting material nontheless just to get your hands dirty and see how you did it :)

Now I stumbled upon a little bug or feature, with your settings. I suppose most people don't have friends in corps/alliances they're at war with, but if you set high standings to a friend and his corp/alliance is at war with yours, he won't show on the battle filters though blinking red in space. Interestingly, he will show up with a red icon and star in a chat channel despite high personnal standing or even high corp standing.
Guess most people would say I shouldn't set him blue in the first place, but it's not because I can pew them without concord showing that they're no longer friends otherwise... maybe a "OOC-friend-contact-whatever" setting missing from the game for those cool guys you meet around New-Eden despite the corp they belong to.

Has this been updated? I'll probably try using it anyway. :)

This looks interesting, though I miss the original UI Editor that had a lot more options:
http://highsecdropouts.com/overview/index.php?page=generator

Very nice Louis!

I am currently gathering information and data to write a simple application for generating Overview XMLs with a simple, easy to use UI.

My current plan is to use JavaFX 2.0 as it supplies a very simple way to create nice looking and fast UIs quickly, since I am not that experienced with app building, however generating a simple XML shouldn't be a problem. (Java FX also means it can be run as a web application.)

I am also going to look how enhancing all the in-game settings would be possible, such as overview background colors they don-¦t seem to be part of the overview settings which is kind of saddening...

I hope CCP incorporates it into the XMLs instead of it being buried somewhere else in the game cache-¦s dat files.

That looks nice, however I don't like how you have to enter an email address...

Very nice Louis!

Thanks
Good luck with your plan. The problem always is, as the maker of the generator that has been discussed found out, is keeping it up to date and accurate. Perhaps an open source would be best ?

I might play with this a bit and make 2 versions, a plain and a pimped one. Won't happen soon but maybe by the next expansion

I spent hours doing it myself and they sucked.

I've been using your overview settings for a few days, great job btw. But i tried to edit something in "drones" tab yesterday and it didn't work. I tried to modify the settings in order to see on that tab only drones and the sun, i deselected some tabs in filters but it doesn't work. Any suggestions please?

Where is the Mining tab you talked about? I've just downloaded and imported the inferno version, which presumably is the latest one, and I thought there'd be a mining tab, but there isn't.

Is there a limit allowing no more than 5 Overview tabs?

If not, I suggest a couple more tabs added:

Fast Travel
shows only stargates and the sun (because sometimes you may want to warp to the sun). That's to reduce the Overview clutter to an absolute minimum

Show Friends
For logistics pilots, e.g. during Incursions.

You can't have more than 5 tabs, you need to switch the overview profiles on the desired tab and if you crave to modify the label, it can be done via the overview settings.

The inferno settings might be the latest but CCP has already added salvages drones to the overview and it's not selected by default in Louis' settings, so it's somewhat ready to use, but you still have to do some tinkering at times to adjust the settings to your own taste.

I'd like a mission label, which shows mission rats as well as jetcans, because in many missions, the item you have to retrieve is jettisoned in a can when you kill the relevant rat ship.

Either the mission label should also show the kind of structure that you sometimes have to destroy (drone bunker, repair station, whatever), or else there should be a separate label to make that visible along with the usual mission stuff, because it's irrelevant for many missions.

Thanks for this Louis!

I made a few minor modifications but this was a priceless starting point for a new player to have an actually functional and useful overview.

One question though, what is the purpose of the "tag" column on the OV?? It's always blank.

Brackets are the representation of an element on the grid your ship is in, it's the term used to describe all the symbols floating around your own ship.
The overview window has 2 different uses:

• Listing in a table the elements surrounding you,
• Displaying them on your screen.

When you configure an overview tab, there's a settings where you assign an overview conf and a bracket conf for a tab. That way you can display a restricted list of elements on the overview to reduce cluttering but still show important things in-space.

Ok so how can I import this on a Mac? I can't find where to copy it to

Export your current settings and use a speciic name to save it as, then perform a search for "your_file_name.xml", it will surely be in a system or hidden folder, so you will need to allow the search to browse those folders, but should provide you the location.

Thanks for this post was exactly what i was looking for. All of my overview tabs nicely done with little hassle to me.

I spent hours doing it myself and they sucked.

is there any way to only show war targets and flashy red and suspects etc? Make life a lot easier in Jita lol

why can't i get this to work?

Import the XML file while in game.

And I dont know if it needs an update. Been a long time ago since I used Louis' settings. On the other hand all my pre oddessey settings still work as intended.

I tried to do exactly what he said...you know all his directions, but when I go to the place on the overview where it says "import settings" there is nothing there. What am I doing wrong?

Have you saved it in the correct location on your hard drive.

It has to be saved in the overview folder.

My Documents > EVE > Overview is default IIRC