Windower 4 - Discussion and Support

**Nitrous24** · 2013-12-17 21:58

Originally Posted by Sechs

Is autocontrol considered as working?
Does it require (Gearswap?) any additional external component to be working?
It works fine for me for all the features except the key one, equipping stuff on the automaton. Whenever I try to issue a command to equip a set I get the following error

autocontrol: Lua error (runtime) - ... path/addons/autocontrol/autocontrol.lua:199 attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)

what's going on?

This should be fixed.

But, please, in the future, use the issue trackers, or other means to report addons being broken. There are links in the launcher for this purpose. I can't stress enough how much easier it is to let the addon developers know there's something wrong this way. I read this thread occasionally, but not often enough to catch everything. And when i do read it i normally skim it. However, things like twitter, ffochat, github issue tracker, all alert me when there's something posted to me. (ffochat you'd have to say my name but when you do the text turns green and i hear a loud beep.). I realize it seems like an unnecessary step to some. but it's really the best option to get things fixed in a timely manner.

**solkanar** · 2013-12-17 22:01

Trying to make a BLU file for gearswap. How would I handle multiple spells for a single set? For example in spellcast

Code:

				<if spell="Pollen|Wild Carrot|Healing Breeze|Magic Fruit|Plenilune Embrace">
					<equip when="midcast" set="CurePot" />
				</if>

Any help much appreciated.

**Nitrous24** · 2013-12-17 22:05

Originally Posted by solkanar

Trying to make a BLU file for gearswap. How would I handle multiple spells for a single set? For example in spellcast

Code:

				<if spell="Pollen|Wild Carrot|Healing Breeze|Magic Fruit|Plenilune Embrace">
					<equip when="midcast" set="CurePot" />
				</if>

Any help much appreciated.

Code:

function midcast(spell,action) 
    if T{'Pollen','Wild Carrot','Healing Breeze','Magic Fruit','Plenilune Embrace'}:contains(spell.name) then
        equip(sets.CurePot)
    end
end

**JSHidaka** · 2013-12-17 22:38

guess we need some Gearswap thread or forum...

EDIT: NVM.. made it works adding "verify_equip()"

Now a question, On spellcast I used to use a Variable in the gearset to switch instruments, How Can I make it in GS?

How Can I use variables? for example on mid cast,
If >> the variable "Daurdabla=1" << then
equip(sets.midcast.buff,sets.midcast.Daurd)
else
equip(sets.midcast.buff,sets.midcast.Gjhorn)
end

How I set the variable? how would be the //gs command?

Tried using Selfcommands...

function self_command(cmd)
if cmd == 'Daurdabla' then
equip(sets.DBuff)
disable('range')
end
end

set.dbuff is range=daurdabla

It just disable the range slot, doesnt swap the instrument... then on aftercast did add enable('range') and that part does work.

**GImpers** · 2013-12-17 22:44

Sorry if this has been discussed already, but, before the battlemod update, when a monster used a tp move, it would show who the target was. Now, it doesn't show that. How do I change the settings to get it back the old way?

Thanks.

**Nitrous24** · 2013-12-17 22:45

Originally Posted by Nitrous24

This should be fixed.

But, please, in the future, use the issue trackers, or other means to report addons being broken. There are links in the launcher for this purpose. I can't stress enough how much easier it is to let the addon developers know there's something wrong this way. I read this thread occasionally, but not often enough to catch everything. And when i do read it i normally skim it. However, things like twitter, ffochat, github issue tracker, all alert me when there's something posted to me. (ffochat you'd have to say my name but when you do the text turns green and i hear a loud beep.). I realize it seems like an unnecessary step to some. but it's really the best option to get things fixed in a timely manner.

i totally lied before when i said it was fixed.. i had broken something else in maneuvers.lua when i fixed the sets thing. fixed now though

**nikia** · 2013-12-18 00:19

For some odd reason a few plugins were suddenly missing today, any idea what would cause that?

**Arcon** · 2013-12-18 00:34

I don't even have an idea what "missing" means. Not loaded in the game? Not on your hard drive? Not in the Launcher?

**Sechs** · 2013-12-18 01:59

Originally Posted by Nitrous24

I can't stress enough how much easier it is to let the addon developers know there's something wrong this way.

Fair point, sorry for being lazy and thanks for your addon

**Motenten** · 2013-12-18 08:21

Figures I should have been reading this thread. Some of what I wanted to know is already here.

Regarding cancelling an action if you're petrified/etc:

Originally Posted by Byrthnoth

Gearswap already reacts quickly to impossible actions (and triggers aftercast), and is probably quick enough that you won't lose anything from it, but you can still make code like this if you want.

Can you elaborate on that? If you try to cast a spell while you're petrified, what sequence of calls will be made to the job.lua script?

Random questions:

In your brd.lua example, you have sets.precast.Nightingale, sets.precast.Troubadour, etc. However it looks like they were intended to be sub-tables of the sets.precast.JA table (and thus, for example, be: sets.precast.JA.Nightingale), since at the end of the precast() function you have:

if sets.precast.JA[spell.english] then equip(sets.precast.JA[spell.english]) end

Is that correct, and this is just a flaw in the example? Or am I messing up my understanding of Lua?

Also: sets.precast.Cure seems to be a fast cast set, but isn't in the FC table.

Does the aftercast() function pass in info about whether the spell completed or was interrupted?

The fact that it handles the aftercast() call after spell completion is really nice. Obsoletes my fancy juggling to get the aftercast time down properly in Spellcast. However I may still be left with the issue of how much fast cast gear to wear for a given spell.

Given that the processing is -much- faster, I'm less concerned about the minimum cast time, yet I think it would bite me if I ignored it entirely. T1 nukes and barspells have half-second cast times, and if I allow for generic fast cast sets there's the potential for 0.1 second cast times, and I doubt even GearSwap can handle that sort of pre/mid transition.

So, the lower threshhold of responsiveness will determine how complicated I need to make those calculations (having to factor in how much potential in gear, cor rolls, run merits, job traits, etc) before determining whether and how much fast cast gear to make use of.

Out of similar curiosity, what's the delay between using an ability and being able to detect it with a buffactive check? I know in Spellcast, something like Sneak Attack + WS can be problematic because you can't tell that SA is up when you try to weaponskill, so I have to set special variables to note that the JA was actually used beforehand.

**Byrthnoth** · 2013-12-18 12:24