Windower 4 - Discussion and Support

[RalphTheDwarf]

Ugh, then I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask for some help with finding the equivalent lua addons.

Here's a lot of what I used to have loaded:
UpdateResources -> (could not find equivalent)
LuaCore -> (leave alone)
AutoExec -> ???
BlinkMeNot -> ???
BoxHelper -> ???
Distance -> lua Distance
DrawDistance -> ???
Find -> lua FindAll
LightLuggage -> ???
PetTP -> lua PetTP
Run -> ???
Silence -> lua Silence
Spellcast -> GearSwap ???
StatusTimer -> ???
Timers -> ???
WeatherMon -> ???
ZoneTimer -> lua ZoneTimer

[Martel]

Ugh, then I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask for some help with finding the equivalent lua addons.

Here's a lot of what I used to have loaded:
UpdateResources -> (could not find equivalent)
LuaCore -> (leave alone)
AutoExec -> ???
BlinkMeNot -> ???
BoxHelper -> ???
Distance -> lua Distance
DrawDistance -> ???
Find -> lua FindAll
LightLuggage -> ???
PetTP -> lua PetTP
Run -> ???
Silence -> lua Silence
Spellcast -> GearSwap ???
StatusTimer -> ???
Timers -> ???
WeatherMon -> ???
ZoneTimer -> lua ZoneTimer

Not all plugins have been depreciated. Quite a few of them still work. Although eventually nearly all will move to lua addons.

Here's a list of the plugins that are no longer supported, with their lua equivalents.

https://gist.github.com/z16/f73d0912e5c5ed02c58b

[RalphTheDwarf]

Thanks for the link. This is going to take some time to straighten out. So much for returning to game soon. lol

[Arcon]

This really shouldn't take more than five minutes, you tick off the ones that were deprecated under the "Plugins" tab and enable them under the "Addons" tab. That part is about 30 seconds, the rest of the 5 minutes is moving the occasional settings file from the plugin section into the addon section.

[dlsmd]

This really shouldn't take more than five minutes, you tick off the ones that were deprecated under the "Plugins" tab and enable them under the "Addons" tab. That part is about 30 seconds, the rest of the 5 minutes is moving the occasional settings file from the plugin section into the addon section.

i think the hardest thing RalphTheDwarf will have to do is going from spellcast to gearswap which could take a while
because:
1. its lua not xml(a nice learning curve)
2. there are a lot more things that gearswap can do that spellcast can not

[RalphTheDwarf]

This really shouldn't take more than five minutes, you tick off the ones that were deprecated under the "Plugins" tab and enable them under the "Addons" tab. That part is about 30 seconds, the rest of the 5 minutes is moving the occasional settings file from the plugin section into the addon section.

The big problem was trying to find out the equivalent addon for a number of plugins. For instance, had someone not shown me the link, I never would have had a clue that DrawDistance was replaced by Config. And then there's a matter of finding out how to use the Config plugin. There's no wiki documentation page on the windower site for it, and I had to do a forum search to find out how to find the xml file to configure it.

I mainly load my plugins in a script because of various instability problems that windower plugins have had over the years. So I never see the enable/disable plugins/addons screen. Maybe I can get rid of that kludge finally, but I need to get things working again first.

I know switching to gearswap will be a learning curve, but people have told me there's a lot of scripts out there already to learn from. I've been trying to avoid this for as long as I could, but looks like my luck finally ran out.

[Trumpy]

Alot of depreciated plugins arent even in the plugin tab list anymore last I checked. Config is a really new plugin. Think they released it last month or so? All I know about the plugin is in this thread.

[Arcon]

For the record, the way SE sends recast times to the client has changed, as such Timers is currently broken until we can figure out the new way they do it. Until then you can change this setting to false:

        <EnableRecast>true</EnableRecast>

That way the buff part of Timers will still work until we fix this.

[Kanriel]

Gearswap: Lua runtime error: D:/Windower4//addons/gearswap/refresh.lua:229: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)

[Arcon]

The GearSwap and Timers issues should be resolved with the latest updates. Let me know if anything else isn't working.

[Trumpy]

Hmm would anyone be kind enough to supply me with a screen shot of the new addon "VisibleFavor." I dont have an active sub and this interests me alot!

[Arcon]

https://picster.at/img/b/4/6/b467115...0e12cce4b9.png
https://picster.at/img/2/6/8/268f613...8bac8ee1ff.png
https://picster.at/img/c/7/1/c71fd67...282d4b727a.png

[Trumpy]

Very nice, thank you Arcon!

[Fival]

For some reason gearswap isn't acknowledging Storm II spell buffs for me, it swaps gear when you cast the spells as it should however when you nuke with said buffs on, it doesn't seem to pickup right.

Firestorm + Fire = puts obi on, Firestorm II + Fire = does not use obi

Another example is this always seems to ignore storm 2 affect and skip to current day, but still works with storm 1 spells.

if g5_spells[cmdParams[1]] then
		if world.weather_element ~= 'None' then
			if g5_spells[cmdParams[1]][world.weather_element] then
				send_command('input /ma "' .. g5_spells[cmdParams[1]][world.weather_element] .. '" <t>')
			end
		else 
			if g5_spells[cmdParams[1]][world.day_element] then
				send_command('input /ma "' .. g5_spells[cmdParams[1]][world.day_element] .. '" <t>')
			end
		end
	end

Are these problems with Mote's files i need to patch somewhere myself or is this gearswap? I've tried to figure this out but i'm tired and don't know where to look.

[Fival]

So after i slept, i found out how to fix my own problems, by changing gearswap/refresh.lua and simply adding in the new buffs.

    if buffactive[178] then
        world.weather = res.weather[4][language]
        world.weather_element = res.elements[0][language]
    elseif buffactive[179] then
        world.weather = res.weather[12][language]
        world.weather_element = res.elements[1][language]
    elseif buffactive[180] then
        world.weather = res.weather[10][language]
        world.weather_element = res.elements[2][language]
    elseif buffactive[181] then
        world.weather = res.weather[8][language]
        world.weather_element = res.elements[3][language]
    elseif buffactive[182] then
        world.weather = res.weather[14][language]
        world.weather_element = res.elements[4][language]
    elseif buffactive[183] then
        world.weather = res.weather[6][language]
        world.weather_element = res.elements[5][language]
    elseif buffactive[184] then
        world.weather = res.weather[16][language]
        world.weather_element = res.elements[6][language]
    elseif buffactive[185] then
        world.weather = res.weather[18][language]
        world.weather_element = res.elements[7][language]
	elseif buffactive[589] then
		world.weather = res.weather[5][language]
        world.weather_element = res.elements[0][language]
	elseif buffactive[590] then
		world.weather = res.weather[13][language]
        world.weather_element = res.elements[1][language]
	elseif buffactive[591] then
		world.weather = res.weather[11][language]
        world.weather_element = res.elements[2][language]
	elseif buffactive[592] then
		world.weather = res.weather[9][language]
        world.weather_element = res.elements[3][language]
	elseif buffactive[593] then
		world.weather = res.weather[15][language]
        world.weather_element = res.elements[4][language]
	elseif buffactive[594] then
		world.weather = res.weather[7][language]
        world.weather_element = res.elements[5][language]
	elseif buffactive[595] then
		world.weather = res.weather[17][language]
        world.weather_element = res.elements[6][language]
	elseif buffactive[596] then
		world.weather = res.weather[19][language]
        world.weather_element = res.elements[7][language]
    end

Gearswap seems to be picking up storm spell 2 for weathers now which makes obi rules and my g510 functions work correctly. This isn't going to break anything is it?

[Trumpy]

@Sechs for your target announce addon, An idea I had would be maybe...

In the new alluvian skirmish to announce what kind of valiants would be best based on the mobs that show up to fight. Since that mob correlation stuff comes into effect there.

[King Louis]

Any one have link to new clipper?

[Sechs]

@Sechs for your target announce addon, An idea I had would be maybe...

In the new alluvian skirmish to announce what kind of valiants would be best based on the mobs that show up to fight. Since that mob correlation stuff comes into effect there.

That's a good idea but wouldn't it be slightly more complex?
So far the Incursion correlation and the Xarcabard NM PH correlations (which I'm about to implement) are very simple.
Check target => is it an adherent? Yes/No. If yes announce stuff.
Check target => is it a PH for any xarc nm? Yes/No. If yes announce stuff.

For what you're asking I'm afraid the flow would be a bit more complicated, just checking a single target wouldn't be enough, no?
Or maybe I just need to understand better how Alluvion Yorcia works.
You're talking about the type of mobs that spawn from the Stronghold, right?

If you can provide a correlation table of "Spawned Mob ==> Valiant that would be better to summon" I can convert it into something useable within the addon.

[Trumpy]

Yea its just an idea I had, figured it would be alot more complex (or whether it was really even needed). My subscription isnt active so I only have these forums to live through in game (So I don't know how the skirmish works exactly). Also I figured you'd only need it to announce the first time a particular mob type showed up and not every time you targeted a mob of the same type.

So hopefully someone who has done the skirmish and thinks this might be a good idea can help out. Do the spawned mobs all have the same name, or does each mob type have its own specific name? What are all the valiant names possible? Things like that would be needed.

[IceSylph]

Any one have link to new clipper?

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