Windower 4 - Discussion and Support

[dlsmd]

http://s12.postimg.org/lkrxccmr1/example.png
I hope this includes everything you were hoping for

thanks thats what i needed

its probably one of these(im betteing the first one)
http://pasted.co/b8d81ff4

if im correct then to change to a new one
if its a two word change
Erratic to the first word
Flutter to the second word
if one word change
Erratic.-Flutter to the word

[Roland_J]

thanks thats what i needed

its probably one of these(im betteing the first one)
http://pasted.co/b8d81ff4

if im correct then to change to a new one
if its a two word change
Erratic to the first word
Flutter to the second word
if one word change
Erratic.-Flutter to the word

Those didn't get it to trigger either D: I've tried "¨.-" and .-¨" as tests in the past and even that doesn't work. I'm not sure how to get the function to recognize the arrow.

[Byrthnoth]

".-" means "anything, non-greedy" So your problem is that you keep putting the ¨ character in it. Just use .-

[dlsmd]

".-" means "anything, non-greedy" So your problem is that you keep putting the ¨ character in it. Just use .-

i was trying to give it a delineator so that it will only work on the battlemod output

[Khajit]

The only addons/plugins that load on start today over the course of way too many restarts and checking to be sure i actually have them set to load are:
Luacore
Gear collector
fishingcrashfix
autoexec

Everything else including the improved lighting do not load at all
Is there anything that causes my preset addons to not load properly? I've had this trouble occasionally before and it was merely a few minutes delay until everything loaded properly while even after a few hours windower didn't suddenly remember to load everything.
Is this a preexisting problem of some sort that I can fix?

Edit:
The issue seems to have spontaneously resolved itself several hours later

[Subadai]

The only addons/plugins that load on start today over the course of way too many restarts and checking to be sure i actually have them set to load are:
Luacore
Gear collector
fishingcrashfix
autoexec

Everything else including the improved lighting do not load at all
Is there anything that causes my preset addons to not load properly? I've had this trouble occasionally before and it was merely a few minutes delay until everything loaded properly while even after a few hours windower didn't suddenly remember to load everything.
Is this a preexisting problem of some sort that I can fix?

Edit:
The issue seems to have spontaneously resolved itself several hours later

It's not just you, I've had something similar happen very very sporadically. Windower will stop loading addons in the middle of the list in autoload.txt and won't process init.txt either. Some of the time I could set things right by exec'ing autoload/autoload.txt but sometimes I would crash a short while after doing that. Happens very rarely though, so I haven't bothered reporting it.

[Roland_J]

i was trying to give it a delineator so that it will only work on the battlemod output

Well, "Erratic.-Flutter.- .- .-Character" works on the Erratic Flutter -> Character output of battlemod. Hopefully that'll be good enough if I ever decide to use it on something. If it's not then I'll ask again here, lol

[LidenbokValour]

Is there something that hides players?

[Trumpy]

The Loading thing: Mine has been doin that a long while. I always just assumed cause im on a shitty XP PC though. I eventually made a self command in my gearswap that loads all the plugins/addons i want in case it happens and it usually works, although occassionally it will not work and I will have to try rebooting the game.

LibenbokValour, what exactly do you mean hide players? Online status, or cast spell invisible, or use the THF JA Hide or what?

[dlsmd]

LibenbokValour, what exactly do you mean hide players? Online status, or cast spell invisible, or use the THF JA Hide or what?

i think he does not want to see PC's in game except him self

[Byrthnoth]

You could make an addon do that by blocking incoming PC update packets for people who aren't you. Something like this:

require 'pack'

function set_player()
    player = (windower.ffxi.get_player() or {}).id
end

set_player()

windower.register_event('login',set_player)

windower.register_event('incoming chunk',function (id,org)
    if id == 0x00D and player and org:unpack('I',5) ~= player then
        return true
    end
end)

[Karizo]

Just out of curiosity, has anyone of the developers had a chance to see where's the number coming from with SE's new in-game timer that shows up on the status icons? I'm assuming it's a packet? Would it be plausible to read that packet and use that for timers? If SE is going to do all the duration calculations, then why not try to utilize it instead of stressing out whoever is writing timers with all the different types of scenarios. Not sure if this would work with buffs being casted on others... but just a thought.

[Byrthnoth]

Iirc we already did that, but Arcon just hasn't gotten a chance to integrate it with Timers.

[Shadowmeld]

Would anyone be willing to provide a list of useful/essential addons/plugins for the current game. It's been ~18 months since I've played and it looks like there are 6 different versions of gear collector. I'm not sure which one to go for.

gearswap is a must, already have it, as well as ffxidb. what else should I do?

[Karizo]

Iirc we already did that, but Arcon just hasn't gotten a chance to integrate it with Timers.

that sounds awesome, looking forward to it!

[Byrthnoth]

I use these


Plugins:
Config - Drawdistance, uncap FPS, etc.
SSOrganizer - Puts your screenshots in folders by zone/time
Timers (Only recast) - Shows recast timers for me
Binder (but I don't need it anymore because I no longer use a G-keyboard) - Enables G-key input

Addons:

QoL:
autojoin - You can set this so it accepts all invites. That setting works well for me
chatlink - Lets you copy or open URLs that people say in the chat log
findall - Find and track items across characters
battlemod - Lets me customize my chat log messages and condense them a lot.
enternity - Removes most "press enter to continue" symbols from NPC dialogue, making it go much much faster.
FastCS - Works with the Config plugin to speed up cutscenes by uncapping your frame rate, so they proceed as quickly as your computer can process them. If you are going to use this, remember that you can reset your frame rate to 30FPS using //config FrameRateDivisor 2.
distance - Shows the distance to the target
pointwatch - Calculates your cp/hr, tracks how many job/merit points you have, etc.
pettp - Shows your pet's TP/stats
TParty - Shows your party's TP / alliance MP%
Treasury - Automated lotting/passing/potential dropping, like Lightluggage did
Organizer (and organizer-lib) - Enables rapid gear collecting in your mog house. You can just include the organizer-lib file in your gearswap file and use "//gs o" to collect all your gear for whatever job's file is currently loaded

Utility:
send - Communicate between Windower instances using IPC (for dualboxing).
answeringmachine - Saves tells you get/send so you can look at them later. Good for bazaar mules.
eval - Lets you run arbitrary Lua code from the windower console. Not necessary for the average user, but great for developers.
Logger - makes chat logs
chars - Lets you make strange chars that you normally can't make from the keyboard
cancel - Lets you cancel buffs using the command line
itemizer - Allows you to manipulate items using the command line
translate - Provides rudimentary JP->EN translation, so you know what events they're shouting for
consoleBG - Puts a background behind your windower console
instaLS - Enables your linkshell chat immediately after zoning

Spellcast replacement:
shortcuts - Interprets shortened commands (like /fire3)
GearSwap - Helps you sync gear swaps with your actions for more freedom of play and less gear swap macro slamming



Some of these addons/plugins are rarely actually used by me (like Cancel), but there's not really any harm in having them loaded (except for potentially FastCS if you get locked in unlimited fps)

[Trumpy]

How long has FastCS been out, I havent seen that one yet?

Boy, I keep checkin this thread when there is new posts hoping for something cool comin out or fixed. But no luck yet lol. Do the devs still expect Windower 5 to get finished? Havent heard anything in a while. How many devs do we still have. I know Arcon does stuff but has been busy, I know byrnth as well does stuff but I am not sure who we have left otherwise?

[Sechs]

Not sure if this would work with buffs being casted on others... but just a thought.

Doubt it because as far as I know the packets only have info for buffs cast on yourself your party, if I recall.
Which means Timers would still need to be kept updated for buffs cast on anybody else =/

[dlsmd]

Doubt it because as far as I know the packets only have info for buffs cast on yourself, if I recall.
Which means Timers would still need to be kept updated for buffs not cast on yourself =/

packet incoming 0x076 handles party buffs

[Sechs]

Yeah sorry I meant outside of party.
I remember asking right when that packet got released and someone (Byrth?) said the packet could hold data only for the party members and not people outside.
Sorry for the misinformation in my previous post.