Windower 4 - Discussion and Support

[Byrthnoth]

I removed the ability to turn off the name colors, but you should still be able to turn off the condensed battle messages with <condensebattle>false</condensebattle>. I have a note somewhere that it might not totally work, but I haven't gone back to check recently.

[Taim Meich]

Hm, I redownloaded battlemod since it didn't load when I connected 1 hour ago, and now every .xml in the battlemod directory is the same, a .xml detailing every addon on Windower 4... Any clue on what's happening?

[Byrthnoth]

Yeah, I'd explain it to you but I. . . well, lets just say that as far as I'm concerned, the internet is a series of tubes. Something DNS something something I have no idea what I am doing.jpg, etc. The launcher got messed up last night. It's fixed now, but for some reason people still get directed to download the addons.xml file instead of the files they want. I don't know why.

I recommend downloading the zip (cloud button) from here: https://github.com/Windower/Lua/tree...dons/battlemod
Then just extract it and drag it in to your battlemod folder.

[IceSylph]

So I crashed on FFXI, then tried opening the launcher. Launcher won't load, keeps crashing on the start where it would normally see if there's a new hook update.

[crux]

Friend is having the same issue. I replicated the problem once (crashed as Windower 4 was booting), but tried again a few minutes later and it updated fine, so now it's booting without issue.

Wouldn't be a bad idea to have a way to emergency bypass the updates just in case stuff like this happens.

[Taim Meich]

Yeah, I'd explain it to you but I. . . well, lets just say that as far as I'm concerned, the internet is a series of tubes. Something DNS something something I have no idea what I am doing.jpg, etc. The launcher got messed up last night. It's fixed now, but for some reason people still get directed to download the addons.xml file instead of the files they want. I don't know why.

I recommend downloading the zip (cloud button) from here: https://github.com/Windower/Lua/tree...dons/battlemod
Then just extract it and drag it in to your battlemod folder.

So, my DNS is just reacting slow to the change, I see, thanks!


BTW, before I fought Tax'et without battlemod, and holy shit, you get accustomed to it fast! It was hell to know if I applied Haste correctly, or if my AoE spells were hitting everyone, etc. Also, I cannot imagine Delve farming as SCH without that and timers. Such a great improvement in quality of gaming.

[Jem]

So recently my Scoreboard changed behavior.

It used to carry on parsing damage when I was dead / unengaged as long as other people in the alliance were hitting stuff. Now it no longer does this. It only parses when I am engaged; it pauses if I disengage or die.

Anyway to revert it back? I haven't touched any of the settings so I assume an auto-update has done this.

[Arcon]

So recently my Scoreboard changed behavior.

This was a bug in the framework and wasn't directly related to scoreboard. It's fixed and the change will be pushed out soon.

[Tymon]

Battlemod really jacked up for me and a friend since the last update.

Nearly crashes my game and gives me a "not enough memory" error every time I engage and Spellcast switches gear (and disengage/use a JA that has a change)

Will try turning off the new setting and see if that helps, just a preliminary report

[Yugl]

May be a different issue Tymon. I had that issue as well and found that a revision to tablehelper.lua was creating an error. Iryoku said he reverted the error, so you should be fine. If not, then post again.

Edit: Nvm, may be different issue.

[Tymon]

Yeah, don't think that's the problem.

My internet has been crapping out for entirely different reasons all day so I've had to re-launch Windower at least 6 times, as early as an hour ago, and it updated. Still messing up.

[orinthia]

Timers started acting funny again. Got the full window background bug, where the "background" to the timer text is stretched to the whole screen, as corsair using double up. Unload/reload fixed it for a while but then it occurred again. I went ahead and just made the background completely transparent for it for the next reload, but have continued to notice the gap between ability timers continue to occur. The spot where double-up's timer would be is sometimes blank.

Not game breaking, but still an oddity.

I also noticed more often than not, having a bunch of plugins "on" at start would cause the game to freeze upon loading, even before hitting the button to continue to the character selection screen. I went ahead and just turned all plugins "off" through the interface and added them back in, with "wait 1;" in between each, to the normal init.txt. This has worked so far, but strange this started occurring nearly every time recently.

[Byrthnoth]

I made a temporary addon for plugins/addons management named plugin_manager. It doesn't do anything that you can't do with Autoexec, but it makes the format a little easier maybe. Its settings file follows the same format as Timers, etc.

For instance, mine is:

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<settings>
    <global>
        <plugin>Attainment</plugin>
        <plugin>Binder</plugin>
        <plugin>BlinkMeNot</plugin>
        <plugin>Cancel</plugin>
        <plugin>ChatLink</plugin>
        <plugin>ConsoleBG</plugin>
        <plugin>Distance</plugin>
        <plugin>DrawDistance</plugin>
        <plugin>Find</plugin>
        <plugin>GearCollector</plugin>
        <plugin>Itemizer</plugin>
        <plugin>LightLuggage</plugin>
        <plugin>PetTP</plugin>
        <plugin>Silence</plugin>
        <plugin>Spellcast</plugin>
        <plugin>SSOrganizer</plugin>
        <plugin>StatusTimer</plugin>
        <plugin>Timestamp</plugin>
        <plugin>TParty</plugin>
        <plugin>Timers</plugin>
    </global>
    <Byrth>
        <plugin>Binder</plugin>
        <plugin>Cancel</plugin>
        <plugin>ChatLink</plugin>
        <plugin>ConsoleBG</plugin>
        <plugin>Distance</plugin>
        <plugin>DrawDistance</plugin>
        <plugin>FFOChat</plugin>
        <plugin>Find</plugin>
        <plugin>GearCollector</plugin>
        <plugin>Itemizer</plugin>
        <plugin>LightLuggage</plugin>
        <plugin>Logger</plugin>
        <plugin>PetTP</plugin>
        <plugin>Silence</plugin>
        <plugin>Spellcast</plugin>
        <plugin>SSOrganizer</plugin>
        <plugin>StatusTimer</plugin>
        <plugin>Timestamp</plugin>
        <plugin>TParty</plugin>
        <plugin>Timers</plugin>
        <plugin>Guildwork</plugin>
        
        <addon>send</addon>
        <addon>battlemod</addon>
        <addon>ffocolor</addon>
        <addon>respond</addon>
        <addon>answeringmachine</addon>
    </Byrth>
    <Sjugy>
        <plugin>Attainment</plugin>
        <plugin>Binder</plugin>
        <plugin>BlinkMeNot</plugin>
        <plugin>Cancel</plugin>
        <plugin>ChatLink</plugin>
        <plugin>ConsoleBG</plugin>
        <plugin>Distance</plugin>
        <plugin>Find</plugin>
        <plugin>GearCollector</plugin>
        <plugin>Itemizer</plugin>
        <plugin>LightLuggage</plugin>
        <plugin>Logger</plugin>
        <plugin>Silence</plugin>
        <plugin>Spellcast</plugin>
        <plugin>SSOrganizer</plugin>
        <plugin>StatusTimer</plugin>
        <plugin>Timestamp</plugin>
        <plugin>TParty</plugin>
        <plugin>Timers</plugin>
        
        <addon>send</addon>
        <addon>battlemod</addon>
        <addon>respond</addon>
        <addon>answeringmachine</addon>
    </Sjugy>
</settings>

When I log out, it unloads the plugins/addons that aren't present in all profiles. When I log back in, it loads them for the matching character name. If no matching character name is found, it uses global. If you put them in plugin_manager, you shouldn't need to leave them checked in the launcher if you don't want to. If they're variable between the profiles, I recommend leaving them unchecked in the launcher or your first login will mess up.


I refer to plugin_manager as a temporary addon because I believe there are plans to incorporate this into the launcher at some point, at which time this will no longer be necessary.

[Julian]

Was working fine, and then randomly using send, I'm getting:

luacore encountered a fatal error and must be terminated. Error: Access violation in HandleCommand method.

Reload it, and it just errors as soon as I try to send something. :<

[Taim Meich]

Was working fine, and then randomly using send, I'm getting:

luacore encountered a fatal error and must be terminated. Error: Access violation in HandleCommand method.

Reload it, and it just errors as soon as I try to send something. :<

Same here, and now that I got used to Battlemod my life is miserable without it ;_;

[vanidin]

Battlemod really jacked up for me and a friend since the last update.

Nearly crashes my game and gives me a "not enough memory" error every time I engage and Spellcast switches gear (and disengage/use a JA that has a change)

Will try turning off the new setting and see if that helps, just a preliminary report

I'm getting the same issue with battlemod, game is unplayable with the constant microfreezes. Hope this get's fixed soon, I can't find anything else causing it.

[NynJa]

same problem as julian, using send crashes luacore

[Arcon]

LuaCore had some issues earlier today, they should be fixed now (in version 1.0.5.1). See if those errors still persist with that.

[Byrthnoth]

I'm getting the same issue with battlemod, game is unplayable with the constant microfreezes. Hope this get's fixed soon, I can't find anything else causing it.

I recommend re-using the launcher a few times. I haven't really updated battlemod in a few weeks, so there is no reason that battlemod itself would have broken. Recently there have been some library updates, one of which was not very ideal. If you run the launcher, you should get the new library function versions and then battlemod will work again.

[fantasticdan]

Dumb question probably, but how do you switch the timers plugin to text mode?