Gearswap Help Thread!

[Trumpy]

not to long ago i reposted the assistme addon someone wrote forever ago. its a decent addon, though not perfect. Im sure you can search for it if intrested cause Im not on my FFXI pc to repost it. It makes ur mule fight what you are fighting and makes them follow you afterward. or you can toggle either of those options separately. It also makes pets attack what you are fighting as a separate option. Only problem I find is with autotargetting. when u kill a mob and switch to the next without disengagin, Unless ur mule is facin the right direction and has auto target on too it often wont attack. same with pets.



And for the zoning out issue where you dont get put into idle, I ran into the same issue myself. But I just started usin autoexec. Upon any zoning i just have it use a update gear command like 10 seconds afterwards (so its loaded hopefully) It works most the time.

[dlsmd]

And for the zoning out issue where you dont get put into idle, I ran into the same issue myself. But I just started usin autoexec. Upon any zoning i just have it use a update gear command like 10 seconds afterwards (so its loaded hopefully) It works most the time.

i never said it could not be fixed he asked me why it happens
it can also be done in gearswap but its really complex to do and doing things outside of gearswap's basic purview and can cause issues in windower and with the way his is setup

Example(untested): http://pasted.co/0f58d95f
--when i post heavy code like this it gets blocked as malicious code
--this should trigger your gear to change as soon as the item loading is done(thoes 2 circles that are on the top right of your screen every time you zone/login)
--this would be easier if gearswap allowed us to use equip(set) outside of the functions it called
--yes it would need to be done this way or else it will trigger every time one of your items data changes for any reason(equipping/use/timer reset/anything can cause this if it involves your items/item bags)
--there is probably a packet that releases you after a zone change but i dont know what that packet is

[Fallyn]

dlsmd, I just tried using your skillup.lua and it works great... for a while, then it just stops. No errors, just stops casting.

Any ideas?

[dlsmd]

dlsmd, I just tried using your skillup.lua and it works great... for a while, then it just stops. No errors, just stops casting.

Any ideas?

what spell type are you using
are you using a custom spell list
are you using the moded version that out there that does in-combat stuff (aka Range,etc.)
what are your settings
what is it doing when it stops

[Fallyn]

what spell type are you using
are you using a custom spell list
what are your settings
what is it doing when it stops

Just Pollen, using BLU.

The only thing I've changed in the .lua is I've added Pollen in-between the brackets:

user_settings = {
    user_spells = {
        Healing = T{},
        Geomancy = T{},
        Enhancing = T{},
        Ninjutsu = T{},
        Singing = T{},
        Blue = T{Pollen},
        Summoning = T{}},
    save_settings = false} --change this to true if you wish to save the last position of your skillup window
sets.brd = {
    wind_inst = {
        range="Cornette"},--put your wind instrument here
    string_inst = {
        range="Lamia Harp"},}--put your string instrument here
sets.Idle = {
    right_ear="Liminus Earring",
    head="Tema. Headband",
    body="Temachtiani Shirt",
    hands="Temachtiani Gloves",
    legs="Temachtiani Pants",
    feet="Temachtiani Boots",
    }
sets.Resting = {
    main="Dark Staff",
    left_ear="Relaxing Earring",
    ammo="Clarus Stone",
    neck="Eidolon pendant",
    right_ear="Boroka Earring",
    }

Character got to 0mp, rested, stood up once full then continued for about 200mp and then it stopped. Another time he just stopped after 10 or so casts.

[dlsmd]

Just Pollen, using BLU.

The only thing I've changed in the .lua is I've added Pollen in-between the brackets:

...

Character got to 0mp, rested, stood up once full then continued for about 200mp and then it stopped. Another time he just stopped after 10 or so casts.

1. It should be
Blue = T{"Pollen"}, or Blue = T{'Pollen'},
2. You always need to have at lest 2 different spells in the list (especially for Blue Magic)
--the custom spell set was only put in for thoes who want it and actually makes it slower as higher tear spells give more upgrades but cost more mp

NOTE:Blue/Summoning Magic has always had an issue that i could never figure out that causes it to stop randomly
NOTE2: it could be rewitten but im not going to because i only have one job not skilled to max and thats GEO(all skilled with my skill-up tool)

[Fallyn]

Ah okay, I'll set another spell and stick the " on it. Thanks a lot for the speedy response, and the .lua in the first place!

[dlsmd]

no problem
i always try to give fast answers
and believe it or not the skill-up tool was built so i could learn LUA nothing more

[NynJa]

Is there a way to make a foolproof /assist system for your alt through gearswap and the send addon? I'm not pleased with the vanilla assist system since it tends to fail if the character already has a target, even if not engaged to said previous target. <bt> also tends to fail either due to the char facing away from the mob or for w/e random reasons. I'd like to make an assist that takes the player.target.ID, or whatever is most fitting, and tells the alt char to target that target ID.

I find that <bt> fails only under the following situation:
Kill MobA, eEngage another mob (via autotarget or whatever) with MobA's corpse still around, <bt> will be MobA until that corpse despawns.

I've never had a problem of not facing the mob or whatever

[zoezooms]

Maybe this has already been answered, but the search function doesn't handle curly braces very well....

In some gearswaps I see: var = n{}

like this from the pup lua:

    -- Subset of modes that use magic
    magicPetModes = S{'Nuke','Heal','Magic'}
    
    -- Var to track the current pet mode.
    state.PetMode = M{['description']='Pet Mode', 'None', 'Melee', 'Ranged', 'Tank', 'Magic', 'Heal', 'Nuke'}
end

What the heck does the "S" and "M" do in front of the curly braces? I can't find anything on that online....

[Seekerstar]

I am looking for some aid with making something sort of like aecho, but for holy waters/remedies (doom/para being my biggest issues).

I've tried several different ways but it keeps erroring or not working.

If anything like this exists, please point me in the right direction. Thank you in advance ^^

[Trumpy]

Yea Dlsmd I was only offering how I achieved fixing the not going into idle after zoning thing. Not sayin it was unfixable or anything.

my problem with <bt> is for somereason if i have a player targetted it will apparently try to cast whatever spell on them. It says cant act on this target if its like a nuke or enfeeble. Im not sure why this happens because anytime in the past i have had a mob claimed bt targets them regardless of what you have targetted and what spell/JA it was. In the past the only reasons why i stopped usin bt was because if you had two mobs claimed it often randomly picked one (which always seemed to be the wrong one) Im not sure if its because I now use spellcast/shortcuts when before I was on a consoles with no windower.

[trv]

Maybe this has already been answered, but the search function doesn't handle curly braces very well....

In some gearswaps I see: var = n{}

like this from the pup lua:

    -- Subset of modes that use magic
    magicPetModes = S{'Nuke','Heal','Magic'}
    
    -- Var to track the current pet mode.
    state.PetMode = M{['description']='Pet Mode', 'None', 'Melee', 'Ranged', 'Tank', 'Magic', 'Heal', 'Nuke'}
end

What the heck does the "S" and "M" do in front of the curly braces? I can't find anything on that online....

The "S", "M", "L", "T" (etc?) are functions. In Lua, you do not need to use parentheses to pass single arguments to a function if the argument is a string literal or a table constructor. In all of the cases I listed, the functions take a table as a parameter, occasionally modify that table, and always assign a metatable to it.
For example, the S function, defined in the Sets library, takes a table (say {1,2,3,4}) and uses it to construct a second table with the form {1=true, 2=true, 3=true, 4=true}. It assigns the sets metatable to the second table (which allows you to call the methods defined in the Sets library -- contains, etc.) and returns it.

It's usually referred to as "casting". S "casts" a table as a set, L "casts" a table as a list, etc.

For reference: S - sets (set operations!), L - lists (arrays -- numerical indices only, & length is stored in the table so that it doesn't need to be calculated all the time), T - tables (adds useful methods to the generic Lua table), M - Modes (used in Motenten's gearswap files).

[zoezooms]

@trv

Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense.

Lua has such strange syntax to me, I never would have figured that that was a function with a parameter.

So, are the () not required? or are they not syntactically correct?

Would coding style convention tell me to leave them out, or can (should?) they be added to make the code more understandable?

[dlsmd]

So, are the () not required? or are they not syntactically correct?

Would coding style convention tell me to leave them out, or can (should?) they be added to make the code more understandable?

--this is how i look at this--
he only talking about Casting(aka "S", "M", "L", "T") not normal functions

Casting's are special functions for tables you must use like this
a = T{}
or
a = T({})--if i recall correctly
but why use () if there is no need to, you're just making your file size bigger

how ever to use normal functions thay do require you to use ()
--these are the same thing(its a style choice)
function test()
or
test = function()

when you need to use a function
a = test()--copy's the return of the test function to a
a = test--copy's the test function to a
if test() then--uses the return of function test to say the if is true/false
if test then--if the test function exists this if will be true otherwise its false

[trv]

The parentheses are not required if the function receives only one argument and the argument is a string literal or table constructor. It's up to you if you want to include them in those cases.

I like

print 'lalala' require 'library' S{}

more than

print('lalala') require('library') S({})

To emphasize, it's only a syntax shortcut and it only works in those two cases.

a_string = 'lalala'
print a_string -- Nope, won't work
a_table = {}
T a_table -- Nooooope.

[dlsmd]

i prefer print("test") because it shows the end of the print sequence the same goes for all functions except table Casting

[zoezooms]

but why use () if there is no need to, you're just making your file size bigger

Because it's more readable... who cares about a few extra bytes on a modern system?

That being said;it sounds like the consensus for table casting is to NOT use (), so I will not use them.

Thanks for all the replies!

[dlsmd]

who cares about a few extra bytes on a modern system?

that's actually where you are wrong

let me explain
in win7 the cluster size is 4KB for hard drives up to 16TB it gets worse if you have a hard larger that that (a 256TB hard drive has cluster sizes of 64 KB)
if you create a file that's 4.0009765625KB you must use a second cluster for that 0.0009765625KB (0.0009765625 is the size of 1 bit/the 1 or 0 used in machine language)
and if you have 100 files that are 4.0009765625KB is size you lose 399.90234375KB of space on your hard drive

here is an example my include's main file is 11.9KB (12,230 bytes) in size how ever it uses 12.0KB (12,288) of hard drive space if i increased it size by 59 bytes it would use over 16KB (16,384 bytes) of hard drive space
you might think that 4KB (4,096 bytes) is nothing but it will add up the more files that are even 1 byte over the 4KB cluster size especially with modern computer systems that have millions or billions of files
if even 1% of 1 million files(10,000 files) exceed the 4KB cluster size by 1 byte you will lose 39GB of hard drive space
dont get me wrong this is unlikely to happen but that's because program writers strive to keep there files in that 4KB barrier(most of them anyway)

and every () would add 2 bytes to my file size and with over 20 tables that use S,T,L that is over 40 bytes right there

[Trumpy]

I am workin on a SCH file. Is there a way to make it so when you try to cast ERASE, if you aren't /whm or dont have addenum white up to have it automatically use addenum white and then cast erase? Everything I tried just tells me i cant cast Erase (being i need to be sch/whm or have addenum white up to cast it)

I had a second question but completely forgottered what it was the moment i began writing.

Also this isnt a Mote file or anything a completely from scratch one.