Gearswap Help Thread!

[dlsmd]

is there any way i can get this to process with no action taking place by me??

if player.target.name == 'Beach Bunny' then
	if player.target.hpp <= 20 then
		equip(main="Teiwaz",sub="empty")
	end
end

[TSFFXI]

I thought you could probably use windower.register_event('hp change'), but I think that might only trigger when your HP changes, not necessarily your target's. I looked through the other events and didn't see one for other people's HP.

[Glecent]

I'm using Motenten's BRD.lua. So I'm using that, Mote-Include, Mote-Globals, Mote-Mappings, Mote-SelfCommands, and Mote-Utility. The toggles and commands from Mote-SelfCommands work except for Casting Mode: Dire. But the ones from BRD.lua don't.

[Sechs]

Lurking in some simpler GS files, I still need to understand what is the index function and how does it work.
For instance take this

            if spell.english == 'Resolution' then
                    equip(sets.Resolution[sets.Resolution.index[Resolution_ind]])
            end

When the action you perform is Resolution, he equips sets.Resolution.index.
At the beginning of the file there are 2 defined Resolution sets: sets.Resolution.attack and sets.Resolution.accuracy.
Also Resolution_ind is set to the value of 1.
What does this mean? How does it swap between the two available sub-sets?
Reading the lua further it seems there is a toggle function. When you activate it it "cycles" to the next sub-set in the list.
What if I don't want to do that but I want direct access commands for each set?
Instead of a toggle/cycle thing, I'd love to have a command to bind to my hotkeys and then press it to activate the related set.
Like G1 key activates the default one, G2 activates accuracy, G3 activates PDT and stuff like that.


Then another question

function midcast(spell,act)
            if spell.english == 1
            if spell.english == 2
    end

Of course I simplified the structure to keep it quicker to read.
What if I want to add an "else"?
Like, predefining a set number of IFs, and then defining a last one which will handle all other situations which do not fall into the previous IFs.

[dlsmd]

Then another question

function midcast(spell,act)
            if spell.english == 1
            if spell.english == 2
    end

Of course I simplified the structure to keep it quicker to read.
What if I want to add an "else"?
Like, predefining a set number of IFs, and then defining a last one which will handle all other situations which do not fall into the previous IFs.

like this

function midcast(spell,act)
            if spell.english == 1
            elseif spell.english == 2
            else
end

[Sechs]

Ah, very simple. Awesome!

[dlsmd]

also if you got this some how from my weapon skill include (http://pastebin.com/mVyt5YeN)

            if spell.english == 'Resolution' then
                    equip(sets.Resolution[sets.Resolution.index[Resolution_ind]])
            end

i.e.

	if spell.type == "WeaponSkill"then
		equip(sets.weaponskill.type[weaponskill.type[spell.name]])
		equip(sets.weaponskill.element[spell.wsA])
	end

in the equip line [weaponskill.type[spell.name] this checks the weaponskill.type table against the spell name which turns sets.weaponskill.type[weaponskill.type[spell.name]] into sets.weaponskill.type.Handtohand for Combo

if you want it to have a command that you can turn on and off look at my staff include (http://pastebin.com/QM1PXc1T)

these are the tables and variables
s

pells.cure = S{'Cura','Cura II','Cura III','Curaga','Curaga II','Curaga III','Curaga IV','Curaga V','Cure','Cure II','Cure III','Cure IV','Cure V','Cure VI'}
        Changestaff = true --Togle with //gs c tchangestaff (true for change staves, false for do not change staves)
        Usestaff = 'Atk' --Togle with //gs c tstaveuse (Atk for Attack Staves, Acc for Accuracy Staves)

here is the equip code

if Changestaff then
                if spell.action_type == 'Magic' then
                        if spells.cure[spell.english] then
                equip(sets.precast.Cur)
            else
                equip(sets.precast[Usestaff][spell.element])
            end
                end
        end

and here is the controle code
it works with //gs c 'thecorrectcommand' to eather stop, start or select the type of staves you want to equip

if command == 'tstavetouse' then
                if Usestaff == 'Atk' then
                        Usestaff = 'Acc'
                        send_command('@input /echo ----- STAVES SET TO ACC -----')
                elseif Usestaff == 'Acc' then
                        Usestaff = 'Atk'
                        send_command('@input /echo ----- STAVES SET TO ATK -----')
                end
        elseif command == 'tchangemagestaff' then
                Changestaff = not Changestaff
                send_command('@input /echo ----- STAVES WILL ' .. (Changestaff and '' or 'NOT ') .. 'CHANGE -----')
        end

[TSFFXI]

Lurking in some simpler GS files, I still need to understand what is the index function and how does it work.
For instance take this

            if spell.english == 'Resolution' then
                    equip(sets.Resolution[sets.Resolution.index[Resolution_ind]])
            end

When the action you perform is Resolution, he equips sets.Resolution.index.
At the beginning of the file there are 2 defined Resolution sets: sets.Resolution.attack and sets.Resolution.accuracy.
Also Resolution_ind is set to the value of 1.
What does this mean? How does it swap between the two available sub-sets?

Index isn't a function, it's a table. He defines it above:

sets.Resolution.index = {'Attack','Accuracy'}
                    Resolution_ind = 1

In the table, there are two values: Attack and Accuracy, and two keys (not shown), 1 and 2. What sets.Resolution.index really looks like is

sets.Resolution.index={[1]="Attack",[2]="Accuracy"}

When you use resolution, you don't equip sets.Resolution.index, you equip either sets.Resolution.Attack or sets.Resolution.Accuracy. Which you use depends on the value of Resolution_ind.

Suppose, for example, that Resolution_ind is 1. Then this line

equip(sets.Resolution[sets.Resolution.index[Resolution_ind]])

simplifies to equip(sets.Resolution[sets.Resolution.index[1]]). Now sets.Resolution.index[1] is a value corresponding to the key 1 in the table sets.Resolution.index. The line simplifies to

equip(sets.Resolution["Attack"])

and you equip your attack based resolution set. The benefit is that by changing the value of Resolution_ind you can change the set that equips by default when you use Resolution. If you were to do that manually you would need two macros: one to equip the attack set when using resolution, and one to equip the accuracy set when using resolution. With this, your macro can simply be /ws Resolution.

[JSHidaka]

@Byrth It is possible to add in your Custom Time code for brd songs, to track targets? not really interested in what song I did cast on my target... but the time remaining of the last song I did cast on it.

Ex.
I cast 1 song to my target, It creates a Custom timer with Target Name w/ the duration of the song I casted.
If I cast a second one, just delete old one and add the new one timer.

?

Tried to do something.. but.. couldn't make it to create a custom timer with the target player name.. -_-

[Motenten]

I can't get these self commands to work for some reason. /console gs c set daurdabla Dummy returns the message "Unknown mode value: Dummy for Daurdabla mode." the cycle command returns nothing at all. I haven't made any modifications to your file except for switching to gear that I have. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

If you don't have your Daurdabla in inventory, cycle will do nothing, and because it doesn't return the table definition, it will generate the Dummy error you noticed when trying to select a specific value. I'll adjust it so that it generates a more specific error message if the Daurdabla isn't found.

[Byrthnoth]

The issue is that you can't get the names of everyone hit by the song, I'm sure. I'll see what I can do.

[JSHidaka]

The issue is that you can't get the names of everyone hit by the song, I'm sure. I'll see what I can do.

I mean when I cast the song w/ Pianissimo, so it helps me to keep track when the songs on X target will wear off, so I can recast the songs

[Byrthnoth]

Oh:

send_command('timers create "'..spell.name..'" '..dur..' down')

should be:

send_command('timers create "'..spell.target.name..'" '..dur..' down')

[Glecent]

If you don't have your Daurdabla in inventory, cycle will do nothing, and because it doesn't return the table definition, it will generate the Dummy error you noticed when trying to select a specific value. I'll adjust it so that it generates a more specific error message if the Daurdabla isn't found.

Ahh ok. I was trying to modify the file so that I could use the new harp instead of Daurdabla. I thought that just switching the harp in the set would work but it seems it will take a bit more than that.

[Motenten]

Ahh ok. I was trying to modify the file so that I could use the new harp instead of Daurdabla. I thought that just switching the harp in the set would work but it seems it will take a bit more than that.

If you want to remove that restriction entirely, just get rid of the player.inventory.daurdabla check. Given the new harp, I guess I should make adjustments for that as well.

[Kuhlitoraal]

If you don't have your Daurdabla in inventory, cycle will do nothing, and because it doesn't return the table definition, it will generate the Dummy error you noticed when trying to select a specific value. I'll adjust it so that it generates a more specific error message if the Daurdabla isn't found.

Are there simple edit(s) that's make it possible to swap Daurdabla w/the Terpander?

EDIT: You just answered this above, I apologize for the tardy response.

[Motenten]

Ahh ok. I was trying to modify the file so that I could use the new harp instead of Daurdabla. I thought that just switching the harp in the set would work but it seems it will take a bit more than that.

Followup: I've updated to make it trivial to change to using the Terpander (just change info.DaurdablaInstrument and info.DaurdablaSongs in the user_setup() function). However it's only on the dev branch right now because there's still some significant differences between dev and live GearSwap.

[dlsmd]

Index isn't a function, it's a table. He defines it above:

sets.Resolution.index = {'Attack','Accuracy'}
                    Resolution_ind = 1

In the table, there are two values: Attack and Accuracy, and two keys (not shown), 1 and 2. What sets.Resolution.index really looks like is

sets.Resolution.index={[1]="Attack",[2]="Accuracy"}

When you use resolution, you don't equip sets.Resolution.index, you equip either sets.Resolution.Attack or sets.Resolution.Accuracy. Which you use depends on the value of Resolution_ind.

Suppose, for example, that Resolution_ind is 1. Then this line

equip(sets.Resolution[sets.Resolution.index[Resolution_ind]])

simplifies to equip(sets.Resolution[sets.Resolution.index[1]]). Now sets.Resolution.index[1] is a value corresponding to the key 1 in the table sets.Resolution.index. The line simplifies to

equip(sets.Resolution["Attack"])

and you equip your attack based resolution set. The benefit is that by changing the value of Resolution_ind you can change the set that equips by default when you use Resolution. If you were to do that manually you would need two macros: one to equip the attack set when using resolution, and one to equip the accuracy set when using resolution. With this, your macro can simply be /ws Resolution.

do something like this

Resolution
Resolution.index={[1]="Attack",[2]="Accuracy"}
Resolution_ind = 1


equip(sets.Resolution[Resolution.index[Resolution_ind]])

if command == 'Resolutionind' then
		if Resolution_ind == 1 then
			Resolution_ind = 2
		elseif Resolution_ind == 2 then
			Resolution_ind = 1
		end
end

[Glecent]

If you want to remove that restriction entirely, just get rid of the player.inventory.daurdabla check. Given the new harp, I guess I should make adjustments for that as well.

I tried changing it to

function job_get_mode_list(field)
	if field == 'Daurdabla' and (player.inventory.daurdabla or player.inventory.terpander) then
		return options.DaurdablaModes, state.DaurdablaMode
	end
end

But that didn't work so I tried changing it to

function job_get_mode_list(field)
		return options.DaurdablaModes, state.DaurdablaMode
end

and I still got the same error as before about not recognizing dummy as an option.

[Glecent]

Followup: I've updated to make it trivial to change to using the Terpander (just change info.DaurdablaInstrument and info.DaurdablaSongs in the user_setup() function). However it's only on the dev branch right now because there's still some significant differences between dev and live GearSwap.

Ok, I'll check out the dev branch of your file and of GearSwap then. Thanks a lot for the quick changes and help.

EDIT: Finally got it working on the master branch. Thanks again for the help.