Re-posting here. Made this for my FC if anyone would like to use it.
ACT based cooldown timer bars
It looks like this:
However, it has some limitations:
- You can't stop it from repeating itself. Here is what I mean by this. Say you have a timer set up for Huton, and you recast it at 20 seconds? That old Huton timer is going to continue to stay on the screen and count down. I played with it last night and cannot figure out how to get rid of it. If anyone finds a way, let me know, but I assume it would include using programming/language knowledge that I do not have since my only real experience doing anything like that is with Spellcast XML in FFXI.
This same problem also happens when you use Kassatsu. It will show Mudras as showing up twice. I just choose to ignore it..
How to install:
- Go here: https://github.com/RainbowMage/OverlayPlugin/releases - Get the most recent release labeled "full".
- Unzip everything (or copy paste like I did) everything in to your ACT folder.
- Open ACT, and go to the plugins tab. You should see this:
- Hit browse, and find OverlayPlugin.dll - select it.
- Hit enable.
- Go to "plugins" and find the newly added OverlayPlugin.dll tab
- You should see this, do what the image says:
- That's it for the plugin, now you need to set up timers.
- Click this:
- When you see this, right click it:
- You should see a menu like this:
- You need to make a timer for each ability you want to display. I'll use my Battle Voice timer as an example. Make it look exactly like this:
The visual settings on the far right don't matter, but you want to make sure you set the "Time period in seconds" to whatever the cooldown timer for the ability is. You also need to make sure you set both "Custom Timer Start Sound" and "Customer Warning Sound" to none from the drop down. If you change the color of the "Custom Tooltip", it will change the color of the actual recast bar when you are all done setting it up. - Also make sure to add your character(s) name in to the white list at the far right, like you see in my above shot.
- When you're done setting an ability, hit this:
- If you're just setting an ability like Battle Voice or invigorate, you should be done. Just check the box and make sure you saved all your changes. It should look like this:
- However, should you see nothing, you need to add a custom trigger to act for the spell timer (sometimes it works for me without a spell timer, sometimes it does not). If you were to add one for battle voice, it would look like this:
The important part is to make sure you check the "Trigger Timer" box and that the tab name is THE EXACT SAME THING you spell timer tab is named for that ability.
That should make it show up for sure. I don't know the reason why sometimes it displays and sometimes it does not. When it doesn't, I click the triggers on for each ability. If it ever appears twice, I know I can click the triggers off. Maybe someone else knows. - If you want to add a trigger for something like an X-pot, I just make an ACT trigger that looks like this. This one will need a trigger in addition to the spell timer no matter what:
- That's it.