jdraughn
10-11-2007, 12:39 PM
This AddOn, which is named MultiBoxer, is posted at http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/9618/
This is a new thread to replace the one located at: http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums2/viewtopic.php?t=1389, which is titled "[wow] Creating a dual boxing macro, need input."
Read the information below to see if it's for you. It may require a specific configuration of your action-bar's that you are not willing to do, especially if your used to doing things a specific way. Once I get some feedback of what changes I could make to make it work better for YOU, then I can start to implement them.
If you don't know what multiboxing is then this AddOn is NOT for you. If you want to read about MultiBoxing, check out [http://www.dual-boxing.com].
If you find any bugs or have any other feedback, please e-mail me at jdraughn at gmail.com (remove the spaces and change at to @).
Features:
1. Allows any person in the party to assign who the party leader is (as long as each account is using this addon).
2. Automatic following of party leader. Automatically refollows party leader when leaving combat (if toggled on).
3. Automatic swapping of action bars depending on if your assisting or playing the party leader.
4. Automatic accepting of resurrects, group invites and quest sharing.
5. This is a first release. As such it's not really configurable (unless you open up the code and change variables yourself). A GUI to change options is on the way depending on if the demand is there. As it stands right now I am pretty happy just putting /script MyFunctionNameHere() in my macros to run my addon. I will At the very least add slash commands soon.
Instructions for use:
Once this addon is properly installed, it runs automatically. All characters in the group must have this installed for it to function correctly.
THE TWO COMMANDS WHICH YOU HAVE TO USE TO OPERATE THIS ADDON ARE:
/script NewLeader("PartyMemberName")
Promotes chosen person to party leader (does not matter who in the party runs the command). Where PartyMember is the name of the person in your party who you want to be leader and who everyone else will follow and assist.
and
/script FollowLeader()
If for someone reason one or more persons in your party have stopped following the leader, running this (from any person in the group) will make them all begin following again.
IN ADDITION TO USING THE TWO COMMANDS LISTED ABOVE, YOU MUST ALSO CONFIGURE YOUR ACTION BARS AS DESCRIBED BELOW.
By default action bar 2 is used for assisting, example:
/assist party1
/cast Curse of Agony
or
/cast {target=party1} Renew
Everyone who is following party1 (The party leader) will use this bar. So by default, if you press 1 and it gets sent to all the WoW windows, everyone who is following party1 will execute the first button on action bar 2, while party1 will execute the first button on action bar 1.
When used with AutoHotkey, you can send a key to execute the ChangeLeader("PartyMember") function automatically whenever you swap WoW windows. The active window would then automatically become party leader meaning everyone in your group will automatically start following you, and since their action bar is swapped automatically too, they will automatically assist party1 (as long as you have configured their action bars appropriately.
A screenshot is almost worthless since this AddOn is so dynamic, and I am having a hard time trying to record a video of this in action since it's multiple directx windows. Fraps will only record one source at a time. Might try to use a normal video camera and just record my screen.
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My personal setup is a single computer running 5 World of Warcraft accounts simutaneously and I use AutoHotkey [http://www.autohotkey.com] to broadcast my keystrokes to all my WoW windows.
I am currently playing 1 Paladin and 4 Priests.
My computer's hardware consists of:
1. An Intel Q6600 processor (4 CPU's running at 2.4Ghz each).
2. 3 GB of ram (2 GB seemed to be enough when running 4 game windows, but the 5th pushed it over the edge and I experience extreme slowdowns until I added another Gigabyte of ram.
3. Windows Vista 32bit
4. GeForce 8800GTS 320MB.
With this setup I am able to get very playable framerates, even running in 1920x1080 in windowed mode maximized. By default however WoW will only run on the first two cores of your system, so if you have a quad core, make sure you change the affinity of your wow.exe's so they are using all 4 cores.
I use a program called process [http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/processutil/processutil.htm] in combination with AHK to automatically change the priority's of my wow windows whenever I swap screens so the foreground window gets it's cpu priority set to "High" while at the same time, any other wow windows get their priority set to "Below Normal".
This is a new thread to replace the one located at: http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums2/viewtopic.php?t=1389, which is titled "[wow] Creating a dual boxing macro, need input."
Read the information below to see if it's for you. It may require a specific configuration of your action-bar's that you are not willing to do, especially if your used to doing things a specific way. Once I get some feedback of what changes I could make to make it work better for YOU, then I can start to implement them.
If you don't know what multiboxing is then this AddOn is NOT for you. If you want to read about MultiBoxing, check out [http://www.dual-boxing.com].
If you find any bugs or have any other feedback, please e-mail me at jdraughn at gmail.com (remove the spaces and change at to @).
Features:
1. Allows any person in the party to assign who the party leader is (as long as each account is using this addon).
2. Automatic following of party leader. Automatically refollows party leader when leaving combat (if toggled on).
3. Automatic swapping of action bars depending on if your assisting or playing the party leader.
4. Automatic accepting of resurrects, group invites and quest sharing.
5. This is a first release. As such it's not really configurable (unless you open up the code and change variables yourself). A GUI to change options is on the way depending on if the demand is there. As it stands right now I am pretty happy just putting /script MyFunctionNameHere() in my macros to run my addon. I will At the very least add slash commands soon.
Instructions for use:
Once this addon is properly installed, it runs automatically. All characters in the group must have this installed for it to function correctly.
THE TWO COMMANDS WHICH YOU HAVE TO USE TO OPERATE THIS ADDON ARE:
/script NewLeader("PartyMemberName")
Promotes chosen person to party leader (does not matter who in the party runs the command). Where PartyMember is the name of the person in your party who you want to be leader and who everyone else will follow and assist.
and
/script FollowLeader()
If for someone reason one or more persons in your party have stopped following the leader, running this (from any person in the group) will make them all begin following again.
IN ADDITION TO USING THE TWO COMMANDS LISTED ABOVE, YOU MUST ALSO CONFIGURE YOUR ACTION BARS AS DESCRIBED BELOW.
By default action bar 2 is used for assisting, example:
/assist party1
/cast Curse of Agony
or
/cast {target=party1} Renew
Everyone who is following party1 (The party leader) will use this bar. So by default, if you press 1 and it gets sent to all the WoW windows, everyone who is following party1 will execute the first button on action bar 2, while party1 will execute the first button on action bar 1.
When used with AutoHotkey, you can send a key to execute the ChangeLeader("PartyMember") function automatically whenever you swap WoW windows. The active window would then automatically become party leader meaning everyone in your group will automatically start following you, and since their action bar is swapped automatically too, they will automatically assist party1 (as long as you have configured their action bars appropriately.
A screenshot is almost worthless since this AddOn is so dynamic, and I am having a hard time trying to record a video of this in action since it's multiple directx windows. Fraps will only record one source at a time. Might try to use a normal video camera and just record my screen.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My personal setup is a single computer running 5 World of Warcraft accounts simutaneously and I use AutoHotkey [http://www.autohotkey.com] to broadcast my keystrokes to all my WoW windows.
I am currently playing 1 Paladin and 4 Priests.
My computer's hardware consists of:
1. An Intel Q6600 processor (4 CPU's running at 2.4Ghz each).
2. 3 GB of ram (2 GB seemed to be enough when running 4 game windows, but the 5th pushed it over the edge and I experience extreme slowdowns until I added another Gigabyte of ram.
3. Windows Vista 32bit
4. GeForce 8800GTS 320MB.
With this setup I am able to get very playable framerates, even running in 1920x1080 in windowed mode maximized. By default however WoW will only run on the first two cores of your system, so if you have a quad core, make sure you change the affinity of your wow.exe's so they are using all 4 cores.
I use a program called process [http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/processutil/processutil.htm] in combination with AHK to automatically change the priority's of my wow windows whenever I swap screens so the foreground window gets it's cpu priority set to "High" while at the same time, any other wow windows get their priority set to "Below Normal".