Looting via Keybind

[Falkor]

Yet another macro that will change the world of multiboxing by Falkor :P

Provided your mouse is over the lootable target this macro will allow you to press a key on the keyboard to loot that corpse :)


/script SetBinding("L", "TURNORACTION")
/script SaveBindings(1)

[Poolboy]

Falkor, you teased us on irc then you disappeared =)

So this is useful for clones? Clones in 1st person view have a good chance of hovering over dead bodies with their mouse or something? I'm still a little mystified. Further explanation needed!!

And, if so, does this work with herbs/nodes?

[Falkor]

Falkor, you teased us on irc then you disappeared =)

So this is useful for clones? Clones in 1st person view have a good chance of hovering over dead bodies with their mouse or something? I'm still a little mystified. Further explanation needed!!

And, if so, does this work with herbs/nodes?

I'm working on a solution to actually make this visable to use while multiboxing but as a bonus yes this works with mining and herbalism :P

[wougoose]

If you do this after setting the binding, it will save it to your key bindings:
/script SaveBindings(1)

Source: http://www.wowwiki.com/API_SaveBindings

Falkor, any good solution for dealing with the slaves being bunched up and clicking on each other rather than the corpse? The only solution I could think of is using a chain formation with each slave following each other. Didn't quite like that solution and wasn't happy with only being able to loot the corpse about 75% of the time. I ended up using PiP/focus changing to switch mains in order to ease the hassle of looting.

[Mystrana]

Man thats awesome just ran today with me 3 hunters in chain formation using this Script was great.

Looted 95% time on both trail hunters



made the Centor ear quest a breeze and got 1 lvl on each hunter for it :)



TYTYTYTYTYTY and TY

[Falkor]

After more tests it would appear that if you change your charectors zoom to first person view "eg you cannot see your charector" then you will get 99.99% loot. :thumbsup:

[Falkor]

If you do this after setting the binding, it will save it to your key bindings:
/script SaveBindings(1)

Source: http://www.wowwiki.com/API_SaveBindings

Falkor, any good solution for dealing with the slaves being bunched up and clicking on each other rather than the corpse? The only solution I could think of is using a chain formation with each slave following each other. Didn't quite like that solution and wasn't happy with only being able to loot the corpse about 75% of the time. I ended up using PiP/focus changing to switch mains in order to ease the hassle of looting.

Cheers for this post updated :P

[rbaldwin7]

I am running 5 accounts on one computer using KeyClone, I have bound this by using this code once:


/script SetBinding(";", "TURNORACTION")
/script SaveBindings(1)

When I kill a mob, I walk near it and press ';' on the main toon and nothing happens on the other toon.
If I PiP change onto the other toons screen and hover the cursor over the corpse and press ';' it will loot.

You had said to use 1st person view, when i do that I am looking directly ahead...What does that accomplish?

Any ideas how to get this working?

[smurfy]

i also have a camera problem.

if i use first person and camera follow mode to "msart" or "always" my slaves don'T loot. main problem (i think is) that the slaves stand in eachother and they don'T looking to the ground.

so whats your camera settings fpr your slaves to get it work. if i move the mouse above a corpse and press the key it works ;D

could you post a screenshot etc?

btw: i use octupus

[Falkor]

Ok the best camera view I found was to lock your camera in the verticle view, so your camera is looking from the sky down on all your slaves, this means your toons need to stand on or v near the corpse and it loots 100% of the time :)

[Aaron]

This is awesome, bump!

Was a little disheartened to be skipping collection quests when i started dualboxing my paladin and shaman, but this solves it!

Works great with Multiboxer V2 mod too, to get my shaman to open up dialog of quest NPCs then clone all actions i make on my main for quest completions

[Rigodon666]

Hi, I've been multi boxing for a while when i stumbled on this thread -_-. I have a question regarding it.

I'm boxing with 1 cpu, 2 screens. I set up the script/macro and it works but I have a problem. To switch between my slaves and main, I just hover the mouse between all the screens, which means that I can't let the mouse pointer being in the center of my slaves windows. I tried switching around with alt tab but it won't work.

I'll try to clarify a little bit again -_-.... : When I hit my loot script, I see my pointer appearing on all my screens but the pointer is always on the side of the screen due to me needing to do so to get back to my main.

Can I save my pointer location so it stays in the middle when I hit the script, or is there a way to NOT use hovering between all screens -_-. I use keyclones, windows xp and dual view.

Thanks a lot :)

[Maxion]

Someone mentioned having a firefox or other browser window behind them that you can alt tab to when your mouse is in the middle of the screen so that that is the last place it was, but just zooming them all in all the way should be enough to make the spot in the edge of the screen hit the corpse/whatever.

[lans83]

right now i have 1 computer, running on 1 monitor and able to run 3 accounts at once. slow as hell, but doable. i use my 5 button mouse to look around, direct my main in directions, turning, etc...i can't stand to use the keyboard for turning, but use the WASD for movement. to keep from alt-tabing to loot on my slaves which i keep on /follow, would this work for me?

[Rigodon666]

Someone mentioned having a firefox or other browser window behind them that you can alt tab to when your mouse is in the middle of the screen so that that is the last place it was, but just zooming them all in all the way should be enough to make the spot in the edge of the screen hit the corpse/whatever.2 nice ideas in one post, congratulation. I'll try this right now ON DA DOUBLE O_O!!!

Thx bro

Edit: Bingo it worked. Ok, I almost puke at looking at my second screen where I only see the ground passing by at a insane speed but at least, they can loot now.

Thanks a lot for the OP and for this valuable input.

[Occam's Razor]

How can I UNBIND the key that I set with this macro?

I've looked through the keybind screen and can't find a way to stop my E key from being bound by this Macro.

I looked through the config.wtf too.

Where can I stop this macro from being bound?!?!?!

[zendarva]

/script SetBinding("E","")
/script SaveBindings(1)


Should clear the binding from the E key. Or you could just bind it to something else in the keybinding menu, that aughta have pretty much the same effect.

[Draku]

This is a bit of a repeat of my post on the software tools forum, but I thought it worth it.

HotkeyNet now handles broadcasting mouse clicks. This must help this thread. I will try as soon as I can...but might take a couple of days.

Anyone else want to have a go? (Probably helps if you have some experience of HKN)

[Occam's Razor]

/script SetBinding("E","")
/script SaveBindings(1)


Should clear the binding from the E key. Or you could just bind it to something else in the keybinding menu, that aughta have pretty much the same effect.Thanks, I'll try it :)

EDIT: It Worked!!!

[jennifer]

I enter your exact setup there and I currently have 3 shaman on the same PC using keyclone... all of them are scripted for key binding L to loot, but when I hit L, it just moves my main to aerial view and nothing happens on my other 2 slaves, i have debinded all of the L keys yet it doesn't fix anything.... any suggestions?

[Knobley]

Provided your mouse is over the lootable target this macro will allow you to press a key on the keyboard to loot that corpse :)

Okay, I know this must be totally noobish of me, and that I'm showing my ignorance here, but, if your mouse is over the lootable target, why not just righ-click?

Knobley

[Coltimar]

Some folks use both hands on the keyboard in lieu of the mouse. Also, you don't have to go to the screen that your clones are on. Just make sure the cursor is in the middle of the screen and push your bound key. You don't have to leave your main toon's screen this way.

[moosejaw]

May I add that if your "focus doesn't follow mouse", then just hovering your mouse on the screen will highlight the object but to interact you must "select" the screen first. Thus 2 mouse clicks to loot instead of a hover and keyboard press.

So the difference is Hover and keyboard -or- 2 mouse clicks. Basically less stress for your clicking fingers.

[Pixel]

Thank you so much Falkor!!

This is going to make lvling EVEN faster! :D (silly drop quests... /sigh)

/3 cheers!

[Snowfox]

I'm sorry but i dont think i understand. I copy that source code in a macro, then i hover over a dead corpse, hit 'L', and it loots the corpse if i'm in first person view on my clones?

[moosejaw]

The command "TURNORACTION" is a wow function that is normally bound to the mouse right button. So what the first post says to do is bind a key (in the example he uses L) to "TURNORACTION" then you can press that key to loot.

If you use one monitor with the clones stacked up behind then you put the clones in first person view so pressing the keybind will almost always loot/interact.

If you run all your accounts on one machine with multiple monitors (like I do) then you move the mouse over to the screen you want to loot/interact (or npc interact) with. When you mouse over objects you see the tooltips like you normally would and just hit the keybind to loot/interact. The bonus is you never lose focus on your main WOW so you simple move the mouse back to the main screen and keep going.

An alternate method of keybinding is to edit the macro file directly. I.e. enter this line "Bind L TURNORACTION" or whatever key combo you want.

[lans83]

now this will really come in handy and save me some time for when i run them all on one monitor with my main up front. maybe now, i won't mind doing collection quests so much

[Draku]

If you use one monitor with the clones stacked up behind then you put the clones in first person view so pressing the keybind will almost always loot/interact.

Is there some trick to get the clones to stand on the same spot? with mine on follow (and in first person view) I only get the other clones or the main targetted,

[shaeman]

May I add that if your "focus doesn't follow mouse", then just hovering your mouse on the screen will highlight the object but to interact you must "select" the screen first. Thus 2 mouse clicks to loot instead of a hover and keyboard press.

So the difference is Hover and keyboard -or- 2 mouse clicks. Basically less stress for your clicking fingers.

I've been clicking twice on each window and looting - the "focus follows mouse" will save a load of time.

I'll have to try the original posters suggestion as well.

[moosejaw]

May I add that if your "focus doesn't follow mouse", then just hovering your mouse on the screen will highlight the object but to interact you must "select" the screen first. Thus 2 mouse clicks to loot instead of a hover and keyboard press.

So the difference is Hover and keyboard -or- 2 mouse clicks. Basically less stress for your clicking fingers.

I've been clicking twice on each window and looting - the "focus follows mouse" will save a load of time.

I'll have to try the original posters suggestion as well.
I should clarify that statement for you. You seem to be doing the same thing I am doing -> multiple monitors on one machine. So all you need to do is set the keybind on your clones and not click at all when you mouseover, just hit the keybind. This is exactly what the original poster said to do and I was just trying to clarify it further.



Sometimes you need to be careful though when clicking on NPC's or loot when there is flagged folks around I.E. Sunwell area. Because all the clones will try to click and sometimes those cursors are right on other npc's or players. In those situations I manually click each npc by grabbing focus on the clone first.

[Motaghi]

While we're at it, does anyone know how to trade stuff between chars with a macro? As in, commence trade with Brain, move everything from slot X to the trade window, accept trade.

I will have your babies if you can make a macro like that. :o

[Rigz]

I multibox off one big tv, 40", and have found this idea to be awesome. Thank you so much.

I do have a question though. I have my setup as one big window and four smaller windows lined up vertical on the side. I use keyclone's pip feature to swap windows. So far the best way to use the above technique for me is to set all clones to top down view zoomed out a few clicks then put cursor to the right of each clone. Press L and wolla 100% looting no problems. As a bonus it works well with opening up npc quest givers as well.

I set the cursor position by running my mouse into the clone window and then out of the window one the right side. This leaves the cursor in the perfect looting position for my set up I have to "set the cursor" this way whenever I change windows, but that is no big thing.

My one big problem is that when I press L it seems to activate in each window with a delay for the cursor click, perhaps this is from system and latency lag mabye? Which leaves the cursor in one of the clone windows which means I have to run it back to the main window. Anyone know a way to fix this. It is small but annoying issue. As I frequently dont pay attention nad drag the cursor through other clones or off the scren setting a bad looting position for next loot.

Mabye round robin with my main as the last window to pass the click?

Edit: Setting loot key to round robin, is a sort of fix, as I can now just click the loot key 5 times and not have to deal with the cursor ending up on a slave.

[lans83]

[quote='moosejaw',index.php?page=Thread&postID=77665#post77665]

Is there some trick to get the clones to stand on the same spot? with mine on follow (and in first person view) I only get the other clones or the main targetted,

Macro's for New Multiboxers - A Quick Start Reference ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=1219')

i used this post, as should all that just start to multibox. it helped me out alot and right now i'm only using just a few macros instead of a ton. use the 'big button' macro and bind it to a key you can easily press. i set mine to 'E' and mash it constantly when playing. sometimes on my rig, it would not register on the first stroke, so i mashed it a few times before and every battle. i put my leader's name after the /assist and /follow to specify who i want them to assist and follow. that way, there's no confusion. all my slaves are then stacked on top of each other and are always together. just get them to /follow you to the node/corpse/item and then hit the 'turnoraction' macro. not sure yet if this works on items, such as chests/bushes/books. if this does work, please post it.


While we're at it, does anyone know how to trade stuff between chars with a macro? As in, commence trade with Brain, move everything from slot X to the trade window, accept trade.

this is copied and pasted from the above post. i use this on all my toons and bound it to F12, you can bound it to whatever you like. just open up a trade with your slave, rightclick the item to trade, and hit this key without having to switch screens.

****** Place this macro on all secondary toons to accept quests/rez/etc:

/script AcceptGroup();
/script AcceptQuest();
/script AcceptTrade();
/script RetrieveCorpse();

This one is great (Thanks Steph for originally posting it). As you can see, it accepts group (the invite dialog box still hangs around, but it will go away on its own after a few minutes if you dont want to click it), accepts shared quests, accepts trades, and rezzes if you have the accept button up on your toon's screen.

thanks Morganti for that post, it really did help me out

[Oatboat]

i've tried this multiple times now.

Opened a browser behind to try to set cursor to center of screen. set turnoraction to L and put characters in first person view with camera looking down.

Only thing i'm wondering is i use 4 windowed clients on 1 monitor, is this even going to be an option for me? They over lap each other and the main toon is always on top.

let me know if there is anything i can try.

[brontes]

I tried using this. It works at first, but then it whips my mouse around on my main screen and eventually the other mouse positions in the other windows get offsync and it breaks. Any ideas?

Thanks.

[Greythan]

Wondering if anyone's refined this technique for the single box/single monitor five boxing using Keyclone person? (i.e., Me. ;) )

Looks like there is some "bugginess" from reading these posts?

[Hypermoo]

This works if each alt is on a different computer. If you're running multiple on one, and try to use this, your mouse gets confused. It doesn't like being in two (or five) places at once.

On a different note, TURNORACTION is for right button mouse click. What about left button? Could be useful for point and click things, like bombing quests.

[Revith]

Ok the best camera view I found was to lock your camera in the verticle view, so your camera is looking from the sky down on all your slaves, this means your toons need to stand on or v near the corpse and it loots 100% of the time :)

I'm new to multiboxing, and this sounds fantastic since trying to loot across characters is a pain. How do you lock your camera in vertical view exactly? Thanks!

[bruneck]

Wondering if anyone's refined this technique for the single box/single monitor five boxing using Keyclone person? (i.e., Me. ;) )

Looks like there is some "bugginess" from reading these posts?i would like to know this as well, as i'm 2tooning from 1 box

[alfa]

This works if each alt is on a different computer. If you're running multiple on one, and try to use this, your mouse gets confused. It doesn't like being in two (or five) places at once.


This is exactly what happens . I use 2 monitor on 1 pc. my slaves are on the second screen and i only use my main on main screen. And when click L my mouse goes WOOOOHOOOO... i hope there is a way to fix this...

[noir]

So anyone have a solution for multiple clients on one PC?

I've got 5 clients running Keyclone-PiP. Mouse-over -> loot would be awesome.

[Teracia]

its not looting at all on the second toon what am i doing wrong

[macgyrl]

well I'm so proud of myself for figuring this out and getting it to work on my slave, but when I use it, my mouse cursor disappears and reappears on my mains portrait, is there anyway to fix this? I'm using keyclone if it matters...

[Crashman]

I'm pretty new to boxing but thought I'd offer some of my observations after reading some people's problems. First of all, some people who are asking questions aren't giving nearly enough information ("It's not working, why?" is not going to get any answers).

The problem with the mouse going crazy, I don't think it can really be fixed. You can minimize the problem though by not doing anything with the mouse when hitting the loot key ("L" as in the first example). When you hit that key, the mouse is going to jump to the location of the cursor of whatever character is looting and then jump back when you release the key. So, for example, if you were holding down the right mouse button when you hit that loot key, the camera will go crazy because it detected a mouse movement. I think the only true way around this is to use separate computers since they each have their own cursor.

I hope this helped someone.

[Schwarz]

Falkor or anyone else

where did you find this "TURNORACTION"? I have been looking at the wowwiki API pages in hopes that I can find someway to ingame keybind a left click event to a key. From my understanding all that you are doing is essentially binding the action associated with rightclick (TURNORACTION) to a key (L). This gives me hope that there must be some action that you can also keybind that is associated with left clicks.

[Crashman]

I haven't tested it, but I think the command used for left click is CAMERAORSELECTORMOVE. It was in a post by a Blizzard rep so I assume that it works. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html;jsessionid=9648F945807E3FD6DDE43214AB8 0FA38?topicId=2720552659&sid=1