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Add castbars and you'll become the multiboxing communities wet dream (and hero).
Working prototypes to show my progress. Should give you a sense for how much things can be adjusted. And there really aren't that many options either so pretty straight forward. It's quite intentional that there are no time values.
The amount of player names shown is configurable. In these screenshots, it's set to 3. No doubt people will not want to see empty names but I left them there to help visualize (and debug)
The compact layout (current layout) and some examples of horizontal layouts (player names grow horizontally):
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2351/exhorz.jpg
Some vertical layout examples:
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/121/exvert.jpg
O my. This is insane.
Thank you very much.,
Those are looking great.
Beta5 released, check home page
I put a lot of time into this and tested as best as I could considering. I anticipate a few UI issues here and there with hopefully no more than a handful of serious issues. I'd like to say this release is "rock solid" but honestly, when you use it, you'll see how much Hermes has changed over the last week.
Again, I expect some issues. Hopefully nothing disastrous!
Changes:
- Multiple button containers (create as many as you need)
- Drag and drop buttons between containers (tip: middle mouse button will instantly move a button to it's prior container if it had one.)
- Tic Tacs! a.k.a something that sounds more fun than "player name bars". Dive into the Tic Tacs tab in the Container config to play around with them. Tic Tacs are intended to be a way to immediately view who has something available. It prevents the need to rely on the tooltip. Note that each container has it's own Tic Tac settings.
- Take advantage of the individual container settings and the middle mouse button to move buttons during combat!
- Much better defaults for new profiles. In fact, if you don't mind losing your prior saved spells you may wish to consider resetting your profile to pick up the new defaults (or delete the "welcome" value in your lua config).
- Much improved support for adding new item cooldowns. Hermes will allow you to add the item even if it doesn't know it's name yet (it's a Blizzard thing). Hermes will periodically check while your game is running to find the actual names. This allows you to use it right away. Note: still requires itemid if not something in your inventory.
- Added basic slash commands /hermes
This screenshot says a lot of the story I hope. I just mashed three differently styled containers together and took a screenshot.
http://media.curse.com/Curse.Project...6/multiple.jpg
Seems to be working great through 3 instance runs and some questing. I'm using a combination of spell and item cooldowns.
I love the containers. I'm using 10 without any issues. Being able to scale the buttons is also a welcome addition.
I've tested the Tic Tacs but am unlikely to use them very often. The tooltip meets most of my needs.
I appreciate all the work that goes into this.
EDIT: Ob. purdy screenie
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...esExample3.jpg
yeah I thought about the whole container thing being a "cheap hack" for allowing you to line stuff up. It's lame that Hermes doesn't support your needs but at least you found something to make it work.
I am still unsure how I want to handle button ordering so I'm holding off. We'll see what feedback comes in I suppose.
Thanks for the update. BTW, I'm going to look into the ability to "nudge" the containers with the keyboard. I used to use an addon called macaroon that let you do that. It'd probably help you a lot and it would avoid me having to add a bunch of edit boxed to the config.
Oh, and I very much appreciate your help. I can't think of anyone else running 5 clients at once who might actually notice odd issues better. For your reward, I offer you this screenshot where I was doing some stress testing....:)
http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/4931/stress0.jpg
hi,
First grats and thanks for the cool addon.
Definitively very useful.
Is there also an option to make the buttons click through (if thats not already the case) (and remove the mouseover) , so I can use them as onscreen buttons on alts ?
I had problems getting the following things to work:
- Mage - Mirror Image
- Belf Racials : Arcane Torrent
- Orc Racials: Blood Fury
suggestion:
- in the item view: Amount of items (e.g. Mage: Mana Gems 3/3) (Lock: soul shards (if possible))
No options for click through or not showing the tooltip. I'll think about that. I think it's not going to be a common request but feel free to suggest otherwise. I'm just speculating.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bloodcloud
Can you do me a favor and post the spellid's that Hermes picked up for those three spells? You can find it by going to the spells tab, locating the spell, and hovering over the name. The tooltip will show you the ID. I'm not sure what's wrong off hand but that's the likely culprit.
For example, it looks like Blizz decided to give arcane torrent a different spellid per race:
http://www.wowhead.com/search?q=arca...rent#abilities
The item view request is the tricky part. It does actually show the amount of items, but it's not really how many items there are TOTAL. It's how many players have at least one of that item. Which is the point of Hermes. It *should* be showing you how many players have at least one of that item. If it's not please let me know. I think summing up the total amount of items across all players and displaying that (if that's what you're requesting) isn't the idea behind Hermes. Please correct me as I am guessing I'm misunderstanding.
I just created a Horde toon to check your spell issues. Definitely not much I can do about it but here is the solution.
When I added "Mirror Image" Hermes picked up spellid 36847 which is not the right one. It picked this up instead. To fix it, delete your current Mirror Image and add it again, but this time type this number instead of the name: 55342
For Arcane Torrent check the link I posted above and find the number matching your toon's class. Sorry but there's no other way to handle it :( Unfortunately this brought up a weakness in Hermes, which is that if you really want to track it you'd need one per class you want to track. That seems highly unoptimal :(
Looks like the same issue with Blood Fury: http://www.wowhead.com/search?q=Blood+Fury#abilities
Hermes can't do much about the fact that it finds the wrong spellid. There's no way around it except to perhaps give you a list of all the mtches and let you try to select one. But that's not as simple as it might sound, and in some cases that list is huge (more than 20).
Cheers! and thanks for the feedback and suggestions.