Looking for a program but have no idea what its called.

[sykottikk]

Hey I just started dual boxing a few days ago and Ive encountered a problem.

I have Octopus configured and everything, but I was wondering where to get a certain program that goes along with it. Ive seen peoples screenshots where they have their main PC screen split into two, three, or four equal sections without window borders between them.

Currently i have to open WoWx2 and then manually resize them to *almost* exact dimensions of each other, but I can never get the dimensions exactly right and it makes the mouse be just a little off, which can still create some problems.

The second question i have is what is the easiest way to move your two characters in unison? Like i said i use Octopus and it works great but i find that when i move two things happen.

1. One of the characters will start/stop moving before/after the other one.
2. One of the characters will turn faster or sharper than the other one.

This problem doesnt make anything too difficult in the beginning but after a while of moving things start to get out of hand and i end up trying to heal myself ( i play a rogue and priest) with the priest, only to find that hes 100 yards away from me and i didnt realize it.

Right now I have a macro set up for auto follow that i just press whenever i need him to follow, but that in itself creates another problem.

When i come up to a quest giver and try to interact on both clients, the view on the second window isnt the same as on the first window and i have to actually click over to adjust it so that everything will line up correctly with the first window. Any solution to this? Its probably something that im missing thats simple.

So the TL-DR version is..

1. What is the program called that resizes your default windows into 2/3/4 windows of 100% equal proportions?
2. What is the easiest way to move two characters around in unison?
3. How do i make sure that the views on both stay the same without going into first person?

Thanks in advance for all the help.

(Oh and i read the guide(s) in the sticky section but for me the links are broken and dont link to specific threads, they just link back to the forums)

[Ualaa]

Not sure on your #1.



As far as #2 goes, most of the time you will use Auto Follow.
This can be via Jamba Follow or Jamba Strobe Following.
It can be via an in-game macro.

You'll also want a way to move the slaves without moving the main.
You can unbind the arrow keys, in warcraft keybindings.
Not sure if you have options for keys to only apply to slaves and not the main with Octopus.



If you open Keybinds in warcraft.

Scroll down a ways, I'd guess to camera or views, something like that.

You're looking for Set View and Save View keybinds.

Go to each character and manually adjust the camera until its the view you want.
Include the camera zoom and everything.
Ideally each slave is the same view, possibly the main too if you switch from window to window.
Assign a key to save view, it doesn't matter which view you are saving as long as its the same on each.

Once the views are saved, you can ditch the hotkey (unbind it) so you don't save another view on top of this one.

When you're in game, anytime you need/want the same view, you can run a simple macro.
Or you can preface your ground target AoE spells with the script.

You want:
/Script SetView(4);SetView(4)

That of course assumes you set view 4 as the saved view.
Substitute the view you actually used.

[sykottikk]

Thanks for the help. Ill try these out and post in this thread if i have any more problems.

[sykottikk]

And i found out what program it was. There was an option in Octopus that i didnt notice.