Getting from slaves to masters

[visman]

Hi Multiplayer;

If I read this correctly, you're saying that you are able to successfully move your LotRO slave PC toons from your master system using movement hotkeys?

Are you actually running toons on separate physical boxes or just multiple windows on the same PC?

If separate boxes, how long have you been running this setup? I have never been able to get movement keys to transmit as a "key is held down" key press to slave boxes.

Any further insight you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

VisMan

[The Multiplayer]

Hiya Visman,

I used hotkeynet for a while, and started with 2 older PC's with about 2GB of ram apiece. Later I added a 3rd one.

Ok, this is how I got my movement going in hotkeynet. I am going to assume your familiar with most of the functions of hotkeynet.

1. I load up all my hotkeynets on the master and slave pc's


2. I then load up my lotro's on each of the pc's and once each one is on the character screen I stop there for a bit.


3. Going into the options screen on each pc and change them to window mode.(one thing is hotkeynet can only send movement keys to apps in window mode. )-however once your done you can switch back to fullscreen mode.


4. Using hotkeynet rename the window function, I manually rename each LOTRO window to something real simple or if you prefer the incredible long window name just put them in lol .
(LOTRO1, LOTRO2, and LOTRO3 )


5.. Once named I load up my main script on my master pc. The following one is my basic one.

<Label w1 Local SendWinMF LOTRO1>
<Label w2 192.168.1.xxx SendWinMF LOTRO2>
<Label w3 192.168.1.xxx SendWinMF LOTRO3>

//=====================Movement================//

<MovementHotkey capsLockOn W, A, S, D, Q, E>
<SendLabel w1, w2, w3>
<Key %Trigger%>

<MovementHotkey up, down, left, right>
<SendLabel w2, w3>
<Key %Trigger%>

Depending on what group Iam playing i got different ones setup but the one above is good for groups consisting of the same class, all hunters, all runekeepers, etc.,

The first movement code will move only my main toon, and only move all of them when i turn on the caps lock key.

The second movement code will move only my slave toons, and only using the arrow movement keys.

The Q and E keys are binded as mirror opposite on each slave pc, so pressing Q spreads them out, and pressing E closes them together nothing fancy, but it looks cool with hunters and runekeepers lol. However the Q and E key are unbind on my main pc.

6. once everyone is loaded up i test the movement keys, i use the arrow keys and should only see my slave toons turn around once that is done I return the windows to fullscreen mode.

What makes this work is sendwinmf i use the strongest hotkey send method, but the last time i check sendwin also works good too now.

I can confirm that movement does not work with multiple windows running on the same pc. lotro was never designed for that anyway so you if dual with 2 pc's it should work.

i had switch to innerspace, because of that one limitation, but with a little bit of scripting magic i can duplicate similiar innerspace actions with hotkeynet its just i can only afford so many pc's LOL.

hopes this info helps you.