Does a multiboxer friendly SCT exist?

[Slats]

So we do have some LUA programmers in the woodwork.

To all you germans, your english is fantastic (and if your not german sorry!)

Once we sort it out, need a sticky in mods/macros - if we can agree on how to write a line for common named teams and randomly named teams.

Common=Slatsa,Slatsb,Slatsc,Slatsd
Random=Bruce, Spike, Freddy, Ronald, Cucumber

Would be good to find the code for SCT (Ace2 Mod) and Parrot (Ace2 Mod). I dont think modifying Blizzards SCT would work as whenever you run the game I believe it does some kind of checksum match and fixed the 'Blizzard_xxxxx' mod folders.

-Slats

[marvein]

So we do have some LUA programmers in the woodwork.

To all you germans, your english is fantastic (and if your not german sorry!)

Once we sort it out, need a sticky in mods/macros - if we can agree on how to write a line for common named teams and randomly named teams.

Common=Slatsa,Slatsb,Slatsc,Slatsd
Random=Bruce, Spike, Freddy, Ronald, Cucumber

Would be good to find the code for SCT (Ace2 Mod) and Parrot (Ace2 Mod). I dont think modifying Blizzards SCT would work as whenever you run the game I believe it does some kind of checksum match and fixed the 'Blizzard_xxxxx' mod folders.

-Slats

Correct, the blizzard_xxxx addons are defaults built into the game, so aside from the changeable variables the addons are checked for consistency and correctness when you load the game. You can see this by simply deleting one of the folders. When you start WoW the next time the folder and all its contents are back as they should be.

[laeelin]

Nice tip!

My characters are:
Wyvrn
Wyvrnsheart
Wyvrnssting
Wyvrnsbite
Wyvrnsbreath

I went with:
sourceName_match = "^Wyvrn%a*$"

%a = any letter
* = any number of that letter (including 0)

I did a search and replace for
sourceID = "player"

and replaced it with
sourceName_match = "^Wyvrn%a*$"

[aetherg]

I tried this out yesterday and it works very well; thanks for this tip! The regex for my characters was "^Ae.ra$". Parrot still needs some configuration to eliminate unnecessary events that are cluttering up the window 4x, but the fact that it already compresses messages (i.e. 2 crits 2 hits when I cast lightning bolt) is awesome.

[Sekij]

Its possible to do that trick on MikScrollingBattleText? I dont know too much about making/editing addons so im just asking

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Should be able to do something similar.

BTW, the throttling feature in Parrot is awesome. :thumbup:

[The IT Monkey]

is there anyway to do this with the party slots instead of character names?

I have several teams of five. I would like to have my party leader see all damage above the mobs head (no matter which team I am on) and am not fond of the idea of changing a .lua each time I change teams.

Thanks in advance.
Oh, BTW, if you CAN do it so that it's everyone in your party how about just posting a zip file with the full mod with the changes? The smaller the better as we be multiboxing and large mods hurt my computers brain.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

PRobably some way to do it with sourceFlags (COMBATLOG_OBJECT_AFFILIATION_PARTY = 0x00000002) instead of sourceName_match but I'm not addon-LUA-savvy enough to make that happen. :P

[Steph]

I just wanted to thank you guys for sharing this tip. I use it now and like it quite a bit.
Unforunally a screenshot does not go too well with the forums attachment restrictions, but I plugged it into my blog entry for this week. =]
http://captn-log.blogspot.com/2008/0...a-cleared.html

[Tehtsuo]

I've been trying for days now, and can't get this mod to parrot to work. No matter what I do, it just ignores it. I've confirmed I'm editing the right line, it's in this section:

Parrot:RegisterCombatEvent{
category = "Outgoing",
subCategory = L["Skills"],
name = "Skill damage",
localName = L["Skill damage"],
defaultTag = "[Amount] ([Skill])",
parserEvent = {
eventType = "Damage",
sourceID = "player",
recipientID_not = "player",
abilityName_not = false,
isDoT = false,
},

I've changed the

sourceID = "player",

to each of the following:

sourceName_match = "^T.ht.*$",

sourceName_match = "^T.ht%a*$",

sourceName_match = "^T%aht%a*$",

sourceName_match = "^T%aht.*$",

sourceName_match = "^T[eéêëè]ht.*$",

sourceName_match = "^T[eéêëè]ht%a*$",

I'm assuming the problem is I'm not getting the parsing right, as I have a different character in the second letter (e é ê ë è) and a different ending on my main. The following are my character names, if they're not showing in my signature for some reason:

Tehtsara
Téht
Têht
Tëht
Tèht


Update: I just attempted to go back to default, replaced my change with

sourceID = "player",

and I still couldn't bring up the outgoing tab in the addon config window. Then I uninstalled/reinstalled the addon and reloaded ui (While WoW was running even!) and I could bring up the outgoing tab in the config window. Figured I had messed up the lua file somehow, so I tried again. Changed the one line to

sourceName_match = "^T.ht.*$",

then did /rl. Same problem, no outgoing tab in the config window. Reverted the changes, reloaded ui, same problem! What in the world is going on? ?(

Update: Fixed that problem, wasn't using a proper text editor. Apparently wordpad isn't acceptable for editing .lua files. Still can't get the parsing to work though, it just doesn't want to work for me.