This is how I do it as well. Not quite as simple as IWT but you certainly shouldn't have to target with each character. I made a video at some point showing this for RIFT, here it is.Originally Posted by Ughmahedhurtz
This is how I do it as well. Not quite as simple as IWT but you certainly shouldn't have to target with each character. I made a video at some point showing this for RIFT, here it is.
Last edited by Alge : 06-15-2011 at 01:32 AM
Not quite sure what you do, Alge... Do you have a hotkey to toggle both broadcasting and videofeeds? Then Right-Click here and there until you see all videofeeds filled with the quest dialog?
Hmm, I think Rift has keybinds for setting a specific camera view, so we can make sure all characters have the same view. That should help with broadcasting clicks also...
Also, I read that Rift added a keybind to close all UI dialogs in the patch yesterday (not just hitting ESC and which can display the main menu instead).
Last edited by Smedbox : 06-23-2011 at 10:26 PM
There is no specific camera view keybind; I just looked. Also, there is no "close all UI dialogs" that I can find, either. At least, not that I can find in the keybind menus.
Now playing: WoW (Garona)
Yeah, I have a hotkey that turns on both mouse broadcasting and those video feeds. Then I right-click once for my slaves (I line them up properly at the beginning of a session and as long as I don't switch to them they stay lined up) with broadcasting on, quickly flick broadcasting off, right-click for my main, flick broadcasting back on and then left click to accept or finish quests. This setup works well because I have the broadcasting toggle set to scroll right on my mouse, so it takes the barest of movements to toggle broadcasting and I can do all this without taking my left hand from my G13.
Hmm, it seems I mixed up some other game regarding setting a camera view and the new "keybindings for clearing your primary target, and clearing all targets" mentioned for the 1.3 patch.
I normally run on multiple machines and with various resolutions so I haven't looked much at mouse repeating yet. But I just started playing with video feeds (whole screen) instead of using a window layout. Then I can run all at full resolution. I have a Keymap for MouseSync + MouseClick on Ctrl+LMB or Ctrl+RMB. It seems this will work pretty good to get something similar to what Alge is doing, as well as teleporting the team and accepting group invites...
You really don't need to setup all the video feed stuff unless you have buried windows that you can't see otherwise. Once you get pretty good at driving your alts, it becomes basically second nature.
Now playing: WoW (Garona)
Video feeds are an alternative to using a window layout. They can give you a fullscreen experience while still enjoying the control you get with a window layout where each character has a dedicated rectangle on your screen.
For everyday use, it's nice for verification purposes - that they're all accepting/finishing the quests, teleporting, logging in, accepting group invites, trade windows, that their "out of breath" bars are gone when resurfacing from under water, etc. All those small little things gets taken care of.
It's also extremely easy to set up a fullscreen-kind of video feed, since you don't need to set up any source or make sure everything is positioned properly. Just use is1/is2/etc as name and you'll get their entire screen.
I have a Click Bar on top of the video feeds so I can mouse-click to bring up that particular character and do whatever I need to do with that particular character (with full FTL support).
Last edited by Smedbox : 06-27-2011 at 02:29 AM
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