Ease the physical pain of follow

[Kyle100]

Darkmond thanks for the help... I was wondering if you are you using your arrow keys for just your main tank and then having everyone else follow.. Or do you just use the arrow keys to position all toons once u get to a camp? I used your method to also map all of the hotbar target keys.. SO when I press them the mobs get auto-targeted by the group and they press the same keys as my MA..

[XLana]

Thanks for the Tips!

[nodoze]

... Create a small repeater region in the center of your screen. Map your follow key on the new region.
While playing you will natural mouse over the follow region. And I find it easier to mouse over the region verses clicking the follow button.

I also have a key map state to toggle the region off and on.
my set up

Darkmod, Your screen setup is way cool. Is that your main window or do you have a 5th window that you are sourcing the other 4 windows into?

I really like your setup though I would like to keep my original windows "native" and then source them into a seperate window with the FX ability. That way I can just switch to the original windows if I want to interact wth a given client in it's native state.

If I can't source them into a 5th window from the original 4, I definately would like to be able to toggle them off when looking at maps and such.

I am not sure how to do this. Any help would be greatly apprecated.

[Darkmod]

I use 2 dxNothing regions and 4 stacked SWTOR regions total of 6 regions. I’m not set up to change leader/focuse at this point so I only need to see my three followers. When isBoxer 4.0 is released I will set a 4th viewer in region 5.

When working with regions I found the “top” and “left” the easiest regions to work with because the top left positions never change there original X,Y. So when I’m editing video FX’s I can simply expand the region without changing the region position. So in my Region 6 I would pull down the bottom region handle half way down, edit/save my objects and return the region to the original position.

Another thing to consider is the size of your stacked SWTOR windows. Smaller resolutions = higher FPS.




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[Ishar]

Hi Dark, curious how you solved this issue.

Group seems to be sorted first by level, and second by name; do you just have who to target for /follow [and heals] hard coded per slot?
[edit: on second look, maybe they are sorted by creation date; might have just worked out that way for mine...anyone know, definitively?]

I was thinking of maybe making ATG's to set who to follow, when [based on what slot the leader is in], but it seems kind of cumbersome, if workable. Not sure if theres a better solution to healing rather than just hard-coding it; and hoping they don't get staggered in levels.

Hmm. Man, we really could use macro's. and working follow; boxing two is pretty easy, but getting 4 organized and headed in the same direction [issues of follow aside] seems pretty complicated atm.

[Darkmod]

Hi Dark, curious how you solved this issue.

Group seems to be sorted first by level, and second by name; do you just have who to target for /follow [and heals] hard coded per slot?

I was thinking of maybe making ATG's to set who to follow, when [based on what slot the leader is in], but it seems kind of cumbersome, if workable. Not sure if theres a better solution to healing rather than just hard-coding it; and hoping they don't get staggered in levels.

Hmm. Man, we really could use macro's. and working follow; boxing two is pretty easy, but getting 4 organized and headed in the same direction [issues of follow aside] seems pretty complicated atm.

Sorting is weird, I had a team named Axxxx,Bxxx,Cxxx,Dxxx. and the sorting by name didn't work.
One thing I noticed was that I created them in this order B,A,C,D and that's how they sorted ingame. So i think sorting might be off a UUID we can't see. So when you create a team create it in the order you want. -- "I have not experimented with this too much"

Healing: There is no macro system so yes its all hard coded per toon.

I have a PowerTech Tank, and 3 Mercenary Healers. Any time i rollover a heal region my 3 healers target and heal.

[nodoze]

I use 2 dxNothing regions and 4 stacked SWTOR regions total of 6 regions. ...



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Darkmod, I really like the way you put in visuals with annotations.

I have been reading up on dxnothing and modding things via this topic: http://isboxer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=1222

THANKS.

[Kris1234]

how did you make your slave mini-maps appear round?

[nodoze]

how did you make your slave mini-maps appear round?

I had the same question as well but wanted to save up all my questions and post together. I figure he maybe used a clickbar and overlaid it on top but that is just my guess.

[Darkmod]

how did you make your slave mini-maps appear round?

I have a top-most frame less window . Very easy to make in C#



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