Somebody please just help me figure this out
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 12:54 pm
Hello everybody,
I apologize if this has already been fixed or answered somewhere else. I'm at the point where I read so many posts that my brain is shut down, completely confused, and now I just see words instead of comprehending them. Maybe I'm just old, maybe my brain just doesn't work the way everybody else's does.
Anyway, I'm not tech savvy at all (I barely understand how to work my smartphone). I feel like what I want to do is super simple, but I can't even finish the Quick launch wizard in ISBoxer. I don't understand the different options presented, I don't understsand the help tips and explanations of the options, and I don't understand the jargon. I'm sorry, it's just all too complicated. I feel like it's set up for people who want to do incredible things and have all sorts of capabilities, and there are too many options available, and I just want to do something that seems very simple to me...and now my brain is shut down. I don't understand most of what I read on the forums here; it's like trying to read a foreign language that I never studied. Will somebody please just help me and tell me how to set this up the way I want? I know maybe that's asking a lot, but really, I just can't do it myself. I honestly wouldn't post here if I could; I like to be self-sufficient. But I need to admit total defeat here.
So here is what I would ideally, like to have happen, and what my setup is...
1. 2 Everquest accounts, one computer, one monitor. I just want to load and play just two characters only, always the same two characters, one from each account.
2. I want to play in fullscreen mode always
3. I only want to see one character's view/GUI at a time. When I focus on one character, I want the second character's screen completely hidden from me.
4. I want to be able to quickly toggle which character's screen I'm looking at just by hitting the asterisk button on my numeric keypad.
5. Each character only uses two hotbars. Also each character uses the Combat Abilities (disciplines) window.
5. I don't want ISBoxer or innerspace to make any character auto-follow, assist, or target the other character. I want to use Everquest's intrinsic commands and hotkeys for that sort of thing, or set such commands up in my hotbars by creating social macros in game. I just want ISBoxer/innerspace to let me hit the hotkey in one character's screen and have it activate for both characters (I guess this is what you call key broadcasting?)
6. I want the first character to be able to activate hotbuttons for the second character, but not vice versa. Basically, putting first character in driver's seat.
7. I only want specific hotkeys to broadcast (again, I'm assuming here that broadcasting means, for example, that if I hit the number 1 on my keyboard when the first character is in the foreground, it's like hitting the number one simultaneously for both characters). The specific keystrokes I want to broadcast (always) from the first character to the second character...(Yes, I know my setup is VERY different from most. It's just set up for how my weird brain works; what's intuitive for me).
All of these hotbuttons I have already mapped in game...I just want ISBoxer/innerspace to broadcast them from first character to second character.
First hotbar:
Numbers 1-0 on my keyboard activate hotbar slots 1-10, respectively
NPAD 1 activates hotbar slot 11
NPAD / activates hotbar slot 12+
Second hotbar:
Slot 1 activated by 'Ins' button on my keyboard
Slot 2 activated by 'Home' button on my keyboard
Slot 3 activated by "Ctrl + Ins'
Slot 4 activated by 'Ctrl + Home'
Slot 5 activated by 'Del' button on my keyboard
Slot 6 activated by 'End' button on my keyboard
Slot 7 activated by 'Ctrl + Del'
Slot 8 activated by 'Ctrl + End'
Slot 9 activated by keyboard left arrow
Slot 10 activated by keyboard down arrow
Slot 11 activated by keyboard right arrow
Slot 12 activated by keyboard up arrow
For Combat Abilities, I didn't change the defaults, so they're activated by Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8
Additional: I would like to broadcast NPAD + button (I use this to toggle autorun) and NPAD . button (I use this to toggle run/walk mode).
And that is completely everything I want to do. I don't want anything fancier than that.
I just don't understand how to do it and the quick setup wizard makes zero sense to me. I get as far as choosing the two characters and assigning them to team slots 1 and 2, then I'm stuck/overwhelmed.
Thank you very much to anybody who can tell me how to make this happen.
[EDIT]: I don't need mouse broadcasting
I apologize if this has already been fixed or answered somewhere else. I'm at the point where I read so many posts that my brain is shut down, completely confused, and now I just see words instead of comprehending them. Maybe I'm just old, maybe my brain just doesn't work the way everybody else's does.
Anyway, I'm not tech savvy at all (I barely understand how to work my smartphone). I feel like what I want to do is super simple, but I can't even finish the Quick launch wizard in ISBoxer. I don't understand the different options presented, I don't understsand the help tips and explanations of the options, and I don't understand the jargon. I'm sorry, it's just all too complicated. I feel like it's set up for people who want to do incredible things and have all sorts of capabilities, and there are too many options available, and I just want to do something that seems very simple to me...and now my brain is shut down. I don't understand most of what I read on the forums here; it's like trying to read a foreign language that I never studied. Will somebody please just help me and tell me how to set this up the way I want? I know maybe that's asking a lot, but really, I just can't do it myself. I honestly wouldn't post here if I could; I like to be self-sufficient. But I need to admit total defeat here.
So here is what I would ideally, like to have happen, and what my setup is...
1. 2 Everquest accounts, one computer, one monitor. I just want to load and play just two characters only, always the same two characters, one from each account.
2. I want to play in fullscreen mode always
3. I only want to see one character's view/GUI at a time. When I focus on one character, I want the second character's screen completely hidden from me.
4. I want to be able to quickly toggle which character's screen I'm looking at just by hitting the asterisk button on my numeric keypad.
5. Each character only uses two hotbars. Also each character uses the Combat Abilities (disciplines) window.
5. I don't want ISBoxer or innerspace to make any character auto-follow, assist, or target the other character. I want to use Everquest's intrinsic commands and hotkeys for that sort of thing, or set such commands up in my hotbars by creating social macros in game. I just want ISBoxer/innerspace to let me hit the hotkey in one character's screen and have it activate for both characters (I guess this is what you call key broadcasting?)
6. I want the first character to be able to activate hotbuttons for the second character, but not vice versa. Basically, putting first character in driver's seat.
7. I only want specific hotkeys to broadcast (again, I'm assuming here that broadcasting means, for example, that if I hit the number 1 on my keyboard when the first character is in the foreground, it's like hitting the number one simultaneously for both characters). The specific keystrokes I want to broadcast (always) from the first character to the second character...(Yes, I know my setup is VERY different from most. It's just set up for how my weird brain works; what's intuitive for me).
All of these hotbuttons I have already mapped in game...I just want ISBoxer/innerspace to broadcast them from first character to second character.
First hotbar:
Numbers 1-0 on my keyboard activate hotbar slots 1-10, respectively
NPAD 1 activates hotbar slot 11
NPAD / activates hotbar slot 12+
Second hotbar:
Slot 1 activated by 'Ins' button on my keyboard
Slot 2 activated by 'Home' button on my keyboard
Slot 3 activated by "Ctrl + Ins'
Slot 4 activated by 'Ctrl + Home'
Slot 5 activated by 'Del' button on my keyboard
Slot 6 activated by 'End' button on my keyboard
Slot 7 activated by 'Ctrl + Del'
Slot 8 activated by 'Ctrl + End'
Slot 9 activated by keyboard left arrow
Slot 10 activated by keyboard down arrow
Slot 11 activated by keyboard right arrow
Slot 12 activated by keyboard up arrow
For Combat Abilities, I didn't change the defaults, so they're activated by Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8
Additional: I would like to broadcast NPAD + button (I use this to toggle autorun) and NPAD . button (I use this to toggle run/walk mode).
And that is completely everything I want to do. I don't want anything fancier than that.
I just don't understand how to do it and the quick setup wizard makes zero sense to me. I get as far as choosing the two characters and assigning them to team slots 1 and 2, then I'm stuck/overwhelmed.
Thank you very much to anybody who can tell me how to make this happen.
[EDIT]: I don't need mouse broadcasting