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Drevan

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Post Mon Aug 06, 2012 1:28 pm

Need help with Macro

Hello for a first time,
Let me say i love using ISboxer. None of the other software ive tried works as great is the IS.
But my macros skills are pretty limited. I can get my head around how to create set of 3 macros (only 1 macro works as intended).
So heres what im trying to accomplish: i Dualbox Blood DKs. I want to be able to heal myself with Deathcloil, without changing targets.
Right now my macro is:
<Slot 1>
Shift+H: /cast Lichborne
H: /cast [target=player] Death Coil
/cast [taget=player in slot1 name] Death Coil
<Slot 2>
Shift+F: /cast Lichborne
F: /cast [target=player] Death Coil
/cast [taget=player in slot2 name] Death Coil
It works, its just i want to change it to be able to use (H/Shift+H) for the active character not a specific, and same for (F,Shift+F) to be always for the slave.
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Post Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:26 pm

Re: Need help with Macro

I'm no master at macros either, but it looks like you're over complicating this. I don't understand why you're using two lines in each macro to do the same thing. This macro should do what you want it to do.
Code:
/use [@player] Death Coil
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Drevan

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Post Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:45 pm

Re: Need help with Macro

so just "/cast [@player] Death Coil" will make <active slot> cast Death coil on itself AND <slave slot> cast death coil on <active slot> ?

Edit and also have to make <active slot> to cast Death Coil to <slave slot> AND <slave slot> cast Death Coil on himself
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Post Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:37 pm

Re: Need help with Macro

Drevan wrote:so just "/cast [@player] Death Coil" will make <active slot> cast Death coil on itself AND <slave slot> cast death coil on <active slot> ?

Unless I'm reading it incorrectly, your first example has each slot targeting themselves and only themselves. If you want both of your Death Knights to cast Death Coil on your active slot you'll need to try something like this:

Code:
Target: Window:Current
/use [@Player] Death Coil

Code:
Target: Character Slot 2 (or All w/o Current if you're running more than 2 Death Knights)
/use [@{FTL}] Death Coil


To be honest, I'm not entirely sure that will work and I'm in no position to test it out at the moment. You'll need to throw each one of those blocks of code into their own Action on your Mapped Key.
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Drevan

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Post Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:27 am

Re: Need help with Macro

MiRai wrote:so just "/cast [@player] Death Coil" will make <active slot> cast Death coil on itself AND <slave slot> cast death coil on <active slot>
Unless I'm reading it incorrectly, your first example has each slot targeting themselves and only themselves.

/cast [target=player] Death Coil - this line they target themself
/cast [taget=player in slot1 name (slot2 name) ] Death Coil - this line was for the slave to target the master and vice versa

I didnt had time to try anything last night but will tonight.
MiRai wrote:
Code:
Target: Character Slot 2 (or All w/o Current if you're running more than 2 Death Knights)
/use [@{FTL}] Death Coil

I think this will work for the slave to target active, but im still missing how to target the slave slot (without using target=focus/name).
Thanks for the help MiRai, and btw your videos were awesome, VidFX and Interact/CTM were much easier to setup thanks to you :)
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Post Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:10 pm

Re: Need help with Macro

I'm totally confused...

Do you want both of your DKs to target your active character or do you want each of the DKs to target themselves?

Quoting this from your first post:
Right now my macro is:
<Slot 1>
Shift+H: /cast Lichborne
H: /cast [target=player] Death Coil <-----Slot 1 Targeting Himself
/cast [taget=player in slot1 name] Death Coil <-----Slot 1 Targeting Himself

<Slot 2>
Shift+F: /cast Lichborne
F: /cast [target=player] Death Coil <-----Slot 2 Targeting Himself
/cast [taget=player in slot2 name] Death Coil <-----Slot 2 Targeting Himself

In the above quote, each DK is targeting themselves. Then, you asked if my first suggestion would make Slot 1 & Slot 2 target Slot 1 -- It won't, but my second suggestion will. {FTL} is interpreted by ISBoxer to be whichever character you're leading from, so if you want the slave to target the main, regardless of which Slot is where, {FTL} will do it.

I think you might be confusing how Slots are used. Just because you swap characters from Region 2 to Region 1 in your Window Layout doesn't mean that their Character Slots change. Slot 1 will always be the same Character regardless of which Region he's in within the Window Layout.
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Post Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:49 pm

Re: Need help with Macro

Yeah i think i made it a bit confusing with using the word slot, as i was just referring for the name of the character is slot 1 or 2.
Here is how the macro currently is:
Character Name in slot 1: Coulson
Character Name in slot 2: Hellsent

Target: Character Slot 1 - Shift+H: /cast Lichborne
Target: Character Slot 1 - H: /cast [target=player] Death Coil
Target: Character Slot 2 - H: /cast [taget=Coulson] Death Coil <--- I guess will be replaced with the new one /cast [@{FTL}] Death Coil

Target: Character Slot 2 - Shift+F: /cast Lichborne
Target: Character Slot 2 - F: /cast [target=player] Death Coil
Target: Character Slot 1 - F: /cast [taget=Hellsent] Death Coil <--- Need a solution about this line, so my "F" key heals the slave regardless of who he is (Coulson or Hellsent)

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