Release BARF - Box Army Raid Friend 1.0

[DudeBro]

DudeBro submitted a new resource:

BARF - Box Army Raid Friend - Resource I'm working on to help me multibox 36-72 character raids

I know there are countless resources available to do almost everything I'm doing within this Lua, but I never found one that could do all I want it to do within one ImGui - or, if I could, I just wasn't savvy enough to figure out how. I decided to use the starter ImGui Lua:

Release - Starter Lua ImGUI Window

MrInfernal submitted a new resource: Starter Lua ImGUI Window - Skeleton GUI window to speed up Lua creation When I was creating my first Lua, I had a lot of trouble just creating the GUI window. After quite a bit of trial and error, I was able to cut it down to the minimum to run the window...

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Kindly written and provided by MrInfernal - thank you very much for piquing my interest and causing me to go down...

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[Redfrog]

This looks pretty cool, nice work DudeBro !

 

[Abb7327]

I gotta say the name is genius and put a smile on my face. Definitely gonna give it a try later in the week. And now I get say I use BARF to help me raid!

 

[Psy]

Excited to see this one and how it evoles/improves as well. I run 2 -4 groups in our guild raids and boxhud has been my savior. This will be a nice addition, thank you!

 

[montywand]

Can’t wait to use this

 

[DudeBro]

Excited to see this one and how it evoles/improves as well. I run 2 -4 groups in our guild raids and boxhud has been my savior. This will be a nice addition, thank you!

@Psy - curious to know how this works for you when the raid isn't entirely filled with your own bots. I don't raid with others, currently, and was unable to test the functionality. I won't be surprised if it breaks most things other than the group formation and commands + assist assignments.

 

[Psy]

@Psy - curious to know how this works for you when the raid isn't entirely filled with your own bots. I don't raid with others, currently, and was unable to test the functionality. I won't be surprised if it breaks most things other than the group formation and commands + assist assignments.

I plan to install and mess with it this evening and see if I can break it =). If not, I'll toss it up on the next raid and see how it does. I can post up any errors/issues.

 

[DudeBro]

I plan to install and mess with it this evening and see if I can break it =). If not, I'll toss it up on the next raid and see how it does. I can post up any errors/issues.

You rock, thank you very much.

 

[Psy]

Loaded up this morning and a couple things thus far I noticed. Not sure if you want them here or in PM.

I use the raid-invite Lua by Hytiek (https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/raid-invite-lua.84909/) regularly. I loaed BARF, then did the normal raid invite hot key after. I hit "refresh raid members because nothing was displaying and it began spamming the message below for each toon name (blacked out to protect the guilty) for 45 or so seconds until the Lua stop command executed.



Trying to recreate it, but can not thus far, so thats a good thing. Might be due to first time loading, not sure. Will get more detail if I can.

Setup tab --> group 1. Would not accept 6 toon names when I typed them in and hit save setup. Error below occurred



I then input the Leader name only, hit save, and it saved. Allowed me then to input all of the other names and save in each group.

Once the groups were save I tried the form Raid button wihout one being formed. It pauses all plugins (fine) but on the commands tab, the pause button does not upate to Resume as it does when you hit pause manually. If you hit it, it does change to Resume but does NOT unpause toons, so it's working, just not updating the button. Pressing resume again unpauses and all is well. Super minor thing, but could hget confusing if the pause/resume button does not update appropriately.

Set/Break camp works nicely!!! How about chase? Definitely need that in cases where I want toons to sit still away from the boss, but then change to chase when we need to move. In fact, I would suggest one step further to allow camp, chase, break by group number. Often times I group casters, melee, etc and I may want casters in group 2 to camp and range dps while melee group 3 remain in chase.

I have RA1 set manully through the raid mgmt window in EQ, but I can not get a tank in this dropdown. I'm sure it's me, just not sure how to do it




Disband button. Might want to add "-remove" to the command so it only kicks the raids, not the groups as well

Form Groups, then Form raid work amazing. Nice feature! May want a check on the form raid button to verify groups are formed first or execute that. If you form raid (thinking it will form the groups as well) It only added 3 of 18 toons on dannet to raid. Oddly enough, they are the 3 leaders of the 3 groups I saved in the configuration so maybe just a simple execute of the "forms groups" in the code before it forms the raid. Nice feature to keep them seperate so you dont have to be in a raid to form certain groups. Maybe a drop down to form groups by saved group number?

Right click on the toon is perfect!!! Much like boxhud and will be nice for those of us with multi screens to get to a toon fast!!!

FJust some first impressions/observations and loving it thus far!! Excited to see how it does in a raid this w/e.

 

[RobRenfro]

Could this work on 16 man raids?

 

[DudeBro]

Could this work on 16 man raids?

Should be fine. Try it - it's free!

 

[DudeBro]

Loaded up this morning and a couple things thus far I noticed. Not sure if you want them here or in PM.

I use the raid-invite lua by Hytiek (https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/raid-invite-lua.84909/) regularly. I loaed BARF, then did the normal raid invite hot key after. I hit "refresh raid members because nothing was displaying and it began spamming the message below for each toon name (blacked out to protect the guilty) for 45 or so seconds until the lua stop command executed.

View attachment 58434

Trying to recreate it, but can not thus far, so thats a good thing. Might be due to first time loading, not sure. Will get more detail if I can.

Setup tab --> group 1. Would not accept 6 toon names when I typed them in and hit save setup. Error below occurred

View attachment 58435

I then input the Leader name only, hit save, and it saved. Allowed me then to input all of the other names and save in each group.

Once the groups were save I tried the form Raid button wihout one being formed. It pauses all plugins (fine) but on the commands tab, the pause button does not upate to Resume as it does when you hit pause manually. If you hit it, it does change to Resume but does NOT unpause toons, so it's working, just not updating the button. Pressing resume again unpauses and all is well. Super minor thing, but could hget confusing if the pause/resume button does not update appropriately.

Set/Break camp works nicely!!! How about chase? Definitely need that in cases where I want toons to sit still away from the boss, but then change to chase when we need to move. In fact, I would suggest one step further to allow camp, chase, break by group number. Often times I group casters, melee, etc and I may want casters in group 2 to camp and range dps while melee group 3 remain in chase.

I have RA1 set manully through the raid mgmt window in EQ, but I can not get a tank in this dropdown. I'm sure it's me, just not sure how to do it

View attachment 58439
View attachment 58438

Disband button. Might want to add "-remove" to the command so it only kicks the raids, not the groups as well

Form Groups, then Form raid work amazing. Nice feature! May want a check on the form raid button to verify groups are formed first or execute that. If you form raid (thinking it will form the groups as well) It only added 3 of 18 toons on dannet to raid. Oddly enough, they are the 3 leaders of the 3 groups I saved in the configuration so maybe just a simple execute of the "forms groups" in the code before it forms the raid. Nice feature to keep them seperate so you dont have to be in a raid to form certain groups. Maybe a drop down to form groups by saved group number?

Right click on the toon is perfect!!! Much like boxhud and will be nice for those of us with multi screens to get to a toon fast!!!

FJust some first impressions/observations and loving it thus far!! Excited to see how it does in a raid this w/e.

TLDR Response: Awesome - thank you! I'll get this sorted in the next update, and plan to add the chase command at that time.

Detailed response:

I use the raid-invite Lua by Hytiek (https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/raid-invite-lua.84909/) regularly. I loaed BARF, then did the normal raid invite hot key after. I hit "refresh raid members because nothing was displaying and it began spamming the message below for each toon name (blacked out to protect the guilty) for 45 or so seconds until the Lua stop command executed.

It's funny you mention that, because I also experienced that last night after I deleted the BARF_db.Lua file to do more testing. I've found the issue and it'll be cleaned up soon in an update.

Setup tab --> group 1. Would not accept 6 toon names when I typed them in and hit save setup. Error below occurred

I then input the Leader name only, hit save, and it saved. Allowed me then to input all of the other names and save in each group.

I need to add a check at the initialization for the existence of the db file - oversight on my part (or laziness because I did all my testing with the db file already created)... /blush

Once the groups were save I tried the form Raid button wihout one being formed. It pauses all plugins (fine) but on the commands tab, the pause button does not upate to Resume as it does when you hit pause manually. If you hit it, it does change to Resume but does NOT unpause toons, so it's working, just not updating the button. Pressing resume again unpauses and all is well. Super minor thing, but could hget confusing if the pause/resume button does not update appropriately.

Set/Break camp works nicely!!! How about chase? Definitely need that in cases where I want toons to sit still away from the boss, but then change to chase when we need to move. In fact, I would suggest one step further to allow camp, chase, break by group number. Often times I group casters, melee, etc and I may want casters in group 2 to camp and range dps while melee group 3 remain in chase.

I'll play around with the order of operations and see if I can get that cleared up. Also - chase will certainly be in the next update. I like the suggestion about assigning camps by groups, etc. I've been trying to come up with a way to have healers scramble to find a location that isn't line of sight of the RA target (in my case my RA1 is always my raid main tank, and the expectation would be to use it on boss fights, primarily). That isn't working out the best, so I might resort to just a "healers camp where I'm standing when the button is pressed", "ranged dps x distance away from target, y distance from healers", etc.

I have RA1 set manully through the raid mgmt window in EQ, but I can not get a tank in this dropdown. I'm sure it's me, just not sure how to do it

So, the tank checkbox you have selected is for assigning the "tanks" (WAR, PAL, SHD) to assist the designated RA1. The dropdown box is filtered by the checkboxes above the dropdown box line:

Circled in yellow are the associated filters / commands for assigning raid main assists 1-3:





Circled in green are the associated filters for setting your CWTN, KA, etc to assist whomever is designated RA1-3 (i.e. all range need to assist RA2 to break the eggs, while melee stay on the boss with the main tank).

Form Groups, then Form raid work amazing. Nice feature! May want a check on the form raid button to verify groups are formed first or execute that. If you form raid (thinking it will form the groups as well) It only added 3 of 18 toons on dannet to raid. Oddly enough, they are the 3 leaders of the 3 groups I saved in the configuration so maybe just a simple execute of the "forms groups" in the code before it forms the raid. Nice feature to keep them seperate so you dont have to be in a raid to form certain groups. Maybe a drop down to form groups by saved group number?

Thank you very much! Good idea and I'll plan on setting that up to automatically call formgroups if they aren't, and somebody forms raid. That makes sense to me since the form raid command only sends invites out to group leaders who have been saved to the db. I had not thought about using this to form groups by group number, but I'll implement that feature in the next update as well - thanks for the suggestion.

Right click on the toon is perfect!!! Much like boxhud and will be nice for those of us with multi screens to get to a toon fast!!!

FJust some first impressions/observations and loving it thus far!! Excited to see how it does in a raid this w/e.

Thank you, @Psy !

 

[RobRenfro]

Should be fine. Try it - it's free!

I'll level up my 10 FTP toons I made just for this thanks man!

 

[DudeBro]

I'll level up my 10 FTP toons I made just for this thanks man!

Oh man, just run all your toons with this. Go raid blackburrow or something. It'll work just as good with level 1's if you've got the other automation in place (CWTN, KA, etc.).

 

[RobRenfro]

Oh man, just run all your toons with this. Go raid blackburrow or something. It'll work just as good with level 1's if you've got the other automation in place (CWTN, KA, etc.).

You are a player after my own heart.

 

[RobRenfro]

I'm having problems getting into my loader but that is a typical Rob error. Once I get it loaded Blackburrow is screwed then I'm going straight for Fippy Darkpaw!

 

[DudeBro]

I'm having problems getting into my loader but that is a typical Rob error. Once I get it loaded Blackburrow is screwed then I'm going straight for Fippy Darkpaw!

that's awesome. I ran 54 level 1's around with it just to see how it'd work. It was amazing, but obvious to any bystanders they were bots.

 

[Eltai86]

Any chance of getting raid/group configuration sets as a possibility for those of us that are truly crazy

I.e. Raid set 1 w/ up to 12 group configs, Raid set 2 w/ up to 12 group configs that are independent of each other

 

[DudeBro]

Any chance of getting raid/group configuration sets as a possibility for those of us that are truly crazy

I.e. Raid set 1 w/ up to 12 group configs, Raid set 2 w/ up to 12 group configs that are independent of each other

Sure, I'm working on the first major update and I'll add this into the todo list.

 

[Nightmare327]

I need to make an army of level 1 frogs and run them through the tutorial as a raid force. Just to get screenshots of the mass of frogs advancing!

 

[RobRenfro]

For some reason I just can't get this into my RG Starter. It's me it's always me. I'm going to keep trying because I'm excited about this one.

 

[Psy]

For some reason I just can't get this into my RG Starter. It's me it's always me. I'm going to keep trying because I'm excited about this one.

This may sound crazy but don't forget to be on the "overview" tab when you hit watch. I've watched the discussion tab in a hurry more times that I want to admit to.

 

[RobRenfro]

This may sound crazy but don't forget to be on the "overview" tab when you hit watch. I've watched the discussion tab in a hurry more times that I want to admit to.

Thanks Psy honestly it doesn't sound crazy to me I appreciate the tip. It may be why I have missed some downloads. That is solid advice.

 

[RobRenfro]

This may sound crazy but don't forget to be on the "overview" tab when you hit watch. I've watched the discussion tab in a hurry more times that I want to admit to.

Psy I hope you get a solve for this. I literally had no idea I was supposed to watch from the "overview" page. There have been a few items I wanted to download I couldn't. I knew I was doing something wrong, just didn't know what.
Thanks for fixing this. You probably saved half a dozen posts on various threads. You totally deserve a solve!

 

[burgermeister]

Is it possible to add CWTN mode and CWTN Paused observers to the Raid View tab?

 

[Algar]

Is it possible to add CWTN mode and CWTN Paused observers to the Raid View tab?

Yes it's Lua, you can add anything.

The author has not been active on the site for well over a year, just FYI.

 

[Psy]

Is it possible to add CWTN mode and CWTN Paused observers to the Raid View tab?

This can also be added in boxhud if you use that.

 

[burgermeister]

I use boxhud for group content. BARF is just a much nicer format for a full raid. The only data point missing from what I usually have up in boxhud is the cwtn info.