Question - mq.TLO.Me.Casting

[Soandso2]

When I cast a spell from a clicky, like an illusion, does that not qualify as "casting"?

Spam

if not me.Buff("Illusion: Human").ID() and not me.Moving() and not invisible and goodToGo() then
  useClickys("Circlet of Disguise")
end

In the snippet above me is shortened for mq.TLO.Me obviously. invisible is a boolean and goodToGo() is the function from LeRouge.Lua

If I have the human illusion and I stand still and invisible is false and goodToGo tells me I am good to go, and I click off the illusion, this IF-statement should evaluate is "true" and the useClickys function should be called. And this happens. But once the illusion clicky has begun its 7 second cast, goodToGo should evaluate as false, since I am casting, should it not?

But useClickys is spammed like heck. What am I missing?

goodToGo()

local function goodToGo()
  -- Credit: LeRogue.lua by @rawmotion at RedGuides.com
  return not me.Stunned()
  and not me.Dead()
  and not me.Feigning()
  and not me.Ducking()
  and not me.Silenced()
  and not me.Charmed()
  and not me.Mezzed()
  and not me.Invulnerable()
  and not me.Casting()
end

 

[Amarth]

Looks good to me. throw everything in the Lua expression evaluator? -> https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/lua-expression-evaluator.83487/

 

[Shadow]

Never mind, that does look good, but cannot test atm.

Maybe try this?

local function HumanIllusion()
  return goodToGo()
  and not me.Buff("Illusion: Human").ID()
  and not me.Moving()
  and not invisible
  and not me.Combat()
end

Then have a check for your illusion? Just spitballing here, not an expert in Lua by any means and cannot test atm.

 

[ARHEverquest]

It is a string - not a boolean

so when you ask if you are casting - it returns nil or not nil


What you are looking for is this:

change 'not mq.TLO.Me.Casting' to mq.TLO.Me.Casting() == nil

This will say you return if you are casting (not nil) or casting (nil - which is what you want)

 

[Amarth]

It is a string - not a boolean
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so when you ask if you are casting - it returns nil or not nil
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What you are looking for is this:
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change 'not mq.TLO.Me.Casting' to mq.TLO.Me.Casting() == nil

This will say you return if you are casting (not nil) or casting (nil - which is what you want)

Ah yeah, ~= nil ; i keep forgetting

 

[Soandso2]

I changed it to me.Casting() == nil and that made no difference. It spams the clicky function. For good measure I changed it to ~= nil, just to see what would happen, and then it does not run the function at all. So either it wont run the function or it will spam it. Strange.

 

[aquietone]

nil is falsey in Lua.
mq.TLO.Me.Casting() will be nil if not casting or the string name of the spell if casting. so you would get the same result for if mq.TLO.Me.Casting() then and if mq.TLO.Me.Casting() ~= nil then

Is a casting bar showing up on your UI when you click the illusion? Have you confirmed Casting is in fact not nil? Is there any delay between the command which starts the cast and checking these conditions again? maybe it needs to advance a frame for Casting to have the expected state.

 

[Soandso2]

nil is falsey in lua.
mq.TLO.Me.Casting() will be nil if not casting or the string name of the spell if casting. so you would get the same result for if mq.TLO.Me.Casting() then and if mq.TLO.Me.Casting() ~= nil then

Is a casting bar showing up on your UI when you click the illusion? Have you confirmed Casting is in fact not nil? Is there any delay between the command which starts the cast and checking these conditions again? maybe it needs to advance a frame for Casting to have the expected state.

Normally, when clicking an item, I get the casting bar, so also with the Circlet of Disguise. And the illusion buff lands on me, BUT as you mention it, the casting bar goes poof, for some reason. I assumed that it happens because of the spamming of the function.

When I look back at bam.mac, which I am in the process of converting to Lua, I see that I added a delay 0.5 seconds longer than the cast time of the item used to cast. In this case it was hardcoded and I knew the cast time. But useClickys is dynamic and you can send any clicky name into it. So I need to figure out the cast time of the item used.

EDIT: Not sure if this is the right way to go, but I ended up altering the useClickys function instead:
useClickys

local function useClickys(clickyName)
  local castDelay = findItem(clickyName).CastTime() + 100
  if clickyName == "combat" then
    if spell("Celestial Tranquility").Stacks() and not me.Buff("Celestial Tranquility").ID() then
      mq.cmdf('/useitem "%s"',"Celestial Fists")
      print("Use Clicky: \amUsed Epic 1")
    end
    if spell("Seven Chakras Heel Technique").Stacks and not me.Song("Seven Chakras Heel Technique").ID() and findItem(chestArmour).TimerReady() == 0 then
      mq.cmdf('/useitem "%s"',chestArmour)
      print("Use Clicky: \am"..chestArmour)
      mq.delay(castDelay)
    end
  else
    if findItem(clickyName).ID() > 0 and findItem(clickyName).TimerReady() == 0 then
      mq.cmdf('/useitem "%s"',clickyName)
      print("Use Clicky: \am"..clickyName)
      mq.delay(castDelay)
    end
  end
end

 

[Naturesong]

Normally, when clicking an item, I get the casting bar, so also with the Circlet of Disguise. And the illusion buff lands on me, BUT as you mention it, the casting bar goes poof, for some reason. I assumed that it happens because of the spamming of the function.

When I look back at bam.mac, which I am in the process of converting to Lua, I see that I added a delay 0.5 seconds longer than the cast time of the item used to cast. In this case it was hardcoded and I knew the cast time. But useClickys is dynamic and you can send any clicky name into it. So I need to figure out the cast time of the item used.

Have a look here: https://docs.macroquest.org/reference/data-types/datatype-itemspell/
Has a CastTime member, might be what you are after.

 

[Soandso2]

Have a look here: https://docs.macroquest.org/reference/data-types/datatype-itemspell/
Has a CastTime member, might be what you are after.

Yeah, I found that.

 

[evianwater]

Should be able to use me.casting.id() to pull an int vs a string value. I’ve found it’s a lot easier logically to avoid string data where possible.

 

[Sic]

Should be able to use me.casting.id() to pull an int vs a string value. I’ve found it’s a lot easier logically to avoid string data where possible.

yep 100% agree

in the case of casting.id casting nothing *should* be nil and not 0 --- because remember 0 in Lua is "truthy" unlike macroquest scripting language