Question - Similiar Names

[Setsuni]

Hey Guys,

I have an issue with my names I believe. My main is Bobbyjoe and my Box cleric is Bobbyjoec. I am having issues with my cleric targeting itself instead of my Tank when casting heals etc.

Is this simply because of the name being the same? Should i just name change one toon or is there a way around this?

Thanks.

 

[dannuic]

I wouldn't post the actual names of your characters here.

However, yes, that would be a problem unless you target by ID and not by name.

 

[Setsuni]

Yeah they aren't the real names. Just an example.

How do I target by ID?

 

[PeteSampras]

/tar id ${Spawn[bobbyjoec].ID}

 

[Setsuni]

Alright, is that built into Kiss? Like right now I just do something simple like Heal|70|MA.. my MA is my main, but the healer keeps targeting himself.

I can name change if that fixes it, but id rather save $15 if there is something i can edit somewhere to avoid this issue.

 

[Maskoi]

Just make this hotkey

/mac kissassist assist ${Spawn[pc toonclass name].CleanName}

Example
/mac kissassist assist ${Spawn[pc warrior bob].CleanName}

Kiss identifies MA by class and name so once you get the correct toon you shouldn't have any problems.

 

[Setsuni]

Awesome. Thanks guys

 

[meeks741]

I am having the same Issue and for weeks i've been fight it. I have 2 chars one is fakenamed SoandSo and he is a beastlord
the other is named Soandsohealer and he is a cleric....i was the cleric to basically be a merc.

i tried the /mac kissassist assist ${Spawn[pc beastlord soandso].CleanName}

i get

MQ2] Ninjavloot: autohater set to Xtarget1
[Mq2] Ninjavloot: Variables are set.
[MQ2] you cannot assist yourself! Please target Main Tank and restart macro


Now i start targeting the beastlord and it changes my target to myself instantly.....i have tried to repeatedly re target the beastlord and i can get it to work than....but it still just heals the cleric when the tank is losing hp it also says that soandso is a pc cleric.....

what am i doing wrong?

 

[Maskoi]

try this hot key

/tar pc name class
/pause 10
/mac kissassist assist

 

[meeks741]

well its not changing his target to himself to start the macro but its still healing himself off of the tanks hp% so no heals going to the correct char 8(

but basically the same results as just /mac kissassist

 

[Setsuni]

I ended up name changing.

I was able to target my main and type /mac kissassist. it even would say in mq2 window that soandso is the main assist.

Once it came time to heal/buff him etc, it would target the actual toon with the same name. The program seemed to have a hard time getting the correct target.

 

[PeteSampras]

Based upon a quicklook, I would think you can do this format:

modify line 2119:

/if (${Spawn[${MainAssist} ${MainAssistType}].PctHPs} < 100) /call SingleHeal "${MainAssist}" "${MainAssistType}" ${Spawn[${MainAssist} ${MainAssistType}].PctHPs} 6

To:

/if (${Spawn[${MainAssist} ${MainAssistType}].PctHPs} < 100) /call SingleHeal "${MainAssist}" "${Spawn[${MainAssist} ${MainAssistType}].Type}" ${Spawn[${MainAssist} ${MainAssistType}].PctHPs} 6

Then once macro starts (assuming your main assist is a warrior as example):

/varset MainAssistType war pc

it is Case SenSitIve for MainAssistType

 

[meeks741]

if it was a beastlord you you /varset MainAssistType bst pc?

i tried it and it doesnt seem to make a difference unless i did something wrong i am not the best at editing or programming

 

[PeteSampras]

correct, again. that is just by looking at it, but i think that should work once you modify the line of code in the macro.

 

[Maskoi]

I am thinking the problem is a typo in my heal subroutine. Delete ${MainAssistID} from this line 2714 ish see if that solves the problem.

/declare SHealThem       int     local   ${Spawn[${SHealName} ${SHealType}].ID} ${MainAssistID}

should only be

/declare SHealThem       int     local   ${Spawn[${SHealName} ${SHealType}].ID}

Notepad ++ is a great editor for macros http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.5.5.html

 

[meeks741]

Yea thanks for the try but I've tried it multiple times with no success

 

[Maskoi]

Did you try my fix i posted 30 secs before yours lol?

 

[meeks741]

Maskoi i reinstalled kissassist because of making "other" changes then i deleted what you said to and with no success. it now says assisting soandso at % and soand is a warrior now....instead of a cleric but doesnt even heal himself just stands there 8(

 

[Maskoi]

I meant this fix i just posted

I am thinking the problem is a typo in my heal subroutine. Delete ${MainAssistID} from this line 2714 ish see if that solves the problem.

/declare SHealThem       int     local   ${Spawn[${SHealName} ${SHealType}].ID} ${MainAssistID}

should only be

/declare SHealThem       int     local   ${Spawn[${SHealName} ${SHealType}].ID}

Notepad ++ is a great editor for macros http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.5.5.html

 

[meeks741]

yea that is what i tried now he doesnt do anything. but it did change my main from a cleric to a warrior

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Sub SingleHeal(SHealName, SHealType, int SHealHPs, int WhoNum)
/if (!${HealsOn} || ${Me.Moving} || ${Window[RespawnWnd]} || !${Spawn[${SHealName} ${SHealType}].ID} || !${Select[${SHealType},PC,Pet,Mercenary]}) /return
/if (${DebugHeal}) /echo ${SHealName} ${SHealType} ${SHealHPs} ${WhoNum}
/doevents
/declare i int local 0
/declare SHealSpell string local
/declare SHealPct int local
/declare SHealTag string local
/declare SHealThem int local ${Spawn[${SHealName} ${SHealType}].ID}
/declare MainAssistID int local ${Spawn[${MainAssist} ${MainAssistType}].ID}
/declare SHealRange int local 0
| Set MA Id to 6 to keep spell durations correct
/if (${WhoNum}!=6 && ${SHealThem}==${MainAssistID}) /varset WhoNum 6
/for i 1 to ${SingleHeal.Size}

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wait hold up im sorry when i relogged he wasnt in group anymore let me test it one more time

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ok retested lost the warrior part back to being a cleric haha but yea just cast on himself like normal

 

[PeteSampras]

I dont see how it is physically possible for the method i listed to not work, this is the check:
/declare MainAssistID int local ${Spawn[${MainAssist} ${MainAssistType}].ID}

if it checks for ${Spawn[petesampras war pc].ID}, it cannot possibly return ${Spawn[petesampras clr pc].ID}, are you sure you changed the line i mentioned?

 

[Maskoi]

kk i will test it this weekend for similar name toons and hunt it down.

 

[meeks741]

/if (!${XTarHeal} || ${XTarHeal} && ${Me.XTarget[${XTarHeal}].ID}!=${Spawn[${MainAssist} ${MainAssistType}].ID}) {
/target id ${Spawn[${MainAssist} ${MainAssistType}].ID}
/delay 5
}
/if (${DebugHeal}) /echo Tank OOG: ${Spawn[${MainAssist}].PctHPs} ${Spawn[${MainAssist} ${MainAssistType}].ID} ${Spawn[${MainAssist} ${MainAssistType}].Type.NotEqual[corpse]}
/if (${Spawn[${MainAssist} ${MainAssistType}].PctHPs} < 100) /call SingleHeal "${MainAssist}" "${Spawn[${MainAssist} ${MainAssistType}].Type}" ${Spawn[${MainAssist} ${MainAssistType}].PctHPs} 6
} else {
/if (${Select[${HealsOn},3]} ${Spawn[${MainAssist} ${MainAssistType}].PctHPs} < 100) /call SingleHeal "${MainAssist}" "${MainAssistType}" ${Spawn[${MainAssist} ${MainAssistType}].PctHPs} 6
}
| Who is the most hurt
/if (${Select[${HealsOn},1,2]} && ${Group} && !${JustZoned} && !${JoinedParty}) {
/for i 0 to ${Group}

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yea im done for the night myself......if you like you can use my char's honestly i don't care if it works haha

 

[meeks741]

any hope for this issue or should i just pay and change his name?

 

[Maskoi]

I will be trying to fix this tonight

 

[PeteSampras]

I was looking through the source code a few days ago and I remember stumbling across an exact clean name setting you can add for ${Spawn[]}

    gbExactSearchCleanNames = 1==GetPrivateProfileInt("MacroQuest","ExactSearchCleanNames",0,Filename);

What that means is you can add a setting in your MacroQuest.ini
ExactSearchCleanNames=1

That should solve similar name issues but will make it so ALL your ${Spawn[name]} searches matches exactly "name" and not "nam" or "na"

 

[Maskoi]

I was looking through the source code a few days ago and I remember stumbling across an exact clean name setting you can add for ${Spawn[]}

    gbExactSearchCleanNames = 1==GetPrivateProfileInt("MacroQuest","ExactSearchCleanNames",0,Filename);

What that means is you can add a setting in your MacroQuest.ini
ExactSearchCleanNames=1

That should solve similar name issues but will make it so ALL your ${Spawn[name]} searches matches exactly "name" and not "nam" or "na"

Please don't do that it will mess with some of the targeting in KISS.

 

[PeteSampras]

Please don't do that it will mess with some of the targeting in KISS.

I will see if i can add the equal sign qualifier as a search option. I know it exists for FindItem stuff, if so, i can make it so you can do:
Spawn[=name] and it will do that exact match for that specific search only. Testing other stuff atm so it will go on my to do list. So if i can get it added, i will submit it for core code.

 

[meeks741]

oh i meant to let you know as well its not just similiar names i think many may have this issue because he tries to heal his mount all the time as well

 

[Maskoi]

Try this for your hot key
/mac kissassist assist toonname NULL

 

[meeks741]

anytime i do anything like that it targets himself when starting the macro

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because /target half of name will target himself

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lets say for instance the names are meeks and meekshealer. when meekshealer does /target meeks it wont target meeks ever because meekshealer is closer

 

[Maskoi]

i am working on this now. I can duplicate the bug.

 

[Maskoi]

OK here is what you need to do
Make a hot key
/mac kissassist assist "toonname Toonclass" e.g. /mac kissassist assist "meeks beastlord"
The toon name and toon class HAVE TO BE IN ""

Downlload and replace your current kissasssit.mac with this version

 

[PeteSampras]

For reference, I completed that exact spawn search member, will post on main boards now. Should they choose to use it, it will simply be:
${Spawn[=name]} if you want to exactly match something. ie. ${Spawn[=combat dummy dena npc]} or ${Spawn[=meeks]}

 

[Maskoi]

sweet