Trigger range attacks with a gesture by the MA (1 Viewer)

[dragonfire]

I am trying to get this little macro to work.

|---------------------------------------------------------- 
|rangeassist.mac 
|Simple assist macro to skill up range skills when PLing
| 
|Usage: /mac rangeassist 
| 
|Effect: watches for specific gesture from MA and will start
|autofire and pet attack
| 
|By Dragonfire 
|Date: 05/06/2007
|---------------------------------------------------------- 

#Event Triggermsg "#1#makes a rude gesture at#2#."


Sub Main

	/echo Range Assist started
	/declare Mob
	
:loop
	/doevents
/goto :loop

/return	

Sub Event_Triggermsg(triggertext,playername)
	/echo ${playername} needs some assistance.
	/delay 2s
	/assist ${playername}
	/autofire
	/pet attack
/return

It /echos well, but will not assist. I have looked at the MQ2 syntax guide and cannot find a command that lets me pass through a command.

Multiline and DoCommand both give me parse errors.

The above just does nothing.

How do you pass EQ commands through?

I did see that the /assist line was used in several macros posted here. But I am not having any luck getting it to work.

This noob would be grateful for any guidance.

 

[playj]

Re: Help with Code Please

First of all, does /echo ${playername} work correctly after trigger gesture?

If so, then
Try adding /delay 1s after /assist ${playername}

Since assist is EQ not MQ command it does tend to lag. I know from my MQless days that my EQ macros always had to have pauses after assist.

 

[Siddin]

Re: Help with Code Please

First of all, does /echo ${playername} work correctly after trigger gesture?

If so, then
Try adding /delay 1s after /assist ${playername}

Since assist is EQ not MQ command it does tend to lag. I know from my MQless days that my EQ macros always had to have pauses after assist.

here is what I do in my macros.

 /call assist
 
 sub assist
 /squelch /target clear
 /delay !${Target.ID}
 /assist ${playername}
 /delay 1s ${Target.ID}
 /return

 

[dragonfire]

I finally got it to work but I don't like the results (yeah, that's why I did not go into programming for a living, it always had to be perfect). I had to type the MA's name into the code. I could not get any variable even declared global to be passed through to EQ. I tried to assign ${player} to another variable, and every permutation I could think of. This code echo's the MA's name perfectly, and assists as designed, but I want to know why I can't pass the MA's name through with a variable to the /assist line.

|---------------------------------------------------------- 
|rangeassist.mac 
|Simple assist macro to skill up range skills when PLing
| 
|Usage: /mac rangeassist 
| 
|Effect: watches for specific gesture from MA and will start
|autofire and pet attack
| 
|By Dragonfire 
|Date: 05/06/2007
|---------------------------------------------------------- 

#Event Triggermsg "#1#makes a rude gesture at#2#."


Sub Main
	/deletevar * global
	/echo Range Assist started

:loop
	/doevents
/goto :loop

/return	

Sub Event_Triggermsg(triggertext,player)
	/echo ${player} needs some assistance.
	/delay 1s
	/assist SuperChar
	/delay 1s
	/autofire
	/delay 1s
	/pet attack
/return

These are my first attempts at macros, so please be patient with the Noob and thanks for the responses.

 

[nijhal]

Try this and have your main tank targeted when starting the macro, should work.

|---------------------------------------------------------- 
|rangeassist.mac 
|Simple assist macro to skill up range skills when PLing
| 
|Usage: /mac rangeassist 
| 
|Effect: watches for specific gesture from MA and will start
|autofire and pet attack
| 
|By Dragonfire 
|Date: 05/06/2007
|---------------------------------------------------------- 

#Event Triggermsg "#1#makes a rude gesture at#2#."


Sub Main
   /declare maintank       string outer ${Target.CleanName}
   /declare maintanksID    int outer ${Target.ID}

   /if (${Target.Type.NotEqual["PC"]}) /call End
	/echo Range Assist started
             /popup Range Assist Started!

:loop
	/doevents
/goto :loop

/return	

Sub Event_Triggermsg
	/echo ${maintank} needs some assistance.
	/delay 1s
	/assist ${maintank}
	/delay 1s
	/autofire
	/delay 1s
	/pet attack
/return


Sub End
  /echo Please have a PLAYER targeted and restart this macro!
  /beep
  /popup Please have a PLAYER targeted and restart this macro!
/end