Function to Get Scrolling Combat Text
 

Hello,

I have been writing some scripts for some games, I am trying to find a method of detecting text in game. The text Iam looking for is scrolling combat text. Eg. You hit a target for 100 damage and text saying '100' will float out of them and slowly fade.

I was wondering if it was possible?

Thanks you.

Capturing the text is relatively trivial with the Chat object (see LoTRO Alerts for an example of how to use the Chat object) - you'd just have to set up a pattern to watch for on the Combat channel. For display purposes, you could use a simple Update event handler to slowly scroll and fade the text. The only problem would be where to display the text - we can't get the location of your target so the text would either have to appear at a predetermined location on screen or possibly at the mouse cursor but the cursor seems like a bad idea for those that use the mouse to select skills, etc.