CD timer plugin
If anyone has heard of OmniCC for WoW, thats what I would love to see in Lotro.
If you haven't, its a plugin that fires off when you use a skill. Instead of the greyed out skills with a line for the cooldown, you get very large distinct numbers in the entire skill box. I asked on the lotro forums if it was possible, apparently it would be. With some pretty heavy options needed for the plugin to know what skill/class/deeds/ect were being used for the CD to fire off properly. I would think though that after an initial set up, it could be pretty quick to update any settings the plugin would need to accuratly place the CD via an options panel where you could enable or disable and traits or something that would lower the CD of a skill. Or manually adding in a reduction in skill CD via set bonus or something. Is this outside the scope of Lotro and the current API or is this something that someone would be willing to take on? |
Not outside the scope of what's possible to do but as noted, it would involve some convoluted stuff. Would have to tell the plugin what's bound to what, and clickers would have to setup custom bars. Plugin would have to use various tricks as well to know when skills are fired off for real (and not just activated while grey, lacking a target etc) which might not work for all skills, and of course the plugin would have to be told what's the cooldown of skills, which gets tricky with traits, and abilities that decrease or reset the cooldown of other abilities when used.
Still, doable. |
I'm no dev/author but maybe these possibly idiotic suggestion could spur this project along....
-Is it possible for you to use combat analysis' combat chat window recognition code and modify it to read a skill going off for real? -If it's too hard to ellucidate the player's CD times, could you make it class sensitive and, at least at first, simply allow the user to input his/her CD time manually in a setup window for each skill that is allowed to the class the person is on I.E. a hunter has this skill set, in his setup window, he will have every skill a hunter can have with a CD on it that he can input his CD manually such as, 10s for Swift Bow and 2 min for Burn Hot? - |
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I'm pretty much using it the way Gramps is asking for, with two major exceptions: 1) I'm not smart enough to read a number larger than four in a timely manner when reaction speed is important - I suspect trying to read multiple cooldowns at once (or having them available to be read) would cause me to freeze up. 2) I'm just watching a subset of my skills - ones of interest (will typically be used multiple times in combat and are not part of my always visible quickslots) - up to 15 or so at once. |
I am going to bump this to fuel false hopes for getting a headstrong coder to attempt it.
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