I've asked a couple times in the Gearswap thread but never got an answer, figured making a new post might make someone see it.
Anyone got a relatively easy way to determine if a player is moving for gearswap? I'm basically looking for a function that returns true if the player is moving.
Mostly looking to make it swap gear to movement+ gear when moving, but wouldn't mind having it for other checks too.
I tried to copy HealBot's isMoving() function but, tbh don't fully understand that implementation and couldn't get it to work in gearswap. I'm sure it's because I'm not copying something over right. :/
Function That Returns True If Player Is Moving?
Function that returns true if player is moving?
Code
mov = {counter=0}
if player and player.index and windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_index(player.index) then
mov.x = windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_index(player.index).x
mov.y = windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_index(player.index).y
mov.z = windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_index(player.index).z
end
moving = false
windower.raw_register_event('prerender',function()
mov.counter = mov.counter + 1;
if mov.counter>15 then
local pl = windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_index(player.index)
if pl and pl.x and mov.x then
local movement = math.sqrt( (pl.x-mov.x)^2 + (pl.y-mov.y)^2 + (pl.z-mov.z)^2 ) > 0.1
if movement and not moving then
send_command('gs c started to move!')
moving = true
elseif not movement and moving then
send_command('gs c stopped moving!')
moving = false
end
end
if pl and pl.x then
mov.x = pl.x
mov.y = pl.y
mov.z = pl.z
end
mov.counter = 0
end
end)Something like this.
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Thank you so much!
So I can use if moving == 'True' for other checks, and use those gs c to equip movement gear, right? At least if I'm following it.
So I can use if moving == 'True' for other checks, and use those gs c to equip movement gear, right? At least if I'm following it.
Code
if moving then
It will also call your self_command function with the phrase "started to move!" or "stopped moving!" when you start or stop moving.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking, awesome, thanks so much!
np, hopefully it works! I have not tried it or even verified that it will load.
Loads, but doesn't seem to be working, trying to pinpoint where it fails, could easily be on my end.
Some info for you if you're interested in continuing, it seems like after loading:
if dist > 1 and not moving then
elseif dist < 1 and moving then
don't ever seem to be true
(Random guess, do I need to require maths? I thought that was already included somewhere in gearswap's libs, but I may be wrong)
Some info for you if you're interested in continuing, it seems like after loading:
if dist > 1 and not moving then
elseif dist < 1 and moving then
don't ever seem to be true
(Random guess, do I need to require maths? I thought that was already included somewhere in gearswap's libs, but I may be wrong)
It's probably that my x doesn't match the x of get_player(). Try changing all the X, Y, and Zs to the uppercase form.
I realized you were using mov to only check every 15 prerender ticks, derped there, did a replace all in selection for .x .y and .z for .X .Y and .Z
looks like if pl and pl.X and mov.X then
is always false
I had missed that if statement when I was trying to see which ones were working, so don't know if dist is properly calculating yet, since the if before that is never true it seems.
looks like if pl and pl.X and mov.X then
is always false
I had missed that if statement when I was trying to see which ones were working, so don't know if dist is properly calculating yet, since the if before that is never true it seems.
Looking at the wiki, the function windower.ffxi.get_player()
doesn't actually seem to return an x y and z in it's table.
but then again, I tried returning everything to lowercase and this, and it still didn't seem to be doing anything
Ok, I had forgotten to change the
local pl = windower.ffxi.get_player()
to
local pl = windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_target('me')
When I do I get an error: attempt to compare number with boolean
on the following line
if dist > 1 and not moving then
doesn't actually seem to return an x y and z in it's table.
but then again, I tried returning everything to lowercase and this, and it still didn't seem to be doing anything
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if windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_target('me') then
mov.x = windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_target('me').x
mov.y = windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_target('me').y
mov.z = windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_target('me').z
endOk, I had forgotten to change the
local pl = windower.ffxi.get_player()
to
local pl = windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_target('me')
When I do I get an error: attempt to compare number with boolean
on the following line
if dist > 1 and not moving then
Code
mov = {counter=0}
if player and player.index and windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_index(player.index) then
mov.x = windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_index(player.index).x
mov.y = windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_index(player.index).y
mov.z = windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_index(player.index).z
end
moving = false
windower.raw_register_event('prerender',function()
mov.counter = mov.counter + 1;
if mov.counter>15 then
local pl = windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_index(player.index)
if pl and pl.x and mov.x then
local movement = math.sqrt( (pl.x-mov.x)^2 + (pl.y-mov.y)^2 + (pl.z-mov.z)^2 ) > 0.1
if movement and not moving then
send_command('gs c started to move!')
moving = true
elseif not movement and moving then
send_command('gs c stopped moving!')
moving = false
end
end
if pl and pl.x then
mov.x = pl.x
mov.y = pl.y
mov.z = pl.z
end
mov.counter = 0
end
end)Another attempt!
local pl = windower.get_mob_by_index(player.index)
Attempt to call field 'get_mob_by_index' (a nil value)
Which seems weird cuz
mov.x = windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_index(player.index).x is above that in the code, and not giving an error?
Attempt to call field 'get_mob_by_index' (a nil value)
Which seems weird cuz
mov.x = windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_index(player.index).x is above that in the code, and not giving an error?
windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_index
Sorry, it's getting late. This will probably be my last post tonight. I fixed the above code with that change.
Sorry, it's getting late. This will probably be my last post tonight. I fixed the above code with that change.
I appreciate all the help even if it doesn't work, and I missed that too.
Well, unfortunately, if you see this tomorrow or whenever.
if dist > 1 and not moving then
gives: attempt to compare number with boolean, so somehow dist is ending up as true or false?
Same issue when I tried using windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_target('me')
if dist > 1 and not moving then
gives: attempt to compare number with boolean, so somehow dist is ending up as true or false?
Same issue when I tried using windower.ffxi.get_mob_by_target('me')
Edited the code again. I had >1 after the distance calculation as a result of splicing together various ways to do this. Now I'm really gone!
Change it to
"if dist and not moving then"
or change
dist = math.sqrt( (pl.x-mov.x)^2 + (pl.y-mov.y)^2 + (pl.z-mov.z)^2 ) > 1
to
dist = math.sqrt( (pl.x-mov.x)^2 + (pl.y-mov.y)^2 + (pl.z-mov.z)^2 )
"if dist and not moving then"
or change
dist = math.sqrt( (pl.x-mov.x)^2 + (pl.y-mov.y)^2 + (pl.z-mov.z)^2 ) > 1
to
dist = math.sqrt( (pl.x-mov.x)^2 + (pl.y-mov.y)^2 + (pl.z-mov.z)^2 )
Ah, I totally get why that was boolean now, derp, thanks.
Removing the >1 on the end ended up working fine for me, thanks a ton to both of you!
To anyone thinking of using this, I highly reccomend using <.1 instead of <1 for checking dist, especially if you use uncapped framerate, otherwise moving slowly can cause a lot of false-stops, other than that, working pretty great.
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