GearSwap Tutorial Video

Here's a video tutorial for GearSwap basics...

Let me admit offhand that while I've some experience with GearSwap, I'm not a programmer myself, and there's lots I don't know.

I originally posted this in the GearSwap support thread, but looking back on it, it doesn't seem to belong there, and it could go unnoticed; as I know that this is something many were asking for, I felt it was the right move to simply start a new topic page for it (especially for those with a particular aversion to reading >.>; TLDR community, this is for you).

Hopefully this is helpful to those that had no idea how to start or what to do.

Nice video.

I kind of feel like it's still not 'basic' enough for newbies tho.

Yeah, that worried me too... My youtube account is new so I was unable to make a video that exceeds 15 minutes. I can follow up with another more unplugged style one that just walks from the top to bottom of the document I made and show it in action. I felt like I was moving a million miles an hour just to try and cover the basics @.@;

Very nice guide. Hoping this gains attention of new players.

Tell me about it. I was planning on making a GearSwap tutorial video of my own, and when I did my first runthrough, I ended up at 32 minutes. There's a lot to talk about.

Very informative for an introduction. Good Job.

One thing. Around the 11 minute mark when you’re covering loading and reloading gearswap and .lua files you don’t cover what //gs r is a shorthand of. It’s not a big deal but in terms of informing/educating a novice user, indicating it’s shorthand for //gs reload could be helpful.

Though really one could do an entire video on shorthand in Windower.

When I mention that I should also point out that it will reload the lua for the job you are ON, not neccessarily the last one you loaded. A niche distinction, but useful to know, nonetheless.

If/When you do, consider counter exampling with //lua u gs ; //lua l gs ; //lua r gs along with //gs l custom file.lua

Some these would only apply if you’re modifying GS itself and want to test changes on fly/hot swapping versions.

99.9% of users will probably not have a real need of those commands. However, it’s useful in pointing out why //gs r ; //gs reload; //gearswap r; //gearswap reload will only reload the currently loaded file.

Rather, //gs r ; //gs reload; //gearswap r; //gearswap reload will only load the file for the job you are on. For instance if you are troubleshooting a PLD lua but you are on Blue Mage and you have the PLD lua loaded, and you use //gs r... it will load your BLU lua.

this is important because if you were ON pld, but were working on a PLD2 lua, //gs r would reload PLD lua, not PLD2