Bio Engineer Archive

Has anyone been able to determine the macro commands for dealing with the "experiment/prototype/schematic" buttons we get when crafting next to a public station?

on the last post there is only one space after the prototype no item, !@#$%^ editor

There seems to be some pretty good craftring macros out there for some of the other professions. Not being very gifted in this computer stuff, I was wondering if anybody has come up with some good ones for our beloved bio-engineers. Please post if you have one that works. Thanks.

Flav

They work exactly the same way other ones do. Anything you've seen for grinding meds or whatnot else with the /nextcraftingstage or /createPrototype practice no item works fine for us.
Do a search on this forum you should see scads. If all else fails, go to swgcraft.com (I think it is) and look in their forums and search.
The in-game macros require you place your ingredients, but kit and schematic selection can be macroed and so can finishing the item.

Just like in all crafting macros you need to experiment with /selectDraftSchematic ## to figure out which schematic has what number.

Note also that someone has figured out how to use practice with a macro (which was news a week ago).

A few tips on crafting that took me a few weeks to learn: the enter key advances you to the next crafting phase, and you can turn off the "are you sure" prompt in the options menu.

Finally, here is the macro I used to do all my crafting XP grinding for bioengineer. I have 4 crafting stations on the toolbar, but I'll let you look up what all these do to figure out the arrangement :

----------------------------------------------------

/ui action toolbarSlot04
/selectDraftschematic 29
/pause 6
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/pause 4

/ui action toolbarSlot05
/selectDraftschematic 29
/pause 6
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/pause 4

/ui action toolbarSlot06
/selectDraftschematic 29
/pause 6
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/pause 4

/ui action toolbarSlot07
/selectDraftschematic 29
/pause 6
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/pause 4

/ui action toolbarSlot08

SWG Macro

This is a good macro site.

http://pub151.ezboard.com/bswgmacro

OK i guess this board will edit out html links...

Crafting stations or Crafting tools on your toolbar? Because I've always put crafting tools on my toolbar and my macros NEVER work... I've tried 3 or 4 macros, none have worked for me, they take my resources and I get the "crafting session has ended, crafting session had ended" message but I get NO xp...macros are pissing me off =(

The one I have posted definitely works for me. The timing can be tricky, and you may want to increase the pauses to be srue you get all the components right.... just make sure that if you increase the pause within a single crafting session, you increase the pause after them too.... ow you get a train wreck.

Never experienced what you are talking about there.....

IS there a macro for selecting and assigning resources during crafting?

No there isn't a navite in game way to do this. My advice if you are grinding is only have the resources you need in your inventory so you don't need to go looking for them. Then have a button on your mouse for double clicking. One hit of that mouse button on an easy to find resource will fill that spot. Repeat for any resources and hit a finish macro.

Is it possible to make a crafting macro for the initial xp grind? I dont know if they are allowed or not, if not then it isnt something im going to do. If it is allowed and anyone would be nice enough to point me to a website, or give me an idea on how to do it, I would really appreciate it. You can just send me an in game email.

Thank you in advance,

Frotarr

These instructions don't fit in an email, so here they are (and yes using an attended macro is fine):

This set of macros (5 of them) is designed for 4 tools. You can easily change it to whatever number of tools you prefer. For this example, we will say that the 4 tools are in toolbar slots F9, F10, F11, F12. The macros for each individual tool are in toolbar slots F5, F6, F7, F8. And, the main macro that starts it all is in slot F1.
You can arrange them however you like, and I will highlight in the script what would need to be changed for your configuration.

F1 script:

/ui action toolbarSlot04;
/pause 6;
/ui action toolbarSlot05;
/pause 6;
/ui action toolbarSlot06;
/pause 6;
/ui action toolbarSlot07;

This script will run the other 4 scripts setup on keys F5 to F8. Those toolbarslots are refered to as toolbarSlot04 through toolbarSlot07. The bottom row of your toolbar is refered to as toolbarSlot12 through toolbarSlot21. If you plan to use more than 4 tools, or have the macros for each tool in a different slot, those are what you would need to change in the above.
The pause for 6 seconds is what I found to be an appropriate choice on my system. I suggest creating the script with say an 8-10 second pause at first and lower it to whatever is best for your connection/system. It is the total time between the start of one tool and the start of the next tool. If the delay is too short, you will be the 'you are already crafting' error.
This script calls the other 4 scripts, setup for each of the 4 tools. And here is one of those:

F5 script:

/ui action toolbarSlot08;
/selectDraftSchematic 71;
/pause 3
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;

The first line in this script will start the tool in toolbar slot F9. This is what you change in each of the scripts you place in slots F5 to F8 for each tool F9 to F12. The second line determines what you want to make. 71 is rifle barrels for 90xp each. I think that by concensus, that is the best thing to grind. It only requires steel, and can be made in one step.
The pause for 3 seconds is enough time for me to double click steel twice to load the resources. That is the only thing you have to do manualy, other than hitting F1 to start the process. You may want to start with a pause of 5 seconds and lower it to a value appropriate to your system/connection.
The next three lines advance through the crafting stages, and the last 2 select practice mode so as not to fill you backpack. This macro will work if you are next to a crafting station and if you are not. The extra "/nextCraftingStage; and /createPrototype practice no item; " lines will be ignored when you are not near a crafting station, and will skip past the extra experimenting screen when you are.

So, in summary, you need the 1st macro listed above to launch the other 4 macros. The other 4 each individualy launch a crafting tool.
To use it, simply click the 1st macro (or press F1), then move your cursor into position where your steel will be for insertion into the schematic. When the macro pauses, double click twice. The crafting session ends immediately, and the next tool starts up and you simply keep your mouse in place and doulbe click twice the next time it pause. And again for each tool.
That's it!

Now, some extra info.
-This works just fine if you crit fail. It simply goes onto the next tool.
-You go through your crafting once manualy each time you login before using this macro. As you know, the initial bootup of the tool, and the insertion of the resources is slow the 1st time you craft after login. Those delays will overlap the crafting and you will have to cancel a bunch of error messages.
-If the "loading..." message is still displayed after you doulbe click the resource to go into the schematic when the pause ends, you will get an error message that you have to clear or the next crafting session will fail also. If you do not double click the resources right away, just do nothing. That session will end without doing anything, and that is better than clicking late and having the session stall at the error message just mentioned.

Well, I hope someone finds this helpfull, and credit goes to Skcusawn on the O boards for posting something that I based this on.