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Hello, IS there a place where I can find commands to lead the band, including flourishes so I can set up macroes?

Also, is there a place where I can learn how to set these macroes up?

Thanks for the aid!

As far as I know, the main ones are:

/startmusic SongName

/changemusic NewSongName

/stopmusic

/flourish # (where # is from 1 to 8)

/bandflourish # (where # is from 1 to 8 and all band members do the same flourish and only band leader gets musician exp)

You -can- make lengthy macros, but I usually just use a short one that runs through seven flourishes (I hate the # 8 flourish, where your instrument is nowhere near your lips but still playing as your arms fly out to the sides).

I have aliases set up for the flourishes to make it easier to do them one-by-one if I prefer:

/alias f1 /flourish 1

and so on. Then the "macro" I run just strings them together with pauses. The pause time is tricky --- I like to let the animations play out, but sometimes that means that the "chorus" chimes in between flourishes. Best to experiment with various /pause numbers.

/alias fastmusic /f1;/pause 10;/f2;/pause 10;/f3;/pause 10;/f4;/pause 10;/f5;/pause 10;/f6;/pause 10;/f7

So, then I just type /fastmusic to get a series of flourishes, or /f4 if I just want to do flourish #4. You can also use CONTROL-A to get the Actions window up and select "Macros" and then "New Macro" and name it, pick an icon, and in the macro description box, type what you want to happen:

/fastmusic;/pause 100;/say And one more time!;/fastmusic

As an example... here, the pause needs to be long enough to cover the length of the /fastmusic "macro"... this "nesting" of macros can be tricky, mainly in regards to the timing.

Wow you completelty lost me with this alias stuff, other than that I understand..

if you check out the artisian forum there is a quick method of using the /ui action toolbarslotXX command, where it will keep looping itself untill you move the macro over a slot.

You can use the command window (Ctrl-A by default) to put the flourish commands in your toolbar; pressing F1 to F8 is a lot easier than typing /f1.

Along with /startmusic, /stopmusic and /changemusic, you can use /startband, /stopband and /changeband to affect all the musicians in your group. Note that /changeband currently does Bad Things and should be avoided until it is fixed.

Also, with /bandflourish, you can use:

/bandflourish 1 slitherhorn

to only have the slitherhorns perform the flourish, and similarly for the other instruments. What you should NOT do is spam bandflourishes, because the rest of your group will quickly hate you for it -- it uses up action but gives no xp, to everyone but the person issuing the command.

Note that optimally for xp, you do either two or zero flourishes per music xp tick. For sound, you can do as many flourishes as you like, but only four or five can be queued, any you do above that just eat action. It's still better to space them, each music tick is the same duration as two flourishes, so you may as well get your optimal xp rate.

You can use /pause to delay between flourishes in a macro or alias:

/alias riff1 /flo 4;/flo 4;/pause 10;/flo 1;/flo 2;/pause 10;/flo 4;/flo 4;/pause 10;/flo 5;/flo 6;/pause 10;/flo 7;/flo 8

This is one I use with SW1 and SW2. You can then make a macro that does:

/riff1;/pause 60;/riff2;/pause 60;/riff2;/pause 60;/riff3;/pause 60;...

With appropriate aliases for /riff1, /riff2 and /riff3. This is the foundation for using macros and aliases to string together full songs.

It's important to note that /pause does NOT work when you fiddle with your chat tabs. Current knowledge suggests that if you make a new tab with system messages going to it, your pauses will run for half as long as they should. This really sucks, because I hate the default setup, I keep missing information because it all runs together. You can set up your windows how you want, then time how long "/pause 10" runs by turning on timestamps, and take that into account when writing aliases and macros.

I would recommend that you also turn off system messages appearing in the middle of your screen, with all those xp messages coming in it can get intrusive quickly.

On a final note, when you get sick of playing just for the sake of xp, stop. Either set up an alias/macro group that runs for hours and go to bed (but do this somewhere other than the cantina! you don't need an audience to get musician xp!) or go do something else, and keep the music fresh, otherwise you'll burn out.

The /alias command --- which I just recently discovered myself --- is a simple way to make macros without using the "New Macro" buttons and so forth in the Control-A action panel.

The usage is:

/alias NameForMacro MacroCommands

So, for example:

/alias Hi /say Greetings and salutations, %TT! Welcome to our cantina! Pull up a chair and /listen!

Type this once and in the alias.txt file (or something like that) it will create and remember this association, so that from then on you can just type " /Hi " and it will execute that alias, and display the full /say command. Nesting aliases can get tricky, especially if time (eg. pauses) is involved.

But, as in my example above, some simple aliases can make LATER aliases easier.... the /f1 for /flourish 1 then inserted into an aliased "fastmusic" command that plays multiple flourishes.

No edit button --- in my example in that last post, you probably shouldn't put " /listen " in there, since it MAY be interpreted as a command. There's no semi-colon to separate it from the /say string, so I dunno what would happen, really.

I read somewhere on these thread about macro commands that you can print out. Can someone please tell me how to do this?

If its even possible and if someone knows how, can you post a macro command that you can place resources automatically. If it doesn't exist, cool, its just a question so don't flame me.

Thanks

One other note, any of you who have grinded, which would you suggest, projectile rifle barrel, blaster rifle barrel or 2 handed axe....

Thanks

proj rifle barrel

How do I 'teach' my creature. I say follow, and it follows, but it has a question mark over its head. Plus, how do I get it to attack something? Or how do I release it? I need help here Thanks

just hold down your radial button on your pet... the "train" option should come up then you can give it your verbal command, it has a chance to not learn your command, just keep trying untill you get a "!" over its head... it's pretty easy you should figure it out if you haven't already

Call your pet. Click and hold on it to bring up the radial menu. Select train and one of the sub-cmmands available to you. Type whatever phrase you want to use for tha command and press enter. Repeat until the pet learns that command. Repeat until the pet learns all the commands. Repeat when you learn new commands.

anyone know of a command to type in that would be registered as say a click of the mouse (not in the physical world ) or maybeas apressof the enter button?