Entertainer Archive
Thread: 6 easy steps to working with aliases for entertainers
A number of people have been asking about these so I hope this how to explains it in a concise manner.
1. Go to youSWG folder and create a text file, e.g. myaliases.txt
2. Add a line in the following format:
<aliasname>: <commands for what you wish to do>;
For example:hint: Hello!; :smiles warmly at %NT;
3. Save the file.
4. Go into game and type /load myaliases.txt
5. Type /alias to display all the aliases available to you in that file. You should see 'hint' listed.
6.To use an alias in game , e.g. to use'hint' type /hint (very useful as it now frees up those toolbars!). Using this example this would execute: Your char says 'Hello!' followed by Your char smiles warmly at whoever you have targeted.
I personally find it easiest to alt tab and make changes to my file rather than trying to do it from within game.
KEY POINTS:
- When you amend the file you MUST use a semi-colon (
between every command.
- Put one alias all on one continuous line, and give it a name you will remember followed by a colon (
. The name of the alias is the first string, in the example about it is 'hint'.
TRIGGERING ANOTHER ALIAS
There is a cutout when you run a long alias or macro. This is particularly annoying if you enjoy choreography and composition like I do. The way around it is to call on another alias during the execution. For example:
I have defined a greeting in my alias file for performances:
rbeu: /mood grateful; /pause 6; Thank you!; /mood exuberant; /pause 3; It is a pleasure to be performing here for Rebel Base EU today.; /pause 3; /promote; /pause 3;
Notice how it calls upon /promote. These are also aliases defined in the same file, e.g.
promote: /announce My name is K'vera Leann and I regularly perform in the city of Dearic on Talus. If you are ever in the area do stop by the cantina, hotel or theatre.; /pause 3; /smile;
The effect is that when I run /rbeu in game, the speech is made, a pause of 3 then before the /promote speech is automatically called.
The technique can be adapted for sampling and long routines if that is what you wish to do.
ADDITIONAL USEFUL VARIABLES (Theseautomatically insert words and names according to your target.)
If you have any questions please let me know and I shall endeavour to answer them.
Is there a way to make an alias continue to repeat over and over agian?
There are a number of posts on both the dance and entertainer forums regarding looping macros making use of the toolbar.
p5mmr9 wrote:
management put up a guard against repeating macros...
What sort of repeating macro guard though?
With an Alias, you are effectively loading commands from it that won't change unless you want them to. Then you can program a Macro, within the Macro system ingame, to call those commands, assign an icon and assign that to a toolbar slot. You could then add a /pause ## command to the macro and use the /ui action command to call the toolbar slot if you wanted to repeat, say, /promote every 10 minutes (technically "/pause 600" though colors and content may vary ) while you flourish, converse, trade, etc.
I made a long alias using this little guide.. but I want to know if there is a way to unload it. I want to be able to quit my macro in case of emergency.. can I do something like this?