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Thread: Tuesday Tip March 15, 2005 Programming Fireworks

Tiggs
Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:04 pm
#1

This weeks Tuesday Tip was sent in by Peasleblossom Fari, Master Entertainer/Musician from Starside!!


Many players know how to load different fireworks into a Show Package, and launch it for an impressive display. However it's a little known ability of the Entertainer profession to program these packages. Anyone with Novice Entertainer can adjust the timing and order of the fireworks, creating dramatic pauses, colorful clusters, or long steady displays. A programmed package can then be given to anyone else, and launched as normal. It's a great way to celebrate a special ingame occasion.







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teh_n00b123
Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:08 pm
#2


nice, I honestly couldn't figure out how to do that..because I'm not entertainer apparently, I didn't know you had to be.


thanks for the tip

Message Edited by teh_n00b123 on 02-15-2005 10:09 PM




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Trean
Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:12 pm
#3






Tiggs wrote:

This weeks Tuesday Tip was sent in by Peasleblossom Fari, Master Entertainer/Musician from Starside!!


Many players know how to load different fireworks into a Show Package, and launch it for an impressive display. However it's a little known ability of the Entertainer profession to program these packages. Anyone with Novice Entertainer can adjust the timing and order of the fireworks, creating dramatic pauses, colorful clusters, or long steady displays. A programmed package can then be given to anyone else, and launched as normal. It's a great way to celebrate a special ingame occasion.







Got a useful tip that you want to share with your fellow Star Wars Galaxies players?


E-mail it to [email protected] and if we select the tip we'll post it as the Tuesday Tip and give you the credit! Send us the character name and server you'd like us to include if we post the tip.


Tips can be anything that you think would be useful to other players but may not include exploits.


Check out last week's tips







Now if we could get a less deterant loading process that might be even more helpful. The time it takes to make the packages is way way to long, unless you only want one package. But seriously when I was making my fireworks show for my grand re-opening, 1500 fireworks shot off, it took way too long to load the packages.



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NiBorg
Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:14 pm
#4

i like running fireworks without packages. did a 45 minute fireworks show once and blew thru 40 crates of 9 use fireworks. to bad i couldnt see it. lol
Rogue1970
Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:18 pm
#5

I load my fireworks up into my hotkeys - 2 or 3 frames full of em. Then I hit CTRL-SHIFT-H to clear my HUD display and look straight up at the sky in first-person mode.


I can then just type F1-F12 and ShiftF1-F12 to my hearts content, when a frame of hotkeys clears - Ctrlf12 moves me to the next frame to start over again.


I get to watch and play my Fireworks keyboard at the same time.



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Aleyo
Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:28 pm
#6



Tiggs wrote:
This weeks Tuesday Tip was sent in by Peasleblossom Fari, Master Entertainer/Musician from Starside!!
Many players know how to load different fireworks into a Show Package, and launch it for an impressive display. However it's a little known ability of the Entertainer profession to program these packages. Anyone with Novice Entertainer can adjust the timing and order of the fireworks, creating dramatic pauses, colorful clusters, or long steady displays. A programmed package can then be given to anyone else, and launched as normal. It's a great way to celebrate a special ingame occasion.

Got a useful tip that you want to share with your fellow Star Wars Galaxies players?
E-mail it to [email protected] and if we select the tip we'll post it as the Tuesday Tip and give you the credit! Send us the character name and server you'd like us to include if we post the tip.

Tips can be anything that you think would be useful to other players but may not include exploits.

Check out last week's tips





Actually, testing was done, and you only gain this ability at Master Entertainer.




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NiBorg
Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:29 pm
#7

you still dont get the effect from distance view but good point. i do the same thing essentially but but with a (gasp) recursive macro that hits all the F keys with a .2 second delay and stuff crates into the shift-F keys. open my inventory and just keep restocking the main F keys till those crates are empty then stick more in the bottom row from the pack. rinse and repeat till you just cant take it anymore. i saw screen shots of the day i did it but would be to hard to maintain the flow and watch it at the same time.
Fodder650
Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:44 pm
#8


Dont discourageher Aleyo its not JTL, Jedi or CURB based. Ok so yeah your right but about it but at least its a tip most of us didnt know.



(edit changed pronouns when i saw it was Tiggs and not TH posting this)

Message Edited by Fodder650 on 02-15-2005 10:44 PM



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LeBob
Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:54 pm
#9

Thanks, Tiggs!



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TheRealMopy
Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:13 pm
#10

Novice entertainer! You have no idea how long I spent trying to figure this one out in the past.

Thankies Tiggs.

Message Edited by TheRealMopy on 02-16-2005 05:13 AM



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psikobunny
Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:37 am
#11






Fodder650 wrote:


Dont discourageher Aleyo its not JTL, Jedi or CURB based. Ok so yeah your right but about it but at least its a tip most of us didnt know.



(edit changed pronouns when i saw it was Tiggs and not TH posting this)

Message Edited by Fodder650 on 02-15-2005 10:44 PM





Actually it was me who did the testing on TC-bria, but I guess my email with the revision didnt get there. Thank you for putting it up Tiggs!!



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mindspat
Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:28 pm
#12

I recall being able to set the time delays on the show packages why back when and I didn't even have entertainer at the time. Has this been updated recently?




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Sha_Ja
Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:07 pm
#13

Bumped for some TH lovin



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