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Thread: Tuesday Tip, March 15th: Programming Fireworks Displays
Owen-Lars wrote:
Actually th you can toggle through about 30-50 commands by using ctrl+up and down.
Its a great tip for moving items in your house
Actually, for moving items in player structures, I suggest a furniture moving macro. The one I use looks like this:
Move your tool bar to one of the layers you don’t use a lot. (Toolbar level #3 or 4 is popular).
•Press ctrl-A to pull up your “Abilities” window
•Select the “Macro” tab
•Press the “New macro Button
•In the box where it says, “Macro Text”, add your movement. For example:
/rotatefurniture left 45
/rotatefurniture left 90
/rotatefurniture left 180
/move forward 10
/move back 10
/move forward 5
/move back 5
/move forward 1
/move back 1
/movefurniture up 10
/movefurniture down 10
/movefurniture up 5
/movefurniture down 5
/movefurniture up 1
/movefurniture down 1
•Name it in the name window.
•Pick an icon and add it to the list.
•Then drag the icon to the tool bar and moving things become much easier by using the customized buttons you just made.
Thunderheart wrote:
Owen-Lars wrote:
Actually th you can toggle through about 30-50 commands by using ctrl+up and down.
Its a great tip for moving items in your house
Actually, for moving items in player structures, I suggest a furniture moving macro. The one I use looks like this:
Move your tool bar to one of the layers you don’t use a lot. (Toolbar level #3 or 4 is popular).
•Press ctrl-A to pull up your “Abilities” window
•Select the “Macro” tab
•Press the “New macro Button
•In the box where it says, “Macro Text”, add your movement. For example:
/rotatefurniture left 45
/rotatefurniture left 90
/rotatefurniture left 180
/move forward 10
/move back 10
/move forward 5
/move back 5
/move forward 1
/move back 1
/movefurniture up 10
/movefurniture down 10
/movefurniture up 5
/movefurniture down 5
/movefurniture up 1
/movefurniture down 1
•Name it in the name window.
•Pick an icon and add it to the list.
•Then drag the icon to the tool bar and moving things become much easier by using the customized buttons you just made.
Thunderheart wrote:
neinnunb wrote:
Wow, talk about Deja vu, I thought I was going nuts. Cant we have a new Tuesday tip or this week go to waste?
How about the CTRL-Up Arrow feature? Thats a pretty good tip that gets overlooked a lot.
If you get snagged in a mistell or mis-type something, you can type CTRL-Up Arrow and the chat window will display the last thing you entered. You can actually toggle through 3 or 4 previous commands/entries.
Actually I use this feature all the time, especially when I'm moving furnature around in my house (which requires alot of fine adjustment). This feature is also nice when you're setting up harvesters, where each harvester might have the same name, same amount of maintenance, and same amount of power.
I'd hate to correct a dev though, but you can actualy toggle through alot more than 3 or 4 previous commands, if I remember right it's probably closer to 10-20, maybe more.
*EDIT* oops,this is what I get for not reading everyone else posts before posting, hehe *EDIT*
Message Edited by Thunderbyte on 03-16-2005 09:34 PM
Thunderheart wrote:
Owen-Lars wrote:Actually th you can toggle through about 30-50 commands by using ctrl+up and down.Its a great tip for moving items in your houseActually, for moving items in player structures, I suggest a furniture moving macro. The one I use looks like this:
Move your tool bar to one of the layers you don’t use a lot. (Toolbar level #3 or 4 is popular).
• Press ctrl-A to pull up your “Abilities” window
• Select the “Macro” tab
• Press the “New macro Button
• In the box where it says, “Macro Text”, add your movement. For example:/rotatefurniture left 45
/rotatefurniture left 90
/rotatefurniture left 180
/move forward 10
/move back 10
/move forward 5
/move back 5
/move forward 1
/move back 1
/movefurniture up 10
/movefurniture down 10
/movefurniture up 5
/movefurniture down 5
/movefurniture up 1
/movefurniture down 1• Name it in the name window.
• Pick an icon and add it to the list.
• Then drag the icon to the tool bar and moving things become much easier by using the customized buttons you just made.
My favorite furniture-moving macro ever:
"!"
just an exclamation mark for the macro text. So you can hit that button and it will repeat whatever your last command was. It's useful for furniture, but loads and loads of other things too
• Press ctrl-A to pull up your “Abilities” window • Select the “Macro” tab • Press the “New macro Button • In the box where it says, “Macro Text”, add your movement. For example:
/move forward 256;
/move forward 128;
/move forward 64;
/move forward 32;
/move forward 16;
/move forward 8;
/move forward 4;
/move forward 2;
/move forward 1;
• Name it in the name window. • Pick an icon and add it to the list. • Then drag the icon to the tool bar
Click on an item while facing it & run this macro... Voila
OdiousEncounter wrote:
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My favorite furniture-moving macro ever: "!" just an exclamation mark for the macro text. So you can hit that button and it will repeat whatever your last command was. It's useful for furniture, but loads and loads of other things too
Hm?
LeBob wrote:
OdiousEncounter wrote:[snip]
My favorite furniture-moving macro ever: "!" just an exclamation mark for the macro text. So you can hit that button and it will repeat whatever your last command was. It's useful for furniture, but loads and loads of other things too
Hm?
Clarification:
Typing an exclamation mark will repeat your last command, works the same way that it does in UNIX. This pops up as a tip on the loading screen sometimes. So with this macro I can sort of create macros on the fly. For example:
I type "/move forward 5" once. then each time I hit my repeat button, it will move my furniture forward by 5. Then if I want to start moving it down, I can type "/move down 3", say, and then kep hitting that same button to repeat the motion. I've defined aliases for all my motions (/md, /mu, /mf, /rr, /rl, etc.), so typing them out is pretty quick, and I only have to remember one key to repeat them rather than keeping track of 15 buttons to move things different directions and various amounts. It's also nice because it's very easy to ctrl-up to make minor modifications (change the 3 to a 1 when I'm getting close), and then keep using my repeat key.
I can see this being useful for combat too. Say I have some commands that I don't have enough space for on my toolbar and don't regularly use, but have to switch to in emergency sometimes. I can, for example, type out /unarmedhit2 (better to make an alias) once, and from then on I can just spam my repeat key and it will act as an unarmedhit2 button.
In short, all it does is repeats your last command, and is slightly quicker than typing shift-1, enter. Maybe a bit tough to explain, but give it a try. Main reason I like it is so I don't have to remember dozens of different furniture moving buttons.
You are redeemed TH. Good tip.
Thunderheart wrote:
neinnunb wrote:
Wow, talk about Deja vu, I thought I was going nuts. Cant we have a new Tuesday tip or this week go to waste?
How about the CTRL-Up Arrow feature? Thats a pretty good tip that gets overlooked a lot.
If you get snagged in a mistell or mis-type something, you can type CTRL-Up Arrow and the chat window will display the last thing you entered. You can actually toggle through 3 or 4 previous commands/entries.
/alias harvie /setpermission admin NAME;/setpermission admin NAME;/setpermission admin NAME;/setpermission admin NAME;/setpermission admin NAME;/setpermission admin NAME;/paymaintenance 15200;/addpower 12600;/nameStructure \STRUCTURE NAME;/pause 2;/structurestatus;
Where there is NAME add your persons Name where there is Structure NAME name your structure.
This works on houses too =)