06-28-2007, 10:44 PM
As I was attempting to set up some skits involving my mastermind, her robots, and a (unfortunately imaginary) block of Muenster cheese, it occurred to me that I was wasting a lot of time.
Writing the script? Easy! (Possibly not funny, but easy). Getting it into CoH? Er.. not so much.
I got to thinking. As anyone can attest, this is a bad thing. After a bit of doodling on scrap paper, I realized that a utility could be written that does not (as far as I can tell) violate the EULA, but which automates much of the headache in creating bind chains, and would allow you to create virtually unlimited chains. You can do that already, of course, but that takes work, and it's easy for me at least to mess up.
My thought is a simple app that maintains 'scripts' for your characters. A script is nothing more than a series of slash commands -- talking, using powers, whatever you can currently do by typing it in the window -- laid out in organized fashion. For example:
1: powexec_name recall friend$$local Minion, don't try to run from me!2: petsay minion "em batsmashreact"
In game, these two commands would, via bind chains, use only one key. Press it the first time, you Recall Friend on your targeted minion and say "Minion, don't try to run from me!". Click where you want the poor sap to appear, then hit the key again, and this time your poor underling cowers in fear as he magically appears where you clicked.
(Okay, lame example, but you get my point.)
All the housekeeping of setting up the files needed to make bind chains work would be done by the utility. Select a character, select a 'script', and presto! you're set as far as CoH is concerned. (Okay, so, you need to 'set up' CoH to point at the first file in the set, but a copy-and-paste line could be provided for that).
It may be that my Google-fu is weak, but I haven't found any mention of such an app yet. Is this something worth pursuing? I don't mean from a financial standpoint, obviously. Would anyone besides my admittedly-geeky self find use for such a beast?
(For the record: yes, I could build such a thing, and may do so regardless of what anyone here says, but I'm wondering if anyone else would get enjoyment out of it![[Image: smile.gif]](http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif)
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--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
Writing the script? Easy! (Possibly not funny, but easy). Getting it into CoH? Er.. not so much.
I got to thinking. As anyone can attest, this is a bad thing. After a bit of doodling on scrap paper, I realized that a utility could be written that does not (as far as I can tell) violate the EULA, but which automates much of the headache in creating bind chains, and would allow you to create virtually unlimited chains. You can do that already, of course, but that takes work, and it's easy for me at least to mess up.
My thought is a simple app that maintains 'scripts' for your characters. A script is nothing more than a series of slash commands -- talking, using powers, whatever you can currently do by typing it in the window -- laid out in organized fashion. For example:
1: powexec_name recall friend$$local Minion, don't try to run from me!2: petsay minion "em batsmashreact"
In game, these two commands would, via bind chains, use only one key. Press it the first time, you Recall Friend on your targeted minion and say "Minion, don't try to run from me!". Click where you want the poor sap to appear, then hit the key again, and this time your poor underling cowers in fear as he magically appears where you clicked.
(Okay, lame example, but you get my point.)
All the housekeeping of setting up the files needed to make bind chains work would be done by the utility. Select a character, select a 'script', and presto! you're set as far as CoH is concerned. (Okay, so, you need to 'set up' CoH to point at the first file in the set, but a copy-and-paste line could be provided for that).
It may be that my Google-fu is weak, but I haven't found any mention of such an app yet. Is this something worth pursuing? I don't mean from a financial standpoint, obviously. Would anyone besides my admittedly-geeky self find use for such a beast?
(For the record: yes, I could build such a thing, and may do so regardless of what anyone here says, but I'm wondering if anyone else would get enjoyment out of it
)--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs