How do you make a combo of two emotes in lua in World of Warcraft work?
function Button2_OnClick()
PlaySoundFile("Interface\\Addons\\Fart\\common_fart[1].wav");
DoEmote("moon");
DoEmote("sit");
DoEmote("dance");
DoEmote("beckon");
end
I am using Wow Addon Studio to make a fart application on Wow.
I used this function, and only the sit motion showed, and beckon and moon only showed on the chat window. The dance emote didn't show up anywhere.
Blizzard has explicitly prohibited anything that can be used to make lua wait or pause because it is an essential ingredient to making a gold mining or grinding bot.
There isn't a native (i.e. lua only) way to have lua wait without using all the CPU. Outside of the WOW client, you'd use win.sleep or some other 3rd party API call that calls into the host application or operating systems threading functions.
It may be possible to simulate a wait by having code execute on a frequent event (such as text arriving at the chat window) and then in the event handler checking to see if enough time has passed to permit executing the next command in the sequence. This probably wouldn't be a very accurate timer and it would be rather complex as you'd have to create a data structure to hold the sequence of commands, the timings between each, the current command, etc. and so on.
This may be an intentional limitation of the API to prevent in game automation (botting).
What has worked for me is to have a global variable that is incremented through the loop. Such as
Integer count = 0;
function Button2_OnClick()
i++
switch
case(1)
PlaySoundFile("Interface\\Addons\\Fart\\common_fart[1].wav");
case(2)
DoEmote("moon");
case(3)
DoEmote("sit");
case(4)
DoEmote("dance");
case(5)
DoEmote("beckon");
default
i=0;
end
end
What you would have to do then is to click the button multiple times, but you would get the effect you're going for.
I would suggest you wait some time before doing the next emote. As far as I know, the server disconnects you if you spam too much. This might just trigger it sometimes.
Besides that, I guess maybe the client has a way of preventing it? In either case, I would suggest you add some sort of fraction-of-a-second delay between the emotes.
Cheers,
Amit Ron
Could it be that the last two can't be done while sitting?
infact, integer i = 0, because defining integer 'count' and then using i is incorrect. :)
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I'm in a pickle. (not literally, of course)
I had a ship game, which used Proximity Prompts to enter the docks. This worked well enough. However, that was for a click to move system, and now I'm attempting to make a direct control system (e.g. you press WASD to move your ship instead of clicking a point on the ocean), and as such, there is no character in the game, and have done everything else without a character.
In short: They don't work now and I have no clue why.
The script is near enough the exact same on both games (The original game's script has a lot more other functions in it, but nothing that would affect this), and so is the configuration of the Proximity Prompt. But I don't see how it could be to do with the lack of a player Character, and if it is, how do I edit the default code for it, to work without one? (I had a look, but couldn't find anything useful) As it doesn't seem like it will have direct dependence on the character, as any animations or custom behaviour would have to be done connecting to the ProximityPromptService/Prompt itself to add those via the events.
This is literally the whole server-side script I have for it.
local proximitypromptservice = game:GetService("ProximityPromptService")
local function get_player_data (player)
... --Unrelated, it's just a function to get player data, no issues here.
end
proximitypromptservice.PromptTriggered:Connect(function(promptobject,player)
print("Prompt TRIGGERED") --Not seen in the log when the Prompt is pressed.
if promptobject.Name == "DockControl" then
print("DOCKCONTROL")
if player.IsLoading.Value == false then
game.ReplicatedStorage.Dock.AccessDock:Fire(player,...)
end
end
end)
It's probably worth noting that when you press the key, e.g. E, it does the hold Duration animation and then disappears, and reappears as you'd normally expect. Creating a custom docking system is not out of the question, but I would really really prefer not to create an overcomplicated, clunky system for something that should work out of the box.
Any help would be appreciated,
The Frog.
PS: Also tried this on both local and server scripts as a child of the prompt to no avail.
script.Parent.Triggered:Connect(function()
print("TRIGGERED")
end)
I am new to roblox scripting, and I am working on a game. I am trying to make an exploration game with multiple planets. I want the colors on the surfaces of the planets to vary, but I also wish to use smooth terrain, as it is easier to use and looks nice. from reading a bit online, i have figured out i need to use "GetMaterialColor" or "SetMaterialColor". however, "SetMaterialColor", the one i needed specifically, requires two bits of information- the material and the color.
The issue comes from the "Material" part of this, as I have no idea how to make the script recognize what material I want to change. i tried multiple things, including but not limited to:
(grass, #,#,#)
(grass) (#,#,#)
("Grass"), (#,#,#)
("Grass", #,#,#)
or even just (#,#,#), without trying to get a specific material at all
so yeah, I need some help
here is the code:
local function onTouch(hit)
game.Workspace.Terrain:SetMaterialColor
end
script.Parent.Touched:connect(onTouch)
(there should be stuff after SetMaterialColor, that is what i need help with)
If you read the documentation on Terrain:SetMaterialColor(), you'll see that the first argument is a Material type, which is an Enum. So the method expects an Enum (or number to be more accurate), not a string denoting the material.
At the same time the second argument is a Color3, so (#,#,#) isn't apt, using it with the constructor Color3.fromRGB(#,#,#) is. If you are ever confused about what a method returns or expects, try referring to its documentation on https://developer.roblox.com/.
Here's an example of correct usage:
workspace.Terrain:SetMaterialColor(Enum.Material.Grass, Color3.fromRGB(123,123,123))
And ofcourse, Event:Connect() instead of Event:connect()
I want to execute a method when one of my wibox.widget.textbox widgets is clicked, and according to the documentation I should use the button::press signal.
However I didn't find anything about these signals, I can't even figure if it is a native lua thing of if they are tied with AwesomeWM.
Thus, I don't know how to implement them.
Any help would be appreciated. (Please note that I have barely no knowledge in lua).
Sample code:
mywidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
mywidget:set_align("right")
-- I want to execute awful.util.spawn_with_shell("pavucontrol") if the widget is clicked
Probably something like this. The button::press signal needs a callback which is called with the parameters listed in the docs you linked. Untested:
local box = wibox.widget.textbox(...)
local box_pressed = function(lx, ly, button, mods, find_widgets_result)
// some code ...
end
box:connect_signal("button::press", box_pressed)
I just want to know how to find/create a function to list all crontables already scheduled in NodeMCU.
(http://nodemcu.readthedocs.io/en/dev/en/modules/cron/)
Thanks.
That feature is currently not available. There's a discussion about that at https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware/issues/1751.
Solved on github by https://github.com/djphoenix
>>>>>
Hi there.
So, there is some issues with it.
Now, schedule string description (like 0 1 * * *) is being parsed once you call :schedule method, and stored in packed bitmask format. There is difficult thing to process it back to string.
So list of entries without something that describing them is totally unusable (correct me if I wrong).
As module initiator and maintainer I prefer to keep it simple as possible, but if we can make it better - this is good :)
I've been poring over this subject for the past 12 hours, and I simply cannot seem to get anywhere. I do not even know if this is possible, but I'm hoping it is because it would go a long way to continuing my project.
What I am attempting to do is create coroutines so the particular program I use does not freeze up due to its inability to perform asynchronous http requests. I've figured out how to do that part, even though my understanding of coroutines is still in the "Huh? How does that work?" phase. My issue now is being able to respond to multiple requests with the correct information. For instance, the following should produce three separate responses:
foo(a)
foo(b)
foo(c)
where foo initiates a coroutine with the parameters inside. If all requested separately, then it returns the proper results. However, if requested as a block, it will only return foo(c)'s result. Now, I understand the reasoning behind this, but I cannot find a way to make it return all three results when requested as a block. To help understand this problem a bit, here's the actual code:
function background_weather()
local loc = url.escape(querystring)
weatherpage = http.request("http://api.wunderground.com/api/004678614f27ceae/conditions/q/" .. loc .. ".json")
wresults = json.decode(weatherpage)
--process some stuff here, mainly datamining
end
--send datamined information as a response
coroutine.yield()
end
And the creation of the coroutine:
function getweather ()
-- see if backgrounder running
if background_task == nil or
coroutine.status (background_task) == "dead" then
-- not running, create it
background_task = coroutine.create (background_weather)
-- make timer to keep it going
AddTimer ("tickler", 0, 0, 1, "",
timer_flag.Enabled + timer_flag.Replace,
"tickle_it")
end -- if
end -- function
The querystring variable is set with the initial request. I didn't include it here, but for the sake of testing, use 12345 as the querystring variable. The timer is something that the original author of the script initialized to check if the coroutine was still running or not, poking the background every second until done. To be honest, I'm not even sure if I've done this correctly, though it seems to run asynchronously in the program.
So, is it possible to receive multiple requests in one block and return multiple responses, correctly? Or is this far too much a task for Lua to handle?
Coroutines don't work like that. They are, in fact, blocking.
The problem coroutines resolve is "I want to have a function I can execute for a while, then go back to do other thing, and then come back and have the same state I had when I left it".
Notice that I didn't say "I want it to keep running while I do other things"; the flow of code "stops" on the coroutine, and only continues on it when you go back to it.
Using coroutines you can modify (and in some cases facilitate) how the code behaves, to make it more evident or legible. But it is still strictly single-threaded.
Remember that what Lua implements must be specified by C99. Since this standard doesn't come with a thread implementation, Lua is strictly single-threaded by default. If you want multi-threading, you need to hook it to an external lib. For example, luvit hooks Luajit with the libuv lib to achieve this.
A couple good references:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/CoroutinesTutorial
http://lua-users.org/wiki/ThreadsTutorial
http://lua-users.org/wiki/MultiTasking
http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/askok/bin/lanes/comparison.html
Chapter 9.4 of Programming in Lua contains a fairly good example of how to deal with this exact problem, using coroutines and LuaSocket's socket.select() function to prevent busylooping.
Unfortunately I don't believe there's any way to use the socket.http functions with socket.select; the code in the PiL example is often all you'll need, but it doesn't handle some fairly common cases such as the requested URL sending a redirect.