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AitaAxed came about as a more visual solution that doesn't rely on the chat log and React, when fighting specific bosses in Sortie. Someone suggested using React to print out to the log, however I'm either always looking at my party's HP numbers (while on WHM) or at my skillchains add-on (while on DRG).
The idea to put something up in big text so it's front and centre, along with colour-coded text came up, so I gave it a go based on what I've done for my GearSwap luas on different jobs. This was the result.
Shows the current direct elemental weakness and the associated skillchain that should be used. Optionally, you can choose to display the name of the ability used.
When using an ability which causes hands to switch from Thunder to Wind or vice versa, the dialogue box appears on screen.
Just like other Windower add-ons, you need a folder in your Windower4/addons/ directory called "AitaAxed" with the main structure of the compressed archived kept the same.
You should be able to just extract the archive to your addons directory directly.
Note: This hasn't been tested with Ashita. It relies on the Windower API. So if you're trying to run this with Ashita, the results are unknown at this point.
To load AitaAxed, you can add it to your scripts/init.txt after everything else, add it to your plugins list if you're using the plugins add-on, or just type lua l aitaaxed in your Windower terminal (Or //lua l aitaaxed using the in-game chat)
| Setting | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
auto_centre |
Boolean |
true |
Automatically finds the middle of your game window to display the text box. If true, ignores the value set for x_pos. |
duration |
Integer |
10 |
The duration that the dialogue box stays on screen in seconds after the last ability. |
padding |
Integer |
25 |
The space around the text box that has a background. The value applies to top, botton, left, and right. |
show_ability_name |
Boolean |
false |
For Degei & Aita, toggles whether or not the name of the ability used is also shown on screen. |
background: opacity |
Integer |
75 |
The background opacity of the text box. A value of 75 seems to be the same as the default value for EquipViewer. Higher is less transparent |
font: size |
Integer |
50 |
The font size. |
font: use_colours |
Boolean |
true |
When true, the elemental nukes are coloured with the corresponding colour. Stone: yellow, Water: blue, etc. When false, all text is white. |
pos: x |
Integer |
700 |
The x-position of the top left corner of the text box from the left-hand-side of the window. Ignored if auto_centre is set to true. |
pos: y |
Integer |
100 |
The y-position of the top left corner of the text box from the top of the window. |
update_gearswap |
Boolean |
false |
Sends the current enemy's weakness to GearSwap. The weakness value is send to the state: SortieWeakness |
AitaAxedaa- alias, because typing in 'AitaAxed' is tricky at the best of times
| Option | Alias | Description |
|---|---|---|
help |
h |
Shows all available help commands if used by itself with no arguments (aa h) or shows help on a specific command if used with an argument.Example: aa help clear or aa h c will show information on the aa clear command |
clear |
c |
Force clear the screen if the text panel gets stuck on the screen. Example: aa clear |
test |
n/a | Shows a dialogue box on the screen with the text "Hellow World" with the settings from your settings.xml file. If you have colourful text turned on, then "World" will appear in a random colour. Note: This seems to complain if you keep on spamming the command and it stops responding. |
reload |
r |
Reloads the add-on as if you typed lua r AitaAxed.Example: aa r |
unload |
u |
Unloads the add-on as if you types lua u AitaAxed.Example: aa u |
auto_centre (soon) |
ac |
Allows setting the value for auto_centre.Example: aa auto_centre false |
duration (soon) |
d |
Sets the duration value. Example: aa duration 5 |
show_name (soon) |
sn |
Sets the value for show_ability_nameExample: aa sn true |
padding (soon) |
n/a | Sets the value for the padding around the text in the dialogue box. Example: aa padding 30 |
opacity (soon) |
n/a | Sets the value for the background opacity of the dialogue box. Higher is less transparent. Example: aa opacity 80 |
size (soon) |
n/a | Sets the font size. Example: aa s 42 |
colourful (soon) |
c |
Sets the value for use_colours.aa colourful false |
pos x (soon) |
n/a | Sets the x-position value. Example: aa pos x 800 |
pos y (soon) |
n/a | Sets the y-position value. Example: aa pos y 50 |
New with version 0.5 is the ability to update GearSwap (default: false) with the current enemy weakness based on the previous ability. This relies on the enemy to use an ability so that AitaAxed knows what to use. With Leshonn and Gartell this could be quite annoying because it's easy to go a full fight without them ever using an ability which makes them swap hands.
In your GearSwap lua under user_setup() add the following two lines:
state.SortieWeakness = M{['description'] = 'Elemental Weakness'}
state.SortieWeakness:options('Stone', 'Water', 'Fire', 'Aero', 'Blizzard', 'Thunder')Then you could put together a custom command which casts a tier 1 spell based on the value of SortieWeakness so that you can just push one macro or shortcut the whole time.
You should see the state change in your chat log. If you use a UI in-game to track your current states, you could have this displayed here so you can see it or override it.
Example screenshots of the states here: https://github.com/Varout/GearSwapLibs You could even colour-code things like in my SCH UI for the self-skillchains.
When there is a tonne of lag, sometimes it doesn't pick up the TP move. Currently I have no idea how to resolve this or if it is able to be resolved.
Resources used in the making of this add-on.
Sammeh's React add-on was used as a starting point.
GitHub: https://github.com/SammehFFXI
Kaiconure developed the ux/core script.
GitHub: https://github.com/Kaiconure/
GitHub: https://github.com/Windower/Lua/wiki
Copyright is stated in each lua script based on the guidelines set out in the Windower Documentation