[Request] Continuation of Rais_AutoShot

[Cruzix 6]

Rais_AutoShot is a ranged auto shot timer addon that was extremely popular on Nostalrius for Hunters.

Here's a visual of the addon:

White bar is the "cooldown" time of your auto shot

Red bar is the cast time of your auto shot

Addon link = https://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=12765 and https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B75aoVK8Zp_8a0NIZHhnY3JiTHM

 

There's a few issues with this addon that I'd like to get fixed. These are:

1. Hunter T2 set proc (Expose Weakness) would reset the attack bar. (Theres some talk about it here but I dont know if this is the correct way of fixing it or if its just a silly work around  https://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=12765&start=40#p219758 )

2. Using the troll racial ability "Berserking" while auto attacking would cause an error (Theres a quick fix for this here https://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=12765&start=50#p221195 but this "fix" is super annoying because it just sets Berserking to a static 10% attack speed increase rather than a 10-30% increase)

3. Option to disable Aimed Shot cast timer ingame

4. Option to change height/width/position ingame

5. General optimization since this addon pretty much got released in beta stage and never got updated because the author didnt have the time anymore

The most important fixes would be 1 and 2 though.

Would be much appreciated if someone could continue working on this addon

Edited January 4, 2017 by Cruzix

[euron 1]

And just as an addition:

 

You can make the aimed shot castbar display properly in combination with Rais and whatever castbar addon you like by:

 

-Disabling Rais aimed shot castbar

-Enabling aimed shot in Shunter timers.

 

 

Aka if you want to use Rais for auto-shot timers, and your custom castbar addon like ocB to display Aimed Shot.

Edited December 12, 2016 by euron

[Zappa 7]

 

-Disabling Rais aimed shot castbar

-Enabling aimed shot in Shunter timers.

 

Aimed Shot does not work for me properly at least on RetroWoW. 

It shows up on OCB only the first time i fire it.

[Sparkles 0]

Works fine on retrowow, if you remember Shunter timers (: Atleast it works for me.

[Overtime 6]

4. You can kind of change it in-game. Just open it in notepad++ and change the numbers and /reloadui to see effect.

[Zappa 7]

Works fine on retrowow, if you remember Shunter timers (: Atleast it works for me.

 

I set aimed shot in rais lua to false and aimed shot is active in shunter times. 

OCB only shows first aimed shot. Any idea?

[Sparkles 0]

I set aimed shot in rais lua to false and aimed shot is active in shunter times. 

OCB only shows first aimed shot. Any idea?

 

I'll check my LUA when I get home, but I'm pretty sure thats how I got it set up.

 

Yep, rais set to false, plus aimed shot active in shunter timers. I use OCB too. Might be another addon conflicting. I dont think it should be an issue, but maybe it's bugging with either luna's castbar, or maybe your nameplate?

 

Just went online and tested, my bar works fine.

Edited December 13, 2016 by Sparkles

[Cruzix 6]

4. You can kind of change it in-game. Just open it in notepad++ and change the numbers and /reloadui to see effect.

By changing it ingame I mean by ingame commands. Such as "/rais height 20" as an example. I know you can change it in the files, you can change anything in the files if you wish to and know how to.

Edited December 13, 2016 by Cruzix

[Cruzix 6]

Aimed Shot does not work for me properly at least on RetroWoW. 

It shows up on OCB only the first time i fire it.

It works fine for me on retroWoW

[Zappa 7]

I created a test environment with only Rais, SHT (Version 1.6.11) and OCB (Version 3.3.3) enabled. No other addon.

 

Same issue.

 

First aimed is displayed in OCB then it´s gone.

 

Luna´s (if enabled) aimed shot castbar works properly all the time. So strange...

Edited December 13, 2016 by Zappa

[Rhena 30]

Not trying to be disrespectful but I am surprised RAIS even works after looking at its code.

[Zappa 7]

Ah Rhena good to have you here.

 

There would be a solution for the problem with aimed shot.

 

If you could attach the possibility to detach, move and resize the character casting bar in Luna to be

 

positioned on the screen as a castbar in itself. 

 

Or a mirror (second castbar) of the character portrait castbar which can be enabled and positioned as we want it.

 

It seems your luna castbar is the only castbar that works perfectly with aimed shot ( after your last update   ).

 

Deepest respect for your work bro!

Edited December 13, 2016 by Zappa

[Cruzix 6]

Not trying to be disrespectful but I am surprised RAIS even works after looking at its code.

Yeah its probably not very pretty I can imagine, considering this addon was just made for a temporarily work around because SHunterTimers werent (and probably still isnt) working on Nostalrius for whatever reason.

rais_AutoShot's way of showing cast time/auto shot CD is however far better than any of the other addons though which is why I and many other Hunters prefer Rais even if the other addons would be working

 

Edit: 

That said, I wouldnt mind if someone could make a complete rewrite of the addon instead, using the same type of visual presentation as rais_autoshot (or close to) since its really nice. But I just assumed that would require a whole lot more work

Edited December 13, 2016 by Cruzix

[Sparkles 0]

Yeah, a little ironic if it's badly coded, yet every hunter on Nost uses it. Heh

[Cruzix 6]

Yeah, a little ironic if it's badly coded, yet every hunter on Nost uses it. Heh

We use it because the visual presentation is amazing unlike every other alternative. It was also the only auto attack timer on Nostalrius that worked, so its not ironic at all.

[Rhena 30]

I have used RAIS myself when i played my hunter for the half of Nost. Its really functional and it works.

 

But i might look into making a standalone castbar (& castbar for your current target) thats highly configurable. However no promises and if i do make it it will take some time so not before new years.

[Cruzix 6]

I have used RAIS myself when i played my hunter for the half of Nost. Its really functional and it works.

 

But i might look into making a standalone castbar (& castbar for your current target) thats highly configurable. However no promises and if i do make it it will take some time so not before new years.

That would be amazing, I know you're very capable of making great addons judging from your work on LUF and Healcomm etc. so I really hope that you will do this sometime!

[Zappa 7]

Dude this is great news!

 

LunaCastBars incoming !!!

 

[Sparkles 0]

Rhena, you would be a god among huntards. 

[Overtime 6]

On 13.12.2016 at 11:50 PM, Rhena said:

I have used RAIS myself when i played my hunter for the half of Nost. Its really functional and it works.

 

But i might look into making a standalone castbar (& castbar for your current target) thats highly configurable. However no promises and if i do make it it will take some time so not before new years.

Sounds good.

[yada 1]

I use Attack bar, sHunter and ocb (with luna cast bar off). Works fine with aimed shot. I find the disparity between auto timer and auto shot the same as the time of the red display of Rais so i'm not sure of the difference. Unless i'm missing something?

[Cruzix 6]

1 hour ago, yada said:

I find the disparity between auto timer and auto shot the same as the time of the red display of Rais so i'm not sure of the difference.

Not sure I understand what you mean.

[yada 1]

49 minutes ago, Cruzix said:

Not sure I understand what you mean.

The red display of Rais is the release time of auto shot?

With abar, the release of auto shot can/will happen at the bar end. Therefore, the disparity between the bar length (of abar), and your swing timer is the release time of auto shot (the red display of Rais).

Granted, Rais is more accurate, but personally i only use swing timers as a reference and try not to look at them too much. Which is the reason i discontinued using Rais as i found it taking too much of my attention and therefore it became distracting to me.

[Cruzix 6]

3 minutes ago, yada said:

The red display of Rais is the release time of auto shot?

With abar, the release of auto shot can/will happen at the bar end. Therefore, the disparity between the bar length (of abar), and your swing timer is the release time of auto shot (the red display of Rais).

Granted, Rais is more accurate, but personally i only use swing timers as a reference and try not to look at them too much. Which is the reason i discontinued using Rais as i found it taking too much of my attention and therefore it became distracting to me.

I feel the complete opposite, especially since Rais has different colors depending on the situation which makes it a lot easier to catch while not looking at it all the time. And the fact that Rais is more accurate due to showing when to weave in your abilities and/or being able to move without losing DPS (When the bar is white) and when to stand still and let your auto shot go off (red bar) makes this addon a lot better than any other alternatives right now imo. 

But yeah its personal preference and you should just use whatever you like the most, thats not what the topic is about anyways.

[generalsauce 0]

Link?