Target commands for raid groups
 

I am trying to figure out how to target specific people in a raid. Example would be target member 2 in raid group 3. I only know of the target_group_member # (where # is 0-5) for groups but not know of one for a raid.

Is this possible? I plan to use this to alter the way the raid menu works so that if you click a player name more than once you don't get their pet. I tend to "spam" click a raid window to get a player on target but if they have any pet at all I get that. I want to do what I did with my group menu and change it so I target_none then target the player.... this should also allow me to click to heal/ward/reactive properly as well to.

I don't know of any command that will target people in other groups in a raid. Type /target then hit the tab in game and see what all commands it list. Maybe there is one.

/target <playername> is what I use, there may be others

I guess I could do that by stuffing the player name into a var and then perform the "target_none; target VAR" on the button object when clicked/pushed.

Me, I just click on their name in the Raid Window. Remembur, playeen EeeKyewToo impruvs yor tiepeen skilz and maykz yew seam mowr smartur :)

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I can click the person just fine really but clicking on them twice causes me to get their pet if they have one.

I just wanted a more precise way to make sure I got the player and not his pet no matter how much lag I was getting. I want to do the same what the click to cure works UI mod I use.

Unfortunately my method of stuffing the name into a var then targetPC Name didn't work.

Hmm...

Generally for raiding, I have a macro where I just have /target <Main Tank's Name>

I edit it for each raid (and for each group, sometimes). If theres a particular need for me to target / heal someone else (I'm a healer... if I was DPS I would use the MA's name) I just make a second version of the macro and put it on my "raiding" hotbar (its a hotbar I only open up during raids -- containing whatever additional raiding macros I need -- be it calls to go in/out for jousting, or extra target macros like I've mentioned).

I don't think theres gamedata for the raid window, I think it's hard-coded (which sucks... correct me if im wrong, I didn't see it in eq2ui_gamedata.xml). If there was gamedata for each person, you could create a button with

"target " ## <Gamedata path to playername>

as the OnPress event (or add a second line to cure, if you want to get more technical).

Yeah, I wanted to do what I do on my group menu with the raid menu... sorta like this:

OnPress="
target_none
target_group_member 0
useability Putrid Balm"

That keeps me from ever targeting the players pet by double clicking their "quick heal" button I have on the group menu.

There is no DynamicData for the raid membes, but you should still be able to grab their names from the raid window so that will not be a problem. Since quite some people like to name their pets after themselves to easier see their total dps in a parser targeting by name is not perfect either, however.

I have been trying to use the following on a button OnPress in the raid menu:
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Parent.WardButton.sPlayerName=Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Target.v 0.Name.LocalText
target_none
target Parent.WardButton.sPlayerName
useability Malignant Shroud
---------------------

The problem is that when I press the button it will say no target avaliable even if the target is there. It's like it's trying to cast the spell before the target command is given.

If I remove the target_none if you click the button twice you will get the person's pet if they have one. I am trying to avoid that... I used similar commands in the group UI and it works fine... well I use target_group_member there however.

Any suggestions on how to resolve this?

This is what I came up with for the 3.x line of ProfitUI to effectively prevent pets from being targeted:

OnHoverIn="target_allow_pet_member_toggle 0" OnHoverOut="target_allow_pet_member_toggle 1" OnPress="useability Cure Trauma
target_previous"

To cure yourself use the command target_allow_self_pet_toggle instead.

Anyone feel free to use that code. :)

Oh very tricky you =)

I didn't even know those commands existed, very nicely done =)

I was looking at a click to cure group window, and was inserting the target_previous command that it didn't have, when I wondered:

You can "/useability Cure Arcane target=nameofcharacter" can't you?
Would it be possible to get the groupmember's name from some sort of dynamicdata and issue an onpress command that wouldn't switch target at all during the casting like this:
(excuse my awful hamfisted stab at an example)

OnPress="useability Cure Arcane target=groupmember1'scharactername"

If so, what would be the correct syntax?
And would there be any drawbacks (with the pet thing for example?)

Cheers!