Ranged autoattack progressbar
 

I'm trying to make a bar that shows how much time is left until the next ranged autoattack is ready (very handy for a ranger). I only started looking at this UI stuff last night, so I know I need to play with it more. That said, I'm hoping some people can point me in the right direction.

First Issue:
There appears to be no dynamicdata for weapon delay, so I'll need to make an equation for it using haste. However, /gamedata.stats.haste shows the haste mod, not the actual haste which differs from the haste mod by the diminishing returns curve. Is there a way to retrieve the actual haste or will I have to try and approximate it somehow?

Second Issue:
How do I implement an equation? Right now the only example of a progressbar I've found is the bar for your breath while underwater. It seems the amount of the bar filled is based on one property:

DynamicData /GameData.Self.Breath

For the sake of experimenting to implement an equation, I tried to change the value to: "2 * /GameData.Self.Breath" (quotes only added here for clarity). But when I hit enter it changes back to the default value, apparently because an equation can't be used here. So how would I do this? Can I make a variable and assign it determine the progress of the bar? Something like:

Variable Wepdelay
Wepdelay = 9.0 * 1 / (1 + /GameData.Stats.Haste)
Barprogress wepdelay

Third Issue:
Just realized that I may need some sort of timer function to count down the delay. Is there a way to do this?

Any input is appreciated. I'm hoping I can do this through the UI. Otherwise I might have to make my own parse program to do this, which I probably won't attempt, lol.

I don't think this is possible to make with a UI mod.

Do you use the ACT parser? There's a triggered timer (for timing raid AOEs and what not) in ACT and that just reads your log file so I think that would be your best bet.

Yes I do use ACT, but that won't be able to monitor haste, which varies a lot due to temp abilties, self procs, and group buff procs.

Is this definately not possible? What part(s) of it makes it not possible? I think you're probably right, but I would like confirmation before I explore other ideas.

There's no DynamicData for the autoattack delay, and there's no timer function. So there's no way to do it.

Ah, now I know how you guys feel everytime you get a good idea, lol.

Well, if you're using a 7 second longbow, your delay will be between 3.11s (125% haste) and 7s (0% haste) so it can at least tell you that.

Do any of your CAs or spells take longer than a second or two to cast? At the most, your next ranged autoattack will be postponed by maybe a second or so.

I was just thinking that you could trigger a sound in ACT for each arrow-- plink, plink, plink so you could get into a rhythm from the sound.

Yeah, as much as 2.5sec for some attacks, plus some of them require you to go into stealth first. But what I actually wanted it for is for me to determine how many melee CAs I can get off before I need to turn my ranged autoattack back on.

The best bows have a 9sec delay. With different haste from group buffs, ring procs, temporary abilities I use every min, plus group procs like Berserk, that delay is continually changing. Dps would be improved quite a bit if you could squeeze in a few more CAs each time without missing autoattacks.

ACT wouldn't really help other than to be an approximate reminder, but I did try this today just to test it. It turns out ACT's spell timers window only works for spells, not autoattack, so that's no good.

I tried making a progress bar to indicate haste, so I can mentally approximate my bow delay, but this doesn't seem to work. I guess I'll just make a text display. If I ever want to spend the time, I could try and make a java program to do the /weaponstats command after each autoattack and extract the delay from that.

If you really get this thing to work, you would make many Rangers, incl me, very, very happy. So keep on trying.:nana:

I don't know much of these things (actually nothing;) ) but couldn't you use this "/weapon"-command in any way?


Just ignore, if this is complete nonsens :D

using ACT for this was mentioned earlier. unfortunately this has come up on the ACT boards as well where the dev made clear, that ACT _cannot_ assure it parses real-time because on a raid eq2 generates lots of log-lines per second so, you could get the sound at instance or maybe 1 or 2 secs later which is definitly out of question for the thing youd want it for.

they also discussed the problem, that your autoattack shows up as X piercing/slashing(whatever ammo you use) damage. but this could also be you doing melee as the logline _does not include the weapon inflicting the damage_

The only thing you could do via the interface is to manually calculate and configure the delay in a custom window that uses this number to show a progress bar or a notification or something like that. Hardly useful though since it cannot take into account CA's that delay autoattacks.