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[Krazyito 521]

How can I get the distance between me and my healers? Example: https://youtu.be/Vx6ipbVOWvY?t=1m54s

 

I can make you something specific for your healers, but you would have to hard code the names of the people you want in.  I don't think I could make it generic enough.

[Krazyito 521]

How can I get the distance between me and my healers? Example: https://youtu.be/Vx6ipbVOWvY?t=1m54s

 

http://pastebin.com/xsZvf4ts

 

Here you go.  Edit the 'Display' custom code and put the names of the people you want to track distance to.

[Guest]

 

How can I get the distance between me and my healers? Example: https://youtu.be/Vx6ipbVOWvY?t=1m54s

 

http://pastebin.com/xsZvf4ts

 

Here you go.  Edit the 'Display' custom code and put the names of the people you want to track distance to.

 

This is great! Is it possible to displayed rounded values (45 instead of 45.21 for example) and possibly change color when the value is greater than a certain number such as 40 yards? Thank you for your help!

[Krazyito 521]

Yes. Give me specific options to start, then I'll try to make it generic enough for you to change as you wish.

It's 3am for me atm, I'll try tommorw or Monday.

[Serafim1991 0]

Think, normal options will be:

1. Green when range <40

2. Red when range >40

 

I have a question about added third and fourth healer:

in Display I added only third healer like this

function()

-- Change name of healer you want to track here.
if aura_env.HealerOne == nil or aura_env.HealerTwo == nil or aura_env.HealerThree == nil then
  aura_env.HealerOne = "Хорошаяидея"
  aura_env.HealerTwo = "Квистя"
  aura_env.HealerThree = "Круська"
end

   local healer1dist = aura_env.DistanceBetweenUnits("player", aura_env.HealerOne)
   local healer2dist = aura_env.DistanceBetweenUnits("player", aura_env.HealerTwo)
   local healer3dist = aura_env.DistanceBetweenUnits("player", aura_env.HealerThree)

   if healer1dist == nil then healer1dist = 0 end
   if healer2dist == nil then healer2dist = 0 end
   if healer3dist == nil then healer3dist = 0 end


local returnString = string.format("%s: %.1f\n%s: %.1f\n%s: %.1f", aura_env.HealerOne, healer1dist, aura_env.HealerTwo, healer2dist, aura_env.HealerThree, healer3dist)

return returnString
end 

 

and in Actions

 

aura_env.DistanceBetweenUnits = function(unitA, unitB, unitC)
unitA = unitA or 'player'
unitB = unitB or 'player'
unitC = unitC or 'player'
local ax, ay = UnitPosition(unitA)
local bx, by = UnitPosition(unitB)
local cx, cy = UnitPosition(unitC)
if ax and bx and cx then
local dx = ax - bx
local dy = ay - by
return (dx * dx + dy * dy) ^ 0.5
end
return nil
end 

 

All code I added - red color

Try on random group in garrison - seems working, but i'm not sure about Actions section. Can you tell me where i make a mistake?

[Krazyito 521]

Think, normal options will be:

1. Green when range <40

2. Red when range >40

 

I have a question about added third and fourth healer:

in Display I added only third healer like this

function()

-- Change name of healer you want to track here.

if aura_env.HealerOne == nil or aura_env.HealerTwo == nil or aura_env.HealerThree == nil then

  aura_env.HealerOne = "Хорошаяидея"

  aura_env.HealerTwo = "Квистя"

  aura_env.HealerThree = "Круська"

end

   local healer1dist = aura_env.DistanceBetweenUnits("player", aura_env.HealerOne)

   local healer2dist = aura_env.DistanceBetweenUnits("player", aura_env.HealerTwo)

   local healer3dist = aura_env.DistanceBetweenUnits("player", aura_env.HealerThree)

   if healer1dist == nil then healer1dist = 0 end

   if healer2dist == nil then healer2dist = 0 end

   if healer3dist == nil then healer3dist = 0 end

local returnString = string.format("%s: %.1f\n%s: %.1f\n%s: %.1f", aura_env.HealerOne, healer1dist, aura_env.HealerTwo, healer2dist, aura_env.HealerThree, healer3dist)

return returnString

end 

 

and in Actions

 

aura_env.DistanceBetweenUnits = function(unitA, unitB, unitC)

unitA = unitA or 'player'

unitB = unitB or 'player'

unitC = unitC or 'player'

local ax, ay = UnitPosition(unitA)

local bx, by = UnitPosition(unitB)

local cx, cy = UnitPosition(unitC)

if ax and bx and cx then

local dx = ax - bx

local dy = ay - by

return (dx * dx + dy * dy) ^ 0.5

end

return nil

end 

 

All code I added - red color

Try on random group in garrison - seems working, but i'm not sure about Actions section. Can you tell me where i make a mistake?

 

 

Do not edit actions.

[Krazyito 521]

 

 

How can I get the distance between me and my healers? Example: https://youtu.be/Vx6ipbVOWvY?t=1m54s

 

http://pastebin.com/xsZvf4ts

 

Here you go.  Edit the 'Display' custom code and put the names of the people you want to track distance to.

 

This is great! Is it possible to displayed rounded values (45 instead of 45.21 for example) and possibly change color when the value is greater than a certain number such as 40 yards? Thank you for your help!

 

 

Updated the original pastebin link. http://pastebin.com/xsZvf4ts

 

Right now it only turns from white to red when greater than 40, if you want something more specific let me know.

[Krazyito 521]

Ok I re did the aura a little i found i had a bug in the new one I made and decided to add support to EASILY add new people that you want to track.  Same pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/xsZvf4ts

 

Old code.  Updating it to be a loop of a table instead so oyu can add as many people as you want.

 

New code:

[Guest]

Ok I re did the aura a little i found i had a bug in the new one I made and decided to add support to EASILY add new people that you want to track.  Same pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/xsZvf4ts

 

Old code.  Updating it to be a loop of a table instead so oyu can add as many people as you want.

 

New code:

Just got home to test this out and it works perfectly!! Thank you so much!

[Serafim1991 0]

Krazyito, what about Gorefiend's Grasp announcement in chat?

[Krazyito 521]

Krazyito, what about Gorefiend's Grasp announcement in chat?

http://pastebin.com/qDvFC7YJ

[Pandacho 286]

I added a line to your Healers range WA, Krazyito, that colors distance number in green if it's < 40 yards. Many times you just check in (green) / out (red) of range rather than exact numbers.

 

 --Coloring

        if minRedColor ~= 0 then -- If it is NOT 0, then color.

            if dist >= minRedColor then --If the distance is less than the minimum

                dist = string.format("%d", dist)  --Rounding to non decimal and convert to string

                dist = "|cFFFF0000"..dist.."|r" --Color the number

            else

                dist = string.format("%d", dist)  --Rounding to non decimal and convert to string

                dist = "|cFF00FF00"..dist.."|r" --Color the number if distance is less than 40 y

            end

        else

            dist = string.format("%d", dist)  --Rounding to non decimal and convert to string

        end 

[Sambal 0]

http://pastebin.com/38PhVCxA

 

Here you go.  Basically, we needed to add a custom duration to the aura to account for the GCD and also test against the spell ID of the GCD.

 

I got most of the code from a friend who already did it for me, so I'm not ENTIRELY sure how it works, i just know it does now.

Thank you! This did work. Sorry I didn't get back to this thread until now, been kind of busy.

 

Yeah it's confusing I would be curious if anybody could explain if it is an inconsistency in Blizzard's programming or if it's working as intended.

Edited October 27, 2015 by Sambal

[Serafim1991 0]

How to learn how to write a functions for weakauras? Uncomfortable have to ask other people to do something for me. In what direction I must go(manuals, guides, etc.)?

And second:  is it possible to choose only healers  with this function for this weakauras. Have a thought that is not haunted, is it possible to automatically choose healers in random raid and show the distance to them?

[Krazyito 521]

I would say it's working as intended, kinda. It's probably more a weak auras problem than a blizzard one, in the sense that weak auras wouldn't have expected to have to account for the global cooldown of a spell as its 'cooldown' (let alone one on its own seperate GCD).

The reason I say this is because they way we finally got it to work, we had to check the spell heroic strike against the 'cooldown' of the spellid for the GCD (if this makes sense).

But that doesn't really make weak auras actually do the animation, we technically coded the 'duration' of the GCD ourselves (using its spellid).

TL;DR: I don't think it's a 'bug' per se, more of a small feature overlooked by weak auras.

[Krazyito 521]

How to learn how to write a functions for weakauras? Uncomfortable have to ask other people to do something for me. In what direction I must go(manuals, guides, etc.)?

And second: is it possible to choose only healers with this function for this weakauras. Have a thought that is not haunted, is it possible to automatically choose healers in random raid and show the distance to them?

The problem with that function is that they have to be set as a healer in the raid frames / raid group. So they can be wrong sometimes.

But Yea, assuming it's correct you can incorporate that.

[Krazyito 521]

Sorry, I'm not home and it's hard for me to write full answers on my phone.

Basically, if you have some basic programming experience, I would be glad to show you a few things privately over Skype. I'd you don't have any experience, I could still help but it would be much slower. My Skype is in my profile if you want to take that up, but be warned, you're still going to be asking for help for a while, I still learn new techniques when reading other peoples code.

You could also learn some basic programming using the Python class on Code Academy. It can get you the basics on a scripting language like Lua, (though they are not the same language and you would have to learn the seperate quirks, which is easy with Google searches)

[Serafim1991 0]

I really feeling quite uncomfortable and  don't really want to bother you with questions on Skype(know myself - it will be a lot of small and stupid question), so continue writting on the forum. If you want (or if you can) - you can help me. 

 

So, about UnitGroupRoleAssigned. Have 2 variants how to choose a healers  in random raid:

 

1. Use variant that you offered, but for playerTable use something like table.insert(looking LUA manuals, try it, but in WoW it doesn't work. I think, this function have a different name)

 

2. Use something like

local isTank, isHeal, isDPS = UnitGroupRolesAssigned("player")local groupSize = 40if isHeal then	    for i = 1, groupSize do	isTank, isHeal, isDPS = UnitGroupRolesAssigned("party" .. i)	    if isHeal then	    local dist = aura_env.DistanceBetweenUnits("player", player)            if dist == nil then dist = 0 end                if minRedColor ~= 0 then                 if dist >= minRedColor then                    dist = string.format("%d", dist)                     dist = "|cFFFF0000"..dist.."|r"                 else                   dist = string.format("%d", dist)                     dist = "|cFF00FF00"..dist.."|r"                 end            else               dist = string.format("%d", dist)            end    returnString = returnString .. string.format("%s: %s\n", player, dist)        return returnString       end    endend

It is don't work, just example what I'm talking about

 

I think that the first variants wiil be more easier than the second, but i don't know how added people with "healer" role in table "playerTable".

Can you help, i want to understand how it must be do?

[Krazyito 521]

Tbh Skype will be easier for small questions. I won't mind. And if I don't answer, I might eventually =P.

Currently at work, will respond to the rest later (about 2-3 hours). Feel free to add me on Skype still. (or let me know of another program you may use, maybe Google hangouts if that's easier)

[Krazyito 521]

I really feeling quite uncomfortable and  don't really want to bother you with questions on Skype(know myself - it will be a lot of small and stupid question), so continue writting on the forum. If you want (or if you can) - you can help me. 

 

So, about UnitGroupRoleAssigned. Have 2 variants how to choose a healers  in random raid:

 

1. Use variant that you offered, but for playerTable use something like table.insert(looking LUA manuals, try it, but in WoW it doesn't work. I think, this function have a different name)

 

2. Use something like

local isTank, isHeal, isDPS = UnitGroupRolesAssigned("player")local groupSize = 40if isHeal then	    for i = 1, groupSize do	isTank, isHeal, isDPS = UnitGroupRolesAssigned("party" .. i)	    if isHeal then	    local dist = aura_env.DistanceBetweenUnits("player", player)            if dist == nil then dist = 0 end                if minRedColor ~= 0 then                 if dist >= minRedColor then                    dist = string.format("%d", dist)                     dist = "|cFFFF0000"..dist.."|r"                 else                   dist = string.format("%d", dist)                     dist = "|cFF00FF00"..dist.."|r"                 end            else               dist = string.format("%d", dist)            end    returnString = returnString .. string.format("%s: %s\n", player, dist)        return returnString       end    endend

It is don't work, just example what I'm talking about

 

I think that the first variants wiil be more easier than the second, but i don't know how added people with "healer" role in table "playerTable".

Can you help, i want to understand how it must be do?

 

 

Ok so I implemented your 'auto add' feature using the function you found.  Normally, I would have been lasy and only asssumed that you would use this in a raid group, but in your 'example' code you mentioned party, so I kind of HAD to also include party checks.  Which made things a little bit difficult, luckily I had already done this code in the past so it was just a matter of finding it and then making sure I did my checks right.

 

I didn't change any of the code from the original pastebin, all I did was add checks for party and checks for if 'HEALER'.

 

New pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/RpUgWysE (I kept the old aura in a separate pastebin thats still on my account)

 

You can also easily edit out the part about "player" because that is only for yourself, and it would be kinda redundant to track distance to yourself.  I kinda just did it out of habit for checking for *everything*

[Woopza 1]

Is there a way to have Weak Auras fade after a short time? More specific in this case i want the trigger to be Status - Item Equipped but for it to fade after "x" seconds.

[Krazyito 521]

Is there a way to have Weak Auras fade after a short time? More specific in this case i want the trigger to be Status - Item Equipped but for it to fade after "x" seconds.

 

I went to go try to do it and it seems to be more complicated.  The only thing I can think of is maybe doing some kind of custom trigger but I don't think it will work correctly because the 'item equipped' trigger will always return true, and I have no way of knowing when 

 

Just thought of something else, I can probably make one aura that detects when the aura becomes active, and then use that information to turn it back on itself to only activate when it first triggers.  This is a bit more complicated than needed I think, and not really worth doing.

[Serafim1991 0]

Thanks a lot.

About party check and my code with "group" - I write it just for example. Not actually need group checking but also thanks.

First 30 minutes I couldn't understand why it is doesn't work. I found random group from another realm and try to configure it but nothing happend. Then i found few people from my realm and whit them it works well. I do something wrong or it shouldn't work with different realm?(just question, not need to do it)

 

And about myself. Ashamed to admit but I can't do this.

Try GetUnitName("self.unit") and UnitName("self.unit") functions(6 or 7 variants I think that will be work)

Works only one variant:

 

if UName == "MyNick" then

table.remove(playerTable)

end

 

It work. BUT when I wrote this post - it stopped working. Don't understand why, I don't change anything(sitting afk). And ofcourse this variant not universal(for each character who healer need change "MyNick"). 

I understand that I must use UnitName("unit") or UnitName("self.unit") but don't understand how to do it correctly. My logic is(using par of code which is already):

1. Add new variable (for example local PName = name("self"))

2. Compare UName and PName (if UName == PName then)

3. If  true - remove UName(which equal PName) from playerTable ( table.remove(playerTable) )

4. End

 

At this moment first point don't work. Is my logic right or I something missing?

P.S. don't write in skype - at this moment it is a last problem with configure this weakauras. When have  new questions - write on Skype 

Edited October 30, 2015 by Serafim1991

[Holypalaswe 0]

I've been trying to make a progressbar in Weakauras but my limited knowledge is preventing me from doing this simple task. :)

 

 

What I want is to start a custom timer, when a buff is applied to any target, and if there are multiple applications of the specified buff, I want multiple bars.

 

 

For my testing I've been using Sacred Shield and a custom timer of 10seconds.

(So what I want is during my testing is, every time anyone (friendly/hostile) gains Sacred Shield, a progressbar will start with 10seconds duration).

I tested with a Event trigger type of Spell, Aura Applied and adding Sacred Shield  but that doesn't create multiple bars, just the single one that refreshes if Sacred Shield is applied to any target.

I've also been testing simply using a Aura trigger with Multi-target unit but I am not able to get this to make anything but a simple buff-tracker, not with the custom timer I want.

 

 

Is there anyone more knowledgeable that can help me? 

[Krazyito 521]

I've been trying to make a progressbar in Weakauras but my limited knowledge is preventing me from doing this simple task.

 

 

What I want is to start a custom timer, when a buff is applied to any target, and if there are multiple applications of the specified buff, I want multiple bars.

 

 

For my testing I've been using Sacred Shield and a custom timer of 10seconds.

(So what I want is during my testing is, every time anyone (friendly/hostile) gains Sacred Shield, a progressbar will start with 10seconds duration).

I tested with a Event trigger type of Spell, Aura Applied and adding Sacred Shield  but that doesn't create multiple bars, just the single one that refreshes if Sacred Shield is applied to any target.

I've also been testing simply using a Aura trigger with Multi-target unit but I am not able to get this to make anything but a simple buff-tracker, not with the custom timer I want.

 

 

Is there anyone more knowledgeable that can help me? 

 

I have to work on this for a bit.  Cant today, maybe sometime this week before blizzcon.   

 

The problem I'll have is getting that custom timer, which if I make a second trigger, I could possibly get it working.