chocobo digger

[freakazoid]

been reading quite alot and found nothing on this subject so i thought i would post a little something on it. starting to get to grips with what u's have been explaining etc.. trying to learn lua at the mo so i can contribute something to the site.

however the main reason why i sought out this forum was because i had dug one to many times on that chocobo

i am now an A40 choco digger, for those of u's that don't know what this means, it means I'm lvl 3 or 4 now... means i got no wait time between digs and i can dig 40 secs after zone.

chocobo digging is boring to say the least and if i could read a book while monitoring it or even watch an anime on my laptop that would be superb..

got no lines of script yet, all i got is theory so far. for obvious reasons we can't have a script that would cover all zones as this would be tedious to do and could also cause complication's, not too mention way too long.

k lets say we take a zone, it should be possible to mark out movements by simulating them first of all through ff11 and writing down what u do. u don't want choco running into walls do u, i seen a bot that does this already but running around in circles is stupid lol

since the main thing is movements, i assume that this will be fairly straight forward. then if I'm right all we gotta do is add the macro for digs (this could be changed for Ur lvl through the macro in ff11, using "/wait" command).

so i got a few questions, for those of u with experience:

*is it possible to have 2 commands running at once, for example 1)movement commands 2) dig macro command
or would the 2 have to be integrated, i have not seen this yet, as i said still learning but trying to learn fast(more interested in this than the game at the mo lol)

*since the "/dig" command automatically take's a green for the choco I'm guessing i don't have to use pixels in this script?

* do u think its feasible to make a script like this or am i over my head and wasting my time


i got plenty of time and i would love to post chocobo dig scripts for each zone over time.
basically what I'm after here is feedback on how u think it would be implemented, best way to tackle it thats all,this will be first project and i hope to learn loads while doing it. ;D

[sdphantom]

It depends how FFXI handles user input. Using direct key input and sending commands to the FFXI command interpreter, we can mimic anything that the user would do.

Combined with player position data, it's possible to add path AI to the code to make it run better.

All this is do-able.

One thing that can be done is have the script record a path and be able to repeat it. Also send commands to the script while recording to tell it when to dig and while repeating the path, have the script check times between digs and pause if needed before digging.

[azural]

This is gonna sound confusing because I am so bad with words...

Using Position X,Y,Z and say we know a point on the map we want to go to in X,Y,Z can Lunar be used to compare our heading and adjust based on our position according to the point we wish to go to?

This could be used to move a character from point to point on a preset XYZ point to point map.

We can get our X,Y,Z position and also our heading in Degs or Rads, if comparing to a preset X,Y,Z position decide how much to adjust our heading to move to that set point. Could be looped untill you reach a predefined X range and Y range. Then have it move onto the next set X,Y,Z points we would wish to go to. After each point is reached could dig and such. Then move on.

I don't believe we can just send a new heading to FF XI via Lunar directly , as in sending a new heading and voila your running in that direction but is this concept even possible with Lunar alone?

[TinyTerror]

Just be careful not to make this a fully automated system. I tend to frown on such things.

[phantomphreak]

i would just be happy with a timer, like i put in my current lvl and amount of grass in console and it shows how long till i get kicked of choco, how long till i can dig after zone/between digs and how many grass i have left.