SPELLCRAFT FEATURES

Several people have asked for spellcraft features. They want Mojo to put gems on their quickbars. They also want a fast way to make a list of gems. These features are now in Mojo.

People tell me Korts used to do the first thing, and to some extent, every spellcraft program does the second thing. Nobody claims these features are new. They are just things that people asked me to put in Mojo.

Mojo puts gems on quickbars while your toon is logged out. Once you are logged in, while you are playing, everything is the same as usual. Gameplay is not affected. When you press a key or button to make a gem, it takes the same length of time as always.

You begin with the Spellcraft tab. Its design is experimental. It may change after users give feedback about it. Right now it looks like this:



There are three ways to tell Mojo which gems you want. First, you can click on the colored rectangles and select gems from menus (picture below). As you click, a list will build up on the right side of the window. I put three different kinds of rectangles in this build because I'm not sure which ones users will prefer. Gem names are capitalized in a peculiar way because Mythic does it like that in the game.



The second way to enter gems is to import them from a file (red circle below). Any file that contains gem names can be used. The file doesn't have to be formatted in any special way, and there can be other text in the file in addition to gem names. The third way is to type things in the list yourself. The list is editable. You can type, delete, select, copy, and paste the list.

You can put up to one hundred gems on a quickbar at one time.

When you're ready, click "Put on quickbar" (red circle below).



A second window will pop up (below) where you choose the toon whose quickbar receives the gems. This window can show you all the toons on your PC, not only the ones you've entered into Mojo. This means you can use Mojo's spellcraft features without entering any toons into Mojo.

On this second window (below) you choose the quickbar and page where Mojo will start entering gems. I use these words (quickbar and page) because Mythic uses them. I think players usually call these things "set of hotbars" and "hotbar."

The chosen quickbar slots must be empty. In other words, you have to empty them in the game. I put this requirement in the program as a safety precaution to prevent people from accidentally overwriting quickbar icons that they want to keep. If the slots aren't empty, Mojo displays a message reminding you to empty them. You can put as many as 100 gems on a quickbar at one time if you start with page one and all the slots are empty.

When you're ready to put gems on your quickbar, make sure the toon is logged out (the character selection screen is good enough). Then press Do It (red circle below). Then log back in.

 

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wow that was quick. I had to laugh at the "disclaimer" at the beginning of your post
Thanks for all you do with camelot, big time

Me too! lol.

Thanks for the kind words.

 

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this is pretty cool I may have to use it sometime. Thanks

 

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Very nice robbie, you're making Mojo more and more indispensable as a tool by the day!

 

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It's good to see you still doing this sort of thing for DAoC.
-Jo

 

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I don't use mojo... but I may start next time I go on an sc binge

 

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EA should have hired you from the beginning to do the work they're too lazy to do. Thank you for everything you do. Mojo is an awesome program. I use it every time I play DAoC. Question for everyone...is there a way to keep the UI layout consistent on every toon? I hate making a new character and having to re-do chat box sizes, positioning, font, window placement, etc.

 

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Heh, thanks.




I'll tell you two ways.

First, you can use Mojo after the toon has been created. Log the new toon out, right click it in Mojo, choose "Import settings," and copy settings from an older character who has all that stuff set properly.

Second, you can do it once for all future toons by copying a file with Windows. (You might have to repeat the fix after every patch, I'm not sure.)

The idea is to replace the file that contains the settings that DAOC applies to new toons. You'll find this file in DAOC's installation folder. It has a name like default1024.ini or default1600.ini. There are a bunch of these files with different numbers. The numbers are window widths, i.e., the first number in the resolution setting in your copy of DAOC. For example, if your DAOC is set to a resolution of 1600x1200, you would choose the file named default1600.ini.

Pick some character to be the new default. For example, suppose you pick a Pendragon toon named Seymour. His settings file would be Seymour-5.ini. You would copy this file to the installation folder and rename it default1600.ini.

As I write this, it occurs to me that this would be a good feature for Mojo: "Choose default settings for new toons."

 

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Just a thought on overwriting spell icons, shouldn't be too hard to save a backup of the spell ID on every bar icon replaced and simply add a "revert" button to put the bar back exactly the way Mojo found them after someone is done SCing.

EDIT: And from the other thread: I like you idea about using a 4-5 char temporary "user id" for transferring spell gems to a SCer.