Rock5's catchCavy script

[fred55555]

doing it with a warden pet takes all the punishment

i am usually in a not to heavy agro area mostly yellow to minimize this and low lvl areas

with the line removed i dont miss one cavy so performance is great.

like i said before ,you do great work and the script is amazing.

in higher areas i would leave the battling string in for safety
thank you again!

I thought i would share the reason for catching all pets

i stack pets to feed my main pet for max pts
ie pets A B C D
d= main pet
A B C are interchangeable pets as i load them (yes u can only do 2 others at a time)

pet A is fed to pet b, pet b is then fed to c
c now becomes A and you get a new b and C and do the process over and over again how many times you want until u have a pet with the points you want to transfer to your main then feed it to your main (remember this is the only step that has the three per day limit, the others do not since you are only ever feeding an egg to and egg once)
enjoy!

[MiesterMan]

Must give my thanks for a most excellent addon.

[fluxus]

great addon, works very well out of the box
rock you simply rock

[jduartedj]

Hey i was looking for this! nice! is it working 100%?

I had an idea to programme something like this. if you need help testing/fixing it just say so I'd be glad to help!

[rock5]

Hey i was looking for this! nice! is it working 100%?

I had an idea to programme something like this. if you need help testing/fixing it just say so I'd be glad to help!

As far as I know it works most of the time. Unless some obstacle gets in the way of course.

[atroxa]

Hey,
as Mage it often doesn't take the spawning Cavy. I assume it has something to do with
local cavy = player:findNearestNameOrId(_cavy, player.IgnoreCavy)
as from the Name the nearest target is as an distant mob-killer often an other Mob and not the Cavy.
any Ideas for changing that (besides going into close-range combat?)
Maybe player:findTarget(); maybe (gonna try it back home later)?

Thx

[rock5]

Hey,
as Mage it often doesn't take the spawning Cavy. I assume it has something to do with
local cavy = player:findNearestNameOrId(_cavy, player.IgnoreCavy)
as from the Name the nearest target is as an distant mob-killer often an other Mob and not the Cavy.
any Ideas for changing that (besides going into close-range combat?)
Maybe player:findTarget(); maybe (gonna try it back home later)?

Thx

local cavy = player:findNearestNameOrId(_cavy, player.IgnoreCavy)
is fine. It will target the nearest cavy that matches the name _cavy. And it doesn't have distance limitations.

Can you explain better what happens when it fails to catch the cavy? Does it start to catch it but stop? Does it get aggro while trying to catch it? Does it not try at all? etc.

[jduartedj]

Can you explain better what happens when it fails to catch the cavy? Does it start to catch it but stop? Does it get aggro while trying to catch it? Does it not try at all? etc.

In my case I've found that running the script under aggro can be a bit of a mess, as either the player gets the mob and forgets the cavy or forgets the mob and it might get the char killed to catch the cavy.
Also I've had a few cases where there is no attempt to catch it, as if it didn't see a cavy there.

[rock5]

How did you use the command, ie. what argument did you give it?

[jduartedj]

How did you use the command, ie. what argument did you give it?

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catchCavy("Cavy");

[rock5]

The only reasons I can think of why it wouldn't start to try and catch the cavy are;
1. You ran out of traps (or you are not keeping them in your bags eg. transmutor).
2. You picked up some aggro before you started.
3. You already tried catching that cavy previously.

[atroxa]

Hey,
it works like 3/4 of the time,

tested it with and without the line:
if player.Battling then return end

but seems the same.
It just ignors the Cavy and goes on killing the next mob. Seems to happen more likely on one-hit kills, maybe Cavy spawning bit slower(?).
Will play with: yrest(200); -- Make sure you've come to a complete stop.
around a bit today.
But gona watch it a while today and will report.
Traps like 400 in packpack 1 and happen even without any aggro while cavy spawns.

But when it finds the cavy it works like charm



/Update:
Changed profile now it works always THX (assume it has something to do with HARVEST_DISTANCE as one of the big differences in the profiles? )


Thanks alot

[Jengoso]

I just tried to add the Catchcavy to my bot but I cant seem to get it to work. I use revision 520, copied the catchcavy file to my userfunctions directory (which was empty except for a readme file before) and added this to my profile:
<onLeaveCombat><![CDATA[
-- Additional Lua code to execute after killing an enemy
-- catchCavy("Magic Cavy")
]]></onLeaveCombat>

I also have huntmans traps in backpack 1 but it will not ring a bell or seem to detect the cavys when they spawn. Any ideas?

[atroxa]

Hey:

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	<onLeaveCombat><![CDATA[
                catchCavy("Cavy");
		-- Additional Lua code to execute after killing an enemy
	]]></onLeaveCombat>

-- means the rest of the line is a comment

greetz

[Jengoso]

Oh..Works like a charm now!

[rock5]

/Update:
Changed profile now it works always THX (assume it has something to do with HARVEST_DISTANCE as one of the big differences in the profiles? )

I can't see any distance checks in catchcavy. Are there any other differences on the profiles?

[atroxa]

just took a look at the new profile,
a littlebit more like the default one on the Combat - Area,
harvestdistance 150 (insted of 60), combat_distance 80 (instead of 150), max_target_distance 125 (instead of 200).

the lootBodies();script (half-working) out of the forum on leavecombat (changed with the player.update inside) before catching cavys.

Maybe I just had a laggy day or so, but now it works nearly perfect. (like 9/10 because of nasty buildings in my farmspot)

[JackBlonder]

Works almost perfect for me, but I think there's a typo at line 42

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				player.IgnoreCavyy = cavy.Address

shoud be

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				player.IgnoreCavy = cavy.Address

[jduartedj]

You're right but the typo I found was "cavyy.address" and not "IgnoreCavyy"! anyway Rock5 you should look it up, maybe it makes a difference?

[rock5]

You're right but the typo I found was "cavyy.address" and not "IgnoreCavyy"! anyway Rock5 you should look it up, maybe it makes a difference?

Well it would as it means it wouldn't work as intended. I've got an update ready including better battling checks but I can't test it until the problems with the inventory are fixed. I'll look into that now.