Monitoring ingame events.

[lisa]

Originally I have this to deal with old messages

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local time, moreToCome, name, msg = EventMonitorCheck("GMdetect", "4,1")
--lots more code
-- 
--
	EventMonitorStart("GMdetect2", "CHAT_MSG_SYSTEM");
		if (43140 + 60) >= os.time() - time then -- (43140 + **) ignore messages that are more then ** seconds ago.
        sendMacro("AskPlayerInfo(\'"..name.."\');")

I got the 43140 purely by testing the time that the addon returned and did comparison to os.time() which now seems like a bad way to do it, very bad lol
It would work on my machine for my time but probably not for others.
I should really just do a comparison of time to time instead of trying to use os.time()

I'll have a play with it and see what I come up with.

[rock5]

Yeh I doubt it would be the same fo everyone. I got a difference of 50437. I'd even be surprised if it's the same for you after you've restarted the computer and game. To be sure you would have to get the os.time from the game which is what I don't like. That's a RoMScript for every check.

Wouldn't it solve your problem if the ingamefunctions returned the age of the message instead of the time of the message? Do we need the time of the message?

[lisa]

I don't need time of message at all, just age is enough.
It is purely so it doesn't check old messages that have already been checked.

If you imagine a bot running for 6 hours, in the first 4 hours your friends keep trying to contact you and message all sorts of hello's. Then a GM messages you because you've been im millers for 5 hours straight. Without ignoring old messages it would be checking through all of the previous messages aswell and doing a RoMScript for every single message to get the player info to check if they are actually a GM.

So yeah short story is age of message is all that is required.

[rock5]

I don't need time of message at all, just age is enough.
It is purely so it doesn't check old messages that have already been checked.

You don't have to worry about that. Messages that are returned are deleted from the log. You wont ever get the same message twice.

If you imagine a bot running for 6 hours, in the first 4 hours your friends keep trying to contact you and message all sorts of hello's. Then a GM messages you because you've been im millers for 5 hours straight. Without ignoring old messages it would be checking through all of the previous messages aswell and doing a RoMScript for every single message to get the player info to check if they are actually a GM.

So what happens in this case is when you check your messages after your friends have tried to contact you, those messages get cleared from the log. When the gm messages you, it should be the only message in the log.

You shouldn't have any problems with big logs if you check your messages regularly.

[lisa]

Hmm I seem to remember having issues when I didn't use the timer.

Basically it is set up to monitor for any whispers, timer is 5 seconds.
If there is a whisper It then starts another monitor for system chat.
then does the in game function for checking player info.
checks that second monitor for indications of being a GM and acts accordingly.
ends second monitor and just keeps with first montor of whispers running all the time.

[wizzyslo]

Firstly, have you read the wiki?
http://www.solarstrike.net/wiki/index.p ... _Functions

How should i know what some parts mean if i didnt look on wiki? But some things i'm not understand becouse i'm asking.

[MiesterMan]

I dunno if this helps but I'm showing address 0x9E3C30 as the current value of what is returned by: RoMScript("GetTime();");

I know event timing is different but I could never really understand it. Based on iterators or something wierd?

[rock5]

I dunno if this helps but I'm showing address 0x9E3C30 as the current value of what is returned by: RoMScript("GetTime();");

I know event timing is different but I could never really understand it. Based on iterators or something wierd?

This is a great idea, why didn't I think of it? That address seems no good though. Mine doesn't show the time at that address. I did a search myself and found 3 addresses. One is a static address 0x9A8288 which is about 1 second behind what GetTime() reports. One is a pointer value 0x9C57EC offset 0xE14 which is closer but not exact. And the last is a really low value 0x18EDE4 which isn't static but I think the low value would put it outside the games memory region. I looked for a pointer for it and came up with 0x9B596C and offsets 0x88 and 0x7AC.

If I print all 3 and GetTime() at the same time the last one exactly matches GetTime() so maybe the game gets the time from the system?

If I'm to use any of these I need to know which is reliable. Can someone try the above 3 addresses and see if it shows the time as returned by GetTime()?
So that's,
Address 0x9A8288
Address 0x9C57EC Offset 0xE14
Address 0x9B596C Offsets 0x88 and 0x7AC

[lisa]

any chance of a commandline script to print from the memory address =)
At work so haven't got the time to go through CE and such but a simple print of the addresses might be enough.

[rock5]

any chance of a commandline script to print from the memory address =)
At work so haven't got the time to go through CE and such but a simple print of the addresses might be enough.

That was awhile ago but luckily I haven't closed the micromacro window I was working in and the command is still onscreen.

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print(RoMScript("GetTime()")) print(memoryReadFloat(getProc(),0x18ede4)) print(memoryReadFloat(getProc(), 0x9a8288)) print(memoryReadFloatPtr(getProc(),0x9c57ec, 0xe14))

[lisa]

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3836.9089355469
0
3836.2905273438
0

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4161.9267578125
0
4161.029296875
0

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4217.9599609375
0
4216.8745117188
0

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4288.2548828125
0
4287.2641601563
0

did straight copy paste of the code you just posted.
gap between 1st and third varies but 2nd and 4th returned 0.

[lisa]

I adjusted operating system time and got this

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4347.2299804688
0
4346.2827148438
0

Both were less then last print, so it deffinately seems to go by the OS clock.

Edit:: I am blind, times weren't before previous at all. So ignore that bit =(

[rock5]

On second look I think that was the wrong command I sent you.

But at least we know now that static address was good but the first pointer address wasn't. That just leaves the pointer to the low address.

After lots of testing it looks like I can't get a reliable address for it. I guess that just leaves the static address 0x9a8288.

That means we can have the ingame function save the time using GetTime() and compare it against the time stored at this address. No need to need to use extra romscripts.

[sfrattini]

Firstly, have you read the wiki?
http://www.solarstrike.net/wiki/index.p ... _Functions

How should i know what some parts mean if i didnt look on wiki? But some things i'm not understand becouse i'm asking.

Hi,

I thought I knew how to use micromacro rom (I can bot inis, sell, travel, fly, use ingame macro etc...) until I got here and started to try this function.
I have tried 50 times and at the end I agree with wizzyslo, Wiki is not clear enough on this.
Would it be possible to post a Noob friendly working sample of a boss monitoring SAY_CHAT and performing an action based on specific text?
With clear indication on where to put and what to put ?

Thanks in advance and sorry for this, I enjoy the bot but this gets a bit too much complicate for my poor scripting skills.

[MiesterMan]

Sorry, I didn't do a lot of testing with this. I checked in on two client and they both had it. I also did a search in OllyG and there was a func that wrote to the address so I assumed it was the static. I can't remember if this was before the last patch or not but that could also be a factor.

One big problem with this kind of address scanning is that it's a very small grouped piece of info so I'm guessing it would be hard to find a pattern to match for it. Similar to the "Quests Completed" byte I found. After next patch, the pointer and the offset could be completely different and I'd have to manually search again because I wasn't smart enough to understand admin's very user friendly pattern matching tutorial (I just don't know enough about assembly ).

[rock5]

Hi,

I thought I knew how to use micromacro rom (I can bot inis, sell, travel, fly, use ingame macro etc...) until I got here and started to try this function.
I have tried 50 times and at the end I agree with wizzyslo, Wiki is not clear enough on this.
Would it be possible to post a Noob friendly working sample of a boss monitoring SAY_CHAT and performing an action based on specific text?
With clear indication on where to put and what to put ?

For starters, these fiunctions aren't meant for beginner programmers. Basically if you don't know what I'm talking about then you don't have the skill to use them. You also need to understand about ingame events and event monitoring. Ingame addons can monitor certain events and act on them. My ingamefunctions event addon alows the bot to tell it what events to monitor. It then monitors those events and logs the events when they are triggered. The bot then needs to retrieve entries in the ingame log and act on them. When entries are retrieved they are deleted so you don't need to delete it after retrieving it. When an event is triggered a bunch of arguments are returned based on the event. These arguments are what gets logged as well as the time of the event.

So here's how you use it;

• First you have to tell the ingame function to start monitoring the event. In this case you probably want to monitor CHAT_MSG_SAY. You can find a list of events and their returned arguments here. http://www.theromwiki.com/List_of_Events.

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  EventMonitorStart("BossSaid","CHAT_MSG_SAY",",,,BossName")

  The ingame event monitor will now log any chat messages from "BossName" under the name of "BossSaid" .Where you start monitoring will depend. In this case you could do this command at a waypoint before reaching the boss.

• Then you need to regularly check for messages. Again where you do this will depend. Mainly it will depend on how frequently you need to check it. Lets say you check them onLeaveCombat. Of all the arguments returned by the event you are only interested in the message itself which is the first argument therefore we will use a filter of "1" to return only the first argument.

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  local time, moretocome, msg = EventMonitorCheck("BossSaid","1")
  if string.find(msg, "string to match") then 
      -- Boss said it, react!
      -- Take action here
  end

  Because there might be more than one message in the log then to check all messages do.

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  repeat
      local time, moretocome, msg = EventMonitorCheck("BossSaid","1")
      if string.find(msg, "string to match") then 
          -- Boss said it, react!
          -- Take action here
      end
  until moretocome == false

• Finally, to stop monitoring the event after the boss fight, at a waypoint after the boss use

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  EventMonitorStop("BossSaid")

[sfrattini]

Thanks Rock. let's see if I got it right...my intention is to try to bot Okander "Mad Man" Mallen for meme.
Whenever he casts the crush skill he says "I'll crush you!". So what I have been trying to do is to run event monitor on SAY and check it on skillCast (during battle), but still no luck.
Question: EventMonitorStart("Crush","CHAT_MSG_SAY",",,,Okander"); does this name needs to be exactly like Boss name? if yes, how can I use the quotes in the name without screwing up the function?
Also, I have PRIEST_HOLY_AURA skill defined in profile as requested...Please have a look at the code below, thanks again.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><waypoints>

	<onSkillCast>
		
		repeat
    		local time, moretocome, msg = EventMonitorCheck("Crush","1")
    		if string.find(msg, "I'll crush you!") then 
        	              player:cast("PRIEST_HOLY_AURA");
    		end
		until moretocome == false

	</onSkillCast>

	<!-- #  1 --><waypoint x="1910" z="2849" y="433">	</waypoint>   -- INI entrance
	<!-- #  2 --><waypoint x="1972" z="2779" y="433">	</waypoint>
	<!-- #  3 --><waypoint x="2014" z="2731" y="433">	</waypoint>
	<!-- #  4 --><waypoint x="2205" z="2502" y="401">
	EventMonitorStart("Crush","CHAT_MSG_SAY",",,,Okander");
	
								</waypoint>
	<!-- #  5 --><waypoint x="2315" z="2388" y="401">	
	yrest(1000);
								</waypoint>		-- get aggro here

	<!-- #  4 --><waypoint x="2205" z="2502" y="401">	</waypoint>
	<!-- #  3 --><waypoint x="2014" z="2731" y="433">	</waypoint>
	<!-- #  2 --><waypoint x="1972" z="2779" y="433">	</waypoint>
	<!-- #  1 --><waypoint x="1910" z="2849" y="433">	
	EventMonitorStop("Crush");	
							</waypoint>  -- INI exit

</waypoints>

[lisa]

Without looking into if it is all correct, you must know one thing

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   <onSkillCast>
      
      repeat
          local time, moretocome, msg = EventMonitorCheck("Crush","1")
          if string.find(msg, "I'll crush you!") then 
                         player:cast("PRIEST_HOLY_AURA");
          end
      until moretocome == false

   </onSkillCast>

goes into your profile, not your waypoint file.

[rock5]

I think the name does need to be exact. You can use,

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EventMonitorStart("Crush","CHAT_MSG_SAY",",,,Okander \"Mad Man\" Mallen "); 

[sfrattini]

Hi,

it took me a bit of tweaking but I made it work!
Regarding the name, I removed it from the arguments and it seems the function is simply checking anything on SAY.

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EventMonitorStart("Crush","CHAT_MSG_SAY",",,,");

I see this going between 30-40 meme /hour with a 5-10% death possibility, still not best but worth the effort I think.
Thanks guys u the best