Thread: Programming a mouse for Captain Macros

How do i configure a CM inferno mouse for raiding purposes? having a lot of trouble with the software itself. My intention would be to equip the set of tognir for the +tact mit buff then swap back to main gear, for example. Is there a way to let me do that? Let me know how you guys program/macro keyboards/mouse as i will be getting my programmable keyboard in a week too. Thanks.

Originally Posted by WmTan

How do i configure a CM inferno mouse for raiding purposes? having a lot of trouble with the software itself. My intention would be to equip the set of tognir for the +tact mit buff then swap back to main gear, for example. Is there a way to let me do that? Let me know how you guys program/macro keyboards/mouse as i will be getting my programmable keyboard in a week too. Thanks.

This is going to be really long and painful process, but you're going to need to figure out the X,Y position of the mouse to move it, how to trigger a mouse click, possible delays for everything to work right, and the necessary key sequence.

Using something like Tonic Bars so you can throw everything into quick slots on the screen will help simplify stuff, because you can do a screen shot and use the coordinates in MS Paint as a starting point.

Things i would like to program with my keyboard+mouse would be:

Raid wise

Quick jewellery swaps( by doing a sorta "profile" with selected pieces)
Quick gear swaps(some crazy ideas on gear set bonuses)
More keys to play with.

Gameplay wise
Different profiles, such as when i am deeding, grinding, raiding etc

Originally Posted by WayneTan

Things i would like to program with my keyboard+mouse would be:

Raid wise

Quick jewellery swaps( by doing a sorta "profile" with selected pieces)
Quick gear swaps(some crazy ideas on gear set bonuses)
More keys to play with.

Gameplay wise
Different profiles, such as when i am deeding, grinding, raiding etc

We don't have a macro system in LotRO (macro system like WoW's where you could specific gear to move where and a skill to use), you you need to figure out how to accomplish this with the macroing software (which is keystroke/mouse button replacement).

That's not a lot of fun to do =/

Originally Posted by Almagnus1

We don't have a macro system in LotRO (macro system like WoW's where you could specific gear to move where and a skill to use), you you need to figure out how to accomplish this with the macroing software (which is keystroke/mouse button replacement).

That's not a lot of fun to do =/

cool dude. I think i got the rough idea what you meant, gonna take awhile to figure it out though

Say a script that runs a click on coordinates on the screen then goes on to the next coordinate(opening bags i assume) and so on. Pretty sure there is a delay in doing it(ms?? or something)

At the moment i am just carrying the war captain's armour for rez, especially useful in a pug draigoch raid when people just die for no reason. It is a life saver and prevented us from wiping many times.

That being said, I heard there is a way to program it such that u can run macro buttons for what you are doing, say macro1 for clicking a whole set of things...how do i do that? Any good captains who gear swap especially for buffs/cooldowns in combat should know that this is vital. At the moment i am just binding them to my hotkeys but i wish there is an easier way to do it. Tips from any pro captains?

Originally Posted by WayneTan

cool dude. I think i got the rough idea what you meant, gonna take awhile to figure it out though

Say a script that runs a click on coordinates on the screen then goes on to the next coordinate(opening bags i assume) and so on. Pretty sure there is a delay in doing it(ms?? or something)

At the moment i am just carrying the war captain's armour for rez, especially useful in a pug draigoch raid when people just die for no reason. It is a life saver and prevented us from wiping many times.

That being said, I heard there is a way to program it such that u can run macro buttons for what you are doing, say macro1 for clicking a whole set of things...how do i do that? Any good captains who gear swap especially for buffs/cooldowns in combat should know that this is vital. At the moment i am just binding them to my hotkeys but i wish there is an easier way to do it. Tips from any pro captains?

If you don't mind using something like Tonic Bars, I'm fairly certain you can rig it so that bars will "appear" if you do a keydown(Control), then do a keyup(Control) to make it go away - so you can hide a bunch of quick slots that you would be clicking on, then make them appear when you need them - then use THOSE for the mouse coordinates.

This is where Print Screen + Paste in MS Paint are going to be a lifesaver, cause you can dump your entire screen to paint, then mouse over what you are looking for for the coordinates.

Originally Posted by Almagnus1

If you don't mind using something like Tonic Bars, I'm fairly certain you can rig it so that bars will "appear" if you do a keydown(Control), then do a keyup(Control) to make it go away - so you can hide a bunch of quick slots that you would be clicking on, then make them appear when you need them - then use THOSE for the mouse coordinates.

This is where Print Screen + Paste in MS Paint are going to be a lifesaver, cause you can dump your entire screen to paint, then mouse over what you are looking for for the coordinates.

good tip sir, although i am still investigating how to do this all. More interest in this thread would be appreciated

only macro i personally use is to equip the EM set for revival on my razer naga+i manually swap to a diffrent emblem= 2.30 minutes cd,works great .Then i manually click back to my raid set in tonicbars.

Got my G510 keyboard and a cm inferno mouse. More will be posted

I know this thread is a few monthes old, but I just got a Razer naga, and have been struggling to get my macros to work correctly.

Currently on my LM, i have a set of dps gear, the draigoch set for the incoming crit chance, a CC set for extended mezes, and a healing set for improved Beacon of Hope. how ive been doing this so far is each set has a specific spot in my inventory and i swap multipul times through a fight. this almost always ends in my gear getting all sorts of crazy mixed up (doesnt help that all the icons look similar).

any help would be apreciated

I don't have any experience with mouse macros but I'm also a LM and tend to swap in between 3 sets of armour depending on the fight.

I use tonicbars plugin and have 3 seperate bars with my armoursets in on the left of the screen. That way if I want to change set I just click all the icons in the correct bar.

I tried setting it up so it only shows up with CTRL pressed but tonicbar's ctrl trigger does not work. The morale/power threshold triggers only work about 25% of the time and the extensions that you can add to (tonicbar only) quickslots tend to stick around or disappear randomly.

Unfortunately you cannot bind keys to tonicbar's quickslots so you still have to manually click the pieces of armour but at least it's easier than fumbling around for correct armour inside your bags where it changes place all of the time.

That sounds like you don't have delays set long enough.

I find using AHK scripts much better & more customisable than the software that comes bundled with keyboards/mice. It's an extremely simply scripting language - For example, a script to swap to an 2nd emblem, ToN and swap back when Ctrl+Y are pressed might look like this...

Code:

^y::    
SendInput ^-
sleep 100
SendInput !3
sleep 1200
SendInput !^-
return

You can of course set it up to have the mouse buttons as the trigger instead of a key.

Or you could go with D) All of the above.

Use AHK to define the macros for rarely used keys, then create a custom mapping for the Naga to map to those keys.

Originally Posted by Almagnus1

Or you could go with D) All of the above.

Use AHK to define the macros for rarely used keys, then create a custom mapping for the Naga to map to those keys.

Yes, obviously you use the provided software to key bind your buttons (if they can't be recognised by AHK as generic buttons), but the macro features are generally not very good.