pet handling?

[spudman]

Is there any pet control / monitoring in isxeq2? such as telling whether certain pet buttons are enabled (protect me, follow me, etc)? Also is there a way to push the buttons through isxeq2?

I tried various /pet command I found on the inet (/pet guardme, etc.) but the only ones that seem to work are /pet attack and /pet backoff. I'd like to be able to tell if 'protect me' is on and if it isn't turn it on. any other method would be helpful as well.

 

[Amadeus]

I would probably have to add these ...however, we've all botted pet classes for years without any need for any of this. What are you trying to do that you can't just do without it? Typically people use /pet attack, /pet backoff to handle the pet with a script ....I'm having a hard time imaging why a bot would need more than that...

 

[Shiv]

I used to add a few commands in eq2bot right after the pet pulled,brought it back to camp and engaged the target. At this point I (in the script) I added 2 lines (not sure of the actual commands) think they were:

eq2execute /pet_preservemaster
eq2execute /pet_preserveself

(check these commands as its been a while)

This was good because if me or my pet got hit during a "downtime" my pet would engage and if I was hit by a mob that eq2bot wouldnt normally engage (say a named or a heroic or even a red conned mob whatever I specified eq2bot to filter out). I used to use this a while ago when eq2bot was in the 500's of its version and not as advanced as it is today. Eq2bot has grown and changed in many ways since then and I find I no longer need this code. but if your really gung-ho you might be able to find the commands on Wiki-eq2bot and read through the code to figure out where exactly to place it.

GL,
Shiv

 

[spudman]

Similar to what shiv is talking about. I'm helping a friend with his eq2bot and admittedly I don't know a whole lot about it as I don't play eq2 and instead of diving into a bunch of code, I am running a simultaneous script that does some other things he wanted for his necro, such as fd, pausing/unpausing eq2bot, etc. One thing was to make sure the pet 'protect me' option was on. I was trying to use regular /commands that I found on sources from the internet, i.e. '/pet guardme', but they didn't seem to work, even without eq2bot, etc. running.

I turn the 'protect me' button on and it eventually shuts off again (not sure if this is a eq2 thing in general or if it's a eq2bot thing). So again, I was just going to check if it was on and if not, enable it. Or I was just going to issue a /pet guardme command every 30s or so, but i can't seem to get any of these to work.

Don't get me wrong, I did look at a lot of the code in eq2bot (yes I could proabably do more, but this seemed to be an either eq2 or isxeq2 issue) and even tried finding various pet commands, etc. but only found /pet attack and /pet backoff. Not to mention I was on a vista box that was just $&#@ing me off. Every attempt at searching for pet options in the forums failed as it discludes pet from the searches and there's almost nothing in the isxeq2 wiki about pets.

 

[Pygar]

/pet backoff turns the guard option off.

This is an eq2 thing.

There is an option on extras tab that says something about pet protect me or something. This enables code that the bot issues thos guard commands after every backoff command.

Honestly its a pain, and it doesn't have 100% accuracy, and its damn embarrassing on raids.

Amadeus would have to add something to the extension to let us know the state of the buttons in order for scripts to handle it better.

 

[spudman]

Thanks for the info, that's kewl and I'll look at it some more and see where the options button is pointing and what it does in the code, which I'm assuming is just the /pet guardme, etc.

I'm just concerned that in my testing, the '/pet guardme', which is supposed to be the command to make eq2 have your pet protect me wasn't working, even with eq2bot not running. If that's the case, then there really wouldn't be a way to control the pet's guarding procedure, etc. and it would also explain why the eq2bot functionality wasn't working in the first place.

I'll continue to test.