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Character frequently gets stuck while casting Town Portal.

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I have been trying to search for a resolution to this problem for almost a month now. Im really hoping that someone can help me.

At the end of a profile zone, the character begins to cast Town Portal. There will not be a casting bar and the character is just stuck in the casting animation. I will have to manually click a location on the ground to make him move, then he will cast Town Portal correctly. This happens once every 2-3 runs and sometimes it happens more often. I have tried the latest profiles from ciggarc, latest GilesTrinity and Profile manager and Atom. I have tried a lot of combinations and versions and nothing has fixed it.

As of right now I am running:

DB: 259
GilesTrinity: 1.6
Combat Routine: Giles
RasAtom: 1.3.6:
Profiles: Ciggarc Act 2 Champion Hunting Elderberries 1.22.250 (Atom)
 
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View attachment 3484 2012-10-08 13.53.txt

The end of that Log is where the problem occurs. It had been sitting there for roughly 8 minutes before I grabbed the log. I really hope someone can help me figure this out as I can never bot without checking in on it every 15 minutes. Thanks for the help in advance.
 
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I have this exact same problem. I could never explain it to anyone and DB doesnt show it as an error. I would love an answer also!!!
 
I got two people interesting at work in botting as well. One of them has the same problem. The other has had it happen it once or twice and that is it. This may help though, my monk does it a LOT more with Tempest Rush enabled. I have had to remove that spell and it will happen once every couple of games. While using Tempest Rush, its nearly every game. My barbarian also has this problem but less than my monk.

I am not great at coding but I tried to add a wait timer before using the Town Portal. I am under the impression that it attempts to cast Town Portal at the same time it is using an attack or Tempest Rush or Sprint on my Barb. Much like sometimes my characters will not enter a portal to Kulle while im using Sprint or Tempest Rush, causing my character to stop and try over and over to enter the portal making me have to click it to join to engage Kulle.

Is there a way I can enter a line or two of code to make my character recast Town Portal if it realizes that it hasnt yet reached the town and can not continue to the next part of the profile? Or perhaps even add a line of code to make it cast it 2 times, the second being 11 seconds after the first cast. Or even making the character stop, wait, then move again before using Town Portal. Perhaps even check to see if i have indeed arrived in the city and if not, move a couple of steps and cast portal again?
 
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disable Unstuck me plugin and let me know if you are ok
 
Thank you for replying. This problem still occurs without unstuck me. Disable and/ or removed. Same with GilesTrinity 's unstuck feature. I wish i could bot , but this makes me babysit it the whole time :(
 
Same for me, happens 1 time on 10 for me. No other plugins than GilesTrinity and RadsAtom
 
Does anyone think adding any additional code like I mentioned above to the profiles would help? I can just imagine my character stuck on casting sequence for only 2 seconds before he moves a little then casts again.
 
"There will not be a casting bar and the character is just stuck in the casting animation."


hmm,sounds more like a D3 glitch imo
 
Tony, could you recommend a fix for the following?
When my monk enters the Kulle section of the profile and runs to the portal to enter his chambers to kill him, while using tempest rush, 9 out of 10 times he can not click on the portal. He will just move a little for hours until it disconnects unless I manually click on the portal to enter. If I don't use Tempest Rush at all, everything goes well. How can I fix this problem? BTW, my Barb has the same issue with Sprint, but only 3-10 times. I feel that perhaps a fix for this problem will lead me down the right road to fix the other. =)
 
Tony said:
"There will not be a casting bar and the character is just stuck in the casting animation."
hmm,sounds more like a D3 glitch imo
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You are spot on Tony, it's a D3 glitch - and it can happen playing manually (and you will stay in that "fake cast" animation until you click on-screen or do something else).

But I think the DB teleporting code could do with a "timeout" - if it fails to cast teleport after 10-15 seconds, maybe move slightly, even moving 1 mm in random direction clears your character from the "stuck" animation, and then re-try the TP cast.

So yes, D3 bug, that some people seem to get more than others (might be lag related, might just be random, I haven't had this happen in months, but I had it a lot when I first started) - but would be useful if the DB teleport behavior tree had some failsafes for it! :D
 
GilesSmith said:
But I think the DB teleporting code could do with a "timeout" - if it fails to cast teleport after 10-15 seconds, maybe move slightly, even moving 1 mm in random direction clears your character from the "stuck" animation, and then re-try the TP cast.
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agreed!
 
That would explain why it does the same thing on all my computers on the same internet connection. Well, it is indeed a bummer then. Since this is most likely the case, could anyone help with some code needed to compensate for this?

EDIT: Oh, and I didn't even know that it was you Giles that posted above. Noticed over an hour later when re-reading. Anyhow, I will be happy to give you a donation for your great work. Simply a fantastic job that everyone has done. If anyone could round up a fix as suggested above I would be as grateful!

Tony, if you could pass Giles suggestion onto the devs that be great! Perhaps a quick fix even. Let me know if that happens soon, ive never seen patch notes for DB updates. Great job also!
 
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Enjoy!
Changelog .273

- Will now attempt to cast town portal again after 10 seconds if it's not in town already. ( should fix a bug where it looks like it's casting tp but no bar apears over the player )
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I would like to thank Giles for helping confirm the reason behind my issue as well as the DB team for taking quick action attempting to implement a fix. BRAVO! I am very pleased and feel great knowing the developers and others alike are willing to tackle an issue preventing us from botting correctly or, not at all. Not everyone suffered from this i am sure, but you certainly cared enough. I look forward to using the program, supporting the devs and bringing more issues to light. Now I should be able to bot again =)
 
I have noticed this too and I get it a lot ! Monk tempest rush skill will mess up movements and teleport.

Removing the skill seems to be fix though.

Another solution would be to disable combat before teleporting but that would be a plugin problem.

I haven't tried any other combat routines yet.

Probably should let know Giles about this ...

So I'm really not sure how this could work around.

My teleporting code is:

Code: 
<While questId="1" condition="CurrentLevelAreaId != 19947">
			<UseTownPortal questId="1" />
			<WaitTimer questId="1" WaitTime="1000" />
		</While>
OR
<If questId="1" condition="CurrentLevelAreaId != 19947">
			<UseTownPortal questId="1" />
			<WaitTimer questId="1" WaitTime="1000" />
		</If>

And 273 doesn't do anything (the casting bar doesn't appear at all) in some areas. Tried to add a MoveTo tag (since moving seems to unstuck it) => no sucess either :(

Edit: Filling a ticket to Blizzard: hey guys my bot doesn't teleport to town WTF :D
 
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supermofo said:
I have noticed this too and I get it a lot ! Monk tempest rush skill will mess up movements and teleport.

Removing the skill seems to be fix though.

Another solution would be to disable combat before teleporting but that would be a plugin problem.

I haven't tried any other combat routines yet.

Probably should let know Giles about this ...

So I'm really not sure how this could work around.

My teleporting code is:

Code: 
<While questId="1" condition="CurrentLevelAreaId != 19947">
            <UseTownPortal questId="1" />
            <WaitTimer questId="1" WaitTime="1000" />
        </While>
OR
<If questId="1" condition="CurrentLevelAreaId != 19947">
            <UseTownPortal questId="1" />
            <WaitTimer questId="1" WaitTime="1000" />
        </If>

And 273 doesn't do anything (the casting bar doesn't appear at all) in some areas. Tried to add a MoveTo tag (since moving seems to unstuck it) => no sucess either :(

Edit: Filling a ticket to Blizzard: hey guys my bot doesn't teleport to town WTF :D
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thats fixed on latest beta version
 
I still have this issue from time to time and I have the latest DB version as far as I know. I seem to only get it in Tower of the Damned for some reason, when it's trying to tp out of there.
 
I've made it move a little each time before it cast town portal will be fixed on the .71 beta build.
 
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