[REQUEST] Battle notifications

[Shambo]

Hey guys,

I'm wondering what the feasibility of a battle notification plugin would be? The reason I ask is after a frustrating night trying to help a friend clear Shiva Ex, relying on randoms for the other six, I ended up creating macros for stuff like "/p Staff Mode, run to positions <se.3>" and it'd be awesome if such notifications could be automated somehow.

I wouldn't even know where to begin in creating it myself, I lack the coding skill sadly, but the way I imagine it working is for the bot to read the battle log and then send a custom notification to the party when a certain event occurs. It'd maybe require other options too such as '@ X% HP remaining...' since I suspect some things couldn't be determined by the battle log, but I'm pretty sure Shiva's mode switch would be? Any thoughts? Is it even possible?

 

[kagepande]

Well you can check if a target has an aura/hp percentage/etc though Shiva doesn't actually change Auras for Sword/Staff/Bow, so I don't know how to go about that unless I tried to do so myself, but in theory yes, this is possible.

 

[Djdave]

Shiva gets a "Buff" icon for sword or staff I think if i remember right, not sure if this could be used.

 

[Eklipse]

I would highly recommend using ACT for this type of thing as it is done via a fairly simple interface mechanism and can be done with pretty much 0 coding. All you need to do is find the general expression in the battle log for the move you want and you can add count downs, sound triggers, pie chart warnings etc.