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TankLeader in-depth guide
This guide will introduce you to the basic and advanced features of TankLeader. You'll get acquianted with the basic and advanced features TankLeader has to offer.
1.0 Settings
TankLeader has settings, like pretty much any other program. You are free to set them to your likings, and many of them change the way TankLeader behaves. However, we only recommend changing settings if you feel you are an advanced user, and know what you are doing. You can break stuff in here, and it can cause unexpected behaviour. We only support the default settings; anything you modify after you have enabled the settings window is your own responsibility.
1.1 The Settings window
The settings window is hidden by default, TankLeader is designed to run fine on default settings. However, you can enable it if you so please by changing the following line in your TankLeaderSettings.xml file:
If you change False to True, the settings window will be shown in the TankLeader interface upon your next restart.
1.2 Queue Priority
The queue priority allows you to explicitly specify which tanks TankLeader should queue up with. If it's not set, TankLeader will select one of your primary tanks if they are available, and will pick a random vehicle if there isn't any. In short, the queue priority behaves as follows:
Generally, if you specify three or four vehicles in the QueuePriority setting, TankLeader will hardly ever resort to the latter two.
Queue Priority
We generally recommend you use the settings interface over modifying the configuration file by hand.
To set up a vehicle to be used as a priority vehicle - select it in World of Tanks, open up the TankLeader settings window and click the "+" button next to the tank's name. Do this for every vehicle you want to prioritize when queueing. The higher the vehicle is on the list, the higher the priority.
Primary Vehicles
You can set your primary vehicles inside World of Tanks itself. If you right click a vehicle in the garage, and then select "Set as Primary", TankLeader will automatically recognise it as such, and will prioritize it over other vehicles when queueing.
Random Vehicles
If you haven't specified a queue priority, and there are no primary vehicles, TankLeader will just pick an available vehicle at random from your garage. This isn't really random, as the order is dictated by World of Tanks itself. You can assure that, if - for example - you have a KV, Tiger and a SU-26 in your garage, and TankLeader picks the KV as its random vehicle first, it'll always pick that one first if it's available.
1.3 Extended View
The extended view shows the log in the main window, including the debug log which shows errors and stuff.
You can enable it by setting the following setting to True in the configuration file:
1.4 Targeting
TankLeader can use different modes for Targeting. While these are all experimental, and may not work properly, you can try them out for the time being until we're confident they work as they should.
The following modes are supported:
Most of them are self-explanatory. The only two I'm going to highlight here are Execute and Clever.
Execute
This mode favours targets at low health (20% or lower) over any other target. This means it'll always try to kill these if it gets into a situation where there are multiple vehicles. You should remember when using this mode that if there is an IS-7 firing at you, and there's a tier 4 tank at 20% or lower, which is hardly a threat to you, it'll ignore the IS-7 and tries to kill that low tier tank. On the other hand, it can mean you get more kills.
Clever
This mode combines all behaviours, and tries to find the most vulnerable target according to a few criteria.
The default value for this is ByHealth. Which is generally a safe bet. You are free to try out other targeting modes, but do keep in mind that this stuff is experimental, and things may break.
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We hope you enjoy TankLeader, and that it brings you a lot of credits and xp!
This guide will introduce you to the basic and advanced features of TankLeader. You'll get acquianted with the basic and advanced features TankLeader has to offer.
1.0 Settings
TankLeader has settings, like pretty much any other program. You are free to set them to your likings, and many of them change the way TankLeader behaves. However, we only recommend changing settings if you feel you are an advanced user, and know what you are doing. You can break stuff in here, and it can cause unexpected behaviour. We only support the default settings; anything you modify after you have enabled the settings window is your own responsibility.
1.1 The Settings window
The settings window is hidden by default, TankLeader is designed to run fine on default settings. However, you can enable it if you so please by changing the following line in your TankLeaderSettings.xml file:
Code:
<ShowSettingsButton>False</ShowSettingsButton>If you change False to True, the settings window will be shown in the TankLeader interface upon your next restart.
1.2 Queue Priority
The queue priority allows you to explicitly specify which tanks TankLeader should queue up with. If it's not set, TankLeader will select one of your primary tanks if they are available, and will pick a random vehicle if there isn't any. In short, the queue priority behaves as follows:
Code:
QueuePriority > Primary Vehicles > Random VehiclesGenerally, if you specify three or four vehicles in the QueuePriority setting, TankLeader will hardly ever resort to the latter two.
Queue Priority
We generally recommend you use the settings interface over modifying the configuration file by hand.
To set up a vehicle to be used as a priority vehicle - select it in World of Tanks, open up the TankLeader settings window and click the "+" button next to the tank's name. Do this for every vehicle you want to prioritize when queueing. The higher the vehicle is on the list, the higher the priority.
Primary Vehicles
You can set your primary vehicles inside World of Tanks itself. If you right click a vehicle in the garage, and then select "Set as Primary", TankLeader will automatically recognise it as such, and will prioritize it over other vehicles when queueing.
Random Vehicles
If you haven't specified a queue priority, and there are no primary vehicles, TankLeader will just pick an available vehicle at random from your garage. This isn't really random, as the order is dictated by World of Tanks itself. You can assure that, if - for example - you have a KV, Tiger and a SU-26 in your garage, and TankLeader picks the KV as its random vehicle first, it'll always pick that one first if it's available.
1.3 Extended View
The extended view shows the log in the main window, including the debug log which shows errors and stuff.
You can enable it by setting the following setting to True in the configuration file:
Code:
<ShowExtendedView>False</ShowExtendedView>1.4 Targeting
TankLeader can use different modes for Targeting. While these are all experimental, and may not work properly, you can try them out for the time being until we're confident they work as they should.
The following modes are supported:
Code:
ByDistance
ByHealth
Execute
ByTier
ByArmor
CleverMost of them are self-explanatory. The only two I'm going to highlight here are Execute and Clever.
Execute
This mode favours targets at low health (20% or lower) over any other target. This means it'll always try to kill these if it gets into a situation where there are multiple vehicles. You should remember when using this mode that if there is an IS-7 firing at you, and there's a tier 4 tank at 20% or lower, which is hardly a threat to you, it'll ignore the IS-7 and tries to kill that low tier tank. On the other hand, it can mean you get more kills.
Clever
This mode combines all behaviours, and tries to find the most vulnerable target according to a few criteria.
The default value for this is ByHealth. Which is generally a safe bet. You are free to try out other targeting modes, but do keep in mind that this stuff is experimental, and things may break.
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We hope you enjoy TankLeader, and that it brings you a lot of credits and xp!
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