automatons and gearswap

Hi all, 

the long and short of what I am trying to accomplish is actions (currently timer creation) for automaton cooldowns on "attachment abilities". for example the heat capacitor attachment has a 90 second cooldown. I would like to automatically create a timer and possibly other behavior later on. 

I have started with a mote lua for my pup and made adjustments as needed and have tried the following

function job_pet_precast(spell)
    if spell:contains('Heat') then
        add_to_chat(123,'pre DING!.')
    end
    add_to_chat(123, 'job pre fired')
end

function job_pet_midcast(spell)
    if spell:contains('Heat') then
        add_to_chat(123,'DING job!.')
    end
    add_to_chat(123, 'job mid fired')
end

function job_pet_aftercast(spell)
    if spell:contains('Heat') then
        add_to_chat(123,'after DING!.')
    end
    add_to_chat(123, 'job after fired')
end

what I have come to glean from this is that pet weaponskills trigger mid and aftercast, but the "attachment abilities" do not trigger any of them.

Not sure if it's something missing from the lua core or my having less of an understanding of the way it's all set up.

Thanks!

Hi all, 

 

the long and short of what I am trying to accomplish is actions (currently timer creation) for automaton cooldowns on "attachment abilities". for example the heat capacitor attachment has a 90 second cooldown. I would like to automatically create a timer and possibly other behavior later on. 

 

I have started with a mote lua for my pup and made adjustments as needed and have tried the following

 

function job_pet_precast(spell)
    if spell:contains('Heat') then
        add_to_chat(123,'pre DING!.')
    end
    add_to_chat(123, 'job pre fired')
end

function job_pet_midcast(spell)
    if spell:contains('Heat') then
        add_to_chat(123,'DING job!.')
    end
    add_to_chat(123, 'job mid fired')
end

function job_pet_aftercast(spell)
    if spell:contains('Heat') then
        add_to_chat(123,'after DING!.')
    end
    add_to_chat(123, 'job after fired')
end

 

what I have come to glean from this is that pet weaponskills trigger mid and aftercast, but the "attachment abilities" do not trigger any of them.

 

Not sure if it's something missing from the lua core or my having less of an understanding of the way it's all set up.

 

Thanks!

pet weaponskills/abilities used by your pet in ffxi you can only see pet_midcast and pet_aftercast

all abilities caused but your player have no pet_midcast/pet_aftercast as the ability auto activates after(or during) the player aftercast

that makes sense, but the generic-ified logic for these is

is puppet deployed?

->is appropriate attachment attached?

-->is there a maneuver available for consumption by this attachment?

--->Is the Timer down?

----->Consume Maneuver(s), Start countdown timer for re-use

so my next set of questions are

is this possibly not something that is sent a-la packet for mid/after cast?

is this categorized under spell or something else?

failing all else is there a way where I can get my lua to just read it happening in the chat log and fire a post event? (create a timer via timers plugin)

I was able to achieve my goal by using (or rather abusing) windower.register_event

Thanks for the help!