Rift RP Addons

[Feine]

And no, I didn't say it shouldn't be there (as pointed out by my later suggestion ). I just wouldn't want the same flag to have two meanings, is all

Our understanding was that, although the IC flag excludes the OOC one and vice-versa, there is also another option, which is not to have either flag set. Our understanding was then that not specifying the OOC flag meant that you were currently IC, and specifying the IC flag meant that you prefered always IC.

Ie, using the letters 'c' for IC and 'o' for OOC, as Seebs allocated them, you could choose

1) 'c' meaning always IC
2) 'o' meaning currently OOC
3) '' (ie neither) meaning currently (but not necessarily always) IC

Otherwise, what is the point in having two separate flags? You could just have one that was either present or not.

And so, if that was the intended purpose of the "IC" flag, then we thought it could use a better description of itself as such.

[the_real_seebs]

The reason I switched to yes-or-no flags was mostly a software issue; it turned out to be hard to cleanly express "is this flag set?" and "what is this flag set to?" in a way that developers could easily use. Also, there were things that struck me as not mapping.

I was thinking about the full-time-roleplayer flag, and I guess my question is this: How is that different from just setting the IC flag and leaving it set? I guess the implication is that you prefer not to have OOC communications at all, or something?

I could add an "always IC" flag, I suppose, which would be exclusive of OOC (but not necessarily of IC, I guess.)

[the_real_seebs]

Otherwise, what is the point in having two separate flags? You could just have one that was either present or not.

To clarify this one: Some people tend to meander about neither explicitly IC nor explicitly OOC, so if you address them in character, they'll respond in character, and same for OOC. I do that a fair bit, although I tend to always go IC for /say and /yell, and often OOC for /p and /g.

[Feine]

The reason I switched to yes-or-no flags was mostly a software issue; it turned out to be hard to cleanly express "is this flag set?" and "what is this flag set to?" in a way that developers could easily use. Also, there were things that struck me as not mapping.

I was thinking about the full-time-roleplayer flag, and I guess my question is this: How is that different from just setting the IC flag and leaving it set? I guess the implication is that you prefer not to have OOC communications at all, or something?

I could add an "always IC" flag, I suppose, which would be exclusive of OOC (but not necessarily of IC, I guess.)

Fair enough; we were just working on the assumption that your new 'c' IC flag was meant to be equivalent to your previously suggested '-OOC' flag, hence the suggestion of changing its description. There is not a lot of difference from just having the IC flag set all the time, this is true; it would just be an indication to someone that you're not going to turn your IC flag off, regardless of where you are or what you're doing.

[the_real_seebs]

Hmm. I think maybe a full-time RP flag would be a useful thing.

There's another question: Is anyone else planning to do an RP addon?

If not, I may need to figure out how to get some art resources together. Huh. If only like half my friends were artists...

[Feine]

What kind of resources? Wouldn't it mainly be just forms and fields and frames and things? Are these not available as standard in the API?

[the_real_seebs]

What kind of resources? Wouldn't it mainly be just forms and fields and frames and things? Are these not available as standard in the API?

I would really like a button that is not as huge as the native UI buttons. The "RP" button, which is 6x the width of the letters? That's about as narrow as I can make it without it getting squished.

[Mythue]

are we able to use this add-on now? if so how can it be done?

[Talila]

are we able to use this add-on now? if so how can it be done?

Only on the PTS client at the moment.

if you have the pts client then: Start your pts client and log in, on the character selection screen push the button called "addons", you should be met with a pop up window that has another button called "open addon directory"
- press that. Then go to Riftui, download the addon and drag+drop the addon's folder into the addon directory, close it and hit refresh on the window in the game. Then it should pop up saying you have it installed, make sure it's ticked to be enabled and then press play

But as said, not on the live client yet.

[Sywyn]

Will need to pop by the PTS to see how the addon works crossfaction since the recent API changes

[the_real_seebs]

Pretty sure it'll Just Work.

[the_real_seebs]

http://www.riftui.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=222

Unless something major comes up, that's the version of Merisioux intended for use on Live servers when 1.8 comes out.

[the_real_seebs]

New addon page

Long story short: I am bad at computers and managed to somehow mis-upload Merisioux in such a way that it could no longer be downloaded, uploaded, or interacted with in any way.

So I made a new project page for it.

[Myuriel]

The Addon is fantastic!

Thank you so much for putting this together. It will go a long ways to enhancing the RP community.

[the_real_seebs]

And for anyone using 0.5, especially if you're having issues with checkboxes: Updated to 0.6a which fixes that and a problem with the bio/meta fields (a harmless one; the word-wrap display below the edit box didn't update).