FFXI Tutorials - GearSwap

[@zombiechow9974]

it is the year 2022. as a returning player this material is very educational. thank you sir!

[@kazekami13]

So easy to follow! Your voice is very soothing and your background musing is not obnoxiously loud! I love this content! Thank you!

[@TheDavid771]

Very detailed and very clear and easy to understand. Amazing job! Looking forward to more advanced guide.

[@Shystie2oo1]

I am glad to see someone is making some videos about this. One thing I did not hear you mention and seems to be a major problem beginners miss is to SAVE the updates before reloading the lua in game. So many times people forget to save and spend a lot of extra time trying to find an issue that doesn't exist.

[@jdavis7993]

Yeah, that and if they have their friend editing it and sending it to them they'll leave it in the downloads folder sometimes, I'll bring that up in part 2.

[@jakarai]

@@jdavis7993 what happened to part 2?

[@hazardsurferboy]

Great information and love the old school game music in the background.

[@crystalchaos462]

I spent a ton of time learning and perfecting my SpellCasts. Once GearSwap came around I was VERY overwhelmed with the new addon because I could no longer play the way that I did. I wasn't very into learning a new scripting language just to play a game either. I tried copy/pasting gear into the prewritten LUA files but I didnt understand any of it. I also thought using ashitacast would work for me with the similar XML markup to SpellCast. There was little documentation on what I could actually do with it. The prewritten xml files looked very crude at the time. In the end I used the new equipment sets system just to get my main job functional again but it was never the same. Most of my friends were quitting at the time and it wasn't worth it to learn with so few left to play with. Sorry for the wall of text guys. This video gave me a bit of PTSD but I still gave you a thumbs up.

[@jdavis7993]

Really GearSwap is quite easy to use at a base level, you just have to be careful when copy/pasting. The biggest thing people do wrong is not having commas after each piece of gear, having extra commas, not having a {} surrounding a set, or having extra { or } next to a set. Every time I fix someone's file this is the issue like 95% of the time. When it's not that, it generally wasn't their fault because the file was broken before they got it... Though I must admit, gearswap is worth the change, this video doesn't even begin to cover what this can do.

[@KiwiGoneDutch]

Writing scripts for Spellcast and Gearswap has been the most fun way ever to learn code. Haven't played in a long time and coming back for a free week is great. Thanks to Gearswap I'm still able to play the game as I've forgotten everything sinds (though it comes back very fast).

[@justinsmith6334]

Bravo! Thank you for posting this. GearSwap is very overwhelming when you copy and paste someone else's script.! I've had this explained to me so it wasnt super helpful but Ill tell you. If this video was around when I was learning it. It would have been ALOT easier!! :)

[@jdavis7993]

@11:38 I mention checking the console window: You can press INS to keep the console window open so you can read it. I would have made this an annotation but KZbin is getting rid of annotations on the 15 of January specifically to spite me.

[@BossItUp911]

Hey Alice - quick update. Made $25,000 over the last few days on my stocks. How much fantasy money did you make in final fantasy over last few days? Nice feminine voice btw. I bet the chicks love it.

[@jdavis7993]

@@BossItUp911 Hey Karen. Glad you're making money on everyone's suffering, lucky you! I'm also glad you got so fucking mad you actually wasted your time that you posted a REPLY to comment that is literally YEARS old. I am legitimately happy that I have wasted your time.

[@jdavis7993]

There will be more to come :p I wanted to start off with very basic stuff and work my way up from there. Probably next video will be about globals and how to edit functions to do new things.

[@BossItUp911]

Speaking of "embarrassing one's self" - are you serious with this? One of those gamer dorks with no girlfriend, no career, and no future. Look at you rambling on about nonsense.

[@Pulptenks]

What a little gem this video. Thank you!

[@foshizzzle0o]

Hell yesss Thank you and super respect for doning this...

[@mvendi86]

Great video, I hope someday you will consider making part two.

[@nivlacasura]

I liked and subscribed because you are on the asura server, Asura 4 life!!

[@skrillsama6106]

thanks man this video was awesome. Do more : 0

[@kaykii8834]

Great Video Good voice, Hope there is more coming :D

[@metalridz9379]

What a helpful video. Thanks bro

[@cinikal]

mucho bueno! finally someone did a good GS tutorial, moar prease!

[@gabrielfournier4143]

Hello, i just want to move my equipement window to the side of my screen. I can move the mini map with my mouse but its not working with the equipement window.

[@goldn26]

waiting on the next video!!!

[@visoroverwatch3247]

Great, now not only do i have to watch returning player guides, but i have to learn programming too? lol.

[@jakarai]

i know right lol its ridiculous. i just wish SE would give this game a modern update already since consoles are no longer holding it back

[@Rykojames]

Returning player guide: if you have to learn to program cheats in order to make a game playable, play something else instead.

[@justinserrano4506]

Hmm wanting to use gearswap as I dual box but now it feels like waaay more work in figuring things out. Specially since I woll RDM and PLD Dual boxes. hmmm

[@robertharley1728]

Nice Perfect Dark Music.

[@muramasa2643]

Heya, trying to figure out why "my" Lua isn't working. Please help ; ; The file is loading fine. Yet my gear doesn't swap. I've tried two different Lua's now. Currently working on Arislans - Do I need to paste a set into every single set function? Ie, I am very new - I don't have enough gear to fill all these scenarios. So for now I am basically looking to use a fast cast set for precast and a MAB for midcast. At first I tried to just use those function that were appropriate to this. Do i need to fill every gear set "brace" with some form of gear set? Hope I'm clear, I don't seem to getting anywhere.

[@FurlowT]

I'm rather slow when comes to programing stuff, but hopefully I'll be able follow this good! I'm testing it out with Blu cleaving build.

[@mindseven7217]

I'm trying to learn this. For me it's like learning a foreign language

[@bigfunkman6876]

This was a great guide, only thing would be good to share a blank "Skeleton file" that has all the gears removed as you just did, so i can export my gear .lua's from in game to. Other files im looking at doesn't seem to be clear, and im looking for a set just like that above with everything removed

[@CPhase2]

This is a good video. It could be better if you slow down a bit on the actions you take. Around the 4:30-4:40 point when you started converting one .lua to another, you started deleting faster than I could really catch without scrolling back a couple times. A slower pace would be good for those of us who are completely new to GS .luas. otherwise...GREAT DELIVERY.

[@tiffanyandrews5942]

Hi there, great video! It's been a year now, please do an advanced version. There's alot of things I need to learn to improve my gearswap lua's. This would be greatly appreciated.

[@jcgarcia2102]

Great video. Any way you can explain how to set up ingame macros to work in conjunction gearswap? If you could it would be greatly appreciated.

[@jdavis7993]

Sure: So far for next video I have: Troubleshooting, Functions, Macros, Send Commands and Show Swaps as things I want to go over.

[@jdavis7993]

In the interim, in the macro you put in /console input gs c command Example: I have F12 bound to cycle weapon lock mode like this: send_command('bind f12 gs c cycle WeaponLockMode') the in-game macro would be: /console input gs c cycle WeaponLockMode

[@jcgarcia2102]

Great man. This is very helpful. I really appreciate you taking the time to do this.

[@jcgarcia2102]

Great man. This is very helpful. I really appreciate you taking the time to do this.

[@Yona-Ek]

Anyone know if he’s discord is available. I can’t seem to find him using the discord name he has on here. ( I got it to work)

[@nickv3085]

Just added you on disc - have been having some issues with my whm lua and was hoping you'd be willing to help me out :)

[@eyanmartin-snyder3435]

Why are the character floating

[@Nicosh]

Thanks for making this one! 1 million dollar advice: delivering your message by voice will be one hundred percent more effective with no background music. BGM doesn't add anything, but annoyance. Good job otherwise.

[@danreed2474]

thanks for this video i hope you plan to continue this series

[@yazeed_0o0]

good video but the music is lowder than you

[@lordpasqual3343]

The most important part is left out... the actual description/explanation of the functions and overall structure of commands. How do they work with the game, what defines them, do they need another file that defines the libraries for them... "making our own" from where? from what? what's the "from scratch" guide?... I'm sorry but I find this to be a lazy fast forwarded video that skips over the most important parts and just thinly shows the export and copy paste but not a more in-depth examples.

[@Lordnat1]

Just wow lol

[@Erock1985x]

haha Chatgpt makes this way easier

[@SAINTDENIS22]

Macros aren't perfect but better than this nightmare!! I want to play, not learn how to code! (Then debug, no thx)

[@Rykojames]

PSA: stop plying games that are utterly and completely unplayable without 3rd party programs that are against the games TOS.