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re: Aliases and quickslot Shortcuts - A Macro Tutorial

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This thread can be found through the Super Sticky Thread
It is also featured on Lotrovault (full version) and Warcry (older version).

Just like DDO, Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar has an /alias function.
This very basic macro allows players to store long messages or commands in a shorthand format.
Furthermore, LotRO has a /shortcut command which maps a message, emote, alias or command to a quickslot.


Alias
The alias command consists of two parts, the ID and the TEXT.
The ID is always preceded by a ;
The general structure of the command is:
Quote:
/alias ;ID TEXT
An example:
/alias ;x Hello World
Invoked via the chat input:
;x
[Say]Bob says: 'Hello World'

Multiple aliases may be strung together:
/alias ;h Hello
/alias ;w World
Now we create a third alias, ;hw, that is composed of the two previous:
/alias ;hw ;h ;w
;hw
[Say]Bob says: 'Hello World'
See post 'Simple Examples' further below for more on this

If one of the under-alias is changed the top-alias is also altered:
/alias ;w Walter
;hw
[Say]Bob says: 'Hello Walter'

Emotes in aliases
A single command or emote may be incorporated into an alias at the beginning of the TEXT. 
Any command not in the beginning will be rendered as plain text.
Text following an emote will, as usual, replace the standard emote message.
/alias ;b /bow
/alias ;bmg /bow bows and says 'Mae govannen'
;b
Performs bow emote
Bob bows for Sue
;bmg
Performs bow emote
Bob bows and says 'Mae govannen'


Chat wiith aliases
You can use aliases to send /tells to a specific person:
/alias ;ts /t Sue
;ts Hi!
[Tell]Bob tells Sue: 'Hi!'

It is possible to create /alias that automatically sends to a specified channel, 
while the chat input will remain in the current channel
/alias ;kw /k Welcome to the Kinship
To Fellowship: ;kw Sue!
[Kinship]Bob says: Welcome to the Kinship Sue!
To Fellowship: 


Commands and aliases
You can use other /commands than emotes too:
/alias ;i /invite
;i Sue
Waiting for player to accept or decline invitation
/alias ;fa /friend add
;fa Sue
Sue has been added to your list of friends
For e.g. /friend add /invite and /kinship recruit the name must be added manually 
or incorporated into the TEXT part of the alias.
It might be possible to get around this by creating aliases with ;target in the TEXT, this does not work atm, 
if anyone can shed some light on this please post.



Managing aliases
List all aliases in standard text window:
/alias list
Delete all aliases
/alias clear
Remove a specified alias ;x
/alias remove ;x

For more examples and better explanations go down to the post 'Some Examples'.

Aliases are character specific, you'll have to rewrite them for each character.
If you plan on having many save them in a text editor and then copy/paste them into the game.

Unlike DDO, LotRO does not support markup tags like <u> or <p>.
Please change this Turbine.

Shortcut
The shortcut command consists of two parts, the location, LOC, and the TEXT.
The general structure of the command is:
Quote:
/shortcut LOC TEXT
LOC is a number between 1 and 72 corresponding to a quickslot. 
The most common quickslots are:
Quickslot Bar LOC
Normal 1 - 12
Ctrl 13 - 24
Alt 25 - 36
Shift 37 - 48

The shortcut slots may be moved around between slots and bars just like skills and equipment. 
Assign it to any free slot (e.g. 8) and then move it to wherever you want it.

Just as with aliases a single /command may be placed at the beginning of the TEXT. 
The TEXT may also be one or more aliases.
Quote:
/shortcut 25 /bow bows and says 'Mae govannen'
/shortcut 26 /follow
Alt+1
Performs bow emote
Bob bows and says 'Mae govannen'
Alt+2
You begin to follow Sue

(Observant readers will note that we could have used ;bmg instead of /bow bows and says 'Mae govannen')

A quickslot can be assigned to any keys in Options->Key Mapping
/shortcut 61 /follow
Options->Key Mapping->Quickslot 61->'y'
y
You begin to follow Sue 

/shortcut are static, meaning they will remain as whatever they were when created.
To shortcut aliases that change like the built in NSWE coordinate alias ;loc
or the ;hw in the beginning of this post you use an alias function:
Quote:
/alias shortcut ;ID LOC
/alias shortcut ;loc 13
Ctrl+1
12.3N, 45.6W
In this command there is no / infront of shortcut.

Unfortunatly there is currently no way to make a shortcut apply to a target
since the inbuilt ;target alias is not activated.

Hopefully you can use this to make it a little easier to roleplay or to communicate quickly.
Shorten that mouthful Lairelithoniel to ;l
And you no longer have any excuse for writing heal plz, when ;h, could do it. 
You might even take the time to, just once, spell correctly. 

P.S. I reserve the right to be wrong about details and to change them.
Please help contribute useful bits. Thank you.

Last edited by Vindsvandraren; 04-09-2007 at 12:59 PM.
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