Song Timer

by Furien

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Furien2007-02-28 05:32:47
Since I no longer have Zmud, I was wondering if it's possible to make a timer sort of thing that warns me as soon as my Song begins to go down? That way, I can refrain it to reset the timer. It'd be -really- helpful if anyone can do this, since manually rechecking and playing in the middle of a fight is a serious pain.
Unknown2007-02-28 07:45:07
Do you get a message "your song has faded" or do you just no longer see the effects happening?
Unknown2007-02-28 20:34:43
You get the message Your song "Whateverthesongyouwereplayingwascalled" has faded away. So for one called, Wrath, it would be, Your song "Wrath" has faded away.
Lendren2007-02-28 21:47:24
Yeah, but by the time you see it, it's too late, you have to Refrain before then.

Don't know a way to do that in Nexus, though. Best I can think is to set a trigger on the output of SONGSTAT and then just do SONGSTAT a lot -- it doesn't take equilibrium or balance or anything, and I think you can even do it off balance.
Unknown2007-02-28 22:50:34
Ya, I don't know how you'd do it in nexus. *has zero experiance in nexus* In Zmud I'd just set up a timer that would trigger to start as soon as I activated the song, and echoed a warning message when I would need to sing again to keep it active.
Lyriell2007-07-31 15:48:37
Just start up your song and as soon as you hit the last line use SONGSTAT to find out how many seconds you have.

1) Trigger the last line by highlighting it (just the first line if it wraps to a second) and right click to make it a trigger.
2) Set the timer by adding a #wait. similar to zmud, time is measured in miliseconds. I would advise setting the timer for at least 5 seconds BEFORE your song is scheduled to end.
3) add a few echo lines so you don't miss them

It should look something like this:

#wait 75000
#echo YOU NEED TO REFRAIN!!
#echo YOU NEED TO REFRAIN!!
#echo YOU NEED TO REFRAIN!!
Unknown2007-07-31 18:12:26
Never, ever use #WAIT unless you absolutely, really have to (and you never do). Use #ALARM instead. I don't know if Nexus even has timers...
Lyriell2007-07-31 19:51:25
Sadly, #wait is the only option for nexus.