UO Second Age

I somehow lost all the macro and hot keys in my Razor, after taking several months off from playing. For some reason I can't find the simplest macros for casting spells. For example, if I want to just do a recall macro, or an e-bolt macro, how do I write it? Somehow I'm messing up the wait for target, pause (what length?), etc. order. Thanks.

How are you messing this up?

Cast Ebolt, and target yourself...stop recording. For some macros I don't need to add a delay for spell casting. For my recall macro, I put a .1 second pause in between wait for target and absolute target...but when I add to toggle an invis ring, I have to put the .1 second pause before the "wait for target." You have to play around with it and see what works.

Yes, linz, I can eat things. I'm glad that his temper shows that I am ready...

As for where your macros disappeared to: assuming you haven't changed anything on your computer, then you should know that Razor no longer uses the "C:\Program Files\Razor\" folder to store macros and profiles in. If you go to that folder, copy the profiles and macros folders, and then navigate to (assuming you are windows 7) "C:\Users\<your user name here>\AppData\Roaming (i believe.. tho it might be local--whichever has the Razor folder)\Razor" and then paste those folders in there, it should fix it. NOTE: this is a hidden folder--see below for how you can set your computer such that you can see hidden folders.

Making a good Razor macro is kind of like programming--It really boils down to knowing (1) what tools you have available to you and (2) how to integrate them together to do what you want. Reading Razor macro instructions is very helpful (I believe the wiki page has some decent instructions, or other forum posts), but really the best thing to do is experiment for yourself to see what works and what doesn't.

Some gotchas:

• Right-click the "wait-for-target" part of your macro and click "Set timeout". The default is 30 seconds, and if your macro ever gets off a beat, then it will pause 30 seconds, which is almost certainly not how you want it to react. I usually set the timeout to 2 or 3 seconds. Furthermore, if you don't do this and you had a macro that was "Cast greater heal--Wait for target--Target self" and you were disrupted while casting, then it would still be waiting for a target, and if you decided to cast Ebolt, it would immediately target yourself with it
• Absolute targetting (or double clicking specific items) vs. target by type (or double click by type). This is something you should play with and understand (to convert from absolute targetting to target by type, right click on the absolute target (or double click) action and select the "by type" option. This is good, for example, for cutting bandages--if you double click the scissors by type and target the cloth by type, then you can use that macro on any character with any pair of scissors and set of cloth (so long as the cloth type matches what was recorded). If you didn't do it by type, the macro would try to use that SPECIFIC set of scissors and cloth, meaning other characters almost certainly couldn't use it.

To see hidden folders:

• Open windows explorer (hold the Windows key on the keyboard and press E if you didn’t know that very handy shortcut)
• Press Alt (this should highlight the “File Edit View Tools (etc)” toolbar--it is hidden in Windows 7, so you must do this to access it.
• Click Tools
• Click Folder Options
• Click the “View” Tab
• In the “Advanced settings” In the Hidden files and folders (double click it) there are 2 radio buttons. Select “Show hidden files, folders, or drives”. This lets you see the Folder that you need to access to add macros manually to Razor
• Click the Apply button (of course)
  
  The macro files location
• If you are using Windows 7 (or vista, I think), go to C:\Users\<Your windows user name here>\AppData\Roaming\Razor\Macros
• If you are using Windows XP, go to (if I’m not mistaken--I believe it is also the AppData\Romain folder, although you may need to dig around a little bit): C:\Documents and Settings\<Your windows user name here>\Application Data\Razor\Macros