Is it possible to create a Macro a specific Macro ...

[Cranium]

Is it possible to create a Macro a specific Macro ...

Issue I am having is that I have a Male Arachnos Night Widow ... I got the Prestige Costumes: Costume Arachnos Night Widow thinking I can just click on that to change gender to female ... but that power just turns the character into male version which I already have.

 

My quandary is that Arachnos Widows and Arachnos Soldiers only ONE costume slot for there special outfits. I was hoping that perhaps there was a macros i could create to that allow change to alternate gender, and then turn on the power to Prestige Costumes: Costume Arachnos Night Widow, and Vice Versa ... Turn off the Prestige Costumes: Costume Arachnos Night Widow and go back to the original Costume.

 

Is this possible?

[Vanden]

When you have an aether costume that changes based on your character's body type, it depends on the body type of your current costume. So all you'd have to do is have your uniform costume be one gender, and then have another costume slot be a different gender, and switch to that latter slot before you turn on the aether costume power. No need for a macro, unless you want to do the swap very frequently.

[Cranium]

That requires two manual clicks ... which I perfer not to do ... when the Aether Costume is active it not allowing change of costume for me.

[biostem]

4 minutes ago, Cranium said:

That requires two manual clicks ... which I perfer not to do ... when the Aether Costume is active it not allowing change of costume for me.

The game very intentionally limits what you can do via automation, so you'll either have to already be in the costume with the desired body type, or have to switch to one of said desired body type via one macro, then click it again to activate the prestige costume power/item...

[Vanden]

6 minutes ago, Cranium said:

That requires two manual clicks ... which I perfer not to do ... when the Aether Costume is active it not allowing change of costume for me.

 

In that case, you can do what you want with two macros, not one. If your uniform costume slot is set to the male body type and you'll be using the costume to change to the female body type, with the costume in your second slot:

 

/macro Boy powexectoggleoff Costume: Arachnos Night Widow $$cc 0

/macro Girl cc 1$$powexectoggleon Costume: Arachnos Night Widow

 

If you want both options to be on the same button, you have to do that with a bind, it can't be done with macros.

[Cranium]

What would that bind be?

[Vanden]

7 minutes ago, Cranium said:

What would that bind be?

 

Alright, so you'd need to go into the folder where you have City of Heroes Homecoming installed. In that location there should be a folder called "Settings", and in there a folder called "live". In this folder, you need to create two new .txt files, we'll call them Boy.txt and Girl.txt. Now let's say you want to swap your Night Widow's gender when you press the U key. Put the following lines of text in each file and save them:

 

In Boy.txt:

u "powexectoggleoff Costume: Arachnos Night Widow $$cc 0$$bindloadfile Girl.txt"

 

In Girl.txt:

u "cc 1$$powexectoggleon Costume: Arachnos Night Widow$$bindloadfile Boy.txt"

 

With those files in place, type "/bindloadfile Boy.txt" into the chat window in-game, and you should be set up to swap whenever you press the U key. Just replace the u at the beginning of each line in the .txt files with whichever key you want to have the swap on.