New Bind / Macro: Team Select Next and Prev

[BlackSpectre]

Those of you who play support toons, especially healers and buffers, know that using the /select command is far superior to the /target commands because you can select your teammates even if they're not in line of sight. However, one problem with using /Select is that each /Select bind you make can only Select 1 teammate. So you'll need 8 keys with a different bind on each to be able to select all 8 teammates. Most people don't have a real problem with that since the SHIFT+F1 F-key binds are already there. Some people bind the /Select command to the Number Pad keys (like I do), but you're still only selecting  one at a time using a single bind for each and it's fairly slow going. Wouldn't it be nice if there were NEXT and PREV /Select commands to cycle through the whole team quickly? Well... look no further!

 

The following creates 2 macro buttons in your Power Tray #6, power slots 3 & 4 using the /MacroSlot command. Note: any macros already in those power slots will be deleted, so move them out of the way.

 

STEP 1:

Copy the zip file attached to this post, and copy it to C:\Games\Homecoming\Settings\Live\Binds\ . If "Binds" folder doesn't exist, then create it. Then Extract the contents of the zip file into that same folder. It will extract 8 text files named "TeamSelect#".

 

SETP 2:

Copy and paste the following bind string into the Chat box in game.

/macroslot 53 "Setup" "bind_load_file /binds/teamselect1.txt"

 

STEP 3:

Click on the newly created macro named "Setup" and both macros will automatically be created and configured. Done.

 

NOTES:

You can have the macros take up different power slots in your trays, but you'll need to edit each of the text files with the new MacroSlot numbers. See  /MacroSlot for more information. 

 

You can also, of course, use the same bind strings to use on keyboard keys or mouse buttons. If you'd like to do that, edit each text file and delete the beginning of the bind strings $$macroslot 53 " 8►   Team Select Next" and replace it with the desired Key Names. So your new bind strings in the text file would look something like this:

RIGHTARROW "teamselect 1$$bind_load_file /binds/teamselect2.txt"
LEFTARROW "teamselect 7$$bind_load_file /binds/teamselect8.txt"

and initially you would need to load in the text file into the game once it's all set

/bind RIGHTARROW "bind_load_file /binds/teamselect1.txt"

 

 

 

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Edited 20 hours ago by BlackSpectre