ok this is a public release

things the macro does

auto sort and delete fished up junk, will fight fished up monsters will auto fight agro when resting after a battle will heal to full MP and HP after a battle will use WS, JA and magic durring a fight this includes auto cure I have it setup now to start curing when your hp is in yellow to save MP ( it does not use melee when you are fight a agro only magic ) also added an option to delete certan items for ppl that can use the fished up junk will also find a fishing spot if it is unable to cast after a fight will equip a rod and bait will auto log when invintory is full or when you break your rod or run out of bait
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added ablility to log after certian number of cast in a row and you don't catch anything
also tweaked the fishing code

Latest Macro version number 4 ( 6-07-2006 ).

Name Katcher v3.5 all windows port ( or so I hope ) <-- AS OF 6-13-2006 --------

I have included all files and a readme
AS OF 7-22-2006 I am no longer supporting this version

insted please download the ffact version of me fishing macro

http://forums.cameroncole.com/index.php?showtopic=8917

Please Donate half of what ever you donate will go to AC Tool

o.0

jeust to let everyone know the current code is not the old code I tryed to get the old code to work but it did not want to work so I made a hybred of the old and the new idea I had I am gonna tweak it a bit more before I move on to adding the ability to fight out of town and handle agro and monsters I juat want a little feedback on the current code see if its quicker or slower

the new code auto computes button hold down time and kinda does a random patter the catch ratio should be much better then the last few betas I released and I think for a macro that is not based off nuking the mob nor relying on rod position it has a pretty good response time

like the Macro but I have not had a chance to test it out, one thing I was wondering was if you have a Player Status memory location I added some code to and old macro to stop fishing when the Chat log displayed You have a bad / terrible... feeling about this one.

The code was simple

// ========================= Constants declarations

badfeeling = You have a bad feeling about this one.
terrible = You have a terrible feeling about this one.
positive = Your positive you don't have enough skill to reel this one in!

// ========================= Sample of the code that stops the
// ========================= fishing process

if $ffact_PlayerStatus <> 6 and $ffact_ChatAction = $terrible
call fishstop
end

if $ffact_PlayerStatus <> 6 and $ffact_ChatAction = $positive
call fishstop
end

if $ffact_PlayerStatus <> 6 and $ffact_ChatAction = $badfeeling
call fishstop
end

Looking at the macro you put together I do not see a variable declaration for Player Status I would like to be able to re add this code to the macro it saved me allot of broken rods and lost bait. Any help would be appreciated.

as of now it won't break a rod it will just let the fish go at least thats how it was though out in my head o.0 although I can't say for sure cause my fishing is only lvl 16 so I haven't been able to catch higher fish.. and this code is not like the old it goes more off status and hp rather then just pushing dadadadada and will only triggers a reel in if the fish is dead... IE targethp = 256 witch is 0hp

this macro works near perfectly. the only thing that stops it from being absolutely perfect is that there are a few times out of every 10 or so where is fights the fish very slowly. other than that its great.

i do have 1 question though. soon im going to be lvling up my fishing in outdoor areas. will this macro release any monsters caught? or am i going to have to babysit my character to fight them off?

yes but first I am tweaking the fishing code I am trying for 100% catch ratio then I will add the agro and fight moster code back in

edge.... i love you. lol

Sorry for this noob reply but i'm really clueless when it comes to this.

I tried to start the marco after editing some stuffs so that it fits my own account but..

great job edge,
the macro is working nearly perfect, for me anyways. Its catching at
around 85% which is pretty good. There is one problem. Once in a WHILE,
and i do mean a while, it doesnt go into inventory and instead just constantly
presses down over and over endlessly.

This has only happened twice to be so far though so its not a big deal.

RiRi make sure you have ffxi set to compact keyboard mode also make sure you are using U.S. keyboard set up in windows any other keyboard setup messes up the macro

that invintory thing is a glitch when fishing in real laggy places I will try and fix it will try and add more delays and also sometimes AC Tool freaks out after its been running for a long time so its a good idea to restart it when it does that

things I am gonna add to next beta auto current invintory number and auto max invintory set and I am looking for the memlocs for the main menu so it will check for compact mode for you and I might also add U.S. keyboard betect but not sure yet in the next beta the bot will only auto sort after catching or not catching something to cut down on the invintory scanning it will only trigger if current = max the loop function will also go off current number so it won't over scan

Hi all this is my first attempt at trying a macro so I decided to go to Qufim Island with Lu and Minnow (87 fishing) .... the only results are the macro will only type "/fish" every few seconds even if a fish is caught it wont fight it .. it will just continue to type "/fish".

I'm using windower
I have set keyboard to compact
changed rod and bait names
I tried moving the .MAC file around in AC tools folder

Sorry if i have missed something but i'll stay tuned here and try what I can, Thanks^^

you need the namechanger plugin for windower.

ah yeah that was it ... thought that came with the latest version of windower lol

caught 2 fish right off the bat! ^^

but then on 3rd

"Something caught the hook!
You have a good feeling about this one!
Your line breaks" - macro didn't fight it ; ;

I'm not sure what went wrong but I'll get some more minnows continue with it.

jackfin what lvl is your fishing and where are you fishing and what are you fishing for? cause I may need to add a button cool off for harder fish

err crap I may know what cause the lie breakage o.0 I was fishing and noticed the fish hp hit 0 then jummped 10 points back up so I need to add in 2 more kill button downtimes in and it should fix it

status update I am not gonna fin dthe max invintory loc its easyer just to set it before u start the macro I will how ever get the locs for the menu for auto changing of compact mode

that inventory thing i dont think is a glitch, it seems to
happen exactly everytime the line breaks, which doesnt
happen very often.

Going to try and look into the code myself and see whats going on.
Havent had time to recently though, i'll see what i can find when
I have time.

The line breaks happened right after the fish message .. the macro didn't even get into bringing the stamina bar down.

I went back to Qufim Island with Lu and some minnows and I would catch a few then I would get a break exactly like above. I was able to catch all the fish even my targeted squids. After my last minnow I went to town and tried little worms and that worked very well except for about 1 in 12 stamina wouldn't get to zero and I would loose the catch. I didn't get any breaks in town but I would really like to fish in Qufim for squids since I am lvling off of them plus I'll be there for my next leg of lvling to 96 with black soles.

just uploaded beta 5 check it out on the first page

I am looking into the line breaking problem when fishing out of towns I have to work tomorrow sat and sun. so I will only get a few min to look at it per night but it will get fixed

ok think I fixed the line breaking problem but if it still breaks the line I know what to look at next also fixed not logging when you run out of bait also tweaked the fishing code a bit enjoy I gonna post it here before the first page just to see how it gonna work

ok you can find beta 6 on the first page

it doesn't work very well ; ;

i can catch black sole by myself no problem and quite easy in fact (never get the message "you don't know how much longer blah blah blah"), but the bot won't get the fish down to even 50% ; ; /cry

good work anyway, should work perfectly with moat carp.

Hi thanks for putting out beta6^^ I tested it for 45 min in Qufim with Lu and minnow again.

To me it works very well it just needs some tweeking=)

I got no broken lines at all.
Was able to catch every type fish.
I like that it doesn't scan for rustys after ever fish(helps with fish rate per hour).

Only problem was that when the fish would put in a little struggle the macro coudln't respond fast enough and the stamina bar would stay at same lvl or gain back about 20% and catch was lost. This happened about 1 out of 6 fish no matter what kind of fish.

ok cool beta 7 is gonna have the fight code in it

I got one question though on the 1 in 6 thing did it fight the fish really slow?

lavicota what lvl are the fishing your trying for are them NF ( notours fish )? if so I think I have an new idea for the code .. to catch them but sence my lvl is only 16 it will be trial and error till its right

my fishing level right now at 60 - black sole is capped at 93 i think, but with lu shang, you can catch them by hand, easy enough (you never run out of time to catch them).

the bot does fight it, brought it down to 65% then basically sit their till time run out.

Well in all the fighting seemed a bit slow and on the 1 in 6 deal it just seems to loose it's groove and cant recover. It just seems that it need an adjustment to react faster.

ok how does the rod act when fishing for black sole do you have to move the controller or keys left and right fast or can it be held down?

yeah i was able to hold

ok cool i gonna play with the numbers but i am off to work right now

just a status update I am about 60% done in adding the fight and agro code should be done in a day or two even had to find a memloc for TP err found it already

off to work I go..

Has anyone played with this macros to make it more effective? It isn't even catching moat carp for me at a reasoable percentage.

you'd have to be more specific about 'effective' before could give any insight but I believe this macro is still under cinstruction so what is out there is just what Edge has so dar not the finished product. His last one before FFACT fully broke worked great so just be patient or give more specifics so we can give suggestions on your specific case.

well it seems to not reel in very fast even on moat carp and it seems to reel in a lot when the rod is in the middle causing the fish to gain in stamina. I mean sometimes it works great but I am probably only 50% on moat carp with 58 fishing

I know about this I am working on it want to get all the code back in first then I will tweak the crap out of the fishing but do to my crazy ass work schdule I am doing it as fast as I can I am gonna work on the code some more tonight before I go to sleep

ok status update I got some good news I have the fight monster and the heal to full hp and mp after a fight working now I am off to bed I will release it after I have a chance to test it a bit more till then I will keep everyone up to date

Why don't you use the rod position memloc that is provided by ffxi_info.inc (thank you DrewIT, Cgrinds and Rzn)? To me it seems that the left/right position works well but i am getting a strange number for the center position. You only really need the left-right position of the rod to make the fight fish function work.

I'll post my fish macro later when back from work (tweaking a bit on the fight monster macro). So far i caught about 400 moat carps with it in the last day (main + mules).

Keep up the good work.

Wilco

you don't really need the center offsets/return value to work. Something like

while fightfish = true
If rodposition = right
keydown leftarrow
else if rodposition = left
keydown rightarrow
else
delay 100
end

forgive me for the pseudo code but I just finished like 4 assignments for C++ class and can't take the time to check specific syntax and values.

And as far as why Edgecom isn't using rod position(I didn't check if he is) I am not sure but I trust he has his reasons. My first experience with his code was his fishbot back when FFACT was still working and it was great.

Have a look at the code, its not finished yet. It requires ffxi_info.inc and alt-f9 macro setting rod, bait and fish command.

Was there something in specific you wanted me to check? The code you have in there for rod position fighting looks like basically the same proceedure I meant with the speudocode. Looks like you have what is prolly a fairly good working fishbot there or close to if not working. A little of it seemed slightly disorganized but for personal code that is to be expected, mine looks like roadkill hash until I comment it up and organize it.

Yeah it needs some refactoring. The functionality is working: it fishes pretty quickly.

I have some questions though:
- Is there any way to stop the cycling of the window name in ffxi through the windower. The bot doesnt start sometimes due to the cycling of the window name and it cant find the memlocs then as the ffxi window couldnt get focus.
- Whats the difference between a Function and a Procedure. I cant find any reference in the Actools help to function but maybe i wasnt looking correctly
- Have you got any idea why the center fish rod is coming with a strange number (maybe i should post that in another thread)
- Have you got any experience with the FishId? I want to implement it so you can single out fish and not catch any monster.

Thanks in advance,

Wilco

Edgecom thank you for the answers.

While playing with the script, I noticed it never "searched" for the items to toss when the inventory was full. It looks like there is code there to do it because of the "If $Result = $I#."I have not seen anyone else mention this, so I thought I would point it out.

Also, excellent job so far

I know I just noticed it its a code error on my part I am sorry I have fixed it I will release it with the fight code tonight I am adding something into the fight code ifrst then testing it a new beta should be uploaded in an hour or two and again sorry everyone

I am adding the ability to use just pure melee with the option to turn off magic completley and also adding the ability if you have cure enabled it will only start casting when your hp hits the halfway mark that away it saves mp and also won't keep spamming cure every 5 sec

i have the Beta ver.6 is that the lastest version? i was finally trying it out, (with all correct keyboard settings) and all i seem to do is nod left then it loops and nods down (in 1st person view) was looking over the code and made sure i had all the settings i believe i require...... didnt know whether or not FFact still had to be used and it does same thing....

Nvm, went to begining to re read anything i might have missed, and caught the namechange plugin part and since i refuse to play w/o windower i guess i need it ...... cant seem to find it though, althought i am not to sure where i should be looking...

I will post a link where u can download the name changer plugin after I do this last test run I will upload the macro its gonna have the fight and heal code in it along with the drop item fix then my next project will be agging the agro code back in then the find spot then I will tweak the fising err well I Am kinda doing that as I am going along but I will focus more on the fishing code after I get all the goods back in the macro

the new beta is uploaded