[WoW] PetAttack to kill totems?

[NitroGlycerine]

I have been searching and browsing these forums for a while but couldn't find an answer.

After Blizzard fixed the pet-totem-stomping macros I've been looking for a way to recreate the functionality using the PetAttack lua function. As far as I understand the PetAttack function only allows you to order your pet to attack your current target, or is it possible to give a unit/object-id along with it? And if so, how would that be done?

Thanks in advance

[Maisteri]

I guess it could be done like this

/focus
/target Totem
/pet attack
/target Focus

This would only destroy one totem and has nothing to do with lua or memory editing but oh well

[NitroGlycerine]

The 'problem' is that I'm using a focus target most of the time, so i can't switch targets the way you described. So I'm afraid memory writing will be involved.

[MaiN]

Use /targetlasttarget then.

[amadmonk]

You can also use mouseover. You have to make the mouseover "sticky," though (just poking the GUID in usually isn't enough).

[snigelmannen]

fyi targeting totems in macros doesnt work, unless you run luaninja or similar

[ostapus]

in simple
1. enumerate objects - find totem guid
2. in one call
- save current focus or target guid
- set focus/target guid w/ totem guid
- call petattack focus/target
- restore focus/target guid

[Diavol]

in simple
1. enumerate objects - find totem guid
2. in one call
- save current focus or target guid
- set focus/target guid w/ totem guid
- call petattack focus/target
- restore focus/target guid

Care to do the ground work and throw out a working stomp script/macro using luaninja?

[evil2]

Care to do the ground work and throw out a working stomp script/macro using luaninja?

things blizzard don't want you to do:
- target a totem with /target name
- target a mage with clones with /target name
- etc

so you cannot do it via lua script/macro without a specific hack
(this not the same as "protected lua").

most people do this:
write the totem guid into the player_target address. (see "ostapus" post)

[ostapus]

Care to do the ground work and throw out a working stomp script/macro using luaninja?

well, i am not familiar w/ luaninja. here is subset from my code, dunno how helpfull it might be for you.

ENUMS = {
SORT_DISTANCE=0,
SORT_HP=1,
SEARCH_ENEMY=2,
SEARCH_FRIENDS=3,
SEARCH_ANY=4,

T_OBJECT = 0x0001,
T_ITEM = 0x0002,
T_CONTAINER = 0x0006,
T_UNIT = 0x0008,
T_PLAYER = 0x0010,
T_GAMEOBJECT = 0x0020,
T_DYNAMICOBJECT = 0x0040,
T_CORPSE = 0x0080,
T_AIGROUP = 0x0100,
T_AREATRIGGER = 0x0200,
}

do
local T_ANYENEMY = ENUMS.T_UNIT+ENUMS.T_PLAYER
local _lastFindClosestUnit = 0
local _rc = {}

function Utility:FindClosestUnit(callBack, unitType, searchType, sortType, maxDistance)
local _calls = 0

_rc.object, _rc.guidLo, _rc.guidHi = _FastEnumObjects(
function(object, lo, hi, dist, hp)
_calls = _calls + 1
return callBack(object, lo, hi, dist, hp)
end, unitType, searchType, sortType, maxDistance)

_debug("FindClosesUnit calls: %d: ret: %X", _calls, _rc.object or -1) ;
if ( _rc.object ~= nil and _rc.object ~= 0) then
return _rc
end
end
return nil ;
end

function Utility:CastIfCan(spell, target, useTrinket, forceCast)
..... rather long fuction
end

function Utility:GetObjectByName(objectName)

local function _findByName(object, loGUID, hiGUID, distance, health)
local name = ObjectName(object)
if ( name and name == objectName ) then return true end
end

return self:FindClosestUnit(_findByName, ENUMS.T_OBJECT, ENUMS.SEARCH_ANY, ENUMS.SORT_DISTANCE, 100)
end

function Utility:guidCall(lowGUID, highGUID, func2Call, object, ...)
local oldLGUID, oldHGUID
oldLGUID, oldHGUID = Utility:getGUID("focus")
Utility:setGUID("focus", lowGUID, highGUID)
Utility.func2Call(object, ...)
Utility:setGUID("focus", oldLGUID, oldHGUID)
end

end

function Utility:KillTotem(spell, forceCast)
for _,v in pairs({ "Earthbind", "Mana Spring", "Mana Tide" } ) do
local h, l = Utility:GetObjectByName(v)
if ( h and l ) then
_debug("Kill totem %s GUID: %x:%x", v, h, l)
if ( Utility:guidCall(l, h, Utility.CastIfCan, self, spell, "focus", nil, true)) then return true end
end
end
return false
end

[rootguy]

I have been searching and browsing these forums for a while but couldn't find an answer.

After Blizzard fixed the pet-totem-stomping macros I've been looking for a way to recreate the functionality using the PetAttack lua function. As far as I understand the PetAttack function only allows you to order your pet to attack your current target, or is it possible to give a unit/object-id along with it? And if so, how would that be done?

Thanks in advance

Under the hood the lua function calls a function with a pointer to a guid so if you could figure out a way to call the real castpetaction function from your lua you'd be set