Jump/Ascend -- without Lua or a keypress?

[amadmonk]

Anyone know how to jump or ascend (like the Lua function JumpOrAscendStart) without calling the Lua function, and without pressing the key? I'm working on about ten things right now (thank you, Main) so I haven't had time to sort it for myself.

I'm not talking about simply going up -- I can do that by just setting the correct movement flag. That works fine -- if you're already flying. It's the part where you actually "jump" -- if you're flying, it's where you "unstick" from the ground and become airborne. If you're in the Vashj'ir zone (where I first found a need for it), it's when you get "unstuck" from the sea floor and start swimming. I have all of the logic down to determine when I can fly or start swimming, but what I don't have is a clean/elegant way to do that first "jump" if I'm still on the surface.

If nobody knows, I'll just call the Lua function manually, but it does a bunch of extra stuff that I'd prefer not to do, if it's possible.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: oh, before the CTM folks chime in, I just switched to -- and back from -- CTM. Simply put, CTM movement sucks. It's unpredictable and hard to control. If you're just pathing around to, say, mine nodes, I'm sure CTM is fine. But for the fine-grained navigation you need with tactical movement, CTM is an utter nightmare, and movement flags are the way to go.

[namreeb]

Can't you just look at the Lua_JumpOrAscendStart and figure out what it does? My guess is that it ultimately sends some sort of packet.

[amadmonk]

Well yeah, but I was hoping someone else had already done the work, since it seemed like a fairly basic task (and since I'm slammed with navigation and group AI stuff right now).

However, looking through the (known) calls that the Lua function makes, there's one that I missed which looks interesting: CGPlayer_C__TryChangeStandState. That might be the magic.

[UnknOwned]

Edit: oh, before the CTM folks chime in, I just switched to -- and back from -- CTM. Simply put, CTM movement sucks. It's unpredictable and hard to control. If you're just pathing around to, say, mine nodes, I'm sure CTM is fine. But for the fine-grained navigation you need with tactical movement, CTM is an utter nightmare, and movement flags are the way to go.

Well i am happy to tell you that you can infact jump(JumpAscend) with CTM ^^

[Scorpiona]

0x001D2F20 SendJump
int __thiscall SendJump(int this, int a2)

args are LocalPlayer pointer and LastHardwareAction

[amadmonk]

That's the ticket... thanks. Wonder what all the other stuff in the Lua function does (I can see stuff about testing if you're rooted, clearing AFK, and interrupting spells, and a couple of animation functions, but there's a ton of other stuff going on too...)

Edit: tried it and it works like a charm. It's a nice smooth ascend, too, which is far better than CTM. With CTM, if you "click" the air above you while on the ground on a flying mount, your character "dances" around on the ground for a second before finally becoming airborne; it's not too bad but if someone was watching you closely, it would be an obviously bot-like characteristic). With this API, you just launch into the air naturally.

The irony is that this is the last call in JumpOrAscendStart() and I was going down all the "unknown" calls trying them one by one, and I hadn't gotten to this one yet. When I looked at the Lua fn with my old outdated copy of Hexrays, it was obvious that this was the money shot, and all the other calls were mostly just flags testing (or doing things like cancel away/cancel pending spellcast, etc.). Ah well.