[Question] Detect if Casting

[fukmeimbroken]

Hey,

actually I'm using Thread sleep while casting. But sometimes I loose time between cast and next cast so I want to speed it up.

Whats the best way to check if the player is casting. Someone said the channel_spell field o.O but for me it just returns something while cast a true channel spell.

Greetings

[Remus]

I have seen just checking on GCD and spamming the fk out of it until it goes through >.> ineffective in some manners

I'd wait on a definitive answer though.

[mnbvc]

obj baseaddress + one of these:
CastingSpellID = 0xA60,
ChannelSpellID = 0xA80,

returns the spellid or 0 if nothing is cast

int Creature::SpellID()
{
if (*CastID > 0)
return *CastID;
else
return *ChannelID;
}


hm, i should maybe use return *CastID | *ChannelID ...

[fukmeimbroken]

obj baseaddress + one of these:
CastingSpellID = 0xA60,
ChannelSpellID = 0xA80,

Did it for me thanks .

[Robske]

You can find these offsets by reversing UnitCastingInfo / UnitChannelInfo:

UnitSpellId = 0xA6C;
UnitSpellEnd = 0xA7C;
UnitChannelId = 0xA80;
UnitChannelEnd = 0xA88;

The *End offsets are handy because most of the time you don't want to interrupt a cast as soon as it is fired, but rather when it's about to finish.

[evil2]

i'm looking for the "target guid" location of the "current casting player spell" for a long time,
anyone found it so far?.. but maybe its only serverside.

[DrakeFish]

i'm looking for the "target guid" location of the "current casting player spell" for a long time,
anyone found it so far?.. but maybe its only serverside.

I suppose you mean Current Cast for the Target... Then all you'd have to do is scan the players list (learn about ClientMgr/ConnectionMgr) for the player that has the GUID you found using Target GUID address, then read (this player base + one of the offsets listed above).

[namreeb]

Actually, that's not quite right. Once you start casting a spell you can easily change/drop targets and the spell still knows where to go.

[DrakeFish]

Actually, that's not quite right. Once you start casting a spell you can easily change/drop targets and the spell still knows where to go.

In that case, unless your bot is targeting everything it sees without reason, you should be able to use LastTargetGUID. (He asked for the target's casted spell if I'm not wrong)

[namreeb]

Ahh, I read that as finding the target of the spell you're casting.

[evil2]

In that case, unless your bot is targeting everything it sees without reason, you should be able to use LastTargetGUID. (He asked for the target's casted spell if I'm not wrong)

namreeb is right, i'm looking the the "fixed" target of the casting spell.
it's different from your players target.
dunno why blizzard didn't put this guid into the UnitFields too.

using lasttargetguid is way too wobbly ;-)

[Robske]

namreeb is right, i'm looking the the "fixed" target of the casting spell.
it's different from your players target.
dunno why blizzard didn't put this guid into the UnitFields too.

using lasttargetguid is way too wobbly ;-)

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