Mathayas alter aeon

Mathayas Alter Aeon.xml

This help file currently directly applies to: MTScripts 3.4.4.1

What is Mathayas Alter Aeon.xml?

Mathayas Alter Aeon.xml is a soundpack for the mud Alter Aeon. It has sounds for most spells and a few other things as well. It uses the prompt from the mud and does a number of interesting things with it. It is part of MTScripts and includes a neat little XP and gold counter which lets you keep track of how much experience and gold you've gained or lost. Most of my time working with MTScripts went straight into Mathayas Alter Aeon.xml, which is an exact copy of the xml I use to play the character Mathayas on alter Aeon. It has a lot of functionality, and this help page will try to touch on everything so new or upgrading users can take advantage of all the features.

How to open Mathayas Alter Aeon.xml?

Open Monkey Term and close the recent sessions list if it appears with alt+f4. press ctrl+o to get the open dialogue. Browse using common browse techniques to c:\program files\monkeyTerm\Mathayas Alter Aeon.xml and open it. These instructions are correct even for those of you running 64 bit versions of windows.

What are some initial setup configurations one should make to get this xml to work best?

Note that the config or cfg command has been introduced to make initial setup easier. If you prefer, you can just type cfg and press enter to be presented with a list of options that you can configure.

Select desired speech output

Press ctrl+f2 to cycle between the speech settings. By default speech is set to sapi5. If you are a JAWS or Window-eyes user press this until it says "JAWS or Window-Eyes". Speech can be turned completely off using this key as well. If you lose automatic speech at any point try hitting ctrl+f2 to see if it comes back on.

Modify your eq change aliases to set the eq variable (optional).

The eq variable is an Alter Aeon based variable that Monkey Term monitors, changing it's own variable's value to match that of the Alter Aeon variable. The purpose of this is to help Monkey term figure out what equipment set you are wearing and behave differently depending. For instance, if it thinks you are in hit and you have the trigger system turned on, it will make you automatically assist, etc. To learn about Alter Aeon's variable functionality, log into it and type help variable. Note that using triggers in groups is against the rules on Alter Aeon. The trigger system exists for you to use at your own risk. To set this up, at the end of each alias you have made for changing equipment you need a command that looks like this. var eq eqhit The above command has the word hit in it, telling Monkey term to behave like you are in a hit set. right now there are three different values that make a difference, eqhit, eqtank and eqheal. If you set it to eqblah for example, it will behave as though the variable were not set at all. Tip: You can just type this yourself into alter Aeon instead of putting it in your equipment change aliases. Useful if you don't have eq change aliases or otherwise haven't added them to your aliases. Note that until this variable is set you will receive a slightly annoying error when you log in that says variable not set or something along those lines. To stop this error message, just type var eq eqblah.

Hotkeys

There are many hotkeys that can be used to do a wide variety of different things. Here we'll take an in depth look at the keybindings. Keybindings, by the way, is Monkey Term's name for hotkeys.

The Config command (cfg)

Basic options:

ali: set up automatic logging in (currently mathayas)

Syntax to auto log into Mathayas example: cfg ali mathayas password Syntax to disable auto log in: cfg ali This command enables the user to configure MTScripts to automatically log a character in when the file is open. To set this up, type cfg, a space, the name of the character, another space, then the password and press enter. To disable this functionality, just type cfg, a space, then ali (cfg ali). NOTE: This functionality stores your password in a variable with no encryption, so it is not secure. If one looks at the variable, the password will be written there, clear as day. If you've security concerns please do not use ali.

history: Store channel sends in the history buffer? enabled

Syntax to toggle this on and off: cfg history This functionality will track most channel sends and store them in the history buffer so they can be read with the history buffer commands. To learn how to read the history buffer please see the section dedicated to history buffer commands in this same document. When this functionality has been enabled, the standard history buffer will be disabled, so the only thing stored in the history buffer will be channel sends. This will be useful for those who have JAWS or Window-Eyes, but need a way to keep up with people are saying during spammy situations. NOTE: When this functionality is toggled on while the standard history buffer functionality is already on, the standard history buffer functionality will be automatically disabled. To switch back to the standard history buffer functionality, please use the standard history buffer toggle hotkey ctrl+shift+f2. Doing this will automatically disable the channel history buffer.

reset: reset the xml to distribution default settings

Syntax to reset the file to distribution defaults: cfg reset This command resets the xml file to it's default distribution settings. It will disable auto login and remove the user and password information from that, as well as turn off the order functionality, etc. I, that is the developer of MTScripts, use this command to make sure I have removed my own password and my own preferred configuration before I package up a new version of MTScripts for distribution. If you mess something up, cfg reset may fix it, depending on what the problem is.

Conclusions

this help file is still being written.