Custom BigWigs /say Announce Strings

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Is this possible? You know... something along the lines of "Horridon's gonna charge at me arghhhh!!". I wouldn't use that, it's just an example!

[funkydude]

Were you in a rush to get an answer? Not sure why you PM'd me then made a thread.

Anyway, you can directly print a custom string using the 3rd arg to :Say
e.g.
self:Say(optionFlag, nil, "All your base are belong to us")

[Puerto]

Is this done in .lua editing?

[Deleted]

Thanks Funkydude, I PMed you first and then thought "why don't I just make a thread?", so did =P

I assume I comment out "mod:Say(-7741)" and replace it with your call?

BTW Pureto, this is on line 194 of ...\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\BigWigs_ThroneOfThunder\Jinrokh.lua

[funkydude]

Yes:

:Say(-7741)               == "Focused Lightning on PLAYER"
:Say(-7741, "lol")        == "lol on PLAYER"
:Say(-7741, nil, "wtf?")  == "wtf?"

[Deleted]

Hello,

Is there a way to change Megaera's 'Cinders' and 'Ice Torrent' so that it gets announced in /say with "Cinders on *playername*" ?

I believe at the moment, it just says "Cinders on me", which can be quite confusing with chat bubbles on

Thanks

[funkydude]

BW doesn't announce "on me", you're thinking of DBM. BW announces "on PLAYER".

[Paerux]

Sorry for necroing , How does self:Say function work exactly? what are those -7741 numbers mean?

[funkydude]

Sorry for necroing , How does self:Say function work exactly? what are those -7741 numbers mean?

The first arg is always the option that API action is tied to. Generally this is a spell id such as 45362.

Then came along the encounter journal, and we wanted an easy way to use those entries in boss modules. For efficiency we use a negative number instead of a string. So -7741 is EJ id 7741.

[Paerux]

self:Say(138485) -> Crimson Wake on NAME (Dark Animus)
self:Say(args.spellId) -> Sha Sear on Inferno Strike Phase (The Fallen Protectors)
Sha of Pride's Bursting Pride , Aura of Pride
self:Say(-8208, L.laser_say) -> Siegecrafter Blackfuse Laser
Iron Juggernaut Cutter Laser

I want to make custom /say for these spells , I'm guessing I'll have to change the siegecrafter one to self:Say(-8208,nil,"blabla")
But what about the other ones? I know where to put the code but dont know what kind of code to put for sha of pride

Do I have to find the EJ id of Crimson wake and sha sear and make it look like siegecrafter code? thanks in advance

[funkydude]

If we're talking about just modifying say messages that already exist, then you don't need to know any id at all. All you need to change is the already existing :Say(...) call.

So if you wanted to change "Crimson Wake on Player" to "Crimson on Player" it would be:
self:Say(138485) >>> self:Say(138485, "Crimson")

If you wanted a completely custom message like "I'm going to die" it would be:
self:Say(138485) >>> self:Say(138485, nil, "I'm going to die")