Scripts, Macros, Hotkeys, Fun:

How to make a Macro Script for ShadowBane:

• Make a script in notepad, save with the suffix .dat
• The format is just like making a complex hotkey in EQ; a different command on each line.
• Some kinds of commands that can be used:
• /usepower "Spell name" ## <--(rank lvl)
• /soc ## <--(number pertaining to the social)
• Socials By Number:
  0. Apologize
  1. Applaud
  2. Beckon
  3. Beg
  4. Blow Kiss
  5. Boast
  6. Bounce
  7. Bow
  8. Cackle
  9. Cheer
  10. ChinFlip
  11. Chuckle
  12. Clap
  13. Cough
  14. Cower
  15. Cringe
  16. CrotchChop
  17. Cry
  18. Dance
  19. Doh
  20. Duck
  21. Faint
  22. Flex
  23. Flinch
  24. FlipOff
  25. Fume
  26. Giggle
  27. Groan
  28. Grovel
  29. Howl
  30. Kneel
  31. Laugh
  32. Love
  33. Moo
  34. Moon
  35. Nod
  36. Peer
  37. Point
  38. Pray
  39. Preen
  40. Propose
  41. Puke
  42. Punch
  43. ROFL
  44. Salute
  45. Scream
  46. Shake
  47. Shiver
  48. Shrug
  49. Stagger
  50. Stretch
  51. Strut
  52. ThumbsUp
  53. Wave
  54. Worship
  Flip is also a social; it is unnumbered, and probably considered 'incomplete' by Wolfpack. The animation is identical to that of 'Giggle', without any soundtrack. Like any of these, it may be performed from the text entry line in the game by typing in "/soc <NAME OF SOCIAL>".



• There is, alas, no way to perform (use the animation of) a social while giving it another text. (Another thing that EverQuest got right, and ShadowBane doesn't.)
• It seems that one may perform one text action and one power or social on a single macro, no more. For example, one may /say something, then sprint or duck. One may not /say one line, then /say another.
• There is at this time as far as I know no 'wait' command, which might be necessary to make hotkeys with more than one of any certain kind of command work.
• Make a scripts folder in your SB directory, save the file to there: C:\Program Files\Ubi Soft\Shadowbane\scripts
• To hotkey the script you made in game, go to hotkeys, make a blank one, choose the key with which you want to issue the command and in the text area put in "/script <NAMEOFMACRO>.dat"

For completeness's sake, here is a link to a description of each social with accompanying picture.

Hotkeys

Hotkeys can be created easily by Ctrl + Left Clicking on the selection or button in the command window. As long as it is a single command option a window will open with the following options:

Activate
Assign Hotkey
Destroy

There is a secondary way to create hotkeys quickly and easily as well. In the command window, settings and hotkeys are the choices in that order. A new window will open showing all of the current set hotkeys as well as all the available options for creating hotkeys and macros.

There are many buttons down the side of this new window that will give access to setting hotkeys by type as well as other commands.

General Key Bindings
Bind Socials
Bind Powers
Bind Macros
Clear Key Binding
Restore Defaults
Import Keys

--p.27, Shadowbane Official Strategy Guide by John Henderson and Danielle Vanderlip; I do not find any further quoting of their instructions more useful than fiddling with the game interface itself. However, it is perhaps worth noting that in binding a Power to a key, it is possible (perhaps necessary) to specify the rank (which must be one to which the character has progessed) at which the Power is used, and that this was thought to be a potential way of regulating the amount of stamina or mana used in combat. (As you can tell, I haven't tried this kind of hotkey yet.)

One Macro I've found very useful for roleplaying has been the one, mapped to "Alt + E"1, which has the effect of typing in "/em " (Slash, e, m, and space) on my chat bar without including "enter" (as if I'd pressed the "Enter" key) at the end; this prefixes the action I want to do with the proper command for performing an emote. For example, to emote "Vorona smirks mischievously", all I need to type is [Alt + e] smirks mischievously., without finding that I've once again typed "/me" at the beginning (out of IRC habit) or forgotten to hit the spacebar after the 'm' or typed in "/en" instead, etc.. A small thing, but it saves my temper and eases my character's expression in the long run. To keep a Macro from including the "enter" function, click the appropriate toggling bubble in the creation window. (Okay, a small picture here would be worth 50 more words; I'll try to come up with one.)