I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the creation of a macro I thought would be incredibly simple but alas, here I am. If any knowledgeable and helpful soul would care to share some insight then I’d be mighty thankful!
I am essentially looking to create a macro that makes my character say something and then salute in rapid succession. I figured it’d be like this
/Say For Quel’thalas!
/Salute
Doing this, the salute animation never shows, even though it comes later. It is almost as if the /say animation takes priority. Changing the order naturally has no effect either.
I just tested this on my character and had the same result. I clearly see my character starting the salute animation and then being overriden by the say animation after about ~0.15 seconds. This is because the /say animation is started a little bit after the chat message is sent, which is why putting the /salute after the /say has no effect.
I’ve managed to work around this by utilizing WoW’s lua API (script system for addons), using that i can have the code wait for 0.2 seconds and then start the salute animation, which is long enough to happen after the /say animation being triggered yet short enough that you don’t actually see the /say animation being performed at all.
/run C_Timer.After(0.2, function() DoEmote("Salute") end)
/say For Quel’thalas!
