Hey folks,
If you ever talked to someone called “GiveMeIceCream” and used an emote like /smile and it appeared as:
“Neridris smiles at GiveMeIceCream”
Instead of:
“Neridris smiles at John Smith”
Then this topic is for you.
The lazy way
TRP3 has a feature using tokens to fetch the corresponding TRP3 names.
- %xtf → Target First Name
- %xtl → Target LastName
- %xff → Focus FirstName
- %xfl → Focus LastName
- %xt → Target Name
- %xf → Focus Name
Added in 3.0.2: - %xp → Full name
- %xpf → First name
- %xpl → Last name
/me waves at %xft.
Will result as:
Neridris waves at John.
Practical but you need to remember those tokens and type them without typo else you’ll get something like…
Neridris waves at %xttf.
Those work inside macros too but you don’t get the diversity you have compared to commands like /smile. Also if you don’t have any target or if you’re targeting yourself then it’ll output as:
Neridris waves at no target.
Neridris laughs at Neridris.
And you don’t want this. This is why we have a better way to do so.
Macro
/run if(UnitExists("target")and not UnitIsUnit("player", "target"))then SendChatMessage(format("%s%s%s", "smiles at ", TRP3_API.register.getUnitRPFirstName("target"),"."), "EMOTE")else SendChatMessage("smiles.", "EMOTE")end
Macro Explanation
if(UnitExists(“target”)and not UnitIsUnit(“player”, “target”))
A simple conditional translated as: “If you have a target and that target isn’t you then [do] else [do]”
TRP3_API.register.getUnitRPFirstName(“target”)
This function is how the name is fetched from TRP3. Here we just get the first name of the player or NPC.
format(“%s%s%s”, “text1”, “text2”, “text3”)
This is how we decide the way it’s displayed. Every “%s” will be respectively replaced by the corresponding text. The first %s will be “text1”, second %s will be “text2” and third %s will be “text3”
Using this function directly will result as:
text1text2text3
Of course, you can add what you want, spaces included.
format(“%s%s%s”, "This ", “is”, “valid.”)
This is valid.
SendChatMessage(“Text”, “EMOTE”)
This ensure that text is sent as an emote exactly as if you type /e or /me. You’re free to do the same using “SAY” instead of “EMOTE” to obtain the same result as /say.
In summary:
If you have a target and it’s not you then it’ll output:
Neridris smiles at John.
If you don’t have a target or have yourself as a target, it’ll output:
Neridris smiles.
Customization
I only gave the macro for copying /smile. If you want to do the same for any other type of emote then you only have to modify two pieces of that macro.
SendChatMessage(format("%s%s%s", "[HERE]", [HERE],"[HERE]"), "EMOTE")
SendChatMessage("[HERE]", "EMOTE")
Where you replace [HERE] with any text you want, or with one of the TRP3 function for First Name, Last Name, FullName. For those, see TRP3 references below.
I’ve used three %s but you’re also free to use two, or four even! As long as you have the same number of %s and of “[HERE]” text to replace.
https://wow.gamepedia.com/List_of_emotes
You have quite a lot of them, so I decided to only give an example for /smile. Browse this for more ideas.
TRP3 References
The functions are self explanatory:
TRP3_API.register.getUnitRPFirstName("target")TRP3_API.register.getUnitRPLastName("target")TRP3_API.register.getUnitRPFirstName("focus")TRP3_API.register.getUnitRPLastName("focus")TRP3_API.register.getUnitRPName("target")TRP3_API.register.getUnitRPName("focus")
https://github.com/Total-RP/Total-RP-3/commit/c73f094ebb564cedf59ce194f6508218b03df632
Lua References
https://wow.gamepedia.com/API_UnitExists
https://wow.gamepedia.com/API_UnitIsUnit
https://wow.gamepedia.com/API_SendChatMessage
https://wow.gamepedia.com/API_format
This should cover everything to have the most beautiful emotes in AD. Cheers.
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