Event Pause 2.0 System

[Roland-J]

Hello all,

Because SmartSkillup has taken on the support of skilling up combat magic, this addon will often be used during combat. Because combat is a dynamic environment where various situations can prevent successful casting - moving, silence, etc - a system was needed for detecting these situations and delaying the loop for their duration, in order for the addon to act more intelligently.

Therefore, I've added the "Event Pause 2.0" system to unify the following pauses and allow them to overlap without breaking one another. These are all occasions where this addon should not be spamming any actions, and doing so could perhaps even be suspicious.

Event Pauses

1. Movement pauses
2. NPC lock pauses (when players interact with NPCs)
3. Status lock pauses (when players enter a cutscene, die, ride chocobos, fish, etc)
4. Zoning pauses
5. Misc Casting Lock Buffs (silence, petrified, etc)

To make this as seamless as possible for the users:

1. A player-enacted pause overrides event pauses and persists until the player unpauses on purpose.
   • This is probably the best part! Go ahead and player pause for as long as you want to!
2. The UI's PAUSED button goes orange during event pauses, whereas it stays white if the player has enacted a player pause.
   • This helps make the system more visible/comprehensible to the player.

Here's the code responsible for it all.

Demo Video 1

This video demonstrates the function of the event pause system. This system allows the player to move and make independent decisions while skilling up, without the skillup loop impeding on those decisions. This is important for SmartSkillup because, unlike other non-combat-only skillup bots, SmartSkillup has taken on the support of combat spells and, in combat, movement happens!

Event.Pause.Functional.Demo.mp4

Demo Video 2

This video demonstrates various event pauses, as well as nested pauses.
- 00:08-00:12: Movement event pause
- 00:13-00:16: Resting event pause
- 00:17-00:18: NPC event pause (Note that survival guides can trigger a nested event pause by putting the player in the "Event" status during the NPC interaction)
- 00:20-00:25: Nested event pauses (movement start [start of pause] > NPC start > movement end > NPC end [end of pause])

SMS.Event.Pause.UI.Update.Demo.mp4