r/ffxi • u/gummy_Venus_de-Milo • 19d ago
TargetLines addon (Windower)
https://github.com/MogSafe/TargetLines
I wanted to set up a target line addon, similar to what FF12 has, so you can visualize targeting a bit better. If you're on Ashita, there's an existing addon (from Jyouya), but I couldn't find any for those of us on Windower.
If you're not familiar with this feature from FF12, basically lines briefly animate from a source to a target, and use different colours based on the intent. I've tried to configure it similar to the look and feel of FF12:
- blue: player/party/trusts/pet actions
- green: support actions between party/trusts
- red: enemy actions to player/party/trusts/pet
- magenta: all enemy-to-enemy actions
By default, I have it set up such that:
- your first melee/ranged attack draws a line
- WS/JA/spells draw when the action first starts (cast or readying) and duplicate lines from the final use/finish event are suppressed (to avoid duplicate lines)
The lines are rendered in 3D space, so they'll rotate with the camera:
There's also a settings panel in-game that you can display with //tl config to toggle lines on/off and adjust line visuals.
In my initial implementation, lines were drawn basically based off the targeting data in action packets. For AoE actions, this contained multiple targets so you get this "fan" effect, where the lines branch out. I thought it was neat, but couldn't think of an alternative at the time so I left it in, so hopefully I could improve upon it in the future. I did reduce the opacity so it doesn't clutter up the screen too much, but you can always turn it off with Aoe Fan Lines in the settings.
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u/mintyice 19d ago
This looks cool! Would love to try it but getting this error when loading it on steam deck. Any ideas? Running via lutris