117746-suit-up-addon-for-swapping-costumes-titles-action-set-nameplates-and-more

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Xowl recently launched his fourth Wildstar addon - a powerful configuration swapping addon called Suit Up! You may know Xowl as Reys the Spellslinger on Entity, Exile side. S.U.I.T. U.P.Swap Utility Initiating Transitions Ultra ProntoQuickly swap between settings that you define and customize. You can add almost any game setting, command, or option to your Suits, and then swap them out quickly using the Suit Up button./suitup to bring up the Suits list, Options menu, and Help/suitup <suitname> from command bar or macro to swap to a specific Suit Suit Up is useful for pretty much any Wildstar player, but may be of particular interest to roleplayers. You can easily switch from adventuring mode to town and back by changing your costume, title, affiliation title, holomarks, nameplate settings and much more. A Suit can include any text /says or macros you want. For adventuring vs. raiding for example, you can also control and swap settings for telegraphs, targeting, nameplate and dash settings per Suit, and run any macros you want. Get it via the Curse app or directly from the Curse website. PS: The thing that everyone asks is will it swap your actual worn equipment. The answer is no. However other addons for equipment swapping can be worked into a Suit via macros. Xowl may add equip swapping in a future version after Drop 3 when the new API for it comes out.
 	
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			Is this currently working? My fancypants addon is having major issues since the last big patch	
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			I'm using it without any issues.	
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SuitUp should work fine currently. I have an update coming with some additions and hopefully some better integration with specific addons, but nothing in drop 3 affected it.
 
If you have configured any suits that depend on another addon (usually by running a macro or executing slash commands in a suit), and the addon it depends on is broken, the rest of the suit should still function. You may or may not get error messages depending on what's wrong with the dependent addon.
 
It occurs to me that you may be asking because Mr. FancyPants isn't working for you and you hope to use SuitUp as a replacement, then you're out of luck, sadly. SuitUp doesn't change your gear. It changes your settings and costume and drives other addons, such as ones that can change your gear.
 
SuitUp lets you assign a button or slash command to perform any or all of these "at once" (in rapid succession):
Change your LAS spec
Select a stance
Wear a cosmetic costume
Choose a title
Choose a nameplate affiliation (guild or circle)
Set your Guild Holomark display locations and distance
Set nameplate display options (which characters have nameplates over their heads and what is shown on those nameplates)
Set (most) telegraph display options
Set targeting options (hold-to-cast versus double-tap, auto target on or off, etc.)
Enable of disable double-tap direction to dash (an option which is no longer onscreen in the default UI as of drop 3)
Attempt to enable or disable your PvP flag
Execute macros
Execute slash commands (allowing you to ask another addon to change gear)
Send text to a channel (including falling back from /Instance to /Party to /Say as appropriate)
Basically, I don't want to mess with the UI hassles of creating gear sets. UI in Wildstar Lua is annoying enough just for the menus and configuration I have in SuitUp. I am amazed that anyone actually finishes the rich, effective interfaces I see in so many addons. 20+ years writing software for Windows and the web and I'd really rather go back to Windows 3.1 using Visual Basic 3 than this :-)
 
Although truth be told, it's way better than writing for the SNES.	
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I love this so much. It's a really great simple to use little addon with a whole tonne of RP potential as well as being really actually useful for changing multiple settings at a time (e.g. pvp flag + LAS set + targetting + telegraph settings for a "pvp mode", or "healer mode" etc).
 
The thing that I love is the chance to change the likelihood of having an action happen (particularly in the broadcast text option). What I would really REALLY love to see however, is the option to limit these text broad casts, because what I essentially want to do is create a series of "catchphrases" or "sayings" that indicate my character is switching costume/modes.  for example; I have a "dps mode" costume for my toon, it uses costume 1, switches to my DPS LAS, tweaks the telegraphs and gives a /threaten emote command. I then added a list of different broadcast sayings and put them at around 30% chance to trigger. Things like; "You're all gurgle and no guts, but I aim to be rearranging that!" or "I'm gonna smack you bald-headed!" or "when I'm done with you, there won't be enough left t'snore". 
 
I would like to have it so that only one of these triggers, but as is the case with probabilities, you are going to have times when you say like three different phrases... and that looks kinda wierd y'know?
 
Is there any way I can work around this or a way of putting it into the addon? :D
 
(I just love the idea of my toon having like... battle ready quotes, or healing mode quotes ("hold still, this won't hurt a bit", or "we got a bleeder!" etc) y'know? it's just that little bit extra immersion and realism to a character! :DD) 	
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(I can't ever get the 'quote' option to work on this forum)
 
SlappedYak, thank you for the kind words and the suggestions!
 
The option you're describing to say one of a set of things is exactly the direction I want to go with this: I did exactly that for an addon to LOTRO back in 2008 or so ("LOMM" - LOTRO Music and Macros). I wanted to get the basics out for role switching and some RP before trying anything requiring more fancy UI, since my Lua skills are so-so and the Carbine UI controls are pretty weak.
 
I lost my hard drive and had to put development on hold for a few weeks while I rebuilt my system (for the third time in a year and a half), but I've added your suggestions to the to-do list.
 
As for flavor emotes when using an ability, that's more difficult, since there is no way in the API to trigger a class ability (other than changing roles). I may look into detecting when a class ability is used and doing something with that, but I'm not sure it's possible. This makes me sad, since emotes and text when using abilities is good un in other games.
 
(My favorite was the raid healer whose battle res said "Good hustle. Walk it off. Walk it off.")	
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