Thirdeye 0.9b
A Decal plugin by Ascus
Written for Asheron's Call
Thirdeye shows all MOBs (Monsters, NPCs, and Players*) in the area and the weapons they wield.
The advantage this has over other radar extenders is that is learns monster as you see them does
not have to have to be configures for every new monster introduced and can find quest NPCs the
first time you see them. It is designed to work with radar extenders such as Sixth Sense,
Bandit Sight, and Buzzard.
* Player Killers (PKs and PKLs) are only shown if they are in your monarchy.
Features:
- Shows the Mobs in the area, their direction and distance from you.
- Shows distance in yards, and shows if they are above or below you.
- Shows the weapons, shields and ammo being wielded
- List of Mobs, can be sorted by name, distance, icon or best path
- Can target a Mob directly from the list.
- Can target mob's wielded equipment directly from list as well
- Mobs are color coded by type for easy idenification
- Mobs are idenified by type, so can tell difference in monsters of same name
- Can see members of your monarchy even PK or PKL mode
- Easy in-game configuration
- Can mark to watch a mob with a single click
- Can see the value and burden of an item by just selecting it
- Has a typing helper to assist with communication and configuration
- Profile is stored as an XML file
How to Install Thirdeye
The following must be installed prior to installing Thirdeye
- Microsoft ,NET Framework
- DSL (Decal Support Libraries)
- Decal .Net Interops
If you do not already have these installed they can be found at Sucamarto's AC Heaven under Decal Core Compants.
Once they are installed, download and install Thirdeye at http:/ciper.net/ac/Thirdeye.msi.
User Guide for Thirdeye 0.9
Thirdeye is ready to use right out of the box. It will learn about monsters and npcs as you encounter them. Initially that may be unnerving as it shows every brown bunny you run by. You can quickly tell Thirdeye that you do not want to see them any more by selecting one of the little critters and clicking on the Hide button at the bottom. They will no longer be shown. You can also set monsters to show, to hunt or to warn. You can override thirdeye temporarily to players, NPCs and Monsters (yes those little brown bunnies are monsters).
Thirdeye's display has two modes, the tracking mode and the setup mode. Most actions can be done from tracking mode. From that display, becides seeing all the monsters, players and NPCs in the area, you can control what you see, change the tracking status as you enchounter them. Setup mode will not be needed until you are ready to make major changes to what you are tracking. In setup mode you can change the tracking status of any monster you have encounters while running Thirdeye.
Top Row Controls
These controls determine what is displayed Thirdeye. Anytime these buttons are displayed the display is updated. Through these buttons, you can control if Thirdeye will display the mobs on the list, if the list will be forced to display or if a message is to be displayed. The only mob that will be always displayed is those that are specified as warn.
- All - Checking this instructs Thirdeye to show all the mods in the area, this in not recommended for normal use. But is quite helpful when trying to locate a specific NPC in a town or trying to find a specific vendor in the marketspace.
- New - Checking this instruct Thirdeye to show all mobs that no tracking instructions have been given for. This is great for finding mobs that you have not seen before like right after patches and when adventureing in new areas. When first starting up with Thirdeye, you may want to uncheck this, sense every mob is new.
- Show - When checked, This instruct Thirdeye to show all monsters you wish shown. Normally this should be checked. Occationally you may not want to see normal mobs, such as when on quests or activily hunting for specific mobs.
- Hunt - When checked, Thirdeye shows mobs you are hunting for. Normally this would be checked. Occationally you may not want to be hunting like when on quests.
- Popup - When this is checked, Thirdeye will force the list to be displayed whenever a New, Hunted or Warn Mobs is encountered and added to the tracking list.
- Chat - When this checked, A text message is displayed with Mob's name and location when any mob is encountered and added to the tracking list.
Tracking Mode
The List
The list serves as both the tracking list and as an interface for setup. This list shows the mobs in the area, and what items they carrying. You can target them from the list, or target their wielded items. You can keep the order of list alphabetically, by the icon, or the order they found. You can temporarily order the list by distance. The buttons aboive the columns select the order of the list display.
Nw N Ne
NW NE
nW N nE
W W + E E
sW S sE
SW SE
Sw S Se
| +++ | almost directly above
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| ++ | noticably above
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| + | more 10' above
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| about level
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| - | more 10' below
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| -- | noticably below
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| --- | almost directly below
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First Column: Direction
The direction is show as a compass heading and distance in yards (meters).
The elvation difference is noted with +'s (above) and -'s (below) between the direction and distance
The currently selected Mob will show in yellow, the rest will show in white
Mobs more than 800 yards away will show in absolute coordinates
Second Column: Icon
This icon can be used to temporariliy remove the mob from list by clicking on it or for a visual reference.
It will be either icon of the monster or Special icon for NPCs and Players. The player and NPC icons are set as follows:
 NPC: Vendor
|  NPC: Non-Vendor
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 NPK: A Monarch
|  NPK: Your Monarch
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 NPK: In Another Monarchy
|  NPK: In your Monarchy
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 NPK: Not In Monarchy
|  PKL: In your Monarchy
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| PK: In your Monarchy
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Third Column: Name
This column shows the name of the thing being tracked. They can be targeted by simply clicking on the name. Also the color helps quickly notice what the mob is and how its tracked.
- Orange shades identify monster and NPCs
- Blue identify players in your monarchy
- SkyBlue identify players in another monarchy
- White signifies player not in any monarchy
Forth and Fifth Column: Weapons
The column to the left shows item in left hand, either a bow or shield.
The column to the right shows the item in right hand, either a melee weapon, casting device or loaded ammo. Clicking on the Weapons icon will select the item
Bottom Buttons
The buttons to the bottom right are used to set the tracking of the currently selected mob. they can used to quickly change every occurance of that type of mob on the list. As you encounter monsters you can quickly change how the monster is tracked without having to navigate the setup mode.
- Hide The currently selected Mob type will normally not be be listed
- Show The currently selected Mob type is marked as shown. The mob will be displayed on list and display in chat window, but will not cause thirdeye to pop up.
- Hunt The currently selected Mob type is marked as hunted. The mob will be treated like warn when encountered.
- Warn The currently selected Mob type will always be listed
Other Bottom Buttons
There a four buttons and and a text field on the botton that can be used to show info on currently selected item and can be used a typing helpers. These buttons function differently when in setup mode.
- Coord/Value -- this button is on the far left of upper row on the bottom, it has the text "Coord" or the value in pyreal (p), thousand pyreals (Kp), or million pyreals (Mp). Mobs and Items with out value will show "Coord", Items with value will show the value.
- if hit when showing a value, the name of the item and the value will be put into text box
- if hit when showing "Coord", the name of the item and the coordinates will be put into the text box
- Type/Burden -- the next button over to the right either shows the Mob Type of a mob or the wieght of the item un units (u), or thousand units (Ku)
- if hit when the Mob type is displayed, the name of the mob type will be put into the text box
- if hit when the other than the mob type is displayed, nothing will happened (listening to ideas for what to do here)
- Icon # -- the next button to the right shows the icon of the currently selected item.
- when hit, it puts a poundsign (#) followed by the icon number in the text box. The selected item can be anything selectable, a monster, NPC, sign, item in trade window, item in vendor window, etc.
- Type -- the button on bottom left, will either type the text in the text box or send to the chat window as text. WHat is done is determined by the current typing mode. If entering text on text line, the text is typed as it your typed it, othersize it is sent a comment to the chat window.
- Text box -- is an editable text field that is populated with the name of an item when selected, or when the above buttons are hit.
- Setup -- Switch to setup mode.
Setup Mode
The List
First Column: Mob Type Number
Shows the Mob Number, More than one Mob can have the same name, and some Mobs Type have diferrent name (i.e. players)
Second Column: Mob Icon
Icon is either the icon used for the monster or Special icon for NPCs and Players, just like they are used in tracking. The icon number can be intered in the Find Text by clicking on the icon here.
Third Column: Name
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The name can be copied to the Find Text by clicking on the name here.
Fourth Column: Action
Shows action to be taken when this mob is found. To change the action for this mob type check in the icon.
 New -- When New is active, Put on List Show List, and Announce
Hide -- Do not show unless everything is shown.
Show -- When Show is active, Put on List and but do not force list to show or Announce
 Hunt -- When Hunt is active, Put on List, Show List and Announce.
Warn -- Always Show when tracking, Show List and Announce
Fifth Column
Reserved for future expansion
Navigating in Setup Mode
When Setup mode is entered, just the new monsters types that do not have an tracking action are listed. Tracking rules can quickly be assigned by clicking the action icon to the right until the mode you wish comes up. If other lists of mobs are desired, use the buttons on the bottom to find the mobs you wish to view.
By Session -- Clear and Curr can be used to listing monsters seen this session. Not only can it be used to check out this session, but by clearing before entering an area, makes it easy to find out what is in the area.
- Clear Forget all mob types seen this session
- Curr Lists all the mob types seen this session or since last clear
By Action -- Pressing of the action buttons will show all the mob types of that method. Thes mobs will remain on list until the list is rebuilt
- New Lists all the types that have not been asigned a method yet
- Hide Lists all the types marked as Hide
- Show Lists all the types marked as Show
- Hunt Lists all the types marked as Hunt
- Warn Lists all the types marked as Warn
By Name or Icon -- Model Type can be found by icon or name using the Find button. What is listed depends on the text in the text field just to the right.
- To find by Icon - Put # and the hex value of the icon associated with the mob type. This is useful for finding families of mobs, since most of them will share the same icon. To quickly get a mobs icon, find it using text find, then click on the icon on the list.
- To find by Name - Put case sensitive text to be found in the mob type name. All mobs that have the exact text anywhere in the name will be displayed.
Track -- button toggles back to tracking mode. When you toggle back to tracking mode the list is rebuilt reflecting all the changes in setup mode. By toggle into setup mode and back is a quick way of reshowing a mob that you accidently removed from the display by clicking the monsters icon.
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