Stop the emote spam at social events!
Simbo has been busy lately, working on a new plugin designed to reduce the amount of emote messages that fill up your chat window at large events.
Please note that Babble has now gotten a static page, where any new versions will be released. Further comments on the plugin should be added there, since comments on this blog post have been closed. Please visit the Babble page here!
Babble is a plugin designed to reduce the amount of emotes you receive during larger events.
It sends only “filtered” emote messages to your standard chat window, excluding any of the more common emote messages. The plugin comes with a predefined list of the “usual suspect” emotes from busy social events (dance, clap, cheer, etc.), which will be auto-removed and not shown in your chat window when Babble is enabled.
You can easily add to this, or even remove those emotes you want to see. Additionally, you can filter emotes from different players, so you can still see all emotes directed towards yourself or those delivered by your good friends.
Babble is notified whenever an emote is received and, if it doesn’t match a list of “blocked” emotes, it sends the emote to the “Standard” chat channel. This means that for Babble to be effective, you need to turn off the filter for Emotes in your main chat window and make sure that Standard is enabled, so that you then only receive the filtered emotes. Just right-click on the chat window tab, and you’ll be able to choose which chat channels are displayed in that window.
It is worth noting that the plugin cannot actually stop emotes being received. You would still need to turn off Emotes in your filters for the chat window. The plugin is simply re-sending new, filtered, messages to your standard channel.
Excellent! I’ll be trying this out immediately…
Good luck! Let us know how it works for yer!
Oh this sounds perfect! Doc Marping is getting on, and his hearing isn’t what it used to be…the number of times he’s confused ‘Hugs’ with ‘Bugs,’ or ‘Rolls’ with ‘Trolls’, doesn’t bear thinking about!
Hope it works well for yer, let us know how it goes!
I already use Songbook BB & Lyrical, and gonna try this one today. Sounds like The Plugin We Were All Waiting For! Tnx, and I’ll let you know how I like it.
Good luck! It takes a little getting used to (there have been one or two times I forgot to load the plugin and wondered why I didn’t see any emote texts at all), but it’ll soon be second nature. And it is a lifesaver at busy social events.
I ment Poetical, not Lyrical ;)
Well….. ermmm… basically I love it (you feel the ‘but’ coming?) But. Because Babble sends the emotes to Standard, I have to enable Standard. No problem for the General tab, but I use Kinship tabe the most. I haven’t enabled Standard there, because I don’t want most of the things said there in my daily chats. I DO wanna see the emotes though.
I can imagine it’s great at social events, so for many people it IS a lifesafer. For me, just wanting to delete the emotespam at Bree South Gate while I chat in kinchat, it’s not perfect.
Basically, like I said before, I love the plugin!
Hullo Master Raebidus!
Thank you for the comments! Although it is something I would very much like to do, Unfortunately I do not believe it is possible to send the filtered emotes to anything other than the standard channel. It is very much a limitation of the plugin system, I am afraid.
So, Babble is limited in what it can do, but certainly in situations like big social events, it can work well, and that is what it was originally designed for.
I am pondering creating a new “Babble Window”, similar to to the existing “Chatterbug” one, which could possible be used to show filtered emotes, along with existing channels.
Why hello sir Simbo himself :)
I thought so. And like I said, nothing wrong with the plugin itselves. It works like a charm, and you did a great job. So feathers for you!!
For me personally, I won’t use it… yet! Love to see more of your plugins.
Rae