What is UserChatter?
UserChatter is a simple plugin to assist in the use of user chat channels. It provides buttons to join, leave and talk into the 4 user chat channels available in the game to save you having to remember what the command are. It also remembers previously joined channels, making it much it easier to re-join a channel you have previously left.
Latest version
UserChatter is currently at v1.02, released 6. February 2017. You can download it here.
Update v1.02 changes:
- Upgraded to handle new maximum of 8 chat channels
- Sort list of previous channels in alphabetical order in Join window
Update v1.01 changes:
- Fix to allow it to work along side ChatterBug plugin
- Fix for French Client
There is currently no beta version available.
Installation
Unzip the zip file and move the “Simbo” folder to your “Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/Plugins” folder.
Usage
UserChatter can be loaded via the in-game Plugin Manager (or a custom one), or with the following command line option:
/plugins load userchatter
Once installed and loaded, the following commands are available.
/userchatter show – Shows the plugin
/userchatter hide – Hides the plugin
/userchatter toggle – Toggles the plugin
(In the French client use “afficher”, “masquer” and “basculer”. In the German client use “anzeigen”, “verstecken” and “umschalten”).
Note that initially the plugin will show a message about pressing the Refresh button. This is because plugins cannot access what user chat channels in directly, and so it relies on you running the command to list channels so it gather the information. Once Refresh is pressed, the user chat channels you are in should be listed, with buttons available to join a new one, leave an existing one, as well as a text box to talk into a channel.
Display with chat channels refreshed
Also note there may be a bug in LOTRO when joining channels, whereby it reports the wrong chat channel number for the new channel. If UserChatter detects a possible issue, then it highlights the Refresh button in red, and pressing it should update the channel information in the plugin.
Feedback
Simbo would love feedback on the plugin, both of what works and what does not. Please leave yer comments below.
Alternatively, you can also leave comments on LotroInterface
Please leave yer comments below!
Testing the comment box for Lina (made the real post on Lotrointerface now)
Hullo!
I will take a look into the issue! Can you let me know if you are using the English, French or German client version of LOTRO?
Thank you!
English version
OK Simbo, I figured this out. It is to do with the order of loading I believe, specifically if I load Chatterbug before UserChatter. I have seen this before, there is something awry with Chatterbug but sadly the author is no longer in game
Simbo fixed this in the new version 1.01 of Userchatter, see link above.
Thank you for figuring that out, Master Keli! I shall download Chatterbug myself, and see if I can see what is causing the clash, and whether I can make a change to UserChatter to prevent the issue.