Costume Change Emote - How To

I had some trouble figuring out how to set the costume change emotes to work during costume changes without having to use the Menu, Costume Change. So I found different tutorials and found something on youtube to help out. Since I was having a hard time with it, I thought I might post exactly how, so maybe someone else could find this a lot faster.

I have never used macros or binds before, but they are easy to set up, once you know exactly what you need to type in.

Using a macro will set up a button for your power tray. I do use all 3 trays, so I had to make room on Tray 3. If you have an empty space the button will automatically go to the empty space.

I have 5 costumes currently.

The numbers in the macro command Must Be from the NUMPAD

/macro CC0 "cce 0 CCFeatherspin$$"

/macro CC1 "cce 1 CCFeatherspin$$"

/macro CC2 "cce 2 CCFeatherspin$$"

/macro CC3 "cce 3 CCFeatherspin$$"

/macro CC4 "cce 4 CCFeatherspin$$"

These are the commands for the first 5 costumes, the CC1 before the " " can be changed to name your button. Featherspin is the current emote that I have - this can be changed to Smokebomb, or Spin. Whichever emote you currently have, No space if it's a two word emote.

Since I had to place these buttons in my Third tray I went into my Options – Keymapping - to set one key activation. For Tray 3 it's Alt2 Tray Slot 1 - set your button, for me it's F1.

I renamed my buttons to match my outfits, because the zero thru four doesn't really match one through five. If you find the command is giving you an unknown command message, make sure the number is from the numpad.
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These are the binds that can be used instead for one click activation, I used F1 thru F5, and the binds didn't seem to have the numpad issue that the macros buttons did.

/bind F1 "cce 0 CCFeatherspin$$"

/bind F2 "cce 1 CCFeatherspin$$"

/bind F3 "cce 2 CCFeatherspin$$"

/bind F4 "cce 3 CCFeatherspin$$"

/bind F5 "cce 4 CCFeatherspin$$"

As in your other post, you are suffering from too many $$.

You use $$ to separate commands, but you aren't putting anything beyond the last $$.

/bind F5 "cce 4 CCFeatherspin"

And because you've used smart quotes in your post, if someone copied your binds they would get errors. The F1-F5 are normally bound to inspirations... Just saying.

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I've never had any issues requiring the numpad, either. (Especially since I don't have a numpad)

There should be no difference between the two.

There isn't. It should also be /bind, /macro makes a little button on your power tray that would read "F1" and so on.


EDIT: Nevermind the second sentence. Need to read the whole post.

IIRC, until you go and bind them to a different command, the numpad (numbers, at least) alias as the non-numpad keys.

/bind F1 "cce 0 CCFeatherspin"

This without the $$ does work. The first time I tried it the other command did work too, but just didn't need to be there.

I always re-set my keys, so my number keys on my board are my inspirations, and my f1 thru f5 are my costumes. Then I set my Keypad numbers to my powers. That was prob why it made a difference to my keys.

The keys however can be changed. So these commands will still work, but the keys need to be changed to what a person wants. I'm not sure what you mean by smart quotes.

Smart quotes: “ ” <-- see how they're curly?

Regular quotes: " " <-- see how they're straight?

The game does not accept smart quotes as part of a command. Copying and pasting your binds will fail. You need to replace all your curly quotes with straight quotes.

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

*Squints...

I really can't tell a difference in the two there. Not doubting you, just looking really close and well, how do you get 'non-smart' quotes? As I only see the one " looking key. Not being facetious, just curious if it's an Alt# deal or something.

As far as the thread goes, thanks Troller45, I recently came back to the game and grabbed all the Mech pieces, got done with my new outfit and for the life of me couldm't get any binds I tried to work. My memory failed me and I long ago put the cheatsheet notebook away.

Finding this thread was much easier than digging in the wiki.

Smart quotes are generally "helpfully" added by many programs and system settings, automatically changing the regular quotes into curly quotes. Which is great if you're typing up an essay, but not so great when you're trying to copy/paste macros or other programming commands that have to be typed correctly.

If you can't see the difference, try increasing the font size. They're definitely different.

Indeed, my monitor at home is clearer. Work PC forces me to use IE and I think it's still chugging along on Windows7...

I should've known that was why, as it is ever other avatar takes up half the screen.

Use the free Notepad replacement Notepad++ for editing anything that might be command lines, or popmenu, or help windows. It will not automatically do 'smart quotes' nor will it introduce extraneous carriage returns or other unseen ASCII codes that can ruin a command line of code.

Ok, now that I know what smart quotes are, I'm going back to edit the original post. Although I do worry if someone were to copy and paste, as someone else mentioned, the F1-F5 keys are set to inspirations originally. Be sure that the keys are ok for your own personal use.