LotRO Interface Bar (quickbar) Manager

[Miriel]

I was reading forums a few weeks ago and came across the LUA-Plugins information for TonicBars. I have played around with it now on my Hunter... lets just say:
I LOVE IT
Irmo and Hurin have also been testing this plugin and are impressed with the functionality.
It was a bit confusing at first and took some time to get it working as I wanted. SO be patient and not in a time crunch.

What are some of the things TonicBars can do for you? TonicBars can:

* Organize skills, items, mounts, pets, and more onto Quick-Bars for easy access.

* Automatically Manage your Classes skills to unclutter the screen

* Trigger those bars or individual quickslots to display skills/potions under certain circumstances.
- In-combat
- Poisoned, Wounded, Feared, Diseased
- Based on Class Specific Buffs!!!
- Alt, Control, Shift Pressed
- Health/Power Drops below some Percentage

* Customize the Bars in terms of:
- How many Rows / Columns of quickslots to show (aka, the size of the bar)

* Add Extensions to a bar (hide skills, but get to them Quick)

* Copy bars, Reset Bars, Copy the entire bar setup from another character on the same server.

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The How-to:

You will need to add a new folder just like you did for "Music files". Look I am walking you through that below...

1. Navigate to your documents folder for The Lord of the Rings Online

- for Windows XP users, this is usually " C:\Documents and Settings\<your user name>\My Documents\The Lord of the Rings Online"

- for Windows Vista\7 Users, this is usually "C:\Users\<your user name>\Documents\The Lord of the Rings Online"


2. Create a folder named "Plugins" inside of this folder. All plugins will be placed inside of this new folder.


Once you have downloaded the file do not unzip it all to /Plugins folder. You only want the folder called "Tonic". This folder is inside the "Tonicbars" main folder that you unzip!!!! I suggest unzipping the file to your desktop or your downloads folder then moving the folder "Tonic" to the /plugins folder manually.


3. Log into game

4. Make a macro to load the plug in. The example I give you will replace your current "1" quickslot skill with the macro... so move what you have there first. You can put your skill back after you find a nice new place for your macro.
( /shortcut 1 /plugins load tonicbars)

5. Use the macro to enable TonicBars. This must be done at every login! See why I had you make a macro <winks> I would not advise you to place your macro on any Tonicbars created slot because until you load Tonicbars you won't see it.



*****LotRO LUA-Plugins are still in the BETA phase.*****


Here is the link for more information, directions and download:
TonicBars
www.lotrointerface.com/downloads/info370-TonicBars.html

I suggest thoroughly looking over the information.

A video highlighting the plugin:




Please fell free to ask me for help if you need and I will do what I can.

Enjoy!

[Indis]

I also use TonicBars, and I agree--it's terrific. Takes a bit to set up, but after that, it adds huge amounts of real estate to your hot buttons. If anyone decides to use it, I'll help if I can when online.

Another one I use is BuffBars. I have a separate bar set up for debuffs, and it's very helpful in situations where it's vital to see my debuffs and react to them. You can find it on the same site as TonicBars.

I also use a plugin called something like Plug-In Manager (found on the same site). Then my macro calls the Manager, which is preset to call BuffBars and TonicBars.

/alias ;plug /plugins load manager
then you can make a shortcut as suggested by Miriel, putting the alias in it.

[Miriel]

As of the Isengard expansion the older version of Tonicbars will cause game crashes. NuclearTonic has put out a new version (v2.6) to solve the crashing. Please remove your old "Tonic" folder and replace it with v2.6 "Tonic".

download site link:
www.lotrointerface.com/downloads/info370-TonicBars.html

- for Windows XP users, this is usually " C:\Documents and Settings\<your user name>\My Documents\The Lord of the Rings Online\Plugins\Tonic"

- for Windows Vista\7 Users, this is usually "C:\Users\<your user name>\Documents\The Lord of the Rings Online\Plugins\Tonic"