How would you turn all guys around 180* with a keystroke?

[Evilseed]

They there,

Is there a way anybody knows of to make your guys automatically turn around? So lets say I'm facing North, now I want to face south. Any idea?

Thanks!

[Tehtsuo]

There used to be, but it was removed. Used to use it for a jumpshot macro on my hunter.

[Ghallo]

Easy... all my guys are on follow. I walk through them ...

they all turn around.


:)

[xum]

with follow, right click mouse and spin. voila. easiest and FASTEsT way to do it.

[Evilseed]

I'm trying to do it off of follow, that way my guys can insta turn around if a mob runs through them.

Using follow takes a few seconds which is just too long.

[Suvega]

ok

so best way to do this, is replicate mouse. use the macro command to switch your CAMERA 180 deg, then just tap right click.

[Evilseed]

Hey there Suvega!

When you say to switch the CAMERA 180 degrees, how exactly do you do that in wow? I was looking but didn't see :)

Thanks!

[Suvega]

Hey there Suvega!

When you say to switch the CAMERA 180 degrees, how exactly do you do that in wow? I was looking but didn't see :)

Thanks!
/script FlipCameraYaw(180);

Not sure if it works in combat >.>

[Evilseed]

Hey there!

I tried that and sure enough, it flips your perspective and YAW, but not seemingly in a good way. It flips your perspective and you cannot reset it back unless you /script FlipCameraYaw(180); again. Which means you cannot actually turn around.

Any other way you know about or is there a diff way of using this command?

Thanks again :)

[Suvega]

Hey there!

I tried that and sure enough, it flips your perspective and YAW, but not seemingly in a good way. It flips your perspective and you cannot reset it back unless you /script FlipCameraYaw(180); again. Which means you cannot actually turn around.

Any other way you know about or is there a diff way of using this command?

Thanks again :)
Ehh thats all I got sorry :\

Maybe hit the button, tap right mouse, then hit again? not sure.

[Evilseed]

The thing is, that doesn't turn ur guy around, just your perspective. So instead of looking forward and running forward, you are now looking backwards and running forward. Basically makes it impossible to see in front of you with that command.

Lets try and figure this out together, I'm sure a ton of multiboxers could use a way to auto turn their guys around!

[Mith]

why not simply bind a key for all the alts to the movement action "turn left" or "turn right"? its not a complete fix to the issue, i.e. you would have to hold the key till they were sufficiently rotated, but iirc there is no command to just reverse your facing direction anymore. At worst you'd have to hold a key down for 1.25 full seconds to acheive the same effect.

[leukos]

I'm going to toe the line on this one with a theoretical approach. Use a software based mouse driver that lets you control the mouse with your keyboard. It isn't as simple as one key press and turn around 180 deg, but may be able to accomplish what you want to do.

However, if the functionality to quickly and accurately turn 180 deg with a single key press (or event) was removed from Warcraft and instead relegated to very quick, spastic, mouse movements - perhaps we shouldn't be admitting to trying to duplicate the removed functionality.

[bryanc]

Well, this requires a bit of setup and isn't perfect but seems to get the job done. Usefulness will depend on what you're wanting it for I guess.

For each toon:
Assuming you don't want to use your mouse for this, bind a key to "Move and Steer", let's say 'X'. Use your mouse to position the camera so that it is facing the toon, and /run SaveView(2) Make a macro that does /run SetView(2);SetView(2)Then, to do a 180 turn, hit the macro, and tap X.

Note that when calling SetView() the game will try to make a fluid transition from whereever your camera is placed to the saved position, so this isn't really instant. Thanks to Slivermaster for solving this: calling SetView() twice in a row causes the camera to snap into position.

The 2 there can be any number from 2-5, (1 is reserved for 1st person view, you can't change it).

You can /run ResetView(#) to restore the default camera position for an index if you ever want to.

[Slivermaster]

To make the camera snap to the saved position, call SetView() twice:

/script SetView(2);SetView(2);

[Monkofdoom]

At worst you'd have to hold a key down for 1.25 full seconds to acheive the same effect.If you have a rogue inside your group 1.25 seconds is a life time and by the time you've done it he is the other side again.

Seems like the camera view trick is a possibility

[opt]

bind something like f to turn and have all your chars do it at the same time, set it up in your key binding in right turn. And keybind it on every char.
if you have normal d todo it, it will break follow all the time when you use it

[Sanctume]

Look at the Key Bindings. There's one for flip camera view that you can assign to a hotkey.

[elo]

AutoHotkey has some mouse function that you might be able to use to accomplish this. There's info in the help on how to use it, think I may have seen something on this board too. Prolly have trouble doing an exact 180° but close enough I'd think.

[Aloratnm]

I usually keybind "Flip Camera" to a key near my movement strokes. You can then right click and auto-snap your character into place. Not sure how to get that done for all of them unless you move forward.

Is this move needed often enough to warrant a script that might need you to do that? I can see in PVP how you'd want that ability.

[Chorizotarian]

I usually keybind "Flip Camera" to a key near my movement strokes. You can then right click and auto-snap your character into place. Not sure how to get that done for all of them unless you move forward.
I think you actually have to bind a separate camera view to do this. The flip camera command in the keybindings menu reverses your camera so that you are staring at your face rather than your butt when you turn. It does work if you bind one of your 4 custom views though. (4 because view 1 of 5 is hard-wired to 1st person view.)

[Temor]

The thing is, that doesn't turn ur guy around, just your perspective. So instead of looking forward and running forward, you are now looking backwards and running forward. Basically makes it impossible to see in front of you with that command.

Lets try and figure this out together, I'm sure a ton of multiboxers could use a way to auto turn their guys around!

Not this one. There is no way within the boundaries of World of Warcraft to do this. You will need to use some other method such as a third party program to do it. And why is that? Because Blizzard purposely made it this way. It was unfair to the rogues and classes that rely on being in back of the target they are fighting for PvP. Think about it, if you could just turn around really fast, it defeats the purpose of a rogue fighting in back of you. They made it so that you have to turn around to fight them. Plus, have you noticed that rogues can move really fast from side to side? It's pretty much the same reason. If a rogue has you in close combat, that's their class advantage. Each class has advantages and disadvantages in the game.

To those that posted some good idea, that's great, but that's all they were, ideas. They didn't actually work in the game. Sure, the camera can be reversed, but the character cannot be. He must be turned.

[HPB]

I have my movement keys: a, s, d, w, q, e, all set to no-pass so that while typing, my alts don't wander off BUT....

I have my arrows set to pass. So if I get to a monster and my alts are facing the wrong way... I spin them around using the left or right arrow key. If necessary, afterwards reverse spin my main using the a or d key.

It's super fast, hardly any settup time, and straight forward.