luas VS ffxi-gearswap

AlanWarren and Arislan have essentially updated versions of Kinematics luas. That being said Kinematics are perfectly fine, that's what I use for almost all my jobs. I just update/add w/e I need if something is missing (mainly different DT or engage sets). The functions themselves are all there for the most part already without needing to change anything.

Then on Windower, I have different modes I can swap between by pressing keys on my keyboard, I remember in the past I was able to use a macro to swap between the modes, but I can't find out how to do that anymore. Does anyone know what I input in the macro to swap between modes? If it helps, I'm using this Lua: https://github.com/ArislanShiva/luas/blob/master/Arislan-BLM.lua

This looks right. Get the file "mote-mappings.lua" from here: https://github.com/ArislanShiva/luas and put it in the right folder.

To make a very long story short, I have been working on making some tweaks too and adopting this Lua. I have worked out a couple of small things with it. But I can not for the life of me figure out how to cast the EnSpell, BarElement, BarStatus and GainSpell that you can select while using the Lua. My coding skills are just not to the level that I can decipher a solution for myself. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Now, to tie it all together, the in game system doesn’t actually support the amount of gear switching required, so people have to use a plug-in called gear swap in order to switch gears like you want to. However, gs is just something that takes commands. As such, you need to learn at least basic “lua” writing skills in order to mak gs function how you want it to function. Take a look here for an example of someone’s rdm lua. The problem is, it’s not as easy as just copying someone’s lua, as you need to customize it to your own needs, not to mention you might not have their gears.

If you're code savvy take a look at the gearswap/libs folder and read through the mote-include. If you're not, look for a pre-designed lua such as Arislan's github.

That said, my buddy has been working on a Lua pack that covers all jobs and is very easy to set up, you might find it interesting for general use: https://github.com/grandivory/ffxi-gearswap/ (I checked and it does include some of the logic I have for preventing swaps while your avatar is readying a BP, for example, so it should be viable with SMN too.)