magill

"What a long strange trip it's been..."

I spent a couple of hours yesterday playing with Mount Carousel again...
Lately I've been leveling a Dwarf Rune Keper, so I deleted all of the files associated with Rogidor Plugins/Mount Carousel and downloaded them again from the website.

Because I was currently working with a Dwarf toon in LOTRO, I first downloaded, un-zipped and loaded the 1.0 version of Mount Carousel (Hobbit/Dwarf) then downloaded; unzipped and installed the patch. ... and lo and behold, it worked!

Ok, so I went back to the toon I was working with in November, my Man Minstrel. Again I downloaded the 1.0 version of MC(Man/Elf); unzipped, re-installed, downloaded; unzipped and re-installed the patch... failure!

This made no sense, so I deleted everything and started with Man/Elf and it still did not work.
I re-installed the Hobbit/Dwarf version, and it worked!

Very strange.

Finally, after getting bleary-eyed... I found the bug.

The ORIGINAL 1.0 download zip file of "MountCarouselME.zip" contains the folder: "Rogidor Plugins"
The ORIGINAL 1.0 download zip file of "MountCarouselHD.zip" contains the folder: "RogidorPlugins"

Eureka! An errant space in the parent directory name!

Depending upon which version you downloaded and installed first (and how you installed the second), you got the infamous
"Could not load plugin" error... because of the space in that directory name.

Note that the two patch files - "Rogidor Plugins.zip" and "Rogidor Plugins1.zip" also contain the space in the parent directory
file name -- "Rogidor Plugins" instead of "RogidorPlugins" - leaving one to assume it is correct.

Marll

Chances are that this plugin will not be developed further, so I apologize for any issues that people are having.

I was working on some improvements to the system, to allow mounts to be dragged and dropped into the carousel, so none of the Hex codes would be needed, and only 1 plugin (Not both ME and HD) would be needed going forward.

That unfortunately never worked out, as try as I might (being a very novice coder at best) I could not get that feature working, and kind of lost all motivation to get it working after failure after failure.

Ideally I would like the plugin to have the following features, so anyone that is willing/able to take over should feel free to do so:

1. The carousel would maintain its current appearance, but allow skills to be dragged and dropped into it (which would make it useful for more than just mounts) and position would be saved.

2. Mounts would be able to be scrolled through forward and backward (got this working in a build, thanks to modifications to Pet Carousel that another member made, great addition).

3. Right click would be used on the center slot to switch to goats.

Beorhere

Magill also posted on this below.

This actually turned out to be a simple problem. The Folder name in \The Lord of the Rings Online\Plugins when it installs is \Rogidor Plugins. Rename this folder to RogidorPlugins (remove the space between Rogidor and Plugins) and all works as advertised. Hope this helps.