#how do I get states[i].expirationTime for a combat log trigger with Hide Timed Duration?

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south sinew
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I am trying to know when a summoned creature (summon eye of the void for 30 seconds) will expire before it can successfully cast another shadow bolt

tiny thorn
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In what context? Custom Text? if so then aura_env.states[triggerNum].expirationTime will have the value, but you're already so close then I don't think this is what you mean?

south sinew
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Its for an icon for a different summoned creature (Shadowfiend) where I have the opacity reduced if the spell is on cooldown OR if I already have a different pet active - just trying to shave off those potential 3 seconds wasted of eye of the void casting a shadowbolt only to expire before the cast can complete

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thank you for your time btw

south sinew
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This is trigger 3

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And trigger 4 is the cast time for my pet (eye of the void) shadowbolt

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so I am trying to essentially have it so if the expiration time of the shadowbolt cast is > expiration time of trigger 3 (eye lifetime) consider shadowfiend is ready for summon

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i have the proper compound conditionals to only check if the lifetime for eye is < 3

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what I found from testing is that trigger 3 expirationTime was always evaluating to something > 30

tiny thorn
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Then that makes sense of why you said states[i] instead of aura_env.states[i], as a Custom Check function does indeed have the states table sent in to it, and we usually call it states.
But assuming you're using a number instead of i then that is correct.

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expirationTime is always a value similar to GetTime. I think you're expecting it to be a "remaining time" type value, but it is not.

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local remaining = expirationTime - GetTime()

south sinew
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wonderful, i would have never figured that out, thank you so much!!

south sinew
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nevermind I can look up the documentation for GetTime()

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im still confused why expirationTime was always a value higher than the number I input for Hide Timed Duration for the combat log trigger

tiny thorn
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GetTime is the number of seconds your PC has been on, essentially. It's arbitrary but used throughout the API. Everything is relative to that.

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So you want a trigger to be active for 3 seconds, say. The 3 doesn't mean anything. What does mean something is that it should be active until GetTime() + 3

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And so that is the value that's stored for the trigger. It can be checked at any point and will always give useful info.

south sinew
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wow, no wonder im so lost

tiny thorn
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I didn't fully comprehend what you're doing but it's basically going to look like

function(states)
  return states[1].show and states[2].show and states[1].expirationTime < states[2].expirationTime
end

Custom Checks are not run every frame by default. This function would be checked any time any trigger in the Aura updates.

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In the example function I typed though, you see that you don't even really care what "remaining" value anything has. All that matters is will xtrigger end before ytrigger

south sinew
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ohhh wow ok

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for this 1 is the eye trigger and 2 is the shadow bolt trigger?

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well I understand what you are trying to tell me

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so just in case you can come up with the function before me I will detail everything -
theres 3 relevent triggers (theres one trigger for shadowfiend being on cd but thats easy/seperate condition)

2 - hasPet (i need this in case the eye dies early for some reason)
3 - combat log - successfully cast eye of void - hide timed duration 30(lifetime of eye)
4 - combat log - cast start shadow bolt (for my pet) hide timed 3(cast time of shadowbolt)

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this condition desaturates and reduces opacity for my Shadowfiend icon so I want this condition to be true if:

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I have my eye of the void summoned AND (remaining lifetime of eye > 3 OR (eye is casting shadowbolt AND shadowbolt remaining cast time > remaining lifetime of eye))

south sinew
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"This function would be checked any time any trigger in the Aura updates." with this in mind I added a duplicate trigger(5) of the eye that had a duration of 27 so that the logic can be checked at the 3 sec mark and it works!!!! thanks again so much 🙂

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function(states)
    return 
    states[2].show and
    states[3].show and
    (states[5].show or
        states[4].show and 
        states[4].expirationTime < states[3].expirationTime)
end
tiny thorn
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The trigger 5 check could be done outside of code, in the Conditions.
[if - any of - trigger5 - active - OR - custom check - then]

south sinew
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yeah its a pet i can control it , its on season of discovery as a rune ability so no clue but wa seems to recognize it as a pet - /petattack macros etc work with it

south sinew
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ive been working on a huge comprehensive weakaura for shadow priest season of discovery for a while now

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really priest in general

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im pretty good with using the ui and have some understanding of custom triggers but using state tables was totally new to me, its fascinating

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for custom conditionals