I made a slash command to turn off Gameplay Tutorials

MoonPile · October 3

I wanted a simple addon to set a keybind or toggle for Settings > Gameplay > Tutorials > OFF
Based on Autoloot toggle: https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info455-AutolootToggle.html

Ideally there would be a way to a way to disable them account-wide; I've been playing this since 2014, really don't need them

I need mainly this for PTS where I sometimes create a lot of tester characters in quick succession: Having the tutorials pop up for each one slows me down, as does menu-surfing. Synced Account Settings does not handle this and did not work on the PTS at time of writing. (EDIT: See Masteroshi's reply below; SAS does work! My toggle is just a backup plan.)

So it's just a simple chat command: /tt

I've never uploaded addons to ESOUI and don't really want to get into that right now, so if anyone else needs this (or want to improve upon it) - Here's the code and file structure:

ToggleTutorial.lua

function ToggleTutorial()
	local tutorialSetting = GetSetting(SETTING_TYPE_TUTORIAL, TUTORIAL_ENABLED_SETTING_ID);
	if (tutorialSetting == "1") then
		tutorialSetting = "0";
		d("Tutorials are now off");
	else
		tutorialSetting = "1";
		d("Tutorials are now on");
	end
	
	SetSetting(SETTING_TYPE_TUTORIAL, TUTORIAL_ENABLED_SETTING_ID, tutorialSetting, 1);
end

SLASH_COMMANDS["/toggletutorial"]= ToggleTutorial
SLASH_COMMANDS["/tt"]= ToggleTutorial

ToggleTutorial.txt

## Title: ToggleTutorial
## Author: #MoonPile
## Version: 1.0
## APIVersion: 100003

ToggleTutorial.lua

Masteroshi430 · October 4

How Synced Account Settings works:
1 You set your game preferences on one character in the game settings
2 You save it in the addon settings with the [Save Character Settings] button
3 Now each time a character logs in, the settings you have saved are applied (shared with other characters) except if the specific option for that setting is off in the addon settings

The options for each game setting in the addon settings are not on/off switches for the game options, they are on/off switches for the "share the saved setting to all characters" feature.

MoonPile · October 4

Masteroshi430 wrote: »

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How Synced Account Settings works:
1 You set your game preferences on one character in the game settings
2 You save it in the addon settings with the [Save Character Settings] button
3 Now each time a character logs in, the settings you have saved are applied (shared with other characters) except if the specific option for that setting is off in the addon settings

The options for each game setting in the addon settings are not on/off switches for the game options, they are on/off switches for the "share the saved setting to all characters" feature.

Hi Masteroshi, thanks a lot for Account Settings!
This addon has been so helpful. Everything else I know how to do and have been using it for years, but I obviously missed that Tutorials section (or maybe changed it ages ago, Idk)

*facepalm*

Unfortunately it broke again for me on U48 PTS, (I'd left a comment about it on the ESOUI U47 which you fixed). I haven't checked for an update yet.

I'm on PTS a lot while some addons may get broken, so my toggle is just a backup plan then.

Masteroshi430 · October 4

MoonPile wrote: »

Hi Masteroshi, thanks a lot for Account Settings!
This addon has been so helpful. Everything else I know how to do and have been using it for years, but I obviously missed that Tutorials section (or maybe changed it ages ago, Idk) *facepalm*

Unfortunately it broke again for me on U48 PTS, (I'd left a comment about it on the ESOUI U47 which you fixed). I haven't checked for an update yet.

I'm on PTS a lot while some addons may get broken, so my toggle is just a backup plan then.

It's not broke, it's just that I have to add manually each new setting ZoS adds to the game but the addon won't work on live if I add the new PTS settings, so each time I have to wait for live to hit the servers to upload the update.
For now the only case for it to work on PTS would be an update from ZoS without any new setting, but they seem to add one or two new settings with each update these days (which is great).
So yeah your addon is a good solution for PTS ;-)