IS:Multiboxing Guide

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Overview

Inner Space is simply the most powerful and flexible software that exists for multi-boxing.

Inner Space provides numerous features that can be used and combined in order to form a complete multi-boxing system
  • Communication with other Inner Space sessions on the same PC, or on multiple PCs
  • Full keyboard and mouse virtualization and emulation (which, when combined with the above, provides fast, full keyboard and mouse replication on the same PC or multiple PCs)
  • Keybinds supporting the keyboard, mouse, G15 keys, and other alternative input devices such as saitek command pads, X-Keys, etc (which, when combined with the above, provides for sending specific keystrokes to one or more sessions on the same PC or multiple PCs when pressing a given key combination)
  • Aliases (which, when combined with the above, provides for round-robin key distribution)
  • Full window characteristics customization (allowing for ultra-fast Picture-in-Picture, for example)

What is multi-boxing?

Multi-boxing is a term for playing multiple characters in an MMO at the same time, be it on the same PC, or multiple PCs. The term originally meant "using multiple PCs" (aka boxes) for this purpose, but for lack of a better term and for the sake of brevity, it is also used to describe the practice on a single PC.

Is multi-boxing with Inner Space safe?

Short answer: Yes, as far as anyone knows. There are many people including myself multi-boxing with Inner Space in different games including World of Warcraft, and there are people that have been doing it for quite some time.

Long answer: It depends on who you ask and who you want to believe. There are no known bans for using Inner Space for multi-boxing, in any game. There are ways to get yourself banned "using Inner Space", but this generally requires purposefully seeking out, downloading, and installing additional software from other sources. Inner Space alone does not violate the Terms of Service for any popular game that we are aware of, but the software from other sources described in the previous sentence does (and is neither part of Inner Space, nor a Lavish Software product).

Using this guide

This guide is going to start with the easiest topics, and progress to the more advanced topics. Certain topics that may sound to you like they should be simple, may in fact be advanced -- for example "how do I save these settings" is not quite as simple as it sounds. However, as the different pieces of the multi-boxing puzzle become more popular, people with the ability to develop new features will continue to drive this as close to plug and play as possible. This guide will show you how to "save your settings", but you should learn how to get to where you want things saved first.

You do not need to follow the entire guide. If you do not need or want a given feature, you do not need to install or configure it, and you can skip the section that describes it. It is entirely up to you.

Everything used in this guide (except Inner Space itself) is free and open source. This means that if you have some technical know-how, you can tweak it to your heart's content. If not, it also means that if you find a problem, you need only to find someone with technical know-how to get it looked at, even if the original author gets hit by a bus!

This guide is a work in progress and will be completed as soon as possible (we do apologize for the missing portions). Feel free to contribute useful information to the guide.

If you get stuck at any point while following this guide, see the "Stuck?" section near the bottom of this page to get some help. There are many other people who can answer your questions and help you through this.

Getting Inner Space (required)

Step 1: Sign up for a Lavish Software account

Step 2: Purchase a subscription or apply for a FREE 7-day trial

Step 3: Download Inner Space

Step 4: Install Inner Space

Step 5: Launch Inner Space

Step 6: Launch your game through Inner Space

Picture-in-Picture

WindowSnapper is the Picture-in-Picture script of choice. Note: Does not currently work with EverQuest 2, but should work with EverQuest 2 in a near-future release.

If you are not yet familiar with WindowSnapper, take a moment to view a few videos demonstrating the speed and power of using Inner Space for Picture-in-Picture:

Step 1: Download WindowSnapper

Step 2: Install WindowSnapper

Step 3: Launch WindowSnapper

Step 4: Configure WindowSnapper

Step 4a: Dragging the PiP window

Step 4b: Docking the PiP window

Step 4c: Giving a specific size and position for the PiP window

Keyboard and mouse replication on the same PC

Repeater is designed for full keyboard and mouse replication. It can be used with one or more PCs, with any number of target sessions. See "Connecting additional PCs" for how to enable this functionality on additional PCs -- you will want to learn how to do this on the same PC first!

Step 1: Download Repeater

Step 2: Install Repeater

Step 3: Launch Repeater

Step 4: Try Repeater out

Step 5: Configure a whitelist or blacklist

User Interface overlay for clicking on custom buttons to perform an action in other sessions

ClickBoxer is designed to be customized for a usable in-game interface, in any game, to distribute keystrokes to one or more sessions.

Step 1: Download ClickBoxer

Step 2: Install ClickBoxer

Step 3: Launch ClickBoxer

Step 4: Try ClickBoxer out

Step 5: Configure ClickBoxer

Using keybinds to perform an action in other sessions

Step 1: Determine a key or key combination to use

Round-robin keybinds

Step 1: Create an alias for each round-robin interval

Step 2: Create an alias to hold the current round-robin interval

Step 3: Create a keybind to execute the current round-robin interval alias

Configuring Inner Space for multiple monitors

Connecting additional PCs for keyboard and mouse replication

Step 1: Enable Uplink Networking

Step 2: Connect to another PC

Automatically loading and configuring any of the above (saving your settings)

Configuring the Logitech G15 or G11 for use with Inner Space keybinds

Step 1: Download and install Logitech G15/G11 software

Step 2: Launch the Logitech G15/G11 Keyboard Profiler

Step 3: Clear the G-key settings

Step 4: Close the Keyboard Profiler

If the Keyboard Profiler is not closed (it must not be running at all), then certain keys on the G15/G11 have special meaning that will change the behavior of the G-keys while you play -- for example, MR will create a "quick macro" and assign the macro to a G-key. This is not desirable for our usage, because Inner Space natively supports the G-keys and M-keys! Closing the Keyboard Profiler will also prevent the software from automatically loading different configurations, such as the World of Warcraft configuration when playing World of Warcraft.

Stuck?

Click here to join us in live chat! This will bring you to the #isboxer channel on the chat server irc.lavishsoft.com, your best resource for getting help multi-boxing with Inner Space.

Be patient, as there are many people in the chat room that can answer your questions, but not everyone is available 24 hours a day. Depending on the time of day and how many people are around, you may need to hang out for a little while to get an answer, and you can always feel free to hang out for as long as you like. The longer you stay, the more likely you will get helped, and maybe learn a lot more about what is available while you're at it! People are always working on new things and sharing with others, so you may even get to be one of the first to try out a new, cool feature.

See Also

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