LuteGuide

Overlay to display notes when playing a bard in Neverwinter using songs from my miditobard website.

Caution

Not an autoplayer and never will be, because where's the fun in that -.-

LuteGuide_720p.mp4

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Keybinds

Double-tap Tab:

• Opens or hides the overlay

Bard inputs use the default Neverwinter keybinds

• 1–8
• Arrow keys

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Songs

• Place song JSON files in the "list" folder so the overlay can detect them
• Genre and source are determined by subfolders inside the "list" folder

Example structure:

list/
  Anime/
    Attack on Titan/
      Shinzou Wo Sasageyo.json

• There are couple example songs already included in the "list" folder
• If you prefer not to use folders, you can manually edit "config/song_statistics.json" to set the genre and source for each song

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Settings

File: config/settings.json

Most settings are changed directly in the overlay, so manual editing is not needed for other settings that are not listen below

Options:

click_sound_delay_ms

• How long does the delay need to be for the note before a click sound is played

auto_close_on_game_close

• If true, the overlay will try to detect when Neverwinter is running and automatically close the overlay when the game closes
• This requires -autoclose launch argument

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Launch Commands

-min

• Starts the overlay minimized

-autoclose

• Requires "auto_close_on_game_close" to be true
• Automatically closes the overlay when Neverwinter closes

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Auto Launch (Steam Setup)

A launcher.vbs file is included to start both Neverwinter and LuteGuide together.

Setup:

1. Right-click Neverwinter in Steam
2. Go to Properties
3. Under General, find Launch Options
4. Paste the following (make sure to update the path to your actual launcher.vbs location):

wscript "path\to\launcher.vbs" %command%

Note

If Steam shows "Playing → Not Playing → Playing":

• Increase the sleep duration at the bottom of launcher.vbs

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Acknowledgements

• Nuitka: Used to package the LuteGuide into an standalone version
• sounddevice: Used to play audio files
• pynput: Used to capture tab, arrow keys, 1-8
• psutil: Used to detect Neverwinter opening/closing
• customtkinter: Mainly used for rounding of borders :d