ACT question

[StUfF]

Post an example?

[Sigmakan]

the whole log file?

well shit now its working in ACT, only not working on FFlogs now

[Sigmakan]

Response from the FFLogs person:

There is an issue where NUL characters can be written into the log file. This seems to be occurring because of the chat log lines. The plugin-author, Ravahn, is going to release an update to hopefully address this issue, since it's very hard for me to deal with on my end.

[woofish]

Hey all, I've done a bit of googling on the issue, but nothing seems to be turning up.

I'm creating a regex for A3S regarding the Digitize debuff, so that it auto calls out the name of the tank I need to swap with for our strategy.

I current have the following, which works except the TTS output is prepended by what seems to be a HEX code or other identifier.

As an example, this makes the TTS output play verbally as "00:4DF Jane Doe Vuln Up"

I'm wondering if this is an issue with the regex code I'm using, or if its just something to do with ACT or FFXIV that I can't fix.

TTS

${Player} Vuln Up

REGEX

(?<Player>.+) suffers the effect of Marked for Vulnerability Up.

[octopus]

I don't see why you need to use ACT callouts for the tank debuff, but here is what I'd do...

([\w\']+)(?:[\w\' ]+)? suffers? the effect of Marked for Vulnerability Up\.

Vuln up on $1 $2

[Ragns]

TTS

${Player} Vuln Up

REGEX

(?<Player>.+) suffers the effect of Marked for Vulnerability Up.

What you want is something like this:
TTS

${Player} Vuln Up

REGEX

(?<Player>[A-Z][a-z']+ [A-Z][a-z']+?) suffers the effect of Marked for Vulnerability Up.

[technominari]

Installed Windows 10 and getting an issue with ACT and Rainbowmage overlay. can't get overlay to show up at all, ACT throws an error like this:

System.InvalidOperationException: Failed to create browser.
   at Xilium.CefGlue.CefBrowserHost.CreateBrowser(CefWindowInfo windowInfo, CefClient client, CefBrowserSettings settings, String url, CefRequestContext requestContext)
   at RainbowMage.HtmlRenderer.Renderer.BeginRender(Int32 width, Int32 height, String url, Int32 maxFrameRate) in c:\Users\john_000\Repos\Personal\OverlayPlugin-Compiler\OverlayPlugin\HtmlRenderer\Renderer.cs:line 51
   at RainbowMage.OverlayPlugin.OverlayForm.UpdateRender() in c:\Users\john_000\Repos\Personal\OverlayPlugin-Compiler\OverlayPlugin\OverlayPlugin.Core\OverlayForm.cs:line 280
   at RainbowMage.OverlayPlugin.Overlays.MiniParseOverlay.Navigate(String url) in c:\Users\john_000\Repos\Personal\OverlayPlugin-Compiler\OverlayPlugin\OverlayPlugin.Core\Overlays\MiniParseOverlay.cs:line 32
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

this is a fresh install of ACT w/ that Overlay Plugin installer 0.3.3.8. inexplicably the overlay will actually work on first boot up occasionally.

to be precise this appears to be an issue only if you select the "streamer version" of the installation, which is rough because i do want to record the overlay in videos

[Ragns]

Installed Windows 10 and getting an issue with ACT and Rainbowmage overlay. can't get overlay to show up at all, ACT throws an error like this:

System.InvalidOperationException: Failed to create browser.
   at Xilium.CefGlue.CefBrowserHost.CreateBrowser(CefWindowInfo windowInfo, CefClient client, CefBrowserSettings settings, String url, CefRequestContext requestContext)
   at RainbowMage.HtmlRenderer.Renderer.BeginRender(Int32 width, Int32 height, String url, Int32 maxFrameRate) in c:\Users\john_000\Repos\Personal\OverlayPlugin-Compiler\OverlayPlugin\HtmlRenderer\Renderer.cs:line 51
   at RainbowMage.OverlayPlugin.OverlayForm.UpdateRender() in c:\Users\john_000\Repos\Personal\OverlayPlugin-Compiler\OverlayPlugin\OverlayPlugin.Core\OverlayForm.cs:line 280
   at RainbowMage.OverlayPlugin.Overlays.MiniParseOverlay.Navigate(String url) in c:\Users\john_000\Repos\Personal\OverlayPlugin-Compiler\OverlayPlugin\OverlayPlugin.Core\Overlays\MiniParseOverlay.cs:line 32
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

this is a fresh install of ACT w/ that Overlay Plugin installer 0.3.3.8. inexplicably the overlay will actually work on first boot up occasionally.

to be precise this appears to be an issue only if you select the "streamer version" of the installation, which is rough because i do want to record the overlay in videos

ACT devs already said for the past 2 months that ACT on Windows 10 is half broken until further notices.

[Niiro]

Why do people use new OS before they've been out for like a year at least.

I know this one was free and all, but still.

[haroldsaxon]

I have just uploaded a new version, v1.4.2.0.

This release primarily affects where buff data is pulled from when parsing in network mode. Previously it was pulled from game memory, but now it is retrieved from the network packets directly. This should provide more accurate time synchronization when calculating damage effects and DoT tick amounts.

Other changes include:
Added some memory reading features to assist with WitcherMog's new overlay add-on.
Modified log writing routines to replace NULL characters with spaces.
Implemented correct potency for Death Blossom with / without the enhanced trait.
Modified the DoT tick count for Scourge with / without the enhanced trait.
Fixed the DoT crit bonus damage amount to correctly snapshot crit buffs at the time of application. Previously it was trying to calculate based on active buffs using the buff timestamp, which could occasionally be problematic.

I'm going to work next on a change to network parsing to optionally retrieve data using the WinPCap network packet capture driver. This may allow people having problems with network parsing mode to get it working. However, it will of course require downloading and installing the free WinPCap driver separately from the FFXIV Plugin. The current network parsing will remain as the default parsing mode.

As I've stated before, the memory parsing mode will miss some combat data, and should not be used except as a last resort. In particular, Wildfire is a problem.

Notes from the last update.

[octopus]

I also noticed the Savage zone names are added so no more "unknown zones"!

[octopus]

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[Fondue]

every time I open act I have to uncheck the network data thing in the ffxiv plugin tab to get the parser to start working, how do I fix this to avoid having to do that?

[octopus]

every time I open act I have to uncheck the network data thing in the ffxiv plugin tab to get the parser to start working, how do I fix this to avoid having to do that?

Did you add ACT to your windows firewall exceptions and are you running ACT as Administrator?

[Fondue]

I've been using act for like 2 years with no changes as far as I can tell until it started doing that about a month ago, I'll check the firewall when I get home though

[haroldsaxon]

Released v1.4.2.1. Changes include:
Added a new feature to network parsing to pull network data from the established WinPCap library, instead of using my own code. This feature requires installing a separate program from WinPcap - Home or Win10Pcap - WinPcap for Windows 10 . Consider it a Beta feature for now, but I'm adding it in the hopes that people who cannot get network parsing to work due to issues with conflicting software or windows security may be able to use this instead. It can be enabled by checking the "Use WinPCap" checkbox on the FFXIV Settings tab.
Fixed some buff issues with Damage Down effects in some of the Savage zones that were causing incorrect DoT calculations. There may be other buff issues that I need to take a look at, but this was particularly bad.
Fixed a bug that prevented some buff durations from being refreshed in the log data. Most notably this affected Foe Requiem, which is refreshed automatically every three seconds.
Added back the human-readable log information when buffs are added/removed so that custom triggers work again. This should match what was there before v1.4.2.0, with the addition of the number of buff stacks added to the end of the line.
Fixed a network parsing-related bug that was occasionally showing errors about insufficient buffer space.

For those wishing to help me improve the parser, I could use some log data from v1.4.2.1 of the plugin in 8-man zones. As usual, these would be the files named Network_yyyymmdd.log in the C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Advanced Combat Tracker\FFXIVLogs folder. You can email them to me at ravahn (at) hotmail.com.

Another patch.

[Niiro]

ACT hanging on load perpetually after the patch for me, have to open tank manager to close it.

Anyone else?

Spoiler: show

[octopus]

ACT is currently broken:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ak_act/cwve2np

[Ravahn]

ACT FFXIV plugin is fixed now. Memory mode DoTs are disabled until I spend a couple hours verifying that the memory structure hasn't changed. Network mode should work 100% though as of v1.4.2.3.

Anyone tried using the WinPCap option yet?

[Niiro]

Thanks for the quick fix.

Anyone tried using the WinPCap option yet?

What's it supposed to do?