Xalp, beta necro dps parser

[Xislaben]

http://www.dzert.com/xalp/

Here she is. Xalp. A glorified string parser that should ideally quickly parse an EQ log file and return information that may be useful, particularly to Necromancers. In the process of fixing this up I found several data errors that other parses (like Yalp) produce.

I made my parser somewhat pretty and cleaned up some goofy code that's near enough for distribution. I also wrapped it in an installer so you don't have to deal with maintaining the various dependencies like ADO DAO mscomctl etc etc. It'll install those for you and leave a nice uninstall script in windows' add/remove programs control.

So like, I don't have any pc's that don't have a development environment on them except one gaming pc, and that's not a great sample. So it installs fine for me, and I hope it will for you as well.

It's very very beta atm, so I'm sure you can find a dozen ways to break it, but it's good enough for government work. If you make it crash let me know how, or send me a log, and I'll fix it. There's very little error handling so odds are you won't know why it did it. It's also kind of fugly in parts, a work in progress etc.

Anyways, things it can do:
1) give you an overall damage/dps/time/start and end date and time
2) individual dot damage by tick with dmg and information on
-a) crits
-b) coa bp clicked for that dot tick
-c) chaotic power running for that dot tick
-d) intensity running for that dot tick
3) total dmg /tick and including info on coabp, cp, and inten running
4) a pretty graph of dot damage
5) all details for dots/pet dmg the way Jalp sort of lays it out
6) the ability to export any of the first 4 items to comma separated files for playing with in excel, or in the graph's case to a HTML document you can view in a browser or upload to a website of your own. 10 odd tiny images are included with the application in it's program directory to make it look nice.

[Meph]

Knew you had a parser for some time now and allways wondered when you'd give it out for public test. NIce one Xis

Gonna give it a try in upcoming days.

[Vanlor]

I <3 Xislaben

[Xislaben]

Knew you had a parser for some time now and allways wondered when you'd give it out for public test. NIce one Xis

Gonna give it a try in upcoming days.

Well I've had little things I've used for a while, but I didn't start writing this one until maybe a week or two ago. I borrowed from some of my other projects to make it. It's kinda funny, but making it pretty (however you graduate that) took longer than coding the guts.

[Schaeffer]

It's kinda funny, but making it pretty (however you graduate that) took longer than coding the guts.

That's the way most things work, functionality is the easy part, aesthetics is always the time sink...

[Aaeeldar]

Log size limit?

Hey Xis,

Is there a size limit for the log? I get an error when i try to open a log that is 43 mb

[Xislaben]

Hey Xis,

Is there a size limit for the log? I get an error when i try to open a log that is 43 mb

No size limit, but a log that big may be running an iterating variable past its upper bound.

If you can zip the file and email it to me, [email protected], I'll run it through the code and see what the issue is.

You can also try cutting the file up into smaller bits and see if it still gives you an error. The biggest log I've tossed at it was 16 megs or so.

[Vanlor]

Is there an option or setting somewhere that you can change to get multiple log files? Every time I tur log on in game it just keeps adding to 1 single file... which is getting rather large. I thought that on my previous computer I had a seperate log for each session that I /log on when I was messing around with yalp but don't remember for sure.

[hughman]

Love it! I will use it a lot!

I do think you are running into an overflow when file size is greater than something around 15-16Mb. I was getting Error 6 failures, until I cut the logs up to less than that size. I checked every section after cutting and it worked, once below that file size.

As a feature request, on the All Damage Detail page, how hard would it be to show the Number of times each spell was cast? The other half of DPS for us is mana efficiency, which is mostly related to the number of times you cast the spells. Just a thought.

Loketh on Prexus.

[Aegrusnecrox]

I guess i know why it blows up when I try to put my 427MB log file into it now...

-Egg

[Xislaben]

Love it! I will use it a lot!

I do think you are running into an overflow when file size is greater than something around 15-16Mb. I was getting Error 6 failures, until I cut the logs up to less than that size. I checked every section after cutting and it worked, once below that file size.

I hope to have this fixed tonight, by changing all integer variables to long variables, much bigger range.

As a feature request, on the All Damage Detail page, how hard would it be to show the Number of times each spell was cast? The other half of DPS for us is mana efficiency, which is mostly related to the number of times you cast the spells. Just a thought.

Loketh on Prexus.

That shouldn't be a problem. I was going to do something similar for pet attacks, but I may even break it down into the various forms of attacking, like your standard kick/hit/bash/slice etc, but pet procs are considered a 'hit' and can skew the numbers.

One thing I dislike about the spell dps number though, it's a total spell dmg/event time, which is great and all, but if the dot only ran for 50&#37; of the event, it's going to have a much lower dps than if it ran the entire time. So I may add both a total dps and a situational dps (dot dmg/time dot ran like ticks*6), if that's not too confusing. I don't have a good naming convention for it that makes sense intuitively.

edit:
Well that's not entirely true! I can parse the number of times a spell is cast, but if you are dotting two mobs at the same time I may not be able to associate the cast with the mob. There's also the case of your casting being interrupted etc. # of ticks of damage should be easier, but in the mentioned case the number of casts themselves may not be all that useful.

Is there an option or setting somewhere that you can change to get multiple log files? Every time I tur log on in game it just keeps adding to 1 single file... which is getting rather large. I thought that on my previous computer I had a seperate log for each session that I /log on when I was messing around with yalp but don't remember for sure.

Not that I know of in EQ.
I physically rename log files for each event I take part in, so I don't have many large log files to test with, which is why that log size bug is there heh.

[Viko]

Very nice, thank you for this contribution. I was looking for something that did this and this is the best one ive found so far.

One thing that might be easy to add, is to take the # of times each dot is cast * known mana cost and divide the amount of damage by that..

Lets say a pyre spell does 30k, cast 5 times, 1000 mana each, that would give 6dmg/mana

Im not sure how specialization works along with focii, but at least this would give a general efficiency? (obviously spikey depending on crits)

thanks!

[Xislaben]

Very nice, thank you for this contribution. I was looking for something that did this and this is the best one ive found so far.

One thing that might be easy to add, is to take the # of times each dot is cast * known mana cost and divide the amount of damage by that..

Lets say a pyre spell does 30k, cast 5 times, 1000 mana each, that would give 6dmg/mana

Im not sure how specialization works along with focii, but at least this would give a general efficiency? (obviously spikey depending on crits)

thanks!

Ya good idea, I'll do that tomorrow maybe.

As of now it's updated with extra info on the all damage page.

[Felicite]

I physically rename log files for each event I take part in, so I don't have many large log files to test with, which is why that log size bug is there heh.

Sorry, Noam.. I used to have Felicite's entire life logged in friendly 200-400MB chunks. I would remember to rename them every few months.

Now that would be a good test.. *nods* And it would be like a free subscription to "Penthouse Letters".

But seriously, thank you for sharing your parser with the community, you are a class act. Tad grumpy, but class.

[Vanlor]

Not that I know of in EQ.
I physically rename log files for each event I take part in, so I don't have many large log files to test with, which is why that log size bug is there heh.

I mean, right now I have only one log file and every time I turn /log on it just adds to that log file. In order to get seperate files or sessions do you always have to split off of the main one? If so how exactly do I go about that? Cut/paste in notepad?

On my old pc I swear each time I turned /log on it created a new session, rather than just ading to the first one.