Ruby Chat Log analyzer

[Bakchuda]

andydeck said:

The problem is with the 'attacks.' at the end of the line. I fixed it by adding "'attacks.' => :null" to the @linetypes entry on line 16, and then copying the function heal() on line 150 into a new blank function called null(). All better

Thanks for finding that, I have now updated the analyzer to do a little more data validation. Of course, it is still pretty easy to fake a attack or save line and screw up the analysis, but at least you won't accidentally crap it out now by saying the word "attacks" in chat.

And to concur with resonance, you can send the output to a file just as he wrote, with " > somefile.txt" after the command (minus the quotes)

[Bakchuda]

HTML and tabular format is here!

Preview: devel.snipehunt.net/downloads/analysis.html

Now you need a whopping 2 files to run this program, the script itself and the CSS file for the html output. I have zipped them both together here:
devel.snipehunt.net/downloads/chatAnalyzer.zip

The scrip file now has a third option at the top to specify the name of the output file, which defaults to analysis.html

I have tested the output in IE 7 and Firefox 2 and they both look nice, let me know if any other browsers have issues, or if the output of your particular log file looks odd.

Happy Analyzing!

[kaldair]

Nice output. LOL I just realized I've seen better coding involving HG than some programs I've used which were purchased for thousands of dollars 0.o

Kaldair

[MurphysLawAgain]

WOW - thats just what I wanted. Thanks very much for those amendments! Informative and pretty

Cheers

Phandal

[cathedralmaster]

The minimum ab listed is often higher than the maximum ab listed. Either one or both is wrong.

Would it be possible to give the sums of damage as well as their averages? Averages are nice in unchanging situations where each round is the same, but when you have a druid immuting while your spiking during a battle, you often get crap data from the averages. For example, I was killed by the Consort of Acid which did on average 0 dmg to me. To get an average you must be computing the amount of damage recieved and the amount of times one is damaged - if both could be listed as well as the result, it would be very helpful.

[Bakchuda]

I can certainly modify it to display the sum easily enough.

With regard to the ABs and hits/misses, i am considering displaying all hits and misses, and every recorded AB, since the HTML format gives a little more room for this. The results would be sorted of course, and I could probably even put a * next to hits and misses that were caused by a roll of 20 or 1 respectively.

Cath, as to the max and min mixup, could you send me a PM with a chunk of the log file that you analyzed for this? I'd like to debug the script with some other data than the one I have laying around.

[dodrudon]

Didn't somebody mention that being flatfooted, flanked, and various spell effects could change your AC/AB on the fly, making AB/AC hard to record? Maybe have a list of the number of times each AB/AC was recorded as hit/miss.

Hits
10 - 1 time
11 - 8 times
12 - 9 times

Misses
12 - 1 time
6 - 3 times

I dunno, I haven't tried it yet but plan to. Sounds really cool =)

[resonance378]

I think it's possible to have a higher AB that misses than a lower AB that hits.

You miss because they save with a 20
You hit because they roll a 1

Yeah, think first then open mouth...

[cathedralmaster]

bakchuda said:

Cath, as to the max and min mixup, could you send me a PM with a chunk of the log file that you analyzed for this? I'd like to debug the script with some other data than the one I have laying around.

Sent it to your email.

[Bakchuda]

Thanks Cath, I got it and updated the script. It now prints out in each cell in the table the Average, the number of entries, and the sum of each damage type. I also corrected a calculation that was causing cumulative rounding errors, so the average numbers should actually make some sense.

The min/max AB is fixed (was sorting a list of strings rather than ints.... ) and I removed any misses from 1's or hits from 20's from that analysis, so the numbers should be closer to the targets actual AC. Flatfooted and AC reductions still can monkey with the values, but the results seem to make a little more sense now.

Let me know if you find any other quirks, or have other comments/suggestions.

[Bakchuda]

I just noticed last night that the recent update changed the output for the spell resistance check, the target's name is now included in the check! I will be modifying the script shortly (sometime this weekend) so it will display Spell Resistance information on each critter.

[illandous]

Looking forward to the update.

[Bakchuda]

Another update has been completed for the analyzer. New features include:

Spell Resistance values are now gathered
General immunities (Immune to sneak attack, knockdown, etc) are now displayed

I also fixed a couple little bugs and tweaked the html display. Try it out and let me know how it goes.

devel.snipehunt.net/downloads/chatAnalyzer.zip

[illandous]

Excellent. look forward to trying it out.

[resonance378]

Whoot! Can't wait to crank it through my log files to find out what I lack (other than talent, a girlish figure, and a 2Billion$ trust fun)!