Hedges Nwn Logparser (Linux client + Source)

[alandrian]

Hey folks. Well people keep asking about the programm I have written to parse my nwn logs, so I finally will post it with some screenshots of it. So you can see what it is capable to do and more important what its not to.

I release the programm under the GPL Version 3.
Linux download.
Source download.
The written code should be all portable to windows. As the GUI uses GTK2 you need those it if you want to build a windows version or you have to rewrite the GUI.

You have to execute the binary in the directory where you nwn places your logfiles AFTER you have start you game, as the game will overwrite all old logfiles on startup..

This programm is a bit different then the logparser posted so far, because it was designed to run while you actually play the game. The initial idea came from bhao, I wont forget to credit you for that . It runs in some sticky window over my actual game window so I always have it in my view. Guess it would be even possible to display it on a second monitor but I dont have one right here.


This is a screenie of the program captured during the last Illithid run. The program is monitoring my own sorc. You can select the player/mob to observe with the drop down menue. The upper part lists some stats of the observed player/mob. Some are just approximated values like the AC and the crit range. But at least it shows the lowest crit actually happend. So you can figure out if you actually need an insane crit range with your current AB.

The lower part lists the damage you dealt and take this run. The red one is what you take and the green one what you dealt. First column is the total you dealt each type and the second the value for the last minute. In brackets are what has been absorbed due to immunities.
As you can see i seem to forgot shadowshield for a short time as i took 320 negative damage, hehe. The fire and acid damage I dealt the last minute are actually my damage shield as I was using wails while i made the screenie.


Here I was watching those mean Golems. As you see the party was quite disiplinated and didnt used to much ele on them.

Thats it more or less. No real magic but quite handy sometimes. I am up for any suggestions of course.

[ZeroGravitySE]

When will this be released?

This will be a great addition to my new system which I will be running in linux. This little program will help me a bunch later when I have more characters to toy with =)

[bort]

This looks brilliant.
I love to watch logs to see what damage works best against which mob, and also to see what damage types I'm taking...
If you do port this to windows, I would be very interested!

[Trazik]

Likewise.

Trazik

[Stormchaser]

Being the number cruncher in my guild, I always enjoy more tools to analyze logs. Let us know if/when you port it to windows and have it available for us to use

[nohmask]

This would surely cut down on the amount of wizardly research I end up doing to get save info, although that is always difficult to parse out from when a creature is cursed by a bard or some such (battletide, prayer, etc.), is there any way to show what a creature's saves are before (things that effect this) and is any SR info collected by it (also before/after effects ) ? Also curious of course what specific immunties to things (death magic, crits, mind) a creature has, but not sure if this can capture that as well....Thanks for sharing your efforts, this is quite the nice program! N.

[alandrian]

Actually some immunities I find usefull to know are already parsed. They are displayed not very pretty yet tho. The small C and D after the XP stand for Critical and Death Magic immunity (yes we had a Bard on this run with the crit epic).
I added the SR. I always thought the caster was displayed in the log instead of the target or I would have added it earlier. Edit: This works mobs only because when your character is target of a spell not the target but the caster is given in the log. Nwns logs are horrible to parse .
Well the effect of debuffs is quite tricky as there are more mobs with the same name. Sure It would be possible to save the maximum and the last parsed value for saves etc. but it wouldnt work if there are 2 mobs with the same name and one is cursed and one not. I will think about it.

[illandous]

Actaully working on something like this (Yes for windows) Would love to see your source. Mine is in VB.NET at the moment and only working on it when I have spare time.

Spare time has been scarce lately.

[alandrian]

illandous said:

Actaully working on something like this (Yes for windows) Would love to see your source. Mine is in VB.NET at the moment and only working on it when I have spare time.

Spare time has been scarce lately.

I have written it in C, so i actually dont depend no any OS really. I use the GTK library for the GUI tho.

[illandous]

Even better then. I'll redo the interface for windows and make it windows centric (I'll scrap what I did already with my program)

And lets see.. never really touched C code before, but I'm sure just as easy as assembly. But I'm sure all the time would be worth it.

I'm just after the logic.

[alandrian]

Acutally the GUI and the parser is separated. If you want to write a windows GUI you are welcome to. You actually just have to implement a couple of functions like initGUI, updateGUI etc. I guess you can even do it with VB if you compile the parser.c seperatly as a dll for example.

[uncanny]

If you put the interface into Java or Groovy, you'll be able to run it in both..

[alandrian]

uncanny said:

If you put the interface into Java or Groovy, you'll be able to run it in both..

I am perfectly aware that interpreted languages that run on a virtual machine are kind of plattform independent. You can assume that I had my reasons to write it in C. Mostly because it was just about 100 lines of code when I began it.

Feel free to write a similar program in Java if you like to. And btw the concept of an Interface is not present in C.

[illandous]

All things start with 100 lines of code... Then things change. I'm sure Acaos can relate.

[uncanny]

alandrian said:

I am perfectly aware that interpreted languages that run on a virtual machine are kind of plattform independent.

My own thoughts tend to run away with me at times.. mea culpa alandrian, my own fault for speaking out of turn. I was not trying to offend; actually I was merely suggesting if someone is keen on putting a good GUI around it for all platforms, an interpreted language would likely be the most flexible way to write once.

Doing so would mean it can be ported nicely to a web server so that you could share your log with your guild mates - imagine being able to do the run and publishing a guild log with cross-referenced idea's for items you need to go out hunting to do the run with less accidents. D'oh - there's the geek in me thinking out loud again.