EVE Technology Lab

I decided to write a new Combat Log Parser because i found all existing ones to be not working or insufficient,
This is Beta, of course, but i think i'm at a point where its is usable and i would like to get some feedback :).

If you want to try it out: Advanced Combat Log Visualizer [v0.27]

Usage:
1. Unpack the ZIP file
2. [WINDOWS] Start the CombatLogVisualizer.exe or CombatLogVisualizer.bat
2. [MAC & LINUX] Start the CombatLogVisualizer.sh [UNTESTED]
2. [JAVA] Start the CombatLogVisualizer.jar

Features:
- Comprehensive per ship data (DPS,Total,Quality,etc..)
- Various timeline charts (Damage,DPS,Total)
- Simple preprocessing
- PNG Export of charts

This Programm uses the following Libraries:
jFreeChart
joda-time
lablib-checkboxtree
Apache Commons
Executable created with Launch4j
Thanks to the developers for their work on those.

Note:
1.The programm is reading all files in your gamelog directory on startup. This can take awhile, depending on the amount/size.
2. Somewhere around Dec 4 the log format changed, hence it will not read files from before that date. Sadly, i was not able to find the exact patch.
3. Files with 0 damage events will not show up.

Screenshots:
Individual Data View
Timeline Data View

Edit: Not playing EVE anymore, but maybe someone wants to continue on this, hence here is the sourcecode.
It is containing the libraries mentioned above, subject to open source licenses.

Source Code, Eclipse project

If it's broken because of an update, its probably required to change de.cwirth.eve.loader.EVELogReader. This class is containing the parsing functions. The rest is more or less detachted from the EVE Log File Format.

The sourcecode is also containg an experimental feature i did not manage to complete. Based on the assumption of somewhat constant damage intervals (hence not working for missiles), it is identifying the number of ships in situations where you are getting damage from several ships with the same name ! This feature can be found in de.cwirth.eve.loader.de.DmgIntervalPreprocessor and the GUI for is commented out in de.cwirth.eve.gui.LogChooser.

This feature is already working, but is too time consuming for analysing real-world logs. To get this to work it would be required to add heuristic pruning of the search space. I was going to push all possible expansions of the search tree to a list, that is getting sorted by a heuristic best-first strategy to select the next expansion to test.

The function "createTheories" creates a list of possible intervals. "validateLayer" is the starting point for creating a solution for a single ship. (Each sucessive call is trying to identify the next possible event-chain for a new ship) "createSingleSolution" is identifying the next events that could be part of the event chain for this ship.

It's a java programm, you shouldnt unzip it. If java is correctly installed, you should be able to double click it and start it up.
If possible i will add an EXE release next time.

If its an Retribution Log, please send it to me and i will have a look.
Everything after Inferno should work, but i will not debug those.

I just tried to launch it, but got the message it couldn't be launched and to check the console for errors. I'm on OS X with the latest 1.7_10 Java.

I'm not sure where to find the java console these days to post any helpful information - I wonder if they left it out of the mac distribution after searching around.

Thanks Tyrion! It loads correctly using the command line, but it hangs at load via double clicking and doesn't appear to ever load. Part of that may be a user error because I think I selected the wrong folder by mistake initially.

I did get some out of memmory errors in the console which seem to coinside with scrolling horizontally to see all the charts. Not with all log files though. In fact, they same to be doing fine as I do more testing with other logs. The difference seems to be that checking both boxes for splitting by fight and ship timeout causes the out of memory error.

Thanks for all the work you're doing; it's looking good!

I tried to add some info from the console, but the forum flags it as html....

I'll try it out and see what it does when I get a chance. The error is similar, but not the same - functionally they might be I don't know:

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

The lines that follow seem to be what triggers the HTML flag on the forum so I've added a link for a screenshot since I don't think there's a way to add inline

Console screenshot

Thx for the info, but i dont want do deploy it as web application. I have found an exe wrapper for windows (launch4j), but not for mac.


I have different problem:


can't see how this could happen, but i have added an catch to prevent this error. But please send me the log that has inflicted the error to contact@christianwirth.net if you dont mind.

Hello,

First off I just want to say, WOW. Any serious eve player should use this. With this a player can make strategies on how to go about their gameplay, on what targets to change ammo and which to take out first. Seriously if people are not excited about this they don't know what it means. Congratulations on a superb application.



Thanks a lot for a great program and I hope my input is useful. Anything that is needed feel free to mail me in game, ill help in whatever I can.

would love to see this work...not sure how tho all i see is a RAR file

Hello,

Thanks for responding quickly. Below are some clarifications on my suggestions. Hope they help.






9) The ship types have variables per site. By knowing which ship types appear in the combat logs, the program can deduce the site. For example, Forsaken hubs have no frigates, just cruiser and up with their specific name types. As you can see in the links below the mix of ships types and names vary per site. This way it could be possible for the program to recogognize the sites.

EXAMPLE:

Forsaken_Hub
Gurista HUB

10) This is not for you to import ship fittings etc, but to talk to them into including in their code a graph portion to show damage dealt and done. Although they could just link the picture it would help with the fittings, so basically no work done on your part unless they want something specific

11) Get the program to count the number of instances a name appeared. Every ship has a specific EHP, so for example if a pith death dealer has 10,ehp (example only) and it shows that you did 30k ehp to a pith death dealer then you killed 3 pith death dealers. At least that's about as far as i go on that aspect since i don't know if there are time tags to kill of spawns in eve.

Thanks for the program, hope my suggestions help a bit more