[Farming Utility] Experience gain logger/tracker

[Batch]

This is a little program I've whipped up to help track my experience gain to try to find the best routes. I have put some work into cleaning it up to find the best exp routes for when 1.0.5 rolls around.

Very early alpha version available:
xplogger-d3 - Screenshot analyzer for route optimization - Google Project Hosting

Check the downloads section. Source code is uploaded using SVN and is available to the public. This project was developed in Eclipse RCP version 4. It uses many Eclipse libraries, and a couple of public 3rd party libraries (guava, etc.) as well as a utility library from work. At the moment it is currently bound to the Eclipse IDE. If you are interested in understand the source but unfamiliar with MVC/MVP, you're probably going to have a bad time! (just ask)

3 requirements:
- you NEED (REQUIRED) Java 7 32-bit. java 6 does not provide hooks to get event notifications when a file is created on the OS
- you must install tesseract. grab it here
- the game must be run in 1920x1200. support for other resolutions will be added later

This is an early version. The core functionality works, but errors may exists.
Please leave feedback, questions, and comments.

How to use:
1) start up the program (eclipse\eclipse.exe)
2) select your screenshot directory, and hit start.(C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Diablo3\Screenshots)
This will start the process which watches for screenshots being created in your screenshot directory
3) at the beginning of your run, take a screenshot with your mouse hovering over the exp bar. this will give a starting time and value for the run.
4) take periodic screenshots with your mouse hovering over the exp bar.

Thats it, when the screenshots are created, they are analyzed and compared against your previous exp values and screenshot creation times. It should even continue to work if you level up during a run.

Each row in the table is considered a run. A new run automatically begins when it reads two screenshots with the exact same exp amounts, or you can simply click the new run button.

Example usage: If you were running Alkaizer's run in act 3. You take a screenshot when you first start (Core of Arreat), then another at the start of each of the zones (damned, keeps 2, bridge, crater 2), finally port back to town and take the last screenshot. the info for this run will be updated in the table as you take each screenshot.
rinse, repeat to infinity.

The stop button kills the thread which is watching for the screenshots being created. The clear button simply removes all data from the table.

NOTES: if you take a screenshot without your mouse over the exp bar, that screenshot will simply be ignored. the program tries to parse text in the center of the screen just above the exp bar.

Explanation of the following image:

- each row is a run. this is a log of me doing alkaizer's run 5 times
- each column represents a different zone. parsing the zone names from the top right doesn't work well since the background can contain artifacts which makes it difficult to use OCR
- the values contained within the cell are experience and time spent
- Experience is measured in the millions. Likewise with exp / hr
- the rows marked 'avg' and 'xp/hr' are the summed values for that specific zone across all runs. (i.e. in the first column, those two values represent the average exp gained, and experience gained per hour for the core of arreat)
No memory reading is used in this program. This simply analyze's screenshots in a specific directory.

Alternatively, you may specify a directory, hit start, then copy the screenshots (one at a time) to that directory. Windows usually copies files in reverse order if you copy/paste multiple images.

[AnNyeong]

Downloading, will post updates.

[Batch]

Updated, added some new features

[AnNyeong]

Everytime I screeshot I get some kind of Java error and the program closes.
I'll edit with screenshot.
edit1http://i50.tinypic.com/2he9hjd.png
edit2 reinstalled tesseract and now it just won't scan any screenshot already in the folder or new ones I'm taking
PS Using 1920x1080 fullscreen low quality low fx on anti aliasing off and vertical sync on

[gandak]

very cool program, used it tonight for all my runs and worked great, thanks.

[Stormreaver]

Very interesting. I will have to wait for dynamic resolution first or if you can tell me how to customize it to 1680x1050

[Acidlol]

Nice prog, but can you make it in next build:
Clear screenshots button, not all what only USED in prog.
Add song alert screenshot is load
Ty.

P.S.
Who have mouse or keyboard macros you can use this tool for fast screening by me :>
Just AutoHotkey script.
Click

[jasonhdc]

Has a great potential.

[Batch]

0.5 should support many more resolutions (including letterbox)
also displays estimated time until level

[Batch]

Everytime I screeshot I get some kind of Java error and the program closes.
I'll edit with screenshot.
edit1http://i50.tinypic.com/2he9hjd.png
edit2 reinstalled tesseract and now it just won't scan any screenshot already in the folder or new ones I'm taking
PS Using 1920x1080 fullscreen low quality low fx on anti aliasing off and vertical sync on

The version you were using did not support 1920x1080. v0.5 should now support your resolution. give it a shot

[flint1005]

Same problem as AnNyeong - version 0.5 doesnt works with your test screenshots.
Image 1350155251-clip-27kb.png

[splitz07]

Hi Batch,

Firstly, thanks for the good work!

I had a blast using it for 3 runs last night. However, after restarting my computer, the program failed to work. It does not seem to be able to read the screenshots anymore.

I've updated Java to version 7 and installed tesseract-ocr.

Any ideas what might have caused this?

[Batch]

Hi Batch,

Firstly, thanks for the good work!

I had a blast using it for 3 runs last night. However, after restarting my computer, the program failed to work. It does not seem to be able to read the screenshots anymore.

I've updated Java to version 7 and installed tesseract-ocr.

Any ideas what might have caused this?

there's a log file in the exe directory, "xplogger.log"

delete that file, try running it again and post the contents of the log file. I'll see if I can debug it.

edit: open it with a text editor like notepad/wordpad

[splitz07]

there's a log file in the exe directory, "xplogger.log"

delete that file, try running it again and post the contents of the log file. I'll see if I can debug it.

edit: open it with a text editor like notepad/wordpad

That solved the problem. If anything crops up again I will let you know again.

Thanks for the assistance!

This logger actually takes some of the repetitiveness out of the game in the sense that it gives a xp/hr benchmark to constantly strive to beat.

[Hizim]

thx man!
I test