Skill Scanner

[Borr]

Originally Posted by jdegre

the problem is that MA has changed the skill panel design in this VU. chech previous posts. i'm working on a new version but it will take time.

in the mean time, if you want to see what skills to chip in for a certain profession goal, you can always enter manually the skills in the chipping optimizer. that's something you don't usually do every day, do you?

Originally Posted by BEeNoX

is it just me who is retarded, cause i cant fiture out how to enter the skills manually.

Did you try at this site: http://www.jdegre.net/pe/unlocker.php

It can help you chipping in or out, but it does not count your totals. For that we're waiting on the good work jdegre is putting into this.

[jdegre]

Originally Posted by Borr

Did you try at this site: http://www.jdegre.net/pe/unlocker.php

It can help you chipping in or out, but it does not count your totals. For that we're waiting on the good work jdegre is putting into this.

well, it does count your totals
just select from the profession list "show all skills", and the "level" shows your total skills. you can use it as any other profession, setting a target of, say, 150k skills, and let the program tell you the cheapest path.

[WoenK]

Got no idea, how those scanners work.
Do you scan the bars or "read" the skill number ?
Are the new colours that problematic ?

[jdegre]

Originally Posted by WoenK

Got no idea, how those scanners work.
Do you scan the bars or "read" the skill number ?
Are the new colours that problematic ?

it is easier to read the numbers if the contrast between the font color and the background is high.
white over black is easy; white over a gradient of yellow/white is hard.

[Borr]

Originally Posted by jdegre

well, it does count your totals
just select from the profession list "show all skills", and the "level" shows your total skills. you can use it as any other profession, setting a target of, say, 150k skills, and let the program tell you the cheapest path.

Ah, nice! There's something new to learn every day

[Doer]

Originally Posted by jdegre

some good news...

i have a new version now that correctly parses skill text, numbers and progress bar in my computer.


and now the bad news...

it needs much more testing to adapt to a wider gamma range of values, and light conditions. it is pretty different to make the OCR work in my PC than to make it work in all PCs.

Me three. Do i smell a pathetically small bounty due to all the tightwads? Any chance i can test this today, as i'm tired of skilling the same two mostly orthogonal professions and want to change mobs &tc.? (Yes, i'm a bit OC...)

[Triton]

and probably blind (as usual) but does this awesome tool still working for the updated skill panel?

[BEeNoX]

Borr: yes, i've tried that site. and the thing is, i can nor log in, and i dont understand how to get my skills into there.. cause i dont understand how to get my skills into wiki either.

so, please someone. help me.

after looking into the site a little bit more, i found out how do get the skills in there.. but ty anyway.

[Doer]

Originally Posted by Triton

and probably blind (as usual) but does this awesome tool still working for the updated skill panel?

Originally Posted by jdegre

some good news...

i have a new version now that correctly parses skill text, numbers and progress bar in my computer.


and now the bad news...

it needs much more testing to adapt to a wider gamma range of values, and light conditions. it is pretty different to make the OCR work in my PC than to make it work in all PCs. the fine tuning of the OCR in the previous version of the skill scanner took me more than a week, and i had much more free time back then. so don't expect a new release in a while.


also, i need bitmaps of those un-lockable skills that i don't have yet (which are a lot... hehe).

i'll probably do later on a "call for screenshots" to collect all these data.

cheers,
/jdegre.

There ya go.

[jdegre]

Originally Posted by Doer

Me three. Do i smell a pathetically small bounty due to all the tightwads? Any chance i can test this today, as i'm tired of skilling the same two mostly orthogonal professions and want to change mobs &tc.? (Yes, i'm a bit OC...)

i'm not doing this for the bounty (although any bounty small or big is appreciated, of course, hehehe). i'm doing it because:
- i want this functionality myself
- for all the people that have donated and contributed supporting the development of the tool
- because i enjoy doing it (but if you ask me, i'd prefer not having to do it after every new VU )

now, having said that, and if i eventually manage to make a new version as "reliable" as before, well, of course people are very welcome to "support" my efforts in the way they prefer.