Spades

Hey, so.

I've assumed the duty of handling the WWS parses for my guild. As you may or may not know, locally hosted WWS logs don't have the ability to "split" logs into multiple fights. This means it's up to the end-user to split the logs. Here are my options as I see them:

a.) Log every boss attempt. Dig into the log file after the raids are over and try to spot the wipes, possibly by timestamp, and split the log that way. This seems like a lot of work, especially on a "wipe night" of progression.

b.) Open the WoWCombatLog.txt file after each attempt and copy out the fight into a separate .txt file for later use. Problem: WWS doesn't like the new .txt files and doesn't think they're real logs. Possibly a solution to this exists, but it's inelegant in any case.

c.) Have a different raid member log the fight each time, then collect the logs you need at the end of the night from them. Problem: Super inelegant and a pain to manage.

d.) Delete the log file after each attempt you don't want, and restart WoW. Functional, but a pain.

Is there a mod out there that will handle this sort of thing that I'm just not aware of? If not, how difficult would it be to write one? Or a separate script to do it? Or if none of this is possible, what do you do to handle this? Am I missing something obvious? Thanks.

"Existence has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long."
-Rorschach, Watchmen

 

Mooz

The method I use for splitting logs is that at the start of a night, I enable combat logging. Before every boss attempt, I use an Ornate Spyglass (http://www.thottbot.com/i5507) to give myself the "Longsight" buff.

At the end of the night, I grab the logfile and split it based on the string "You gain Longsight" and then prune out any wipes from there. I then feed the individual kill logs to WWS and get a nice neat set of kill parses.

It's easy enough to split based on a standard string and anyone can use the spyglass (as opposed to class abilities like Sentry Totem).

 

Rinced

It is not possible to do this with a WoW AddOn.
You will need to have an external script to handle this.

Well but actually … I dont see much problems with having it hosted by lossendil … although you have a 2 weeks limit but I think that should be more than enought

 

springwheat

I use UltraEdit for breaking up the combatlog. As long as you have a rough estimate of the time you started and the ability to spell the mobs name correctly splitting it is a 2 minute job. Select Range is godly for copying all 11mb of data from a long fight and UltraEdit doesn't choke on large files.

As stated above, you can search for the start of a fight by looking for buffs that typically occur before a pull, like prayer of fort, soulstone, ritual of souls

 

Rinced

If you are looking for a bossfight you could just look for the first occurence of that boss in the log file and then for the Death-Message.
Cut & paste the selection into a new file and run the java app.

About not recognizing the new txt files - might be wrong UTF8 encoding, might be some stuff your app added to the file - maybe look for an other Text-Editor.

 

Spades

Hmm, thanks for the advice. The "flagging" via the Spyglass sounds good to me. The reason we're hosting them locally is simply for archiving purposes.

"Existence has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long."
-Rorschach, Watchmen

 

Overhead

I like the spyglass idea. What i did was quickly relog between boss attempts, renaming the log file the instant i was on the character screen, then logged back in, though that is obviously suboptimal.

The 'look for boss death' idea falls on it's face when you wipe. You could look for gaps between interaction with a boss, but that gets complicated/time consuming.

 

Docjowles

In the other WWS thread on this forum, there are a bunch of suggestions for how to handle this. As well as a couple utilities you can download to assist you. One lets you specify a "marker" spell (spyglass, sentry totem, anything you never use in a real raid fight) and every time it comes up in the log, it'll split off a new file.

 

srg

Do you have a link to this file or thread about it? This would be extremely useful and a big time saver

 

Mooz

http://elitistjerks.com/showpost.php...7&postcount=61

Think he's talking about this one.

 

Polleke

As I see there is some interest in it again. I've been making changes to the app but never updated them here.

The main thing I added was the "auto open new log file when boss dies" feature. So now you push your marker spell and when the boss dies the log will automaticly be renamed to that boss.
Only up to TK and SSC bosses have been added. You could edit the file and either sent it to me or recompile it yourself.

Everything else works the same more or less. You put down a maker spell in marker.txt and run the program either while logging or after you finished raiding. New files will be created on receiving a boss kill or your marker spell.

If the program just seems to open and close right away, start it from a command prompt and see the error message.

Attached Files

CombatLogSplitterV3.zip (10.0 KB, 336 views)

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Papajan

Here's a Java tool that should work for progression nights. The idea is that certain things are only done out of combat, so split up on that. It won't work so well if noone ever dies in your raid, but it helped me out a lot with WWS in the Naxx days.

http://www-en.curse-gaming.com/downloads/details/7460/

 

Docjowles

Yes, those last 2 posters were the ones I was talking about Both of those tools work quite well.