Hello, I am having some trouble trying to get Shadowcraft working. I downloaded the 'cheald-shadowcraft-ui-b688f4a' file from github and read the README file. I downloaded 'ruby-1.9.2-p136' and 'mongodb-win32-x86_64-1.6.5' like it says, but after that the README does not make sense to me. When I put '//github.com/cheald/shadowcraft-ui.git' into my browser github says, "That page doesn't exist!"

/sc and /shadowcraft commands don't actually do anything. /sc export or /shadowcraft export will export your information.

Hi,

I've read through this thread and seen the various short answers on using the tool (needing Ruby and Mongodb) and read the Readme at the git website but it's all still a little unclear. *IF* this is a version/tool we are able to use now to make some reasonable choices (and I think I saw Aldriana saying it was at that stage) could someone either add to the front page or even PM me with a bit more clear instructions on how to set this all up? I hope this isn't viewed as "hand holding" as I'd like to think I'm not alone in being unfamiliar with some of these required tools, it's not as simple as "load up in Excel and adjust as needed" anymore.

Caffeine posted a link on page 4 of this thread to a basically functional version of the app. The front end used there is not the fancy thing that Antiarc started and does not have Armory import, but it is pretty up-to-date and uses Aldriana's modeling code to do its calculations (or so I understand). It does have an import/export feature so you should only have to enter all of your gear once. It does not require downloading any frameworks, languages, or libraries.

Firstly, many thanks for the incredible work the team is doing in relation to this project. Initially when I clicked the link there was a nice easy to understand reforging webpage where I could input some basic numbers and the webpage would provide a suggestion as to what should be reforged to get the best from my character.

I do have a question though, and it relates to those of use who thought python was a type of snake and have no computer programming experience whatsoever. (some of us took law/psychology at uni because we are hopeless at mathematics.)

Does this project require the end user to have some prerequisite knowledge of programming to be able to utilise this tool?

I ask this, as when I navigate to the Github website, I look at some of the explanations and instructions and feel completely inadequate. Quote:

"Start it up (passenger, unicorn, thin, whatever your poison) and you're rolling. Sweet."

or

"rails console production
> Item.populate
> Enchant.update_from_json!"

If this is all for the programmers and testers, I am humbled by the work that has gone in to date, and look forward to the day when we the old and mathematically challenged may enjoy the fruits of your labours.

Kind Regards

O.B.

ShadowCraft-Engine was never really intended to be a tool that the masses would use directly. It was specifically designed as the brains, with the idea that we could plug into UIs that other people would write in different projects. Unfortunately, UI development has sort of lagged behind Engine development (partly because I got far more help than I expected on the Engine so we got something working far more quickly than I would have thought possible), so right now we're left with a perfectly functional (if slightly primitive in terms of cycle modeling) theorycraft tool that there's no particularly easy way to use.

Hopefully, the UI that Antiarc was working on can be built out into a more fully functional tool that integrates with the engine as was expected; failing that, perhaps one of the testing UIs people have written can be fleshed out, or a new one written from scratch by a different author - the beauty of the way things are arranged is that any UI that anyone cares to write can be easily plugged in to the existing calculation module(s). If we continue to be without a UI for long enough, I may work on something myself, but as a) there are still modeling improvements I'd like to make and b) UI design/implementation isn't really my forte, it will probably be a while before I get around to it; hence, I profoundly hope that someone can find time to write something usable before it comes to that.

I too am humbled by the hard work and effort that has gone into this, and hope to see a UI up and running soon.

As an aside (and I'm sure this must have been discussed), did we consider dropping this into the rawr UI? It's got a pretty helpful UI and set of functions for reforging, armory download, etc.

In the meantime, looking forwards to someone building on the UI, saves so much time from manually crunching numbers

How well is Avalanche/Hurricane currently modelled?
With Scaleslicer, I'm trying to decide whether to go dual Hurricane or leave Avalanche on my off hand. Unfortunately Caffeine's UI only supports Landslide or Hurricane, and I've found an issue on GitHub dealing with the proc behaviour of Hurricane and Avalanche from a month ago, which doesn't seem to be resolved yet (at least the thread isn't).

Not terribly well in the official version. The infrastructure doesn't currently exist to model two different procs with two different proc behaviors, so most of the good numbers about how it works come from hacked versions that I've out together to try to get some ballpark figures.

Is there any plan to consider ranged weapons aside from Throwing Knives? My thought process is two-fold: First, while the [Dragonwreck Throwing Axe] is amazing for 359-level gear there is no heroic version, so might not [Themios the Darkbringer] end up being statistically superior? Second, whether than DPS increase (if any) is worth the hassle of burning a GCD to switch in case you want to use Fan of Knives or keep Deadly Poison up on Atramedes or Nefarian.

Is there currently a working front end to ShadowCraft, or any other tool, that will automate reforging/gemming based on EP values and stat caps?