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Sub-Zero

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I used to be able to use the skill scanner by jdegre, however I have not used it in over a year. During this year I've gained quite a bit of skill. Now the skill scanner is not able to calculate the TT of my skills in total, and per skill like it could in the past.
My question is if there is other skill scanners out there that can do what I want?
The jdegre site seems quite bugged atm, at least for me. I'm not even able to upload my skills.csv file there.
 
Skill scanner will likely not work any more as of next VU due to it using image recognition to get skill values. Also Jdegres skill formula is not accurate past about 13k skill level.

No idea if he'll be interested in updating his tools after the VU but I can see if I can get in touch with him next week if the need arises.
 
Looks as if the last version i have 59 will not work with the new interface. Yes i tested it. we will need a new program to use the new interface. I love using the skill scanner myself as i keep track of my skilling and updating my information on Entropiawiki. :(((
unless someone can rewrite the one Jdegre wrote .
 
CuilwenEarnold said:
Looks as if the last version i have 59 will not work with the new interface. Yes i tested it. we will need a new program to use the new interface. I love using the skill scanner myself as i keep track of my skilling and updating my information on Entropiawiki. :(((
unless someone can rewrite the one Jdegre wrote .
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I asked him because I was going to keep it going. Aspects of the scanner have been broken for a few years now. But he never got back to me.
 
Hijacker27 said:
Skill scanner will likely not work any more as of next VU due to it using image recognition to get skill values. Also Jdegres skill formula is not accurate past about 13k skill level.

No idea if he'll be interested in updating his tools after the VU but I can see if I can get in touch with him next week if the need arises.
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I will gladly contribute ped for a working skill scanner with latest VU that can work with higher skill counts too.
 
Yeh it's likely going to need a total re-write now the UI changed. RIP Jdegre's one it was a fine effort but forever now it shall sleep.

"Somethere" I have some code that someone shared that did include some of the stuff around hooking into the UI. Can't remember if this was for overlays or pixel access (can't even remember what the program was doing or in the process of doing - I don't think whatever it was was actually finished). Anyone's guess as to if it still or indeed ever worked though.

Might provide a starting point however if anyone wanted to have a bash at making a new skill scanner.

This said, I think they person who is actively working on/maintaining the hunting tool [Entropia Hunter] (see tools section of forum?) has got it doing some sort of OCR for something or other... so possibly the fastest route to getting a new skill scanner might be asking them if they'd be willing to expand functionality in that direction... if it isn't already a feature? (maybe they did before and afrer hunt skill gain analysis? Seems unlikely but not beyond the realms of possibility).

Wistrel
 
there was a thread that ex0lained the sinewave of skill progression
and JBK provided a big dataset
as its written, the progress of skill is not linear until roughly 12k then it becoems rather flat.
the sinewave functiin was not released but a reverse engineering seems lead to actual data calc.
sadly as said ths not funcinal over 13kish skill
 
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Just a heads up on this topic...

I have started working on a new Skill Scanner version.

The good news is that the adaptation to the new skills window layout seems "feasible" (I can re-use a lot of the old code).

The bad news is that my IRL work takes a LOT of my time, so cannot spend as much time on this as I'd like, and I definitely cannot commit on a estimation of when it could be ready.

I'll keep you guys updated if there is some progress and, for sure, if eventually I have something ready to beta-test, I will contact some of you to help with debugging.
 
Can you also fix the history page?
 
Wow a voice from the past has spoken!

Glad it can still work much the same way it did before. Sure all efforts/time frame will be appreciated
 
PS if he needs hosting tell him to prod me. Got a couple of options.
 
Wistrel said:
might be worth PM'ing him. It's one thing to be slowly working on an update as time allows but he probably didn't want the site to be down
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Yeah, I’ll send him a pm. He can be hard to reach tho. @jdegre
 
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just a small update on the "jdegre.net" site outage: it's unrelated to the update of the scanner. it's related to the hosting provider; there has been outages in the past but not for so long, so not sure when/if the hosting provider will restore the site.

in any case, everything is backed up, and i have the intention to bring the site back online asap (most likely under a different hosting provider).

if Wistrel (or anyone else) have some suggestions, I'm all ears :)

PS: i'm currently on a business trip (as usual) abroad, with not much internet access, so this might take some time...
 
I want to reach level 80 kill strike with knife fighter damage, what percentage of that is anatomy and what percentage of that is knife fighter? As far as selecting skill rewards and chipping in
 
Billy TheJackal said:
I want to reach level 80 kill strike with knife fighter damage, what percentage of that is anatomy and what percentage of that is knife fighter? As far as selecting skill rewards and chipping in
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the weapon tech skills if i recall correct are the biggest. Go to the wiki skills page and the make up of the required skills are there. I used some codex for blp weapon tech to speed up kill strike. But honestly I think i made a mistake. Kill strike will not equal something useful unless its a specific weapon you need it for. I also invested in HP skills for codex. And while that is helpful armor can mitigate. What is useful is investing all your codex into Looter skills. I do that now all the time. Other professions can obtain naturally.
 
cool, however melee is different, I memorized some of the gun stuff, being a gunman for a decade, weaponry tech is about a 14% factor of increase for gun damage profession, but this does not equal anatomy for melee. My question is about the anatomy and knifefighter skills as a percentage of skill increase for damage profession, please, thank you.
 
Billy TheJackal said:
My question is about the anatomy and knifefighter skills as a percentage of skill increase for damage profession, please, thank you.
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Shortblades is 25%, Anatomy is 20%, melee combat is 5% and inflict melee damage is 5%
 
Ty Ty! Now I know roughly to chip anatomy and short blades such that their skill amt is similar to each other to optimize it. I have a fap that gives +5 paramedic skills, had 7000 anatomy before I swung a short blade. Some ppl would like this more, some would prefer ranged where I'd be stacking a lot of weapon tech alone.
 
jdegre the savior! :) invaluable tools, missing them for sure
I have some hosting I am paying for basically not used, if there is a need can use its resources
 
Some news about the progress...

I have moved the Chipping Optimizer to a new host. Note that the domain and the URLs of the apps are totally different now. The Chipping Optimizer is now here:

https://entropia.eu.org/optimizer/

So, if you want, you can test it and see if everything works fine there. All existing user/pwd's of people having an account should work fine there; if they don't work for you, please let me know.

Then, for the Skill Scanner, I have a half-working version (meaning that it works fine for my own scans but it may not be accurate enough to work fine with other people's graphic setup).

If you would like to help, it would be great if you can send me screenshots of your skills (of course, for my own usage, they will not be shared with anyone else). If so, this is what i'd need:
- Set the image controls of EU (alpha, brightness, etc.) to the default value in the EU graphic options
- If this is important for you, make sure that your PED balance is not visible in the EU desktop
- Make sure the skill panel is in "foreground"; this can be noticed because it has a kind of red frame/line around the skill panel (when the skill panel is in background, the frame is gray, instead of red. This is crucial, because the scanner uses the red frame to locate the skill window withing the EU desktop
- Take a screenshot of the skill window; if you use the EU built-in screen captures, make sure that they are saved in PNG format (they cannot be in JPG format since the compression of JPG makes it much harder to OCR the images). I have been told that, by default, EU saves them as JPG, so please, change the default format and set it to PNG.
- Take as many captures as you can (ideally, of all your skill windows)
- Zip the whole set and send it to jdegre@gmail.com

Thanks in advance!! :)
/jdegre.
 
jdegre said:
Some news about the progress...

I have moved the Chipping Optimizer to a new host. Note that the domain and the URLs of the apps are totally different now. The Chipping Optimizer is now here:

https://entropia.eu.org/optimizer/

So, if you want, you can test it and see if everything works fine there. All existing user/pwd's of people having an account should work fine there; if they don't work for you, please let me know.

Then, for the Skill Scanner, I have a half-working version (meaning that it works fine for my own scans but it may not be accurate enough to work fine with other people's graphic setup).

If you would like to help, it would be great if you can send me screenshots of your skills (of course, for my own usage, they will not be shared with anyone else). If so, this is what i'd need:
- Set the image controls of EU (alpha, brightness, etc.) to the default value in the EU graphic options
- If this is important for you, make sure that your PED balance is not visible in the EU desktop
- Make sure the skill panel is in "foreground"; this can be noticed because it has a kind of red frame/line around the skill panel (when the skill panel is in background, the frame is gray, instead of red. This is crucial, because the scanner uses the red frame to locate the skill window withing the EU desktop
- Take a screenshot of the skill window; if you use the EU built-in screen captures, make sure that they are saved in PNG format (they cannot be in JPG format since the compression of JPG makes it much harder to OCR the images). I have been told that, by default, EU saves them as JPG, so please, change the default format and set it to PNG.
- Take as many captures as you can (ideally, of all your skill windows)
- Zip the whole set and send it to jdegre@gmail.com

Thanks in advance!! :)
/jdegre.
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Thanks bud, much appreciated. I’ll send you my skill values soon 😃👍
 
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