Wot it is:

An ACT plugin for Blue Protocol: Star Resonance

Installation

• Install Advanced Combat Tracker: https://advancedcombattracker.com/download.php

• Install Npcap: https://npcap.com/#download

  • While installing, keep this option checked: "Install Npcap in WinPcap API-compatible Mode"

• Extract BPSR_ACT_Plugin-vX.X.X.zip to this folder %appdata%\Advanced Combat Tracker\Plugins

  • You should end up with something like C:\Users\(USER)\AppData\Roaming\Advanced Combat Tracker\Plugins\BPSR_ACT_Plugin\BPSR_ACT_Plugin.dll

• Go to the Plugins tab in ACT, click "Browse", select BPSR_ACT_Plugin.dll, then click Add/Enable Plugin.

Advanced Combat Tracker?! Really?! You psychopath, why?!

Part stockholm syndrome. But also, if you dig into it, ACT is more than just a DPS meter. It has some pretty cool feature like death reports (how did I die?,) lookup damage by combatant (why did the add die too fast/not fast enough,) and individual hit information (that stack aoe did more damage that it was supposed to, who didn't get hit by it?)

TODOs:

Req before ideally pubbing on github

• Make sure all unexpected catches are logged
• Use an ILogger abstraction instead of Action
• Better autodetection + make a user parameter for device selection

Pubbing

• Loicence
• readme.md
  • Update and add screenshots
  • Update credits
• contact ACT devs for ACT pub

Bonus / Continuous

• Show classes&specs in ACT (Turns out the Job column isn't vanilla, it gets added by FFXIV_ACT_Plugin)
• Actually handle zones and not have it just be Blue Protocol: Star Resonnance
• Treat lucky procs the same way FFXIV_ACT_Plugin treats Direct Hits
• Update names in act if they're found
• Improve translation for monster names and skill names
• i18n?
• Confirm that handling disappear is not needed.

Shoutouts

• AdvancedCombatTracker by EQAditu - (duh)
• Star Resonance Damage Counter by Dimole - I had zero network packet capture experience before starting this, most of the networking & packet handling code is ported from that project.
• Blue Protocol Data Analysis by Zaarrg's for some translation data
• Used Nuget libraries
  • SharpPcap by Tamir Gal, Chris Morgan and others
  • PacketDotNet originally by Chris Morgan
  • ZstdSharp.Port by Oleg Stepanischev
  • AdvancedCombatTracker by bnVi