What is the T.A.S.C. Generator?

Telon Adventuring Stats Calculation Generator is a plugin written in Visual C# for Advanced Combat Tracker (ACT), a parser normally used for EverQuest 2.

If you're curious what ACT is and who wrote it, check out the ACT About page.

Some T.A.S.C. Generator specific features:

• Extremely fast parsing
• Parse huge log files in seconds
  
• Live parse capability
• Specialized log line highlighting
• Attacks, heals, lifetaps, heals, resists, etc. can be quickly spotted
• Automated area and chunk detection where possible
• Automated name correction
  

Why Advanced Combat Tracker?

Current parsers for Vanguard either seem to lack usability or stats tracking which is real, meaningful, and deep. Having used ACT for EQ2 and seeing how easy it is to use along with the massive features included, it seemed an obvious choice over writing a full-blown parser of my own.

By writing a rather simple plugin for ACT, as a developer I can take advantage of its parsing capabilities while also giving users access to its massively useful set of features:

• Live parse mini window
• Fully customizable text display showing any of the realtime encounter stats
• DPS graph display
• Encounter stats auto-copy to clipboard support
• Fully customizable encounter stats copied to clipboard after each encounter
• Support for remote parsing with a small app to handle copying to clipboard across the network
• Customizable export to clipboard presets (e.g. Export heal parsing to clipboard on demand)
  
• Logitech G15 Keyboard support
• Live stats on your keyboard LCD
• Export to HTML
• Export to harddrive or FTP
  
• Built-in webserver
• View encounter stats from the in-game browser
• Customizable triggers and timers
• Track NPC spell timers (for counterspelling)
  
• Track curses, diseases, and poisons
• Auto spell timer calculator
  
• Data correction
• Rename combatants such as pets to combine their damage with their owners
• History database
• Searchable database of old encounters for easy re-import
• Customizable table display
• Add, remove, and re-order columns for the overview, combatant, damage type, and attack type views
• Highlighted log display
• Jump straight to the log line of an ability or attack from the overviews with syntax highlighting for each line
• Encounter VCR
• Play back encounters and watch both damage and healing from all combatants in an encounter as it had occured
• Combatant reports
• Special attack reports and breakdown
• Quick death report
• Avoidance report (miss/block/dodge/parry)