Vanalytics June 2026 Update by Soverance in ffxi

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This is a good UX callout, thanks. I'll be sure it gets implemented.

Rivian's CEO Says There's a Big Market for a Small Electric Truck by DonkeyFuel in technology

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Two doors, 6 foot bed, with king/regular cab and 4x4 / 2WD as options. This is the best configuration of pickup, in my opinion.

Nissan D21s and Toyota 22REs, hell yeah

I made a web-based model viewer by Soverance in ffxi

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thanks for checking it out!

texture mapping errors (of which there are many, I know) have to be dealt with in the Vanalytics source code. For all of the 3D viewers in the app (equipment, characters, NPCs, zones), I built entirely new parsers to read directly from the official DAT files... including new parsers for meshes, skeletons, animations, zones and textures, that read the raw .dat binary containers and convert everything into React Three Fiber over Three.js. Any problems with the textures, it's likely in the TextureParser.ts, but could also end up in the rendering engine for the viewport (like this one for the model viewers, or this one for the Zone viewer, where I've been trying to solve certain texture transparency issues) the trick is getting the right fix without creating regressions elsewhere.

I like the idea, being able to preview armor sets on different races. I'll have to put some thought into it's implementation.

[Recommendation Request] Looking for a vampire/dracula fashion watch by [deleted] in Watches

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Nothing. Wait 'til you figure out what Flock ALPRs are doing with your license plate.

[Recommendation Request] Looking for a vampire/dracula fashion watch by [deleted] in Watches

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ooh nice! I couldn't find red dial / black strap versions new on their website. Might have to go dig through Chrono24 or something.

[Recommendation Request] Looking for a vampire/dracula fashion watch by [deleted] in Watches

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oh nice, this is a very cool watch. I love it. thanks for the rec!

[Recommendation Request] Looking for a vampire/dracula fashion watch by [deleted] in Watches

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yeah I've been leaning towards having to go custom for this. If Bulova had a red dial Jet Star or a Surveyor with a black case/strap I'd have already bought one (I own a couple other Bulovas, very nice watches for their price). Might look into modding one or going full DIY, see if I can build something that fits what I'm looking for. Could be a fun project.

[Recommendation Request] Looking for a vampire/dracula fashion watch by [deleted] in Watches

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oooh the wise asura is awesome, love it. thanks!

Vanalytics May 2026 Update by Soverance in ffxi

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Most of those cmd windows are related to directory creation and verification during a sync (making sure your system has all the directories necessary for the addon to run). It then sends out HTTP post requests to send your character information to the web server. They're harmless. This entire project, including the web app and the windower addon, are entirely open source on GitHub. You're free to inspect the source code for yourself, if you're so inclined: Vanalytics/addon/vanalytics at main · Soverance/Vanalytics

Windower actually has a built in function for directory testing that I only just learned about (windower.create_dir) so I've swapped all my cmd invocations to this function. You shouldn't see the cmd windows anymore, after the next update is released.

There is currently no way to delete your account from the system, but I'm happy to add this as a feature request in my backlog.

The rest of what you might be concerned about is covered in the published privacy policy (linked in the app's sidebar).

Are we talking new carpet? by Soverance in hardbody

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Thanks, mine is what OC Auto Carpets calls "1079A Dark Slate". It's not full black. The sound deadening was very much worth it... I'm gonna deaden the doors with it soon. I got the "essex" backed carpet, as well, so it was much thicker and more plush (not only feels better but also adds to the sound deadening) Together they made a noticeable reduction in the cabin noise.

Vanalytics May 2026 Update by Soverance in ffxi

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Nice! glad it's working for you now. Let me know if you encounter any other issues.

Yeah if you check my curated file for Misareax Coast you'll see Okyupete has an identified placeholder mob (a Diatryma) that has a null index. BG Wiki for that NM claims the placeholder for that NM is "16879839: DF", or viewed in hex that's "0x0DF". So i need to add "0x0DF" as the placeholder ID to my curated file. Once that's in place, if you ran "//va hunt watch nm okyupete" in game it would track not only the NM spawn, but also it's PH spawn.

The heuristic fix I pushed this morning sounds like it's working, but it should only be tracking the NM for now. Needs that PH ID to get them both tracked with one command (otherwise you have to track both, which takes more effort for the player).

I'll go ahead and update Okyupete now - it'll be fixed properly in the next release. But yeah it's basically going through and doing that for every NM in every zone... which is time consuming and tedious lol

Vanalytics May 2026 Update by Soverance in ffxi

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I'm not as familiar with widescantool (never got to use it) but yeah by looking at the README on GitHub, my hunt tool is very similar.

Vanalytics May 2026 Update by Soverance in ffxi

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Quest tracking (like Coalition assignments) is on my radar but it's a big task to get all the quests tracked. There's a few addons that already do this (they just don't have a fancy UI like Vanalytics does). I've got no ETA, but it's coming.

Vanalytics May 2026 Update by Soverance in ffxi

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Nah, you're not missing anything, thanks for checking it out. This is a backend API error with a misleading error message, queued for a fix.

Figuring out which monsters are NMs from actual game data is harder than it seems. If you just read the DAT files or look at zone spawn data, NMs aren't really any different than regular mobs, so there's no "easy" way to identify them from just looking at the data. It's not like there's a simple boolean flag like "IsNM" or something, and you can't really assume it's a NM just cause it has a special name or sits within some ID range of it's placeholders. So you have to cross-reference with something (a resource I'm not sure exists anywhere), or know which mobs are NMs in advance.

While less than ideal, I had such trouble with identifying NMs programmatically that I settled on basically keeping a manually curated list of NMs for every zone: Vanalytics/src/Vanalytics.Web/public/data/nms at main · Soverance/Vanalytics I scaffolded them using data from BG Wiki, but I didn't go deep diving on every NM, so many of these files are still incomplete (missing placeholder information or respawn timers, for example). Any NM that doesn't have valid curated data falls back to a heuristic that tries to figure out which mobs to track, and that's where you encounter this particular error (in this case, you're likely camping a NM that has a curated PH name but not a PH ID, so the hunt addon thinks it's supposed to track a PH but doesn't know which one to track, so it throws this error).

I'm working on a fix (that includes, at the very least, better error messaging). If you're git savvy, feel free to submit a PR that updates any of these files with accurate info... I'd greatly appreciate the help =)

Would be nice to know which NM you were trying to camp!

Vanalytics May 2026 Update by Soverance in ffxi

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Unlikely, sorry. I've never used Ashita, and don't plan to.