Dev Tracker - Discussion

An extremely low effort option is to check windower resources, since they're usually updated faster:
https://github.com/Windower/Resources/commit/23857355a9e1e0e4481efa169222a476d908cb60

a low-code option is to use ashita's resource functions to dump the items to lua.

resourceextractor is also open source.

so, the knowledge isn't really particularly specific and you don't actually even need to know how the dats are encoded to get at the most current ones w/o dev help. but, i'm guessing whatever tool(s) funk uses to update the wiki aren't public and it doesn't seem like the image updates are automatic because some of the limbus stuff took quite a while to get in there.

they definitely aren't, Funkz updated the text on this because it was fixed in this past update:
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Beryllium_Tachi
but the image still isn't

The thumbnail icons are extremely easy to extract from the dats, which are what I was referring to for the limbus gear. Creating the larger picture is likely a little more difficult (it doesn't seem like the client does it directly, given the wiki images combine it onto a single page instead of the client's 2). Curious how they do it; doesn't seem impossible to pull the client's character map and draw the font character by character, though the spacing calculations would take a little tuning.

If it can be drawn in the client, there are a lot of low effort but clunky ways to automate it (use a fixed client size, replace item id, capture that section of screen). If it's being drawn separately, it should already be an image file so maybe the upload process gives them trouble? Might be worth either soliciting help with improving the process if it's currently cumbersome or sharing the tools with a couple trusted people if it's reasonable as is and Funk feels overburdened.

So, just to check my understanding, resourceextractor would spit out the changes in plain text, then we'd need to either input them all manually in the wiki's formatting or have some sort of tool that would generate it for us after having the text from resourceextractor input?

I was suggesting people who want to see the changes can do that. I don't think anyone should be manually editing the wiki with information that can be automatically generated, improvements there should be process improvements.

If the current system for turning resource data into wiki entries relies on heavy manual work, they should solicit help to improve the system so it's not manual. The data is clean enough that it shouldn't need to be.

If it's not a lot of work but Funk is extremely busy, they should consider giving a couple trusted people access. Easy solutions.