As of version 1.0.6.2 of Volte, events have been added. Events such as detrimental hits (e.g. curses), red-text notifications, and the like can be parsed in ACT and notified to Volte users. ACT has a detrimental plugin which you can find here and here. Since plugins cannot communicate with each other yet and because the Detrimental Call Macro has a different use, Volte's ACT plugin has its own configuration and event-builder. This does NOT mean that the Detrimental Call Macro is obsolete. You may want a couple of good tools running just in case the other doesn't work at a particular point in a fight.
FYI .. The difference between the two is this: the Detrimental Call Macro is creating a block of information to be submitted in the game by the user with one click; whereas the Volte plugin sends information as it is received without any user interaction. It is the interaction that causes these two plugins to have different code logic.
 Events in the ACT Plugin |
KNOW YOUR REGULAR EXPRESSIONS!!! Those who understand regular expressions (or log parsing in general) can build these callouts. The Search Expression is what you are looking for in a log entry. The Translation Expression is what you want the callout to be. The Test Sample is a sample log entry that you can pull out of your logs. And the Sample Results is what would be sent to Volte clients.
The Translation Expression can use the RegEx groups you create in the Search Expression field. For instance, in the image you'll see that I have an Actor and Action group in the first line. I then use those groups in the Translation Expression by wrapping them around with ${groupname}. The second line is also similar. Note that I don't even need the Curse group in the second line because all I want is who it hit. So I could have put "${Victim} cursed". It's very flexible.
Look into Expresso. It's by far one of the BEST regular expression tools and tutorials available.
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