Fight Recorder

A simple utility that reads eve logs and based on them starts / ends OBS recordings and downloads the replay buffer.

Requirements

• Open Broadcaster Software (OBS)

Setup

Written Guide

Set up OBS:

1. Enable the WebSocker Server:
   • Go to Tools -> WebSocket Server Settings
   • Check Enable WebSocket server
   • Note down Server Port and Server Password
2. Start a Replay Buffer of your desired length:
   • Go to Settings -> Output -> Replay Buffer
   • Set Maximum Replay Time
   • Go to Main Window
   • Click Start Replay Buffer
3. (Optional) Automatically start the replay buffer by adding a Flag to the OBS Startup Symlink
   • **Press_ Win + R
   • Enter shell:startup
   • Open OBS Symlink -> Properties -> Shortcut
   • Add --startreplaybuffer at the end of the Target field
   • Click Apply

Set up Fight Recorder

1. Configure Fight_Recorder:
   • Enter Server Port and Server Password from the OBS WebSocket Server
   • Set Log Directory to your eve gamelogs folder (Typically C:\Users\your_user\Documents\EVE\logs\Gamelogs)
   • Set a path to where you want the outputed files to land

If you did everything right, you should see a green "Ready" Status in Fight Recorder. Otherwise it will tell you what is currently the problem in a red error message.

Video Guide

Behaviour Options

Concatenate output Videos

This will automatically merge the replay buffer and recording. Currently they might not be synced perfectly so you can get stutter. Also this can be resource intensive just after an enagegement when you might still be in space.

Delete original Videos

If Concatenate output Videos is on, this will delete the originals after (If anything goes wrong they won't be deleted so you can manually recover them).

Run On Startup

Runs the program when you start the PC. Currently there is no mechanism to auto-hide yet, so you will get a window pop up on startum.

Tray Behaviour

Just like OBS, this tool will minimize to tray with the Minimize Button and terminate with the X Button. The tray icon will go green if a recording is active.

Bug Reporting

This tool is in early development, so expect it to sometimes fail. In that case it will not (yet) do anything to get back to a working state, so you might have to restart it and possibly also stop an OBS recording. If you happen to find any useful info why it failed, please let me know.