The Skill Scanner is a small program to extract avatar skill information from screenshots in Entropia Universe. It scans the skills window ingame, or it can read image files saved in your PC.
Once the skill information is read successfully, it calculates also your total skill count, and your skills net worth (according to market value of ESIs and skill implants extracted from peauction.com).
You can also create a text file with your skills (in Comma-Separated-Value format) to be used by other applications, or you can upload automatically your skills to the Chipping Optimizer web application, provided that you have an account there.
Instructions
First of all, you must have installed the latest Java 8 version, available here:
Make sure you go to: "Java SE Runtime Environment", since it is MUCH smaller than the "Java SE Development Kit".
(Latest version as of today is JRE SE 8u411)
NOTE: The Skill Scanner does NOT work with Java 9, Java 10 or later. If you have these Java versions in your machine, either uninstall them and install Java 8 (easy), OR install Java 8 along with the other versions, but make sure that the Skill Scanner is started under the Java 8 environment (harder).
Now, if you have already installed Java, do the following:
Get the following file:
Scanner100.zip
and extract the file "Scanner.exe" in your desktop
NOTE: Starting from version 0.51 onwards, the Skill Scanner application requires an account to work properly. If you want to get an account, please contact me either ingame, in Planet Calypso Forum, or via email; a donation somewhere in the range of $5-$15 (or equivalent amount in PEDs) is expected, to support the continuous development and maintenance of the tools. In the future, there might be a free version with limited features, but this is uncertain as of today.
Simply double-click the exe file, and it will launch the program (no need to "install" it)
Once the program is launched, wait until it initializes, takes 2-3 seconds, you will hear a confirmation sound
Now, in EU, show the skills panel; you can move it around, and the app will try to find it, but it must be completely visible; then, just hit PrntScrn (IMPORTANT: if you're in windowed mode, you should hit Alt+PrntScrn, because this will capture only the active window instead of the whole desktop, and it will make the program to run much faster); you should hear the typical camera capture sound
Check the bottom part of the app, just to see if there is some error message; there are a lot of verbose info displayed there, with details of what the app is doing; the processing takes usually 3-4 secs.
If everything goes fine, the table should be filled with the scanned skills, and you will hear a confirmation sound (note that during the scanning process you cannot capture any other screen); the working mode of the program is to process completely one screen at a time, instead of capturing everything and process all the screens at the same time; please, keep this in mind
Repeat with the rest of skill windows and check if the scanned values are correct; you can sort the skill table by "skill value" both in EU and in the application, so it is easier to check (if you choose alphabetical sorting, there are certain differences in the way the sorting is done in the application and in EU)
If you have an account for the chipping tools, you will see some data calculated on the fly, as you keep scanning the different skill panels in EU:
Total skills count
Professional levels
Individual TT value and market value of each skill
Total TT value and market value of your avatar skills
Try saving the scanned skills to a CSV file; you can select any directory and specify any file name and extension, but if you select the "Use default" checkbox, the application creates one by default called "skills_[date]_[time].csv" in the same directory where the app was launched from. If you have an account, the exported file will contain profession levels, and totals; otherwise, it will only include the raw skill values
If you have an account, you can load your stored skills from the database. In this case, the program will show the progress between your current scanned skill set, and your last saved skills
Try exporting to the Chipping Optimizer; you will need to enter the user and password of your account, and you can make the application remember them for you. Note that the Chipping Optimizer rounds skill values to the closest integer
This tool is in no way connected with MindArk PE AB or any of MindArks' Planet Partners. Entropia Universe is a registered trademark of MindArk PE AB. All logos, brand names and concepts are the sole property of their respective owners.