Changelog
Version 0.91 - Aug 09 2024
- Feature - Automatic updating, after this version manual download will no longer be required
- Feature - Ring console and Beacon detection from map
- Feature - Allow user to View/Set detected values
- Feature - Hide/Show Ring console and Beacon on map
- Feature - Mapbot application is now resizable and no longer fixed size (map will scale with window size)
- Improvement - Increased polling rate (new map checking thread) for map bring shown so that it isn't missed (was 1 every 3 seconds, to 3 times a second)
- Improvement - Improved Japanese language support/detection models
- Improvement - Improved Reinforcement learning models for better location results
- Improvement - Changed value reset mechanics, so if wrong settings are detected, will better recover
- Improvement - Additional details in event log
- Improvement - buy me a coffee :)
- Bug fix - Slow disk space leak from screenshots stored in tmp directory until app is closed
- Bug fix - Apex game changed zoom on minimap for certain game modes that greatly affected results, so now supported
- Bug fix - Attempted to fix minimap rotation
Version 0.9 - Jun 1 2024
- Feature - Event log, new button that opens a popup to show all events in the game, wil also help to understand if issues occurred.
- Improvement - Support new ALGS dropships/customs
- Improvement - Update maps for season 21 (new broken moon map)
- Improvement - Support solo's
- Improvement - Better Japanese language support
- Improvement - Better recognition of screen for streamed 16:10 content
- Bug fix - Inability to correct mistakes with aspect ratio, map zoom and round detections
- Bug fix - internal clock for game now updates detected rounds correctly if not read from screen
- Bug fix - Major rework to code backend to be more flexible for new features
Version 0.8 - Feb 10 2024
- Improvement - Requires higher confidence before drawing zones
- Bug fix - Latest version of chrome caused app unable to start chrome to record vod/streams (error said chrome isn't installed when it is)
Version 0.7 - Jan 24 2024
- Feature - Japanese Language support
- Feature - Twitch login
- Feature - support for minimap rotation
- Feature - Adding updater to keep up to date without needing to manually re-download each release
- Improvement - rollover between games more consistent, (detecting when one game ends and next begins so start new capture)
- Improvement - Kill detection time (more consistency so quicker to be more confident on kills)
- Bug fix - Main fix for issue where getting stuck on "waiting for game to start"
- Bug fix - If incorrect values are detected e.g. resolution, is able to now re-correct self"
Version 0.6 - Jan 2 2024
- new feature - 16:10 support
- new feature - Youtube support
- new feature - hide/show movement lines
- bug fix - Chromedriver sometimes doesn't shutdown even after exiting the app, added Shutdown hook on chromedriver to make sure it always closes
- bug fix - sometimes not detecting game ends on home screen, so new game doesn't start
- bug fix - first item in history not highlighted when selected
- bug fix - crashing/not working for worldsedge
- improvement - more accurate kill detection
- improvement - detect player even when close to edge of map
- improvement - checks twitch API to see if stream is actually online and streaming Apex
- improvement - better naming of exports so that they can't overwrite each-other
Version 0.5 - November 25 2023
- new feature - App will continue to pull zone information as long as player remains spectator in the game
- new feature - Added Sort capability for history
- new feature - Movement line added gradient heat line so can more easily tell start from end
- new feature - Added startup screen image to help users
- Bug fix - Greatly reduced occurrences of detecting incorrect make if not detected in lobby
- Bug fix - Flight path lines fixed was not working for vertical dropship lines and generally inaccurate
- Bug fix - Fixed issue where kills and placement wouldn't update if in ranked game and map not detected in lobby
- Bug fix - Round 3/4 zones sometimes being found incorrectly and drawn during first round
- Bug fix - if recording stream/vod of private match, did not change map if lobby map is changed
- improvement - Improved accuracy of location points
- improvement - Improved liklyhood of detecting flight path
- improvement - Better detection of game end
- improvement - Reduced likelyhood of bad points in movement path
Version 0.4 - November 16 2023
- Fixed bug where could not start app due to "Failed to Launch JVM"
- Fixed but where did not start recording on Stormpoint map
- Added delete function
- Added fight path of dropship
- Added flight trails for initial jump
- Added checkboxes to hide/show zones and flightTrails
Version 0.3 - November 11 2023
This release has mostly focussed on Stream capture and finding/drawing zones
- Detecting all round zones and drawn onto map if seen
- Stream recording now works for both twitch Stream and VOD
- Stream capture does not have to be in focus, can run in background behind other windows (cannot be minimized)
- Support for Stormpoint Season 19 map changes
- Optimized load on CPU should mean less CPU usage
- Improved accuracy of kills/placement values
- Improved accuracy of location
- More feedback in client to let user know what is happening
- browser capture can be anywhere on screen, can be moved around, and still work.
- Fixed issue where browser capture would not work if black bars on sides of screen.
- In initial release the way browser detection was done was very difficult to get working correctly and not easy to use, reworked to that user just needs to input a URl and it just works
- Client would sometimes negatively impacted FPS of APEX game client, changed thread priority so that Apex game will always have higher execution priority.
- In-client help moved to mapbot.gg/support.html to allow accurate up-to-date help without needing new releases
- Cleaner UI icons/symbols
- kills/placement shown on exported image
- fix bug when player moves too quickly unable to record location
- fix bug does not record player location when close to edge of map
Version 0.2 - July 12th 2023
- Fixed issues with java library dependencies which prevented v0.1 from working on most computers
Version 0.1 - July 9th 2023
- Initial Release Features
- Capture Movement and kills from Apex local game client
- Capture Movement and kills from twitch stream using browser
- Display all kill and movements onto a UI
- List of all recorded games, to view at any time
- Scrub bar under map to scroll through game time events
- Export button to output current game to Image