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HLStatsX CE is a project that parses logs from Half-Life 1 engine based games (like Deathmatch classic/ Counter-Strike) and Source engine based games (like Counter-Strike:Source, TeamFortress2,Left4Dead).
It consists of mysql database for data backend, log parser in perl and php scripts  that stuff data from mysql and show it on WWW.
Heatmaps are quite 'recent' addition, they are generated by php script ran in cgi cause its time and resource consuming task, so it should be done once in a while (read, in the night).

Maybe if there would be a template.dat with defined kills messages with coordinated in it of the victim and attacker, then hlstatsx could just parse text logs and do the rest.

if you see precisely, they did
but there are extra fragments of map drawn and nobody actually can reach that area, so it should be removed from view to not confuse

Spirit wrote:

each frag is plotted as transparent dot, so if there are many frags in an area it will show up more bright/solid

This is kinda confusing for me, maybe is for my lack of english, but when i read this i understand that the less red dots, the more frags, because the map looks more transparent, more solid, less painted. I think will be better to say "each frag is plotted as RED dot" instead.

And, that last dm2 image looks much more better, imho should be all like that one.

Anyway, really cool stuff ^^

I know, but i had to look at the images, just got confused when i 1st read that. But anyway as i said, maybe is my lack of english.

hm. What about the periodicity that is apparent in some of the first set of images. If you look at DM2 RL room, I would expect that to be uniformly red (naive), or at least transition gradually from the spawn (or walls) at high density towards the RL (high densitity again) across a lower density zone. But the first DM2 image shows concentrations within the low density zone between the spawn and the RL. Something (maybe) similar can be seen getting away from the RA teleport in DM4. I wonder if the distance between the hotspots might be correlated to RL or SG reload time or something like that...

Then again, if you look at the 2nd DM2 image, the effect seems to have vanished, so it might just as well be an artifact of the sampling/colouring itself?

Some observations I found 'interesting' (although probably not that surprising if I give it some thought):

-A lot of frags in dm3 water (perhaps because weak players go there fishing for weapons)
-As mentioned frags tend to be concentrated around walls.
-SNG on dm3 has a relative low volume of frags
-Because the map is 2d, you may get slightly misleading concentrations in some places i.e. people died at different heights.  This partly explains the concentrated blotches on the dm3 lifts.

i don't think it records the place where the body lands but the place where 'death set in' ie where the frag occured. so the many frags near walls are likely to be related to the splash damage of the rocket launcher.

This is pretty nice but the concentration of the dots was kinda expected after having played dm2, e1m2 and dm3 for over 10 years

That sng part in dm3 is kinda low on frags and that can be experienced in games, there is no spawn in the actual room for fraghunters to guard and there is no major weapon or powerup. Instead the room is used to stock up on health and ammo, hide from strong enemies and to some extent sneak attack players coming from lifts or ra.

The many frags in dm3 water is not that unexpected either just think about the massive spam of quadrockets and pines and add all the discharges and lower tier weapon battles in there

More things to try:

Use the coordinates for spawning items. I created an mapname.ent file with a couple of thousand deaths.

"classname" "item_key1"
"scale" "0.1"

scale works in Darkplaces. Sadly the items are dropped to the floor, I could not find a workaround. Use r_showbboxes to see some fancy miasma.




Try hacking the engine to make the bboxes less opaque so you can use more kills. You can use about 15000 maximum.

.ent file again with a mod that stops the keys from dropping (thanks Supa!):
http://imgur.com/i49UM&WPJ8A&4bc2V&xHJ5E (click the First, Second etc Image links)

edit: meh, second image was during flicker. Dunno what causes it.

edit2: http://www.quaddicted.com/stuff/killmiasma.zip (noclip, r_showbboxes 1 (or 0.x)).

Last edited by Spirit (08 Nov 2009 19:17:01)

ach gottdammit!

3d boxes look amazing
maybe instead of boxes it could be possible to render flat semi transparent sprite?