Lab Tracker Overlay - Lailloken/Exile-UI-Legacy GitHub Wiki

Feature Overview

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  • overlays an image of the lab-layout onto the client

  • optional: tracks your current position and marks completed rooms

Setup

  • this feature is accessible in two ways:

    • hold TAB while you are in the lab or Aspirants' Plaza, then click the small icon in the top-left corner of the overlay

    • use the context menu of a lab-offering

  • either way will open poelab.com in your browser

    • choose the desired layout, right-click the image, and click "copy image" (a notification tooltip will pop up if the import was successful)
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    • optional: right-click the 'lab compass file' link underneath the image and click 'copy link address' (a notification tooltip will pop up if the import was successful)
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Usage

  • the overlay is displayed while holding down TAB while being in the lab or Aspirants' Plaza

  • if the compass-file was imported, colored squares will be placed on the overlay as you progress through the lab
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    • the purple square shows your current location, the green ones show the rooms you have previously entered

    • the overlay also shows abbreviations of the neighboring rooms, which may be helpful in specific, obscure layouts

    • example-situation in the image above:

      • upon entering the room, you know the shortest path to the boss-room is in the north-east and has the name "ES WA" (estate walkways)

      • depending on the room-layout, you may find the north exit first even though you seemingly took the right/east-most path that was available

      • since you know you're looking for "ES WA", you don't have to check the floor plan in front of the exit to double-check if the exit leads to the shorter of the two paths

  • the small icon in the top-left corner of the overlay changes its color depending on which features are available

    • red: neither image- nor compass-file have been imported

    • yellow: only the image-file has been imported, tracking is unavailable

    • green: both image and tracking are available

Lab-tracking: Limitation (restarting script mid-run)

  • if you ever have to restart the script during a lab-run, tracking may 'desync' depending on the daily layout

  • the tracker will highlight the current room incorrectly, or jump back and forth between earlier rooms

  • this behavior can be fixed by continuously re-entering the next aspirant's trial (the outer room, not the boss-room itself) until the current-room marker is on the correct aspirant's trial

    • this will only make the tracker catch up with your current position, not re-trace your previous route

Remarks

  • minor QoL feature born from my hatred towards alt-tabbing, and my dysfunctional sense of direction when navigating lab
  • this is simply for casual lab-running and not to be compared with the lab compass (feature-wise)
    • I don't think a sub-feature in my tool can compete with a full-fledged single-purpose tool (without straight up copying what it does)
    • theoretically, there is room for expansion, but I'm not much of a lab-runner, so it would mostly boil down to copying what the compass-tool does (which I'm not interested in)