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18 hours ago, Rebecca28 said:

Is asa breeding different to ase? I get mutations on dinos with 20+ muts on maternal line now? 

Breeding is different in ASA compared to ASE, but the mutation counter limit is the same. If one parent has a mutation counter of 20 or more, it won't give any mutations to the offspring. As long as at least one parent has a mutation counter of less than 20, the offspring can have mutations (with both parents below 20 it's double the probability compared if only one parent has a counter of less than 20).

The difference is the actual mutation levels. In ASE mutation levels were just added to the wild levels of a stat. In ASA they're counted separately, which also has an affect of how the mutation levels are passed on to the offspring. Always the higher wild and the higher mutation level are passed together, regardless if they're on the same parent or one on the mother and the other on the father. For more info about mutation stacking in ASA see e.g.

On 1/2/2024 at 1:48 PM, Graviphoton said:

I suppose author knows Ark Save Visualiser, which is capable of reading from ASA savegame files including tamed dinos stats and is distributed with source code... but if not there it is.

https://github.com/miragedmuk/ASV

Hi, yes I know that tool and I'm looking forward to implement the save reader they use if possible. Currently rather busy with other projects, but it's on the todo list.

21 hours ago, PhantomWSJ said:

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask or isn't relevant but is there any way to setup ark smart breeder for the server you are playing on without the INI files or URL if the admin does not want to release these?

Hi, it's possible to reverse calculate the multipliers with some info. We have a channel on our discord server for that, see there for the info we need (discord server: https://discord.com/invite/qCYYbQK , channel `server-settings`).

On 10/6/2023 at 9:50 PM, Snapdragyn said:

Is  there any way to just manually enter the numbers when the app fails to get them correct?

I've got a gacha. App says 'sum 10, should be 18'. OK, fine. I look at the stats.

Everything is correct except Speed - that shows as 22 in the app, but should be 31. Note that this is NOT a difference of 8, as the app seems to expect.

A manual entry override would really make life easier in this edge cases. 99.9% of the time or more everything is fine, & it's made my life a whole lot easier!

That sounds like there are yellow stats, i.e. stats where the app cannot determine the combination of wild and domesticated levels. Click on the yellow stats until the actual sum is equal to the expected sum. If you just want to add the creature with probably incorrect levels, you can copy the extracted values to the Tester (button in the toolbar), then add it from there.

On 11/30/2023 at 11:35 PM, Allanballan said:

Does Smart Breeding work with ASA?

Yes, you need to enable the ASA mode in the Settings - Multipliers - Checkbox at the top.

Hi, the export files are saved to `SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ARK Survival Ascended\ShooterGame\Saved\DinoExports`. Some stats and multipliers were adjusted in ASA, we're working to get Smart Breeding updated so all species will work again soon.

On 5/23/2022 at 6:29 PM, BaconWasHere said:

Epic tool!

Is there a way to use the name generator to replace or name the corresponding dino in game? Its cool that you can use a format for naming in the app, however I thought it may be able to set the name it generates on the dino in question in game automatically.

Hi, sorry for the late reply, somehow didn't get a notification.

In the settings you can enable that the generated name is copied to the clipboard, that way you just have to open the name edit option and paste the generated name. Directly changing the data in game is not possible for Smart Breeding.

On 5/31/2022 at 10:04 AM, SidemanZGZ said:

Hi ! I started breeding mosasaurs, in the app it says my babies will birth at a lower level than parents (seems it counts oxygen and speed in the process), how to fix this (probably my mistake with a setting) ? Thank you very much ! 

(example picture : parents are 207 212 unleveled, says best baby will be 162, worst 140, my first baby was 219).

Hi, I'm not sure why the total level of the parents is shown like that. If you add up the levels, it should result in one level less than the total level of the creature, i.e. the female should display `(154)`, the male `(148)`. Then the values for the offspring make sense as well. Maybe something went wrong by importing the parents?

On 5/10/2022 at 1:37 PM, Trell169 said:

Is this yet another great tool for Ark, but it works only with the Steam version?

It's an application running on windows, so it works best with the Steam and Epic game version where you can use the export function in ARK to easily add creatures to the app. Other versions of ARK, i.e. the versions on Windows store / XBox, Playstation, etc. don't offer the export function but work fine else, you can enter creatures by typing their stats manually.

On 8/16/2021 at 12:09 AM, Morgue said:

Currently i make spreadsheets in Microsoft Excll for my breeding lines, is there any scope for adding a feature to import info from Excel files so i wouldnt have to add each dino manually?

Hi, an import of a comma separated value (csv) file or tab separated (tsv) file would be not difficult. How do you have your data currently saved? A good way to import it easily would be one column for each stat value (including the decimal place), one column for the species, and one column for each other property, e.g. creature name, tribe, owner, color ids. I'm on vacation for a few weeks, I'll work on this after that.

On 7/16/2021 at 6:56 AM, IanHighlander said:

Individual exports from creatures in game that are then imported using the normal "import exported data" option.

There was a bug just found that colors are not imported if you use the bulk import. This will be fixed soon. Did you use that?

15 hours ago, IanHighlander said:

when I import dinos the colours are no longer brought into ASB with all the other information. Am I missing a setting somewhere that's been added or is this a bug?

Hi, you're the first one reporting that. How did you import the creatures, with a savegame import or importing the exported data?

20 minutes ago, LeelaaSlo said:

Last two updates my huge library is not loading anymore and i get this error.

Hi, that error should be resolved in 0.46.3 for most cases. When it still happens for you, probably there are multiple creatures in your library that share the same id, which should not happen.

Could you send me your library file (the file extension is .asb) for further checking how that could happen? The easiest way would be via pm in discord (ASB discord server: https://discord.gg/qCYYbQK).

How did you add the creatures to your library, import export files or importing a save file?

On 5/9/2021 at 3:48 AM, olT3lo said:

It appears that dragging and dropping game.ini and gameusersettings.ini into the settings window no longer functions, or does it not change the max wild dino level?

Hi, the max wild level is not parsed. I'll look into it for the next release.

5 hours ago, Avu said:

where is the library file located and what is the file extension please?

The file location is where you saved it, it could be anywhere. The file extension of library files of Smart Breeding is `.asb`. If you want to search for a library file, you could use `*.asb`.

On 4/25/2021 at 2:38 PM, IanHighlander said:

Definitely looks like it's just not counting speed in its calculations, can this be fixed if possible please? (or have I missed a config setting somewhere for it maybe?)

 

I've also noticed the "Cooldown/Growing" column isn't being populated at all when importing exported babies anymore. This is in the last couple of versions this has changed as it absolutely used to.

After checking the algorithm, the stats that don't contribute to a stat increase are ignored when determining the "only top stats"-creatures (golden background). I'll add some options to fine tune the behaviour of the app here.

The bug with the cooldown column will be fixed in the next release.

On 4/17/2021 at 1:19 PM, IanHighlander said:

I have creatures being highlighted as "top" creatures (in yellow) when they clearly aren't. For example in this screenshot M8 clearly has all the top stats, but M6 and M7 which are a point down on speed are still being shown as "top" creatures highlighted in yellow.

Have I just missed a setting I can't find somewhere ?

Hi, that looks like a bug. That feature is implemented for some years now and I never saw that issue. Does this wrong highlighting as a top creature (golden background) also persists after you restarted the application?

On 2/25/2021 at 2:09 AM, Ramron said:

Figured it out, in my case, i have to run the executable from a folder in the root directory, not in sub folders, is this normal?

No, that doesn't matter. If you installed ASB, e.g. in the program files folder, the images are saved in the `%localAppData%\ARK Smart Breeding\img`, if you use the portable / zip version, the images are saved in the application folder.

If you cannot see the images and then download the images via the menu, they should be placed correctly in either of these locations.

@Ramron to get the colored species images go to the menu `?` - `Download species images`, it should have asked that as well when the app was started the first time. After it has downloaded them, you may need to restart the app once to see the images.

On 2/15/2021 at 4:24 PM, Wycked said:

Not sure if it's been answered or not but is there a way to combine library's together? I have one library of creatures that are the starter breeders then another that holds the offspring. I'd like to combine them without having to go through and export each one over again.

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On 1/27/2021 at 8:39 AM, olT3lo said:

Off topic, on the "Raising" tab, under General Infos, the "Food for Baby-Phase" and "Total food for maturation" seem way off. Is there a setting some where I need to change?

These values depend on the settings BabyMatureSpeedMultiplier and BabyFoodConsumptionSpeedMultiplier, probably you need to adjust these values to the ones on the server.

On 1/12/2021 at 7:49 AM, olT3lo said:

Would love it if you could add the option to add FTP information for a server so at the press of a button it would go out, grab the save game, and you could view the data quickly and easily.

That's already implemented. Just enter the ftp adress as the file location in Settings - Import Savegame - ARK save-game files.

On 8/21/2020 at 5:27 AM, Lenfantsauvage09 said:

Is there a way for the tool to screenshot a fullscreen screenshot imported from ps4?  

You should be able to just drag&drop a screenshot on the tool to use it with the OCR function. You can also configure an application in the settings to take the screenshots from. The OCR is not perfect, so it might need some adjustments after the import.

On 8/13/2020 at 5:23 AM, MrTarkanian48 said:

I've used this program on a windows laptop for years without issue, including using it earlier today.

Tonight my Mcafee virus protection flagged it and automatically deletes the file when I go to install.

 

Were there any recent changes that may have caused this? I didnt make any changes to my antivrus or update the smart breeder app today, and I am scratching my head as to why all of a sudden it was flagged and deleted/

That happens sometimes after an update. If not many people have the latest version installed, some heuristic anti virus apps flag it because it's not often used and based on application patterns. Usually after some time it is accepted. Of course, make sure you downloaded it from a trusted source. You can upload a file to virustotal.com which will check it with multiple virus scanners and give you a result with how many of them found the file suspicious.

Smart Breeding is open source, so everyone can check all of the code that's included.

On 7/13/2020 at 2:27 PM, Izmak said:

Can somebody please make an idiot-proof guide to sharing your library of dinosaurs etc. with your friends?

Right now I have a link to my friend's shared Google Drive folder containing the ARK library.

I've enabled autosave/autoload of data - but how do I open the library in the Smart Breeding app?  Been trying this for what feels like hours with no progress so far, short of manually downloading the file and opening it (which means any changes I make won't sync back).

That sounds like you download the file, which means you have an own, independent copy on your computer. You need to install the google-drive app (or dropbox etc) and synchronize the file on a folder on your computer.

1 hour ago, Trashtalk said:

So, having an issue, in the library section, i cant turn off stats etc for it's listing. note that the dmg mutation wyvern is considered less than the food mutation one, even though everything else is similar. and it's highlighting food so much but dmg is almost an afterthought.

 

in the breeding tab it doesn't seem to want to use the new male, with a higher melee stat, even with melee dmg being weighted much higher....

 

am i just stupid or is there something off with the latest version of smart breeder?

There should be a red info box at the top about the mutation filter you set. Only creatures with at most 0 mutations are considered for the currently displayed plan. If you want to also include the creatures with the mutations, either increase the number, or set it to -1 to include all mutations. If the red box is not shown, it would be a bug.

On 6/6/2020 at 9:25 PM, JamesVaughand said:

How do i share ark smart breeder files with my tribe?

Save the library file in a shared folder (e.g. DropBox, GoogleDrive, or similar), share it with your tribe mates, and make sure all users have enabled Autosave and Autoload in the settings in Smart Breeding.

11 hours ago, Allanballan said:

I love your Program! Makes a breeders life so much easier.?

I have a wish to have the option to change the program to a ``dark theme´´, its a tad to bright for me. Are there any plans at all for this or may you consider doing it in the future?

Again thanks for a really good program!?

Unfortunately the used framework makes skins hard to implement, so it will not happen soon, if at all. sorry.