How To Set Up Act Ffxiv

FFXIV ACT Setup Guide

This guide is intended to get a FFXIV player setup with ACT and an overlay for parsing purposes and exist able to upload logs to the FFLogs website.

Last updated: 2/11/2020

Contents

• Installing ACT
• Configuring ACT
  • Running every bit Admin
  • Calculation Firewall Exception
• FFXIV Act Plugin
• OverlayPlugin
• Calculation an Overlay
  • Preset Overlays
  • Custom Overlays
• FFLogs Uploader
  • Installing the Uploader
  • Uploading a Log

Installing Act

Navigate to the Deed website, click on the Download page tab, then click on the Advanced Combat Tracker - Setup link to download the Human activity installation programme.

Find the ACTv3-Setup executable in your downloads and run it to begin the installation (If you get a User Business relationship Control prompt, click yes).

The setup program will inquire you for the installation location and beginning menu folder (Y'all tin can get out the default options). Click Install then Shut to complete the installation.

Configuring ACT

Running every bit Admin

It is recommended that ACT be run as Admin. You can right click on the ACT shortcut and select the Run as ambassador choice. You may go an UAC prompt, select yes.

You tin can too configure Human activity to ever run as admin by right clicking on the shortcut then selecting Backdrop. In the Properties window, select the Compatibility tab, and then check the Run this plan equally an administrator selection. Click Utilise to save the changes. This will ensure Act is always run as admin.

Adding Firewall Exception

Open up the windows Control Panel (you can search for command panel in the taskbar search bar). Select the Organisation and Security category and under Windows Defender Firewall click on Permit an app through Windows Firewall.

Inside the allowed apps window, click on Alter settings button, and so on the Allow another app... button. This will open up a dialog window to select an app.

Click on the Browse... push button and navigate to the Deed install folder. The default location should be in C:\Programme Files (x86)\Advanced Combat Tracker.

In the ACT folder, select the Advanced Combat Tracker application and click on Open.

Back in the dialog window, click on Add to add ACT to the windows firewall exceptions.

Avant-garde Combat Tracker should now appear in the list of Allowed apps and features. Click OK and exit the Control Panel.

FFXIV ACT Plugin

Upon first running Deed, information technology will prompt y'all with the Startup Wizard. If you forget to download a parsing plugin, Human activity volition prompt you again the next time y'all run it, or you can manually open the wizard past going to Options > Miscellaneous > Bear witness Startup Wizard.

In the Parsing Plugin section of the startup wizard, ensure FFXIV Parsing Plugin is selected from the dropdown, so click the Download/Enable Plugin button. Yous volition receive an alert when the plugin has been added to Human action. Click Ok to dismiss information technology.

Click Adjacent to move to the log file section. ACT will ask if it volition exist used for Final Fantasy XIV. Select Yeah to configure ACT logs for FFXIV.

Click Next to movement to Startup Settings, then Shut to accept the default settings and cease the startup wizard.

At this betoken FFXIV_ACT_Plugin.dll should be enabled in Plugins > Plugin Listing.

OverlayPlugin

From the Plugin Listing tab, click on the Become Plugins... push near the upper right corner. This volition open a window that will populate with bachelor plugins for ACT.

In the Get Plugins window, select the [FFXIV+others]Overlay Plugin option and click on Download and Enable. This volition add together the latest ngld OverlayPlugin to ACT (the OverlayPlugin auto-updater may also run during this step).

The OverlayPlugin should now be setup. Click on the 10 to close the Get Plugins window.

At this signal it is recommended to restart ACT before standing on.

Adding an Overlay

Preset Overlays

Ngld'southward OverlayPlugin comes with built-in presets for a majority of popular overlays. To setup an overlay go to Plugins > OverlayPlugin.dll and click on the New push.

This volition open the Create new overlay dialog. Enter a name for the overlay and select a preset from the dropdown (the overlayplugin will evidence y'all a preview of each preset). Once you accept selected your desired overlay, click on the OK button to add your overlay.

Your overlay should now announced in the overlays list. Select it from the list to view and edit its settings. You can motion your overlay to the desired position, so check the Lock overlay box to lock information technology in identify.

You can add additional overlays using the same steps. Certain plugins, e.g. cactbot plugin, will populate the preset dropdown with additional presets for their respective overlays.

Custom Overlays

For an overlay non available in the presets, select the Custom selection from the dropdown and the desired Blazon. For most overlays, it volition exist the MiniParse type.

In the overlay settings, make sure to add the overlay URL source. Information technology can be a web url or the path to a local html file.

FFLogs Uploader

Installing the Uploader

Navigate to the FFLogs Download page and download the FFLogs client awarding for your platform.

Find the FFLogsUploader install application in your downloads and run it. The application will ask you whether to install for all users or but yourself. Click on the Install push after selecting your pick and then End once the installation is done.

Uploading a Log

Note: You lot volition need to annals for an FFLogs account in club to upload logs.

Run the FFlogs Uploader application. Enter the account information you used to sign up. Once you are authenticated, click on the Upload a Log push.

Click on Choose to select the log to upload.

In the File Explorer, navigate to the folder where the log is saved. The default location is at %APPDATA%\Advanced Combat Tracker\FFXIVLogs. You tin can copy and paste that path in the explorer bar to go direct to the default folder.

In the log folder, selected the desired log to upload, and click on Open. To ensure the latest log is on meridian, you tin can sort past Engagement modified.

Choose the desired access level for the log: Public, Private, or Unlisted. Public will be ranked and Private and Unlisted are un-ranked. Anyone will be able to view a Public log. Private logs can only be viewed by y'all. Unlisted logs can be viewed by anyone with the link to the log.

If you want to upload merely a specific encounter, toggle the Select Specific Raids To Upload option, and so click on the Go! button.

Select the specific run across y'all want to upload from the list and click on the Go! button. You may select multiple encounters past holding Ctrl on your keyboard.

Note: this view is only available if you lot selected specific raids to upload.

One time the uploader is finished uploading the encounters to the FFLogs website, click on View Report to open up the folio in your default browser and view the log results.

Source: https://github.com/FFXIV-ACT/setup-guide

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