IINACT

A minimalistic application to run the FFXIV_ACT_Plugin in an ACT-like enviroment with a stripped-down port of Overlay Plugin with Cactbot event sources.

This will not render overlays by itself, use something like Browsingway, Next UI, hudkit (Linux only) or Bunny HUD (macOS only) to display Overlays.

Why?

• ACT is too clunky IMHO for just wanting to have the game data parsed and served via a Web Socket server
• Drastically more efficent than ACT, in part to .NET 6.0, in part to a more sane log line processing (disk I/O is not blocking LogLineEvents and happening on a separate lower priority thread)
• Due to the above and Machina optimizations CPU usage will be orders of magnitude (not exaggerating here) lower when running under Wine
• Will generally stay out of your way, doesn't take away focus when launched, only lives as a tray icon and quits itself once the game closes
• Doesn't use legacy technology that hurts Linux and macOS users
• More robust Web Socket server than what Overlay Plugin currently uses (which looks like it is not maintained anyways atm)
• RPCAP support (for the poor Flatpak users)
• Has a nice dark UI that won't flashbang you in the middle of the night
• Follows the Unix philosophy of just doing one thing and doing it well

How to build?

Just place the FFXIV_ACT_Plugin.dll and its SDK files in the external_dependencies folder and build the IINACT project.

Known Issues

• Doesn't have any sort of auto-update system
• TTS is not fully implemented yet

PRs are always welcome :)