👨‍✈️ captain

A suite of packet capture and analysis tools for FFXI targeting Windower v4, Ashita v3, and Ashita v4.

Goal

Windower and Ashita are both great, but they offer different APIs for inspecting and interacting with FFXI.

• captain - The logic for capturing and analyzing packets.
• backend - A "cross-platform" set of functions that can be used in both Windower and Ashita.

Ashita v3

Ashita v4

Windower v4

Instructions

Windower

• Download and place in <Windower folder>/addons
• Either:
  • Add to scripts/init.txt to auto-load when you log in
  • Load on demand with //lua load captain
• Unload with //lua unload captain

Ashita

• Download and place in <Ashita folder>/addons
• Either:
  • Add to scripts/Default.txt to auto-load when you log in
  • Load on demand with /addon load captain
• Unload with /addon unload captain

General

• /captain hide to stop showing the GUI elements
• /captain show to show the GUI elements
• /captain start to begin a capture
• /captain stop to end a capture
• /captain split to roll over to a new capture
• SHIFT + DRAG to drag text boxes around
• (TODO) To start a capture press: CTRL + ALT + C
• (TODO) To end a capture press: CTRL + ALT + V
• (TODO) Make addon respond to /cap as well as /captain

Development

• TODO

C:\ffxi>mklink /D C:\ffxi\Ashita\addons\captain C:\ffxi\captain
symbolic link created for C:\ffxi\Ashita\addons\captain <<===>> C:\ffxi\captain

C:\ffxi>mklink /D C:\ffxi\Windower\addons\captain C:\ffxi\captain
symbolic link created for C:\ffxi\Windower\addons\captain <<===>> C:\ffxi\captain

Based on & made possible by

• Windower
• Ashita
• Packeteer by atom0s
• capture by ibm2431
• PacketViewer by Arcon