Any way to generate a patrol log?

[Cue-Ball909]

Is there any way to generate a patrol log, or to export the things that were said by my crew during a patrol? I just finished my first complete patrol (8 ships sunk!) and would really like to look over some sort of patrol log to see what happened when, who died in what way, which torps missed or failed and what type they were, etc. I've read realistic patrol logs from other users in the past and would like to be able to do this myself, but don't want to have to take time away from the game to write down every contact, every torpedo fired, etc. Is there any way to get this data from some sort of log in-game?

[panthercules]

The log of events in your most recent patrol is kept by the game, if you use the default locations, in your My Documents\SH3\data\cfg\Careers\<name of Kaleun>\<highest patrol #>\<most recent saved game name>.crp file.

You can open that file in Notepad, Wordpad or similar text editor and see everything that went on, from which you can construct a patrol log/diary to your liking.

You can check this thread:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=97851

to see how to make your patrol log show up in your KTB in game, if you want. Unfortuantely, I haven't seen where anybody has figured out yet how to make these modified personal log entries show up in the personnel file that SH3 Commander creates, but I'm still hoping that JScones or someone who knows how SH3 Commander works when it creates those personnel files will figure out and explain how this could be done.

[EDIT] - having now scanned the .crp file more closely, it looks like it won't capture quite everything you mentioned, like what type of torp you fire or the depth settings etc, at least if you do these things manually (like I do), but there is a tremendous amount of data and detail collected in that file.

[TarJak]

The simplest way is to get hold of SH3 Commander which will generate the logs for you in a HTML format. The data files are also there if you want to mess around with a DB of some sort.

[kiwi_2005]

actually just realised if SH4 will be able to do this? Create your own patrol log in the game. SH2 let you do this but very limited. SH3 we click on send message and its generated for us, but it would be way better if we had to type it in ourselves.