[REQ] Pencil in nav map

[tomoose]

Have any of the talented modders out there looked into getting the nav map pencil to mark something other than an 'X'?

While custmoizeable text may not be an option due to coding issues, what about incremental numbering; i.e. first click on the map shows '1', next click shows '2' and so on?

Just a thought.

[raymond6751]

I'd prefer to be able to make text entry, but numbers are good. Then you could keep a text file out of game with text notes by numbers.

I've often thought it sad that they didn't think about letting us actually write a log. It isn't rocket science to allow an external text file and viewer.

Maybe a cool modder can give it some thought?

I've been using a batch file game loader that first loads up notepad with my own text log. The log file needs to be where the batch file is, which needs to be in the game folder with the .exe game file.

Use notepad to create the batch and the first line in a log file. If there is no log file to begin with, notepad won't file it back properly.

Here is the text of my batch file done in notepad:

Silent Hunter 4 Log for SH4
rem START "title" [/Dpath] [options] [command] [parameters]

rem @echo off
start "Captains Log" notepad.exe "mylog.txt"
rem pause
start "" sh4

>>> That's it.

[tomoose]

raymond;
if you can figure out how to extract specific lines from the game event log then you could do an automatic log ala SH3 Commander.

I forget which file it is but unless I'm mistaken I thought there was a file with basically every major event including all the "ship spotted" data etc.

A program to extract that and plonk it in a customized GUI would be very cool. Again, I'm talking a rudimentary SH3 Commander program and am trying to learn VB to see if it can be done from that (at the moment I have no idea if that's even the best programming language to use but I don't have much choice, LOL).