[WIP] - Custom Captain's Log Entries

[panthercules]

BTW - further play with this revealed a small problem with an occasional word sometimes being missing along the right edge in some of the log entries in game - it only happened occasionally and I never could figure out exactly why it was happening, BUT a small tweak to the numbers in my post above seems to have eliminated the problem, at least as far as I've been able to tell so far.

I had posted above to change (among other things) the following line in the menu_1024_768.ini file:

[G35 I19]
Zone= 613 553 445 480 4 1 0x35060000 0.5 -0.5 0x35040000 -0.5 0.4 -5 -10

If you change the third number from 445 to 455, so the line now reads:

[G35 I19]
Zone= 613 553 455 480 4 1 0x35060000 0.5 -0.5 0x35040000 -0.5 0.4 -5 -10

all the words seem to show up where they didn't before, at least in my tests so far. The other pages (radio messages and mission objectives) didn't seem to need a similar change so I haven't messed with the numbers I previously posted for those other lines yet. Of course, as previously stated, these numbers are all for 1024x768 and you may need to adjust them accordingly if you run a different resolution and don't like the way these numbers work for that resolution.

A sample of my latest patrol log in game, after this tweak/fix, is shown below:



Enjoy!

[MaxT.dk]

Looks very nice!

[panthercules]

Ok - since a wonderful discovery was made by LukeFF about how to make the recognition manual open back up to the same page you were last looking at, but it only seems to work at resolutions higher than 1024x768 (see this thread: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...d=1#post565405 ), I decided to start running at 1280x960 to take advantage of this. While I was at it, I decided I would enlarge the captain's log clipboard to take advantage of the increased real estate at the higher resolution - soooo, here are the revised settings for the menu_1024_768.ini file that work at 1280x960, in case anybody wants to use them:

[G35 I19]
Zone= 613 553 589 600 4 1 0x35060000 0.5 -0.5 0x35040000 -0.5 0.4 -5 -20

[G35 I21]
Zone= 613 624 310 35 3 1 0x35040000 0 0 0x35060002 0 1 150 45

[G35 I27]
Zone= 573 186 140 30 0 1 0x35060000 0 -1 0x35060003 0.12 1.36 3 -155

[G35 I29]
Zone= 613 552 556 556 4 1 0x35050000 0.5 -0.5 0x35030000 -0.5 0.435 -5 -32

[G35 I33]
Zone= 689 623 158 35 3 1 0x35030000 0.5 0 0x3505001B -0.5 1 0 48

[G35 I39]
Zone= 573 186 140 30 0 1 0x35050000 0 -1 0x35050001 0.12 1.36 3 -160

[G35 I41]
Zone= 613 553 556 556 4 1 0x35070000 0.5 -0.5 0x35080000 -0.5 0.4 -5 -32

[G35 I43]
Zone= 613 624 310 35 0 1 0x35080000 0.5 0 0x35070001 -0.5 1 2 65

[G35 I46]
Zone= 573 186 140 30 0 1 0x35070000 0 -1 0x35070007 0.12 1.36 3 -160

[G35 I50]
Zone= 613 586 310 32 0 1 0x3500000F 0.5 -0.5 0x35000002 -0.5 4.4 0 115

[G35 I51]
Zone= 552 743 731 938 0 1 0x35000000 0.75 -1 0x3500000F -0.5 1.25 -100 -115


Enjoy!

[ReallyDedPoet]

Nice work on this, miss this option from SH2.

RDP

[panthercules]

Check the first post, which has been updated with the info on how to get this to work with Patch 1.4.

Enjoy!

[Roger Dodger]

Is it possible to change the Captain's Log Header to read something like this: . . . ?
CAPTAIN'S LOG
S-33 (USS 138)
LtCdr Roger Dodger
<DATE>
. . . BODY OF LOG . . .

Basic setup:

CAPTAIN'S LOG
<BOAT NAME> <(OFFICIAL NUMBER)>
<RANK> <NAME>
<DATE>

[panthercules]

Originally Posted by Roger Dodger

Is it possible to change the Captain's Log Header to read something like this: . . . ?
CAPTAIN'S LOG
S-33 (USS 138)
LtCdr Roger Dodger
<DATE>
. . . BODY OF LOG . . .

Basic setup:

CAPTAIN'S LOG
<BOAT NAME> <(OFFICIAL NUMBER)>
<RANK> <NAME>
<DATE>

It may well be. Line 2167 in the menu.txt file controls what the heading/title of the log screen displays - as you can see from the screenshot below, I was able to change the title somewhat:



Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out how to make it display more characters or split them onto multiple lines yet - when I changed line 2167 to include the three line format you asked for, it worked and displayed all the new text on 3 lines in the tooltip as you mouse over the button in lower right of screen (to call up the log), but not on the log itself. I suspect that you'd have to play around inside the menu_1024_768.ini file to increase the size of the area for this title and move the date and text area down a bit to make room for the new lines of the title (it had probably worked on the log as well, but you just couldn't see it because the display area for this title isn't large enough).

Will try to tweak the .ini file in a bit and see if that does the trick.