[WIP] - Custom Captain's Log Entries

[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.