How to get to log file?

[Trav_R]

Hi all, I asked this question on the Build Forum, but am not getting any replies. Not sure if this is even a mod specific feature. You know the text that shows up in the top left when you get experience, sink ships etc? Is there a way to see all that after it has disappeared from the screen? Thanks.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

That text is not stored anywhere, so once it disappears, it's gone. Nathan Kell made a beta version of a mod that should store the ships you sink into a lot and I suppose I have the code for it lying around somewhere, but I never had a look at it. Once I have a long holiday, I'll try and see if I can put it in somehow.

 

[Trav_R]

Ah that sucks, that's a ton of information that I'm missing out on. Seems like it would be such a simple thing to redirect that text to a text file or something that can be accessed in-game. Oh well, thanks for the reply.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

The problem is that I don't think you can let the game write a file. Not as far as I know anyway. If that were possible, it'd be reasonably easy. You can press the pause button [P] every now and then to see what's written. I won't pretend that is a good solution though... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

 

[Trav_R]

I don't see how it would be difficult to print to a file as well as printing to the screen. Somewhere in the code is a single function that prints stuff up on that corner of the screen, all you'd have to do is add a couple lines of code that function. Open up a file for read/write access and fprintf to it anytime you printed to the screen. I could be wrong, it could be set up some other way, but my guess is it's set up with just a single function that any text that needs to be printed gets routed through.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

The problem is that I don't know of a way to make the game actually write a text-file. I don't think the game CAN create/edit files apart from the savegames and screenshots. If we knew how to do that, we could make the game put that text into a textfile. But I don't know if and how it should be possible. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

 

[kblack]

1) AFAIK, there isn't any instruccion in POTC similar to printf... so no way to write in a file

2) The screen logs are printed using "Log_SetStringToLog"... teoretically, you can add a "Trace" sentence after each one, with the same text... then you'll have the message also in file compile.log

 

[Trav_R]

I've never tried to mod a game, so I wasn't real sure how it was done. I assumed you guys were in there messing around with C, which is what I see in the program folders. Is it not C?

 

[kblack]

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I've never tried to mod a game, so I wasn't real sure how it was done. I assumed you guys were in there messing around with C, which is what I see in the program folders. Is it not C?
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It's "C like"

There isn't certain sentences, and others have a little different sintax.


Sources of info:
Keywords.c file in buildinfo folder
<a href="http://forum.piratesahoy.net/index.php?showtopic=318" target="_blank">http://forum.piratesahoy.net/index.php?showtopic=318</a>
<a href="http://robotsdontbleed.com/wacko/wakka.php?wakka=POTCwiki" target="_blank">http://robotsdontbleed.com/wacko/wakka.php?wakka=POTCwiki</a>

Luck

 

[Trav_R]

Hmm, I doubt I'll get into modding this game. I suppose it would look good on a resume if I made some important contribution to a game, but damnit I want to *play* games not work on them! I think if I got real heavy into the modding, it would take away from my enjoyment of the game, because I would see it just as a bunch of code instead of a cool game, know what I mean? Who knows, maybe someday, but I have enough work to do at work, I don't want to come home and then do more work. Home is game and beer time for this guy.

 

[kblack]

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Hmm, I doubt I'll get into modding this game. I suppose it would look good on a resume if I made some important contribution to a game, but damnit I want to *play* games not work on them! I think if I got real heavy into the modding, it would take away from my enjoyment of the game, because I would see it just as a bunch of code instead of a cool game, know what I mean? Who knows, maybe someday, but I have enough work to do at work, I don't want to come home and then do more work. Home is game and beer time for this guy.
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I understand you. Anyway, I've to confess that I enjoy both playing and coding. Coding it's refreshing from time to time...

... and, well, yes, sometimes I see the game as a (big and messy) bunch of code ;-)