Q3Offline Log Page
The log page contains settings that control game logging, and Q3Stats, the log statistics analysis program (also from ShellShock Enterprises).
Log File Settings
Game log file: The name of the log file. This is the file that the game will use to log its output, and is usually called games.log, in the main game folder (e.g., baseq3 for Quake III Arena). Q3Stats imports the log file to extract statistics, e.g., who fragged who, who capture the flag, who won a map, etc.
The Game log file setting is specific to each Q3Offline document.
Browse: Browse for the log file.
View: View the log file. This will display either the log file or the last back up Q3Stats made of the log file, i.e., the log file renamed with a .bak file extension. You can resize the view window to make it bigger.
Q3Stats Settings
The Q3Stats settings are global, and are shared across Q3Offline documents.
Enable Q3Stats: Tick to enable Q3Stats. You need to enable Q3Stats if you want to see game statistics or to use the Q3Offline Replay feature. After installing Q3Offline you must also run Q3Stats once standalone, so that it can register itself with Q3Offline.
When Q3Stats is ticked, the other Q3Stats options on the Log page are enabled, and the Play & Exit button on the button bar is replaced by Replay (see below).
With Q3Stats enabled, when you launch the game from Q3Offline using the Play button, and then exit from the game, Q3Offline will call Q3Stats to import the newly created log.
Q3Stats saves the statistics in a filename.q3s file, where filename is the same as the name of your Q3Offline .q3o file. For example, if your .q3o file is called q3a.q3o, then the statistics for this file will be stored in q3a.q3s, in the same directory.
Q3Offline also uses Q3Stats to find out which maps were played, and who won them. With this information, Q3Offline can support the Replay feature (see below).
Show Q3Stats: Tick to make Q3Stats visible. If this is not ticked, Q3Stats will run invisibly in the background. This can be useful if you are not interested in seeing statistics, but still want to use the Q3Offline Replay feature.
Ask before importing game log: If ticked, Q3Offline will ask you to confirm first before it imports the log.
Import mode: This determines how the game log is imported:
Automatically save Q3Stats file after importing game log: If ticked, then the changes to the statistics in the Q3Stats document will be automatically saved after importing a new log.
Create HTML statistics: If ticked, then whenever a game log is imported, a HTML file containing them will be created, which can then be viewed in a browser window (Note: this feature requires Internet Explorer 5 or greater). This means that statistics can be viewed without having to have a copy of Q3Stats installed.
There are actually three files which are created (all in the same directory as your Q3Offline .q3o document):
filename is the same as the file name of your .q3o file.
See Creating HTML Statistics for more details.
If you have problems viewing the statistics in your browser window, then you may need to update your installation of Microsoft's XML parser: Installing Microsoft's XML Parser.
Show HTML statistics: If ticked, then whenever the HTML statistics are created they will be automatically displayed in a browser window.
Automatically exit Q3Stats when Q3Offline exits: If ticked, then Q3Stats will exit when Q3Offline exits.
Replay lost maps: If ticked, then the replay feature will replay maps you lost in the last match, as well as maps you selected but did not play. If not ticked, then only maps you selected but did not play will be replayed. If you tick Replay lost maps, you must also enter your player's name.
Player name: If you tick Replay lost maps, you must also enter your player's name. Q3Offline needs your player's name so it can work out which maps you won in the last match, and which maps you lost and therefore will play again.
Replay
The Replay button appears on bottom button bar (instead of Play & Exit), if Enable Q3Stats is ticked.
The Replay button uses information provided by Q3Stats to replay the last match. You can choose either to play only those maps which you did not complete in the last match, or to replay maps which you lost in the last match, as well as maps which you did not complete. See the Replay lost maps option above.
If you played all the maps in the last match, then the Replay button acts the same as the Play button - you will play all the currently selected maps.
The replay feature only repeats the maps from the last match. Any other configuration options (e.g., game settings, bots, randomisation of skills etc) are taken from the current settings.