Hi, this must sound really noobish, but i've never logged before, and never really wanted to, but I can see it could be useful, how do you guys do it? Do you have MUD clients with a logging ability? There have been some seens i'd really like to record, but havn't able to because I don't no or have anything which will let me do so :(
Generally your client has some manner of logging capability. As for specifics and techniques, you can probably find some in the archives.
I've been meaning for a while now to make a logging macro that kicks in after the mantis-head and includes the date and character name.
Cheers.. I only had a really old MUD client which I hadnt updated for ages, just downloaded a new one, thanks.
If you set your scrollback far enough, you don't really HAVE to log a whole session just to save the scene. You can scroll up - hold your mouse over the first line, scroll down to the end, which will highlight all the text. While your mouse is held down with your right hand, do CTRL-C with your left hand. Some clients automatically UNhighlight you if you let go of the mouse so keep it held, it's good practice anyway :)
That will copy everything highlighted to clipboard. Then open notepad or word or whatever other text thing you want to use, and CTRL-V to paste everything copied back out again.
It's really just 2 very easy steps: COPY/PASTE
Real men log with a pencil and notepad.
Quote from: Yam on July 16, 2008, 05:11:14 PM
Real men log with a pencil and notepad.
Real men have better things to do with their time.
Like NASCAR.
I use an axe.
Quote from: Tisiphone on July 16, 2008, 02:18:25 PM
Generally your client has some manner of logging capability. As for specifics and techniques, you can probably find some in the archives.
I've been meaning for a while now to make a logging macro that kicks in after the mantis-head and includes the date and character name.
Mine's set on a trigger for Welcome to the world of Zalanthas! (which is after the mantis head) and it records the date/time. For character name... that's all in the text file name itself.
I adopt five year olds and force them to remember everything. One child for every two hours of gameplay.
Quote from: Qzzrbl on July 16, 2008, 07:49:29 PM
I adopt five year olds and force them to remember everything. One child for every two hours of gameplay.
You are the Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt of Arm. Well, I guess just the Brad Pitt part, but the version of him after he got with her.
Quote from: Mood on July 16, 2008, 06:49:34 PM
I use an axe.
Me too. On Arm I usually forget to log.
:D Man you guys come up with some funny stuff considering this post wasn't ment to attract any -at all-
I used to use the log function on Gmud...now I just copy and paste chunks into notepad as I go.
Means that if I get -really- enthralled, I might miss the end of a log, but it means I can vaguely edit out the junk (craft spams, local echo, barrier spams, everyone else talking...*coughs*) as I go.
I use atlantis, which is a client for mac os x.
It has a HUGE scrollback buffer. So I don't log anything, I just play.
If something interesting or buggy or dumb happens that I need proof of, I just tell it to log all scroll back and save to a file, then it logs scrollback and any other text, it's very nice.
I used to log every session, it adds up quick.. most of my logs are .rtf format are are at least 1MB in size.
Quote from: cyberpatrol_735 on July 17, 2008, 06:24:04 PM
most of my logs are .rtf format
This strikes me as very silly.
I always mess up logs cause of zMud. There should be a way to Save Buffer and Append to Log in one step. I always miss some stuff in between my buffer and when I started appending.
I automatically log every session in a notepad doc. Doesn't take up too much space, generally.
download mushclient and refer to this thread:
http://www.zalanthas.org/gdb/index.php/topic,32281.msg377239.html#msg377239
Portal has a 'log incoming text to file' option. The boring part is editing out the movement spam so it gets down to the good parts. But if I try to manually log, I miss stuff, so ah well.
Almost never and I regret it.