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The log page contains settings that control Quake III Arena logging, and Q3Stats, the log statistics analysis program (also from ShellShock Enterprises).

Quake III Arena Settings

Game log file: The name of the Quake III Arena log file. This is the file that Quake III Arena will use to log its output. 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 Quake III Arena log file.

View: View the Quake III Arena 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 Quake III Arena from Q3Offline using the Play button, and then exit from Quake III Arena, Q3Offline will call Q3Stats to import the newly created log.

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.

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.

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.