Coding

Yeah, nice founding. Will use it in special way, thanks 😜

robocop wrote:
duh… I completely brain-farted and overlooked the fact that if the volume is so large it can’t even be put into a hold, there’s no point in having it at all.

sorry for my worthless suggestion.

Don’t worry, neither I thought of that 🙂

It should probably be hammered home somehow that jflp is the better way to start a mod, not the old sdk 1.3.

Ok, I hope its so easy as you said, thanks again. I’ll test this one day and post the result.

Meanwhile, I saw by chance that after renaming a faction (its ids_name and/or ids_short_name), this changes become active instantly on the next game load, and without deleting restart.fl or starting new game. That mean the game read from InitialWorlds.ini all the time.

[EDIT]
It’s working! 😄 Huge Thank You!

Something… just curious, old Reastart.fl was 80 kb, the new one is 237 kb. Maybe the game copy some data inside from the rest saved *.fl files?

Well, now remain to find out why no one offer missions against Nomads 🙂 but maybe is a good idea to post this as new question, right?

No need for rush! You already made it possible!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qclrPaQZ3s0&feature=youtu.be
But, true that would be perfect.

PhysX is mainly used for breakable or tear-able meshes, what Freelancer uses is a basic form of Havok, wich is still used to this day for colision data interpretation… and still… to this day fails from time to time…

You know it by it’s signature… the “catapult collision” that’s when you blow up a bunch of bad guys, and find a few hanging about between the walls, sputtering and jumping but stuck.

At best… we could upgrade FL’s Havok, and probably hate ourselves for it in a dogfight… what we have now is just fine, mixing a few Plugins together and some code additions, One can seriously see/feel our physics at work, the space to work in is more than sufficient… trust me, it’s a serious “game changer” for both coder and player… and some cool WOW from us old timers used to basic Freelancer’s flight/weight model (ick… never again… lol).

In short, i agree with FF

all of the original ships have collision groups for their engines, so it is quite easy to make destructible engine (exhausts), although there are a couple of issues with ships that have other parts attached to the engines, e.g. the Valkyrie and the Hammerhead.

I think what he wanted to know was if it was possible to shoot and destroy the internal equipment item - engine/powerplant. it might be possible, but the equipment item would have to be mounted externally, you cant shoot anything exclusively inside the root of the sur without the ship blowing up first.

Goes with the territory. 😉

They are not invisible though. Nomad guns are a single tiny triangle and depending on your camera position and screen resolution one might just be able to see them.
You could make a degenerate polygon however (all vertices at same coordinates, for instance). Conventional rendering engines do not display them. Why’s effects pack should have one set up as a gun already.

Thanks, good to know.

idk about the zone shape “ring”, but I see enormous size differences and it may very well be, that the player testing wasn’t in the zone because it either is so narrow or the placing is so that the player couldn’t find a spot inside.
Of course, and I guess that is more likely, it maybe that you have a typo somewhere where you bound the music to the zone or in the music piece’s definition. Check out your Spew and maybe run FLScan or something over your modded game…

@mknote: If there are timing issues, iirc the spew will have something like```
E:\FL\Scratch\Source\Client\Gf\ScriptDeformable.cpp(12345) : TRACE_1:General:(null)

@Livsi: FLScan just makes it worse; better to use my patched FLEd_Thorn, which fixes it, or dethorn, which uses another method entirely.

No-one ever experienced this “bug” too ???

I voted FL2, nomads gone. So, they’re gone and years have passed. Things have got very quiet and the security forces have gotten sloppy. This has allowed an outcast or corsair incursion into Liberty space led by some elite general type who needs to be taken out, possibly with the help of the other faction as they both dislike each other. The Order too could help by supplying the Liberty forces with upgraded weaponry etc. put together from the nomad tech recovered in the battles of years ago etc. etc.

I think it was the nickname. Without using FLE I’d placed an asteroid field around NY’s sun and a base in it which was a copy of the Junkers’ Rochester base with some changes to commodities, equipment and a different ship. With this all seemingly working correctly I put those modifications into a folder and started using FLE to continue the mod, adding 4 systems with several bases, planets and fields. Then set about getting the Starblazer to work, getting the LSF able to fly ships and tweeking some items’ stats like getting slightly more speed from an advanced thruster.
What I had done though was copy the mbase entry for Rochester to my new li01_16 base, remembered to change the ids_names for everyone but forgot to change the li0113 bit to li0116 in the nickname.
Anyway, after finding this, I used FLE to change the properties of the base and copied the original NPCs over from Rochester, knowing FLE would change the nickname to suit and then changed the ids_name number to my own. Job done.
Such a small thing to give such a large headache!

THX mate.
Just downloaded it and cant wait to try it. 😄

Have a wonderful X-mas. Cheers.

THX mate. Goin´ to check this out…

P.S.:Nice to meet one of my BETA-Testers tho…
Hope u´re fine 🙂

cheers to u

Thanks a alot. I thougt it was much easier though, simply couple of .ini edits…

Noticed that mission weapon platform shoots non-mission weapon platform (!)

😄