Conventional Modding

Yeah, so if I ever meet you in RL, I owe you a drink 😉 Thanks bud! All working.

… ok … don’t drink + post.

Hey that’s good to hear! I’m glad it worked out for ya man.

Stop teasing me! 😄

Hehe. Anything you would be willing to share would be awesome mate. My email box is always open if all else fails, haha! It’s not for anything big. Just something that would add a little more originality to the game is all 😉

I figured I’d mention that locked_gate can be used on any solar object, including stations. This is a great way to make a generic npc-only base that is defined in any system (players crash upon entering/exiting a base not defined for just that system), for things like catering to cargo-scan patrol paths (which must start and end at a faction base), etc.

Also, I’ve been using locked_gate lines for a while now, and it seems like MP characters are updated to the new locked_gate entries as soon as they log in, even if some are deleted. I don’t know about SP saves though, as those are an entirely different beast.

I’ll probably have to take you up on that offer. Thanks again for the help. I appreciate it.

thx for help but i didnt had luck yet to change that lol i am still checking 🙂

Well, I’m not sure Aargh is correct about the numerical order thing…

I have two scripts. One is named 0210_shiparch_1 and the second is named 0210_shiparch_2. The second one modifies stuff that’s modified in the first. It fails though because apparently the first script isn’t run yet.

Is my naming convention OK?

follow up edit:
Yeah, I’m going to have to say that so far numerical order does nothing when it comes to the order in which the scripts are run.

For example, 0210_market_ships.xml does NOT seem to run before 0220_market_ships.xml and 0210_shiparch_1.xml does NOT run before 0210_shiparch_2.xml.

Changing the names to something like 0210_A_shiparch.xml and 0210_B_shiparch.xml also does not work.
Can anyone steer me straight?

Thanks in advance.

R

Anytime mate 😉

oh ok maybe because i used fl explorer maybe thats what caused the crashes

do you have in your missions folder lootprops ini
download this file its zipped loot props ini its from the order mod i made this along time ago mace supplied the original loot props ini and from tutorials i made it better
http://home.comcast.net/~rsabatino20/LootProps.zip download from my web site
http://home.comcast.net/~rsabatino20/RMLootInfo.zip these two are the one two punch all based on vanilla freelancer

@Vital:

Get yourself “trying to understand encounters” tutorial by Buck Danny. It has to be in tutorial downloads section.

YUP - that’s the one i was talking about.

@StarTrader:

Has / Can anyone crack the .dfm format so we can create new heads / faces?

I would like some Kilrathi heads. ;D

If it has it been done already, can I get a copy?  😛

The new UTF editor can do this.

Here if you don’t have it
http://the-starport.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=90&Itemid=43

If you don’t know with what to open a file open it with notepad and look at the encoding on the top e.g. UTF, then use the program you normaly use to open the files of that type.

I use Notepad++
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net

@FriendlyFire:

Have you asked for access here? http://the-starport.net/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=33.0

If not, then go ahead and we’ll work on that. If you did, then we must have missed you, sorry.

Just tell me and I’ll go ahead and take a look at the situation.

Hi, FriendlyFire, im here……
http://the-starport.net/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=33.msg5205#msg5205

😉

Locked this topic as there will be a sepperate section made for this topic on this forum.

I think you understand why.

hmm, i see wht ur probs with the hamachi network server, it hangs each second…and i think it has to do with all the view range and the number of NPCs being loaded 2 times

thx

the exec has already been changed to be the order. this was my original mod i used to run on my server . i decided to make it single player because some people in my forums wanted to play the mods even though the server is gone. so i picked one of the more stable versions and made it single player. besides the file in the exec folder is for multi player on servers. ok now i see what you mean but its not compressed do you know how to make the file look normal?

well i thought it might be flac, but flac doesnt issue the warnings with .\UserData.cpp(1493) The Flac errors start with a different prefix.

I’ll contact eagle as well just in case