Conventional Modding

Exactly what Skotty said…

Not sure if this helps further?

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?post_id=45907#forumpost45907

fixed I got it to work

I’ve been looking for solutions and eventually realized that in voices_male.ini, addins the minus after the “msg” entry is important. I solved it by renaming it to “gcs_refer_system_EW07-” in both the .ini and the .utf.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/glancer/videos/custom-voice-entry-test

Thanks for the quick help! Had to muck with the .ini files a little bit (I had to copy-modify-delete-replace because they would’t save within the EXE directory) and got lucky finding hudshift.dll in the plugins, but now everything seems to be working great at 1920X1080.

Thanks again!

That’s the info i was after, thx. There’s a lot of work there if i do this, as i’d need to make a load of custom sound files. I’ll see how i feel about this after i’ve done some more coding lol

Freelancer.exe 166571 04->00 = grey out "MULTIPLAYER" menu button ~adoxa ```If you want to do it programmatically, you could dynamically patch the above (at 0x566571 of course), or *(int*)0x67BA50 ^= 1 to disable/toggle it and *(DWORD*)0x67BAB0 = 0xAABBGGRR to change the color (disabled color @ 0x67BAC0). (It's not normally how you'd disable a button, but this one is on a timer, which is what the patch modifies.)

Appreciate the help 🙂

You already got excellent advice. Here’s my take on it (for waht it’s worth, as I never completed a major project or even uploaded anything.)

Gather all the tools, utilities etc. and all of Adoxa’s hacks.

Take notes: copy important how-to’s (like there are many on this forum) into .txt documents

And Indeed, make multiple backups:

of your own work: make a backup before every major change (and note what change it’ll be, not unlike how you make system restore points in Windows)

of all the tools and utilities you download

of your notes documents

CK256 wrote:

Info cards I would strongly suggest you do these as you build the mod and not leave them till last, trust me in large quantities they will be a pain!!! my preferred program FL Developer

Now with Adoxa’s Names plugin, it is possible to entirely render all the infocards, including those for factions, nebulas & asteroid zones, and dockable bases, in the XML files (the last was already possible and is unrelated to Names). However, this is only works (for me at least) in FLMM 1.4 beta 4, which seems to be generally regarded as unstable (I think this is because uninstalling a mod sometimes leaves behind files — which is not a big problem to me as I do I clean install every now and then).

This mean that you can write all the infocards ‘on the spot’ (bases of course require two entries: one in the Star System .ini and one in Universe.ini).

I had the same problem, and I noticed that it was related to the size of the 3D object.

A large object = distance from the ship 0M A small object = distance from the ship ~ 600M

He was on break the first time, hehe.

NOTE I must stress that I am not actually aspiring to add totally new voices, but expanding the existing voices!

My first post would suggest otherwise; I apologize for the confusion.

@ Starworld: Thanx!

Actually what I forgot is that modding factions should be preferably watched in MP! I’m accustomed to use OpenSP but of course that’s not the same.

ERROR:General: StreamingSound: missing MP3 codec?

Those can be removed with MP3 Codec.

WARNING: Failed to get start location

That always happens for single-player games, which is how FL starts.

Moonhead wrote:
Btw: is there some handy ‘xml to dll’ method, so that I can just convert a text document into a dll that Freelancer can read?

If you don’t mind the command line, FRC might fit the bill. It can go both ways, so you can convert your existing DLLs to FRC, edit them, then can convert them back. FRC’s format is a lot nicer than raw XML (having FLMM use it was the last thing I was going to do…). As a quick example, the FRC info string Battleship \i{Osiris}. will generate the XML (separate lines only for clarity):

<rdl><push><text>Battleship</text> <tra italic="true"><text>Osiris</text> <tra italic="false"><text>.</text> <para></para></tra></tra></push></rdl>

It looks like the Restart.fl was the problem, once I deleted it the changes in the other two files were applied in the activated game :).

Thanks to everyone for all the help (and back to Notepad++ for me LOL)

You could try adding an explosion code block to the weapon_equip listing, the one below has an explosion code block so it produces a large explosion effect on impact (style over content I suppose :))
You could increase the explosion damage levels and radius to suitable levels.

[Explosion]
nickname = GAU35_explosion
effect = ku_mine01_blast25
lifetime = 0.000000, 0.000000
process = disappear
strength = 10
radius = 1
hull_damage = 20
energy_damage = 0
impulse = 0

[Munition]
nickname = GAU35_ammo
hp_type = hp_gun
explosion_arch = GAU35_explosion
requires_ammo = false
hit_pts = 2
hull_damage = 300
energy_damage = 50
weapon_type = W_Pulse01
one_shot_sound = fire_laser1
munition_hit_effect = ci_pulse_04_impact
const_effect = ci_pulse_02_proj
lifetime = 1.200000
force_gun_ori = false
mass = 1
volume = 0.000100

[Gun]
nickname = GAU35
ids_name = 463203
ids_info = 463202
DA_archetype = equipment\models\weapons\br_mass_driver.cmp
material_library = equipment\models\br_equip.mat
HP_child = HPConnect
hit_pts = 6000
explosion_resistance = 1.000000
debris_type = debris_normal
parent_impulse = 20
child_impulse = 80
volume = 0.000000
mass = 10
hp_gun_type = hp_gun_special_1
damage_per_fire = 0
power_usage = 85
refire_delay = 0.140000
muzzle_velocity = 650
use_animation = Sc_fire
toughness = 1.000000
flash_particle_name = ci_laser_04_flash
flash_radius = 10
light_anim = l_gun01_flash
projectile_archetype = GAU35_ammo
separation_explosion = sever_debris
auto_turret = false
turn_rate = 90
lootable = true
LODranges = 0, 20, 60, 100

Another possibility is a missile-gun, essentially when the missile motor burns out the munition explodes, this is intended to produce a flak barrage

[Motor]
nickname = li_battleship_flak_turret01_motor
lifetime = 1
accel = 166.666702
delay = 0

[Explosion]
nickname = li_battleship_flak_turret01_explosion
effect = li_flakcannon01_impact
lifetime = 0.000000, 0.000000
process = disappear
strength = 100
radius = 16
hull_damage = 10.000000
energy_damage = 0
impulse = 0

[Munition]
nickname = li_battleship_flak_turret01_ammo
explosion_arch = li_battleship_flak_turret01_explosion
hp_type = hp_gun
requires_ammo = false
hit_pts = 2
one_shot_sound = fire_capship
detonation_dist = 4
lifetime = 5
Motor = li_battleship_flak_turret01_motor
force_gun_ori = false
const_effect = li_flakcannon01_proj
HP_trail_parent = HPExhaust
seeker = DUMB
DA_archetype = equipment\models\weapons\li_rad_missile.3db
material_library = equipment\models\li_equip.mat
mass = 1
volume = 0.000100

[Gun]
nickname = li_battleship_flak_turret01
ids_name = 263383
ids_info = 264383
DA_archetype = equipment\models\turret\li_turret04b.cmp
material_library = equipment\models\li_turret.mat
HP_child = HPConnect
hit_pts = 4800
explosion_resistance = 1.000000
debris_type = debris_turret_small
parent_impulse = 20
child_impulse = 80
volume = 50.000000
mass = 10
hp_gun_type = hp_turret_special_6
damage_per_fire = 0
power_usage = 0
refire_delay = 0.142857
muzzle_velocity = 83.300003
toughness = 1.600000
flash_particle_name = li_flakcannon01_flash
flash_radius = 15
light_anim = l_gun01_flash
projectile_archetype = li_battleship_flak_turret01_ammo
separation_explosion = sever_debris
auto_turret = true
turn_rate = 90
lootable = false
dispersion_angle = 5

[LOD]
obj = Root
LODranges = 0, 450

[LOD]
obj = barrel
LODranges = 0, 500

Well I sort of sorted the problem out. I pasted the ids into the info card sections in the dll and ran the game making note of which number showed up in the erroneous id. Then changed the dll entry to match the weapon id. It worked, and i’m not frustrated anymore. I would still like to figure out why it’s using ids that are not even associated with the weapon in the ini files tho. It’s like this mod has a mind of it’s own.

Well thanks fellas. I had just downloaded the hitbox help package yesterday and it had the FL model tool in it. As old as the privateer mod is it’s probably like you said, older cmp exporter problem. I just opened it and saved it and it fixed the glitch. So I appreciate the help. I’m sure I’ll be back with more problems soon. At least I get to play Privateer while debugging it, heheh. I’ve already fixed a number of bugs in it. Achilles and Hector in Troy system are now dockable with ship/gear/commodities sales and missions/news in the bars. I’ve also been adding asteroid billboards and bands to relevant asteroid fields. Having asteroid fields that just appear out of nowhere bothered me when I’m playing this mod. But anyway, thanks fer the help.