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IrateRedKite

@Bolte with regards to patches like JFLP, the version absolutely matters as memory addresses are different. This could very well be the cause of @Timmy51m’s crashes here.

Raikkonen

I wonder if the problem is your save directory since you mentioned it crashes on dock. Perhaps OneDrive sync or anti virus or something is causing a file lock? There’s an option in the HD installer to change the save location.

IrateRedKite

Curious, I’ll hold off on adding this and see if I can’t replicate the crash on a pure vanilla install and get a faulting module this afternoon. At what point does the crash occur, presumably when attempting to spawn the NPC?

IrateRedKite

@josbyte I’ll add this to the wiki, but which dll file is the crash occurring in? My guess would be common.dll or freelancer.exe but I don’t have the time to replicate the crash at the moment

IrateRedKite

@CommanderArgelo said in Dropping a phantomloot cargo from an NPC:

@IrateRedKite Yeah, it’s very tricky. What I found out is that [PhantomLoot] is like a drop for everyone, everywhere, sort of like a Global drop.

Thinking about if, you could restrict the drops by toughness if you’re not dealing with too many NPCs.

On the FLHook stuff, once the plugin is rewritten for the new version, it’ll be available and open for anyone to use and is relatively straightforward to just set up and use. I’d quite like to make a client-side version of this as well, which will hopefully be made more straightforward by the upcoming FLUF project from @Laz, as I kind of want this stuff to work in singleplayer as well.

IrateRedKite

Lootprops and Phantomloot is a bit tricky, my understanding is [PhantomLoot] entries only kick in during missions.

We had a similar problem crop up working on BMOD and ended up writing an FLHook plugin specifically to handle this. However the merged version for 4.0 is a bit buggy at the moment and this is of course, multiplayer only. It’ll be rewritten and fixed for 5.0, but that might be a little way off.

IrateRedKite

Hi there, welcome to the Starport! All [ShieldGenerator] entries have their maximum capacity reduced by a percentage that’s defined in the offline_threshold key. By default in vanilla this is 0.15, which would account for your 850 shield value. I think this was probably going to be part of some other feature that got cut and was left in, as there doesn’t seem to be any reason for it in vanilla.

You can set this value to 0 to simply give shields the value they have in the inis ingame.

IrateRedKite

@JustNdrew HD Edition decodes the INI files so they can be modified, a lot like the 1.3 SDK. For the purposes of modding, they do the same thing, but HD Edition is newer and has some errors fixed.

In terms of tools, that’s all I use + a text editor to edit the INIs by hand. I use VS Code, but Notepad++ is quite popular. As the files are just exposed to modify, there’s no real need for special tools for things like factions and bases

IrateRedKite

@JustNdrew A modern toolkit (Generally what I’d use at the moment, YMMV), is as follows:

LancerEdit - For modifying models, working with UTFs, textures, etc
FL Mod Studio - Mostly for system editing
FLInfoCardIE - For adding/modifying infocards and text
Skotty’s ALE Editor - For creating and editing particle effects

For decompressed INIs to work on, 1.3b SDK works, but I prefer Freelancer HD Edition when I’m starting a new project now.

Most older tools do still work and are fine if you can figure them out! ones I’d avoid because they cause problems are Freelancer Explorer and the Milkshape model importer, but mostly everything else is fine to use if it works.

IrateRedKite

@maximilianps Copilot (and other LLMs) regularly output made-up or wrong information and for a niche topic like Freelancer, that already has a fair bit of poorly checked information out there anyway I’d probably end up having to rewrite whatever it generated. I’m quite happy working on the wiki as and when I find the time at the moment.

I’m generally opposed to using LLMs for anything at all, but that’s a topic for elsewhere and I don’t want to derail this thread!

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