Disable Target Brackets, how?

Tunicle

@Cold_Void:

if you just want to play without target brackets you can open buttontextures.ini and delete/disable the tex_shapes HUD_targetingelement, and HUD_talkelement.

Bejaymac provided a relatively no hassle way by digging Cold Voids post out of the archive, it takes 30 seconds to do, less if you know exactly where the ini is first

The side effect is that you lose the targetting “arrow” when player leaves FoV and you just see the targetted shield/hull bars. (at least that happens on WS, not tried normal)

FriendlyFire

@FriendlyFire:

Aren’t those the expanded elements though?

And that’s what I replied. This method is NOT the same thing! Here’s an image that explains it:

Look carefully; that is with the buttontextures.ini hack applied. What this does is make the EXPANDED brackets disappear. The unselected brackets are still there! I know this hack, but it only touches the expanded brackets (as in, the brackets around a ship you have selected). I have not found the “unselected” brackets in any of the CMPs, therefore I ask again:

Does anyone have ANOTHER solution? Please actually read the issue before suggesting fixes $:-\$

crashbx

What about removing players names until you target on player, same like npc, that name of player in multiplayer is not shown until u target it.
Anybody knows how to do that ?

Tunicle

Slapped hand for Tunicle

crashbx

Could anyone please tell me how to get rid of name above player ship when it gets close ?

darthmop1

yes this would be good too, i try to find something, if i have luck i will post immediatelly

w0dk4

in fonts.ini

[trueType]
nickname = PlayerName

rename the nickname to something else or delete it, that will get rid of player names.
But note, I think Freelancer crashes if you have the scanner open (where you see the list of players in range), at least that happened to me a few mins ago

darthmop1

okay, whata bout changing the fonts?

if you create a new blank font for windows`and replace the name in that ini file with the new blank?
could this work? only a guess
i will try

w0dk4

yes, that works as well, even better
Just tried it myself

Alternative:

download http://www.angelfire.com/pr/pgpf/if.html invisible font and replace the arial font with “invisible”

darthmop1

yes i also tested it with sucess, this is great
and thanks for the link so we got this whole thing nearyl solved now only the
brackets without hacking is missing

w0dk4

@darthmop1:

yes i also tested it with sucess, this is great
and thanks for the link so we got this whole thing nearyl solved now only the
brackets without hacking is missing

the problem is that 1.25 float value is a shared value, its used a lot in different calculations regarding asteroid fields…

I’ll try and find another hack that does not have that issue…

FriendlyFire

Other option would be to change all references to that address except the HUD one, but that can get pretty complicated ;D

w0dk4

I found a single offset to deactivate the brackets, but there still is the problem when hovering over a target, there is a hover-target-box over the ship which isnt nice at all… (the yellow blinking one)

foxUnit01

w0dk4, would you mind posting this in the 101 topic? I’ll add it to the list (there’s a few others there I need to add as well). Thanks. =D

On a side note, any ideas on the edge-of-screen brackets?

(also, the yellow blinking one appears even if that multiplier is set to 0 - thus, this will still be better)

w0dk4

lol, ok after digging for a hardcoded offset for an hour, I found out that those brackets are not hardcoded, but they are dependent on the scanner range (which is 2500 as a standard)…

So just mod your scanner to a very low scanning range (like 1), this will get rid of those brackets.

crashbx

@w0dk4:

yes, that works as well, even better
Just tried it myself

Alternative:

download http://www.angelfire.com/pr/pgpf/if.html invisible font and replace the arial font with “invisible”

cool that worked but problem is it also get rid of playername when you expand target bracket is it somehow possible that names are seen on scanner and when you expand target a player ?

About scanner range in which file you can change this scanner distance ? sory for noob questions i am still new about modding xD

w0dk4

scanner range -> misc_equip.ini

the offset hack for the brackets is in FL.exe at
0x00EC19C
Change the 4byte value of 04985C00 to 68A15C00

/edit

this will make the brackets invisible at pretty much all distances

darthmop1

there is one final thing i would like to get rid of,

the small crosshair of hostile unselected ships,
don’t know yet if it’s a File or a EXE hack,

i guess it’s hack, my Interface folder has no files that would fit to it, or i’m totally wrong XD