Disable Target Brackets, how?

[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