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Legion

Found something here…

– 1.25f in freelancer.exe, 0x1C9804, 0x1C9804 = multiplier for distance at which brackets around non-targeted ships in space will appear (1.25 = ~3km, 37.5 = ~93km, etc)

I wanted to remove the brackets completely from no targetted ships, so I set this multiplier to 0, but that made the tractorbeam effect dissappear!

So this multiplier is used for more than one thing…

Does anyone know another way around to remove those brackets? I did see the hack below this one on the list, but I don’t want to remove all that!

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Remove the bracket images? Should be somewhere in the interface folders, I wouldn’t remove them though, instead, use alpha channels to hide them.

FriendlyFire

That’s the problem; those images apparently don’t exist. At least, nobody found them to my knowledge.

I’m believing they aren’t images, they’re actual meshes of some sort defined through VMeshRef and VMeshData.

adoxa

Re: Save in space

FL Hack can do that.

Re: Removing non-targetted brackets

Should be able to add that (change the pointer to the float, not the float itself).

Re: SP hooking

Is there a reason against playing multiplayer solo and using FLHook?

LancerSolurus

Brackets are in buttontextures.txm, it is a single corner that is mirrored using UV mapping…

adoxa

Turns out you were modifying the wrong value - you want 0.0004f at 0x1d954c in Freelancer.exe. That’s the reciprocal of the distance at which the brackets will be drawn. Change it to 1 (00 00 80 3F) and the brackets disappear. Alternatively, patch the code itself at 0xec1b3 (0x7A0A to 0x9090) to always succeed the below zero test.

Tunicle

I think the problem with changing this value is that asteroids and other things also start disappearing and winking out.

adoxa

The value I gave only seems to be used by the brackets (at least, that’s the only place my disassembly listing found it).

LancerSolurus

**I’ve been checking some of the values listed here, you need to verify the NPC spawning stuff, its incorrect for both unpatched and patched content.dll files, at least for the American version.

– 1775d in content.dll, 0x11AC80, 0x11BC80 = initial NPC max spawn distance in SP and MP (such as after respawn)

1.0 - 00 00 00 00
1.1 - 00 00 00 00**

foxUnit01

Checks out on my end, LS. Both 1.0 and 1.1 default content.dlls show a 1775d.

LancerSolurus

**Here is a snapshot of both files side by side in my hex editor

As you can see that isn’t the only one that isn’t there…
Both of these were installed yesterday directly from the CD, BTW this is the original CD that came out in 2003, not any of the new ones released after MS stopped selling them.**

LancerSolurus

**My mistake on the original one, I accidentally used the patched version, updated the pic to the correct files…

Left - Original, stuck in patched folder to make it easier to compare
Right - Patched version

In both the 11(a)(b)c80 is 00 00 00 00, could someone send me a copy of theirs so I can check it?**

LancerSolurus

Fox, are you using the original 1.1 or a modified version? I had another sent to me by FF and it is exactly like my version of content.dll…

OutCast

LS, double takes 8 bytes
1.0 1.1

OutCast

LS, double takes 8 bytes
1.0 1.1

LancerSolurus

**That is the missing key, thanks!

When I do doubles, its usually shortened to dbl, the way it was listed here looked like 1775 (d) decimal, maybe a legend in the first post will alleviate this misunderstanding.

Thanks again!**

viper

Anyone knows how to remove the brackets around non-targeted ships completely ?
Not only if you dont move with the mouse over them ^^
I mean to remove them complete out of the game.
It suxx a bit if you make a vid

M0tah

M0tah wrote:
Here’s a nice one for those who take videos.

0x0F85->0x90E9 in freelancer.exe, 0xED5B9 = remove HUD elements on objects in space - includes text, brackets, targeting reticles, and missile warnings

Should do it for you.

viper

with this Hack I always have an arrow rotating around my screen
And I’m not able anymore to klick on Ship to bring the focus on it

adoxa

I believe my earlier post tells you how to remove non-targetted brackets around ships.