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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.

viper

Ye and it works but if you come with your mouse over such an ship the brackets appear thats my problem

Vital

try to increase max distance that a ship can be selected to – 100000000f in freelancer.exe, 0x1D15B8, 0x1D15B8 = square of max distance that a ship can be selected — change to 1000000000000 or 10000000000

surprisingly it kinda worked(as far as i remember), still can select ships, but no unselected brackets.

may be not true, but seemed to work.

Cannon

Some new hacks:

– 0x0F84->0x90E9 in freelancer.exe, 0x6AAF8, 0x6AAF8 = disable new player messages

– 0x0F84->0x90E9 in freelancer.exe, 0x6AF1E , 0x6AF1E = disable departing player messages

– Disable almost all hud elements. This is a horrible hack but hey it works. I’m sure someone could come up with a better hack for this but I got bored with tracing the code and cheated by overwriting the internal resource names.

In freelancer.exe: overwrite the byte at following addresses with 0x00

0x1D9368 = Disable lag icon
0x1D6E54 = Steering bar
0x1CB41C, 0x1CBCF8, 0x1CB3F8, 0x1CB3D4, 0x1CB3B0, 0x1CB38C, 0x1CB498 = Center top borders (but not buttons)
0x1CEB1C, 0x1CEB68, 0x1CEBB4, 0x1CEC08, 0x1CEC64, 0x1CECBC, 0x1CED0C, 0x1CED50, 0x1CED70, 0x1D8410, 0x1D81E0, 0x1D8204, 0x1D8228 = Right top buttons
0x1D7BFC, 0x1D7C04, 0x1D7D60, 0x1D7D90, 0x1D7DC0, 0x1D7DEC, 0x1D7E10, 0x1D7E70 = Center bottom - gauge borders & text
0x1D860C, 0x1D87E0, 0x1D8790, 0x1D8690, 0x1D86E0, 0x1D8668, 0x1D86C0, 0x1D86B8 =Right bottom - ship info - borders & text & icons
0x1D8CA8, 0x1D8C6C, 0x1D8C18, 0x1D8BE0, 0x1D8BA4, 0x1D8B6C, 0x1D8B34, 0x1D8AFC, 0x1D8AC4, 0x1D8A78, 0x1D8A3C, 0x1D8A0C, 0x1D89DC = Left botton - target info - borders & text & icons
0x1D9338, 0x1D9310, 0x1D92E8, 0x1D92C4, 0x1D92A0, 0x1D9278, 0x1D9250, 0x1D9224, 0x1D91F4, 0x1D91A4, 0x1D9184, 0x1D915C, 0x1D9134, 0x1D910C, 0x1D90E4, 0x1D90BC, 0x1D9094, 0x1D9068, 0x1D9538 = Targeting arrows
0x1D939C, 0x1D93D0, 0x1D9404 = Radiation and other misc items

M0tah

viper wrote:
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

The arrow is your selection - FL can’t display the selection brackets because they don’t display on NON_TARGETABLE types (which is what FL is being tricked into thinking everything is). Just don’t select anything until you need to dock and it’ll be fine.

viper

tnx for the answers
@Vital I test it but I still see brackets if the mouse goes over an unselected ship I want to remove the cursor completly so its an problem

@M0tah ok in this way it works but im searching for a way to have this effects but I want still be able to select one single ship to focus on it in an vid

@Cannon very nice for making vids :))

any Ideas to solve my problem ?

adoxa

Okay, give this one a try. In Freelancer.exe, offset 0xEC592, replace the five bytes 0xE8D9F9FFFF with 0x9090909090. That removes the function displaying the non-targetted brackets.

viper

IT works
I love You !!!

Azureus

Having managed to get widescreen resolution in Freelancer, I am looking for a way to edit the horizontal position of hud elements (the ones at the top middle and right and lower right middle and left for example).

I’m sure this has been asked before but I found information in the FL archive that says the positions of these elements are hardcoded into the exe, so I’m guessing this would be where offsets are required, does anyone have any information re: this?