Decoding factions

[Spartan]

Ok I’ve had got a mod, I didn’t make it the original developer left it for me to carry on. In trying to understand his programming I’m working on figuring out the reps. I’ve narrowed down almost all the vanilla reps, but figuring out which of the custom factions is which is driving me nuts. Is there a tool or something that will tell me which is which?

[Forsaken]

look in the downloads for the freelancer misc database. Its an excel file which shows you the nicknames for all of the vanilla factions. Also, I think adoxa has something like that on his website. That might be worth taking a look at too.

At any rate, I wish you the best of luck on finishing up the mod.

[FriendlyFire]

Since you’re specifically speaking of custom factions (eh, griff? ), your best bet is to use a tool such as FLDev to read the IDS names defined in initialworld.ini. When you open FLDev, put the path to the Freelancer.ini file your mod is using, then go in the DLL Editor tab and type the number for the “ids_name” parameter in the small textbox in the Editor group. If everything’s configured properly, the name of that faction should appear below.

[Spartan]

alright that gets the rest of the vanilla ones out of my hair thank god. now just gotta figure out the 20 or so custom factions… any hints?

sorry didn’t see your post at first ff thanx I’ll try that

[adoxa]

If you don’t mind using the command line, my CreateID/WhatIs combination can translate to and from nicknames and names. CreateID will scan all your data files and create a database; WhatIs will search the database for matching names or nicknames. For example, assuming the mod is using the standard faction naming convention of ending with “_grp”:

rem create the database
createid -sd
rem list all the factions
whatis -sn _grp
       552      ku_p_grp        Kusari State Police (Police)
      2620      fc_uk_grp
      2626      gd_bh_grp       Bounty Hunters Guild (Bounty Hunters)
      2745      gd_z_grp        Zoners (Zoners)
      3142      co_rs_grp       Republican Shipping (Republican)
      3612      br_p_grp        Bretonia Police (Police)
      3775      fc_or_grp       The Order (Order)
      6233      co_shi_grp      Samura Industries (Samura)
      7171      fc_ln_grp       Liberty Navy (Navy)
      8778      li_n_grp        Liberty Navy (Navy)
     11816      fc_f_grp        Fugitive (Fugitive)
     13046      fc_h_grp        Hogosha (Hogosha)
     14998      fc_q_grp        Quintaine's Men (Q's Men)
     15981      co_ss_grp       Universal Shipping (Universal)
     18174      co_khc_grp      Daumann Heavy Construction (Daumann)
     18535      fc_m_grp        Mollys (Mollys)
     19485      fc_lh_grp       Lane Hackers (Hackers)
     21524      co_vr_grp       Ageira Technologies (Ageira)
     21689      fc_c_grp        Corsairs (Corsairs)
     23638      rh_m_grp        Kruger Minerals (Kruger)
     25320      fc_n_grp        Nomads (Nomads)
     26342      co_be_grp       Border World Exports (Bowex)
     26838      co_alg_grp      ALG Waste Disposal (ALG)
     28402      fc_lr_grp       Liberty Rogues (Rogues)
     29216      fc_fa_grp       Farmers Alliance (Alliance)
     30347      co_hsp_grp      Cryer Pharmaceuticals (Cryer)
     30425      rh_n_grp        Rheinland Military (Military)
     32354      co_me_grp       Deep Space Engineering (DSE)
     33711      li_p_grp        Liberty Police, Inc. (Police)
     34166      br_m_grp        BMM (BMM)
     36789      co_ic_grp       Interspace Commerce (Interspace)
     36813      fc_x_grp        Xenos (Xenos)
     37663      fc_gc_grp       Golden Chrysanthemums (GC)
     41274      fc_lwb_grp      LWB (LWB)
     41933      ku_n_grp        Kusari Naval Forces (Naval Forces)
     42810      fc_ou_grp       Outcasts (Outcasts)
     43384      fc_bd_grp       Blood Dragons (Dragons)
     44322      fc_b_grp        Bundschuh (Bundschuh)
     45049      br_n_grp        Bretonia Armed Forces (Armed Forces)
     45353      fc_rn_grp       Rheinland Military (Military)
     47419      co_nws_grp      Gateway Shipping (Gateway)
     47516      fc_u_grp        Unioners (Unioners)
     49441      co_os_grp       Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines (Spa and Cruise)
     51565      co_kt_grp       Kishiro Technologies (Kishiro)
     51614      gd_im_grp       Independent Miners Guild (IMG)
     53733      co_ni_grp       Synth Foods, Inc. (Synth Foods)
     55100      rh_p_grp        Rheinland Police (Police)
     55219      fc_g_grp        Gaians (Gaians)
     56582      co_ti_grp       Planetform, Inc. (Planetform)
     56711      fc_kn_grp       Kusari Naval Forces (Naval Forces)
     57102      fc_ouk_grp      Kress' Men (Kress)
     57655      fc_rh_grp       Red Hessians (Hessians)
     57826      fc_j_grp        Junkers (Junkers)
     58161      gd_gm_grp       Gas Miners Guild (GMG)
     65354      li_lsf_grp      Liberty Security Force (LSF)
...

[Spartan]

wow that like totally rocks man thanks alot I already see lots of possiblities for that program. took me 2 minutes instead of 2 days lol.

[StarTrader]

One note for you in case you are not so familiar yet - fc_uk_grp is the “unknown” faction, deliberately blank so there is nothing displayed next to the name when you target the ship.

[adoxa]

I made use of its blank name and neutrality for Hostile Universe’s Hyperspace jump gates, since the reputation line is needed to show the proper name.