Dev's Limit Breaking 101 Techniques

J.R.

FriendlyFire wrote:
You’re not using the No-CD EXE, are you?

Yes… although my Freelancer Version is a regular bought Version.
It doesn´t require a CD to play !!!
Strange that other offset-hacks worked fine …

Is there a way for you to find that offset in my version ?
If u don´t mind I would send it to you via e-mail…

Greetings

adoxa

I wouldn’t mind a copy, either, if that’s all right.

w0dk4

Here it is: ~

/edit:

We actually have it already in our download section, however it is marked as the no-cd patch. I’ve corrected the name and description since this is infact the original no-cd exe (coming from Microsoft/DA): http://the-starport.net/freelancer/download/singlefile.php?cid=1&lid=2649

adoxa

Ah, I see. That download is the never-protected exe; the offset FF supplied is for the cracked exe that still has the protection code (possibly he’s taken the memory offset, subtracted 0x400000 to make it a file offset, but it’s BSS data that’s not actually present in the file). Try this instead:

0x1628F4 Freelancer.exe 48->50 Filter out incompatible builds on server list by default

J.R.

Oh. the mighty adoxa !!!

Thx for the replys… everyone of u !!!

@adoxa: If u still want a copy of my offical german-no-cd.exe I´ll send it to u with best regards
BTW… LOTS of your dlls and hacks found place in my Mod and now I am glad to credit u in several IDS of it. Nice to see u mate !

I´ll try this hack and will report in later.

Thx again

FriendlyFire

@adoxa: Aye, we’re using the cracked EXE and apply all the hacks in memory, so I just found the offset that worked for that case scenario.

J.R.

Jipp… the hack works !
Thx again for your help folks. Was very confused about that issue…

Have a wonderful day everybody

starworld

Hello,
Is it possible to disable the update “Rank” by the money/ship/equipment, in MP?

robocop

So, I want to increase the amount of characters one can put into the chat box. Currently (default) it’s at 80 characters.
I find this in the wiki:
50b freelancer.exe 06A440 M0tah maximum number of characters in chat input box

The default entry at that offset is 50 which obviously doesn’t mean “50” as I can enter 80 characters in the chatbox now.

How does this work? And If I wanted to increase that number, how high could I go, and what would I change the offset to to get there?

Because it’s in freelancer.exe I’m assuming it’s a clientside thing? Am I incorrect in that assumption?

Thanks,
R

DirtyLittleGirl

robocop, 50b is a hexadecimal value. Use calculator to see that 50 in hex exactly equals 80 in decimal.

robocop

HA!
Got it.
Thx DLG

R

Oh…
umm…
What’s the maximum amount you can change it to? Also 127, or is there no real limit?

R

DirtyLittleGirl

Np
255 (FF), I guess.

robocop

Tried 160, didn’t work.
Tried 125, that did work.
I’m assuming that 127 is the maximum.

robocop

I’m able to send messages of 127 characters in length in system, private, and group chat.

But…
I can’t do it using universe chat (/u). I’m assuming something in FLServer.exe has to be changed in order for that to work.
Anyone have any idea what?

R

DwnUndr

127 is max, the Underverse has been using both hacks since they came out.

/u is FLAC, no hack for that yet. (I assume you still use FLAC)

toenailcheeseman

2A01
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0000 	freelancer.exe	 0EC288	 adoxa 	show aiming lead on all ships

Added to Wiki here

ngetal

Guys, as a newcomer I first have to thank you for this guide, very nice work!

I have 2 questions I would appreciate answers to:
From http://the-starport.net/freelancer/wiki/index.php/Limit_Breaking_101#Visibility I used the “quadruple existing LODranges” tweak. I would love to try out further increases (6x, 8x etc.) but I cannot figure out the structure of the numbers involved. Can you give me any hints regarding that?

Another one is something that would be nice to have. On this link http://www.lancersreactor.com/archive/viewtopic.php?p=918 I found a discussion about a freelook functionality that was in the beta. It would be extremely awesome to have but I found no mods or addons that enable this, maybe it’s hidden somewhere in the exe? Do you know anything about such a feature?

Thanks!

adoxa

freelancer.exe	002309	909090909090->D80D4B1A4700C3 = LODranges * 1.5
freelancer.exe	002309	909090909090->D80DB4555D00C3 = LODranges * 2
freelancer.exe	002309	909090909090->D80D284F5D00C3 = LODranges * 3
freelancer.exe	002309	909090909090->D80D9CFC5C00C3 = LODranges * 4
freelancer.exe	002309	909090909090->D80D64845D00C3 = LODranges * 5
freelancer.exe	002309	909090909090->D80D084F5D00C3 = LODranges * 6
freelancer.exe	002309	909090909090->D80D50885D00C3 = LODranges * 7
freelancer.exe	002309	909090909090->D80D54234400C3 = LODranges * 8
freelancer.exe	002389	83FE087D16->E87BFFFFFF = increase LODranges by one of above

```The numbers here are pointers to floating point values; the previous numbers were the code for the instruction to add a number to itself (so doing it once doubles and twice quadruples). I stopped at 8, because 9 doesn't exist, although slightly more mucking about will make it work. 8 is probably big enough, though.

As for a freelook, [Turret Zoom](http://freelancer.adoxa.vze.com/plugins.html#turretzoom) is probably the best you're going to get.

ngetal

Wow, thanks very much, I’ll try this Awesome hacking!

I’ll try turret zoom, although it’s not really what I was looking for. What I had in mind was something like when you are in mouse flight mode the camera would turn with the cursor to some extent so it would mimic the head movement of the pilot as they look at the point they are turning towards. I understand hacking this into a game that doesn’t support it would be near impossible

Anyway, thanks, and that’s a really nice mod collection you have on your site btw.

ngetal

Hmm interesting, at address 002309 I have 51 50 E8 B4 FF FF as data, not 909090909090. I’m wondering if any place in the file where there is 909090909090 would be a good choice?