Increasing chatlog?

**Purchase a copy of IDA and you can find down stuff like that , it’s how I figured out the ALE format…

You can even run the server in debug mode using that program.**

But how easy is it to use… for someone relatively non familiar with understanding this sort of thing?

IDA, I figured out applying the offsets a while back.

**Learning to use IDA will require you to get a reference book on assembly. At first it won’t be easy at all but it is like any other language, you will get the feel for it after awhile. One nice thing about it is that it will set up links between each routine and also it will expand and comment certain stuff you would never see with a hex editor.

If you are unable to learn assembly, unfortunately it won’t do you a whole lot of good… one other thing, it isn’t cheap.**

I use IDA free (the free version) - is the commercial one much better?

Another thing that i’d say you should know is PE (portable executable) file format and the way system loads these files into memory when executing.

Hex-rays ;D ;D

@Bas:

Eh M0tah…I have the feeling you created a list by yourself, could you share it with us? ;D

The only other offsets I have indexed are some for the right HUD panel with the weapon controls as part of a project I was working on to adapt the HUD to widescreen monitors.
Those three I posted before weren’t on a list or anything before viper asked if they existed.

Looks like the max number of characters in the chat box is also a signed byte then, with negative values interpreted as no limit.

M0tah, since you’re a hex god now ;D may be you can find something to decrease number of chat lines shown on-screen (when chat window is closed), or to decrease time interval these lines stay on screen…
::)

I found both. They were right next to the offset for the max number of lines in the history window :P.

10000i in freelancer.exe, 0x691ca = time in milliseconds chat text is displayed before disappearing
0x20 in freelancer.exe, 0x691cf = maximum number of chat lines displayed at once -1

It should be for the chat at the left of the screen. I tested it by setting it to 0x02 and 0x00 and it would only show 3 lines and 1 line respectively. So I’m pretty sure it’s right.

EDIT: What may be happening is not all 32 of those lines are actually shown when the chat seems to fill up the entire portion of the left screen section - the size of the actual text box might be smaller.

0x20 in freelancer.exe, 0x691cf = maximum number of chat lines displayed at once -1
works but only to reduce chatlines… if you ingrease you get this:

bet other question is there also an value for chatcolor ?
Or other Colors in FL ?

Thanks, M0tah. Some players were speaking of distracting console chat messages, player deaths etc etc, and finally there’s a solution

@viper:

0x20 in freelancer.exe, 0x691cf = maximum number of chat lines displayed at once -1
works but only to reduce chatlines…

Yeah, I think the size of the textbox needs to be increased to be able to increase the limit, which requires another offset.

@viper:

bet other question is there also an value for chatcolor ?
Or other Colors in FL ?

The chat colors are controlled server-side. If you have FLHook you can change them with some modifications to the source code in HkCbChat.cpp.

Hm can you find out the position adress of this Chattextfield ?