Freelancer Mod Studio - 1.2

I got 3D editor key shortcuts to work. I used a minor workaround so that you have to click into the 3D editor before key presses are being registered which you usually do anyway.

Version 1.1.1 added special key shortcuts for the 3D editor including much improved walk-around/fly camera movement.

There are also several bug fixes and improvements in this version so be sure to check it out in the changelog!

I added the new key/mouse shortcuts and some nice workflow tricks to the FAQ to speed up your production:)

Download the latest version or use the updater in your Freelancer Mod Studio.
View the changelog
Really, read the FAQ!

Skotty. wrote:
To be honest, I really didn’t expect you would implement this

Thank you very much!

Sure, I hope you like it:) Although I think it is faster/easier to navigate using rotation around point, zoom, object focus, pan + orientation cube it also nice to fly around:)

Skotty. wrote:
For “Move camera up” Q or R is better than Space.

Hm not sure, you think so?

The gamer setup would obviously be WASD + space + shift (every finger above one button, middle finger above W+S) however shift alone does not work as it would interfere with other shift key/mouse bindings.

I was also thinking about arrow keys + page up/down but arrow keys also do not work due to limitations mentioned in a recent post.

Anyway I was indeed thinking about WASD+E(up)+Q(down) vs. WASD+SPACE(up)+E(down) but went for the SPACE version as you can use 4 fingers instead of 3 and move into multiple directions at the same time easier.

So I uploaded version 1.1.2 fixing the last few remaining minor bugs and it might very well be the last version if I don’t find any more issues.

Download, Changelog, FAQ, Source

I hope Freelancer Mod Studio served and continues to serve you well. Have fun)

NovaII wrote:
Great, thanks a lot for your work.
But one thing i’d be glad to see in mod studio - writing to related files when adding a base, like freelancer explorer, thats only reason why i have to combine these tools.
For example, when i create a gate in explorer - it adds end-gate automaticly, when i create a base in system - it automaticly creates all other entries in related files. That’d be an amazing addition.

I am sorry but this is by design. I always tried to design Freelancer Mod Studio very generic avoiding specific wizards that only work for very special things and the like.

Also Copy/Paste is usually good enough to do the same in almost the same time. Plus you always need to change it anyway even if things were created automatically for you.

Finally as StarTrader said, this is not something I have the time to do

I know that many people want an all-in-one modding application and I am one of them but it simply is not possible to do just for one person.

I hope that you can enjoy Freelancer Mod Studio none the less and build some cool systems or edit other ini files:)

FriendlyFire wrote:
One thing we’ve noticed which has been a little irritating is that any unrecognized parameter in an object’s block is stripped out on saving. This means we constantly need to re-add custom parameters when we use your tool.

I’ve modified it a bit in the past (thanks for sharing your sources!) but you could probably answer faster as to whether it’d be possible to keep all lines in a block regardless of whether they are recognized or not.

Yes that is under the known issues in the FAQ. Unfortunately it is not easy to change that behavior but maybe I can look into it in the future, no promises though.

The more direct, easier and suggested solution is to modify Template.xml in the directory of the .exe to include your preferred sections/entries within the ini files. This way Freelancer Mod Studio will also allow you to edit and work with them just like the vanilla ones. Though this will not work with entries which require custom sorting within a section - see first entry of known issues.

@sumanuti: Ignoring comments is actually the third entry in the known issues and is equally hard to solve. No workarounds exist for comments unfortunately.

FriendlyFire wrote:
Sounds good, I’ll give that a shot then!

Your program is definitely a breath of fresh air compared to FLE

Thanks, please let me know if that still isn’t enough to solve your issue:)

Also feel free to send me your modifications if you think they would be useful for someone else.