Freelancer Mod Studio - 1.2

stfx wrote: However this would require rewriting massive amount of code and there would also need to be some good/free WPF controls to replace the docking panels, property grid and listview which I have not found yet. So yea keyboard camera movement is pretty unlikely to happen due to the big amount of work it would require.

Oh well. In that case it’s of course no need to change the whole code just because of my personal preference
I am sure this is another point where the programmer gets more experience and knows what to consider in the next program (I know that feeling)

Excellent step stfx

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

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

To be honest, I really didn’t expect you would implement this

Thank you very much!

stfx wrote:

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

Hm not sure, you think so?

I didn’t write that starworld did.

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.

Ok.

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.

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.

… and about 6 years’ work for one person! lol

FL Explorer was the work of 3 guys over 2 years, or the other way round, if I remember correctly?

Anyway it’s still fun (sometimes) using 10+ tools to make a new mod!

STFX: Fabulous, thank you very much for your work. If there was anything you would add, what would it be? Just to know.

StarTrader wrote:
FL Explorer was the work of 3 guys over 2 years, or the other way round, if I remember correctly?
Anyway it’s still fun (sometimes) using 10+ tools to make a new mod!

Don’t know who made this tool, but it’s too old for fresh demands i think, and Mod Studio is good replacement. But it’s useful feautures should fit Mod Studio well.

I don’t see any fun in this… CRC calculators, ALE converter without preview, tons of ini’s opened, fled-ids + Restorator, MS3D, Max, HardCMP, UTF Editor, DSAM, Excel… etc etc. Maybe it may be fun first time, but not as day-to-day work on my stuff…

Hum, I use :

CRC calculators -> CRCTool
ALE converter -> Freelancer XML Project
tons of ini’s opened -> Notepad++
fled-ids + Restorator -> Freelancer Developer, Resource Hacker (freeware)
HardCMP, UTF Editor -> UTFEditor
DSAM -> is not modding tool

Each software has a specialty.
A multifunction software is not necessarily best.

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.

@FriendlyFire - Very true! I just need to have a copy on working ini with all commented out stuff.
Please, enable the program to leave them there if possible.

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

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

It’s taken me a while to actually find back the source and merge it with the latest version but I do have a series of modifications that I could hand over.

Be warned though… I’m really not proud of how hacky they are

I’ve done the following changes (some are personal preference, others new things):
-Allowed mouse look to work while moving the camera with WASD
-Reversed right mouse and ALT+left mouse mouse look
-Holding SHIFT while moving with WASD will increase the step by 10x, which makes movement faster
-Added granular object move keys: anything currently selected can be moved or rotated using the numpad. Various modifier key combinations can be used to increase or decrease the step size. This works while the focus is either in the system editor or the table editor.
-Added drop-downs for archetypes and loadouts, which are determined by scraping the solararch.ini and loadouts.ini files. I’ve made it such that it’ll work as a somewhat “autocomplete”, only showing archetypes which match what’s written in the archetype box at the moment (so “planet_” written in the box will only return archetypes starting with “planet_” ). Furthermore, loadouts are filtered such that only loadouts associated with the current archetype are displayed.
-A few misc bug fixes and workarounds.

I’ll send you a patch file momentarily. Do with it as you will