Freelancer Mod Studio - 1.2

FriendlyFire wrote:
For the first one, I get three exceptions on this line every time I run the application. I tried to diagnose it (it’s saying the culture “gu” is not installed…) but couldn’t figure it out, and since the program runs fine without it I decided to put a try/catch around it just to stop the constant annoyance.

Would you mind trying the following patch: https://gist.github.com/stfx/a3e9cc8f44f8731cfe69

If that does not help maybe http://stackoverflow.com/a/3978814/209649 might help fix this issue as it might be a problem with your OS.

Version 1.2 is up!

Bobthemanofsteel wrote:
stfx my love, the new versions of FLMS are lovely, with FF’s modifications even moreso, but still one annoyance remains.

Haha thanks. Hopefully I was able to reduce that annoyance somewhat by allowing you to specify a default DATA path in the settings in case the DATA path can not be found relative to the opened file. This includes finding archetype file as well as model files. Thanks for the idea.

@FriendlyFire:

I was able to fix rotating the camera while flying at the same time. If I would not have been able to fix it properly I probably would not have changed it as unpredictable behavior is much worse than restricted functionality - well at least in this case I think but anyway it works now so all is good

About that strange exception, I was just assuming that you are one of the very few people in the world to have that error. And the cause seems to be the OS so I would rather not add random exception catch code just for that.

Btw I added the object move functionality probably more different than you expected but I played around with it quite a bit and decided that this was one of the better options. That aside you might be interested to see how I implemented it - also changing it to what you had is now rather easy.

Finally the code to allow choosing from archetypes/loadouts is not really usable as you already mentioned and I don’t plan on writing it properly as this would be a massive task. So it is unlikely that it will make it into the official repository - thanks for letting me see it though

@sumanuti:

Version 1.2 added support to read/write comments from/to ini files. However all comments within a section will be written at the end of that section and therefore possibly losing their context. So keep that in mind when writing comments - you can also write them from within Freelancer Mod Studio. I think this situation is much better than removing them completely - which you still can by specifying that in the application settings btw

There were some other nice additions and fixes in 1.2 so make sure to check out the changelog and re-read the FAQ before downloading the new version and playing with the source

hey,

I am glad that you were able to fix this issue however this sounds like a problem with your .NET 3.5 install on your OS. Maybe installing .NET 3.5 SP1 might help?

Also I am using a modified version of HelixToolkit which does not need .NET 4.0 and targets .NET 3.5. The reason why I would not want to switch the framework is that .NET 3.5 is already on many machines starting with Vista by default.

Or maybe we will find out why your .NET 3.5 doesn’t like it, seeing the error message would be greatly appreciated.

If anybody else has this issue please let me know

@w0dk4:

I see, well at least you are able to finally use Freelancer Mod Studio haha

@Cougan:

Glad that you like it.

I agree that those features would be nice to have along many many others. Unfortunately I just don’t have the time to implement them.

Anyway I already thought about those two things in the past and concluded that reading/displaying the strings from the ressource dlls could not be easily done in a satisfying quality.

However I have been meaning to add a search function for the longest time so this could happen sometime in the future;)