Freelancer Mod Studio - 1.2

stfx, thanks for the reply.

But I guess that most users still prefer to enter the values manually since you cant define it that exactly - e.g. I prefer setting it to a “nice” number like 16000 instead of something like 15989.

Never cared about that one actually - it doesn’t matter, main thing is that the object looks nicely in the system, and this usually requires some coordinate fine-tuning.

That means I wont drop the visual editor and will not concentrate on systems only. I will try to improve the tool in general.

Not asking to drop one of course (it’s needed to edit systems anyway). It’s your tool, you decide

About the order of the saved properties. You are right that modders are not accustomed to this order of properties and it is harder to track the changes from vanilla. But you could save every vanilla file using the studio so you will again have the same order of properties. Well as you may have realized they are somewhat ordered by name so I thought it would be easier to find a specific entry. But it is not a big deal to change it you just have to edit the order of those properties inside Template.xml in the app folder. Well … nevermind I will do that for you and it will be implemented in the next version

Depends on how this will be done. It’s not like there is one unified order of entries for all files…

It’s actually one of the crucial issues - whether files are comparable or not, and whether they are in the same format (even if the order of entries is irrelevant and “format” is purely cosmetic). In fact for some files the order is relevant, and we may not know about all of those cases since we rarely change the order. Within one entry - it’s surely cosmetic and doesn’t affect anything, but readability is important too - if you worked with the ini files of the same format for years, it’s not that easy to adopt reading the entries in a different order.

As for the direction controls for wrecks. Thats why ships and jumpgates look like pyramids. Because you can see, based on the tip, the direction it is looking to.

Maybe highlight the “tip” somehow? I didn’t get where that tip is when I first looked, maybe wasn’t attentive enough…

And yes I will also think about a way to make selection easier. If you have some more ideas how to do that please tell me.

The obvious way is to enable selecting smaller objects “through” aerial zones. So that you select the object you need by clicking on it, even it’s within a zone (zone is easy to select by clicking anywhere else on it). More precise controls for zoom in/out will also help.

This tool is nice for positioning objects and finding things in existing systems faster than swimming through the text, even with the current way of selecting objects (you have to peel the zones off to get to them)

What’s more of an issue is that the tool does not support CYLINDER shapes very well (displays boxes and the rotation does weird things), and the rotate = a, b, c entry is not interpreted the same way as in Freelancer. That is probably the most important thing for me, since I would like to use this tool in the future to check patrol path positioning in systems that are not entirely on plane (y=0).

I know this is digging up what seems to be an older topic (march?) but I’m a new modder and I was wondering on the status of this program and what the newest available version would be?

Thanks

The current version is the 0.9.2.0, the link in the first post has been updated, I’ve been using it for a few months now and it has a lot of useful features especially the 3D system view.

Objects can be copied from existing systems and pasted into your new one (be careful with zones if they have exclusions) and the name, location edited as required.

CK256

I think it looks great

But tell me… can i trust it? I code by hand now thanks to FLE & me not working out well… i still use FLE but will never let it touch my mod with its confused sticky fingers… as was stated previously… changes are made, then its a long process of lifting the relevant data from my “dummy mod” into the real mod…

How far removed from that scenario is this proggy?? keep in mind i code just about everything from scratch/templates… and prefer the hands on approach… even to market files… Thus has FLE turned me into an anally retentive monster… will this somehow help in my recovery of trust in modding programs for FL? … besides the ones that actually do as there told… HCMP, FLDev… ect

Looks nice though.

I just tried the latest version but I couldn’t get it to load system ini’s or universe ini’s (or display them), it will read files like initial world so I’m guessing it might be related to the 3D display function.

CK256

Me again! the system ini files now load and display the ini code but when I try to activate the 3D viewer I get the following error message

“FreelancerModStudio, Systempresenter. SharedGeometries” threw an exception

CK256

also the same error for each system

it works for my vanillia folder

ok, sent by email

the vanilia folder works fine and the freeworlds not

I’ve attached the requested files, but all of them work with the .2 release from March.
These files are in a hand coded format not FLMS layout (nothing wrong with the FLMS layout I’m just used to the originals :))

CK256

This Mod studio is sooo…. USEFULL!!! Notepad is finished! :x
Thank you so much!!! 8-)

WOW, First time download and frist time use. COOL i can only say.

Great job M8! and the ini order is unchanged as well

Many thanks for your time and effort

CK256

The loading issues have gone although the download release appears to be the same, anyway it now works for me

CK256

(Edit)
I’ve just had a problem during a copy/paste action (the copy/paste worked after restarting) I did notice two panning targets just prior to this, I’ve copied the details (looks like English but I don’t understand a word LOL)

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.NotImplementedException: The method or operation is not implemented.
at FreelancerModStudio.frmProperties.Copy()
at FreelancerModStudio.frmMain.mnuCopy_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Object key, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEventInteractive(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEvent(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

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mscorlib
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Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3603 (GDR.050727-3600)
CodeBase: file:///c:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
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FreelancerModStudio
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Win32 Version: 0.9.5.1
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System.Windows.Forms
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System
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System.Drawing
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System.Xml
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System.Configuration
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Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll

FreelancerModStudio.XmlSerializers
Assembly Version: 0.9.5.1
Win32 Version: 0.9.5.1
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Freelancer%20Mod%20Studio/FreelancerModStudio.XmlSerializers.DLL

PresentationCore
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CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_32/PresentationCore/3.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/PresentationCore.dll

WindowsBase
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Win32 Version: 3.0.6920.4016 built by: GDR
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/WindowsBase/3.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/WindowsBase.dll

WeifenLuo.WinFormsUI.Docking
Assembly Version: 2.3.3861.37679
Win32 Version: 2.3.1.1
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Freelancer%20Mod%20Studio/WeifenLuo.WinFormsUI.Docking.DLL

ObjectListView
Assembly Version: 2.2.1.24649
Win32 Version: 2.2.1.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Freelancer%20Mod%20Studio/ObjectListView.DLL

HelixEngine
Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Freelancer%20Mod%20Studio/HelixEngine.DLL

WindowsFormsIntegration
Assembly Version: 3.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 3.0.6920.1427 built by: SP
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/WindowsFormsIntegration/3.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/WindowsFormsIntegration.dll

PresentationFramework
Assembly Version: 3.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 3.0.6920.4016 built by: GDR
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/PresentationFramework/3.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/PresentationFramework.dll

System.Core
Assembly Version: 3.5.0.0
Win32 Version: 3.5.30729.1 built by: SP
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Core/3.5.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Core.dll

PresentationFramework.Luna
Assembly Version: 3.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 3.0.6920.1427 built by: SP
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/PresentationFramework.Luna/3.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/PresentationFramework.Luna.dll

System.Design
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Design/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Design.dll

Accessibility
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Accessibility/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Accessibility.dll

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