Were you able to get WinCamera settings (in camera.ini) to be applied on startup instead of on ship launch for the widescreen support? Or did you use a different method of providing widescreen support?

EDIT: just checked it out and it you did, as well as calculating the correct FOV on the fly; nice work. One thing I would suggest doing, however, would be to also set the other FOVs (TurretCamera, ThirdPersonCamera, etc), not just WinCamera. This will make it “true” widescreen in that the view will be wider compared to 4:3 instead of being cropped compared to 4:3.

Any chance of this not having an exe to install adoxa?. I’m thinking of adding this to my mod but seeing as i don’t know what files you’re overwriting, i can’t tell if it will conflict with files i’ve already altered.

additional controls, including rolling and vertical strafing;

withouth any offense, I am a bit critical about this, especially about the vertical strafing - It has an HUGE impact on pvp and players who use it have QUITE BETTER CHANCE to win.

@Gibbon: you can set a directory other than FL’s install dir to extract the files to (on the Install Location screen). Alternatively, you can open the installer using 7-zip and extract the files from there.

@Motah

As soon as i logged out i realised this lol, and installed it to a dummy FL folder so i can see what’s there now

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@adoxa

In your freelancer.ini file you have this,

[;Display] <–-------------- semi colon inserted, don’t think you need that there
fullscreen = 1
size = 1024,768
color_bpp = 32
depth_bpp = 32

@ adoxa

Here’s a question and i probably have it wrong, but in the dacom.ini there is this line in the Libraries section,

.\flmaterials.dll

I’m assuming this dll has something to do with the way the textures are displayed. The interesting thing is the dll in question isn’t called that in the EXE folder but

flmaterials.dll

So does the *.* actually mean anything? Just to try things out i changed that entry to refllect the actual dll name as listed in the EXE folder and so far have had no crashes and maybe it’s just me, but the effects look better, although it could just be my eyes lol.

Reason i ask this is it’s listed in your updated dacom.ini as it is in the original but removing those two characters does nothing apart from possibly making things look better, although as said i might be decieving myself

. (dot) - is just a reference to current directory in the filesystem as … (two dots) is parent directory. No magic here

That’s my point though, it’s not referencing anything like its setup in dacom ini, and its .\ as well lol

Thx Adoha, rolling - i was dreaming about it :))

@Bas: Well, being a patch, the intention is that everyone will have it. Both of these are already present in FL, it was only the key definitions that were missing.

Without any offense, I doubt that this will ever happen.

RP servers maybe won’t bother, but many PVP servers will be.

2 options to go with the above comment.

1. You learn to use vertical strafe
2. If you don’t want the option there, then remove the new files, simple

It is not. Because everyone who uses this patch has a very extreme advantage to those who don’t. That’s my point.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not totally against the new patch, but I am not sure about if this feature should remain in it.
Not to mention that some server admins, and if I am one I would do the same for sure, see it as a cheat and will bann players once they recognize them using the vertical strafe techniques.

What’s the difference, to be honest?
a) you fire left-right-left-right
b) you fire up-down-up-down

It’s the same and I’m sure you’ll find out which of those two your opponent uses really fast so why not just leave the patch be?

It is a HUGE difference, believe the dude who played over 4650h Freelancer (http://de.xfire.com/profile/basx/) online and spent the most time at PVP/Vanilla servers. When I am fighting against ppl with up-/down strafe I really FEEL the difference - I tested it out at HC, where it comes in the mod as an option…it is just SICK how you can beat people with this stuff, believe me…
(Again: I tested it out by myself)

And again: You risk that some players get banned at some servers cause of this thingy.

I don’t like this too, vertical strafing is significant pvp balance and gameplay change.
And not only players could be banned for using this feature but it is whole lot of headache for admins to detect if someone’s using it.

Well it’s nothing new tbh, as mentioned already the roll baby roll mod has been out since the dawn of time. If you guys are only starting to worry about it now then not a lot i can say really.

I personally allow it because it has been available for so long, no way to prevent it, best option in my eyes at least is simply to include it so that way, everyone has the option to use it, but that’s just me.

Then the mod you mentioned is just quite unpopular, which would make a difference - I NEVER heard about it in my three years of FL online gaming.