[Freelancer Mod News]Jason's Freelancer Patch

As long as jflp.dll is being loaded, the new stats should just work. Looking at the spew will tell you if jflp.dll is loaded; you should also see a blank line after the “Stats” line for all stats (I added this for equipment, to make it the same as ships). To demonstrate, I’ve attached a screenshot of the Powerplant stats (from Hostile Universe).

@RimShot: Dunno, it might take a bit more effort to search for the details. Besides, mods tend to customise it, so it might prove more of a hindrance than a help. However, I guess I could at least combine the two pages so you don’t have to create the third. Hm, perhaps I could detect an id of 0 and generate it automatically, otherwise use the supplied resource. That way a vanilla game could do it automatically and a mod could still customise it. Or maybe try and use format substitution (for example: “%g” would mean number of guns, “%t” number of turrets), so it would work with both, as well as being easily tweaked for your own preferences (possibly like putting turrets first for freighters). I guess that’s what M0tah and foxUnit01 were considering… I s’pose if I do it for the ships, I’d have to do it for all the other ones, too. In for a penny, in for a pound…

@Bas: Not a problem. I guess the warning was enough for you? (How about that, “jay-flip” is the same in German. :D) I was going to submit it to Mod DB, but wanted to gauge the reaction here, first. Now I’ll wait a bit and see if I can do the above, which would warrant a new release, I think.

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Other than the first reply, there’s been no mention of widescreen. I guess that means it’s working fine? Not having a widescreen monitor, I was doing all my testing in a small window (960x576), so I was hoping it would all scale up okay. Does the desktop resolution (which I assumed to be the preferred widescreen resolution) show up in the list (replaces 800x600)? It’s just I received an email who hasn’t replied, so I’m not sure if he missed it or there’s a bug.

@Bas: Hamburg City asked for and received a custom jflp.dll to provide a cameras.ini anti-cheat (ignore fovx/fovy, always calculate it). There should not have been a need to change perfoptions.ini, but apparently I do have a bug if Gibbon isn’t seeing his resolution. I don’t change *fonts.ini like the previous widescreen solutions, since the patch uses the height or equivalent 4:3 width. I just hope I got them all…

Oops, there is a bug. I changed my desktop to 1280x800 and it didn’t show up, although the list was successfully patched. Now why didn’t I think to test that before I released it.

@Gibbon: Get the stats working, at least?

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As you may know, FL Hack has an option to put the sector letter first, which seems to be preferred. Should I remove it from FL Hack and fix it into JFLP?

BTW, if there’s no negative responses on the 8-Way Strafe topic, that shall also be incorporated into the next release of JFLP.

Define a key for “Auto Level” (halfway down the third page in Ship Controls).

@RimShot: Looking at the customised ship info used by Evolutions 1.30, it’d pretty much require another plugin for the format, so I might wimp out of that. Should still be able to combine ids_info2 + ids_info3 to make ids_info, though…Ah, but they use different “Stats” lines. Bugger it.

I could do the next best thing and write a separate program that scans shiparch.ini and creates the infocards. Of course, the same problems exist, but they’d be a lot easier to manage outside of Freelancer. I find it hard to believe that such a thing hasn’t already been done, but admittedly I haven’t looked.

I’ve put up the new version of jflp.dll. It fixes the widescreen problem, adds the 8-way strafe and puts the sector letter first (FL Hack can be used to put the number first). The cameras.ini anti-cheat version is also included. The resources have also been updated, using En Dash instead of Hyphen-Minus for the jump gate arrows (jflp.dll does it for the trade lane).

It’s built into jflp.dll. It will also work with 1.0.