Ship classes

adoxa · wrote on 24 Dec 2009, 07:47

Attached is a plugin that provides additional values for ship_class. Copy shipclass.dll to your EXE directory and add it to [Libraries] in EXE\dacom.ini. The complete list:

        ship_class     resource         text
            0            923            Light Fighter
            1            924            Heavy Fighter
            2            925            Freighter
            3            926            Very Heavy Fighter
            4            r+0            Gunboat
            5            r+1            Cruiser
            6            r+2            Destroyer
            7            r+3            Battleship
            8            r+4            Capital
            9            r+5            Transport
           10            r+6            Large Transport
           11            r+7            Train
           12            r+8            Large Train
           13            r+9
           14            r+10
           15            r+11
           16            r+12
           17            r+13
           18            r+14
           19            r+15

```"r+" indicates the resource is in shipclass.dll itself, automatically adjusted accordingly.

wasabitoy · wrote on 31 Oct 2017, 02:07

Sorry to necro this thread but does this happen in-game where you can see these additional shipclass names of the ships on the ship’s window list ?

Thank you.

adoxa · wrote on 31 Oct 2017, 02:53

Yes.

wasabitoy · wrote on 31 Oct 2017, 05:35

It seems that the shipclass.dll and ShipFilter.dll does not work on my end maybe I’m missing something.

I included both on the dacom.ini and copied both files to exe dir.

I don’t see the text of the ship’s class on a ship when selected.

And also the ship filter - when I look at my contacts window or where all the identities are, you can’t find the player’s name at all and does not cycle or toggle between npc/player/all.

Anything that I might missed please kindly help for a solution.

Thank you.

adoxa · wrote on 31 Oct 2017, 06:58

I don’t see the text of the ship’s class on a ship when selected.

Did you actually change [c]shiparch.ini[/c]? E.g. modifying Patriot ([c]li_fighter[/c]): [c]ship_class = 7[/c] shows as Battleship.

And also the ship filter - when I look at my contacts window or where all the identities are, you can’t find the player’s name at all and does not cycle or toggle between npc/player/all.

Click the “Ships” filter to select the ships - this defaults to NPCs; click it again and you should get the players; click it again and you should get both.

wasabitoy · wrote on 31 Oct 2017, 07:58

Okay the first plugin I know now where it is being execute. lmao

But the second plugin is still a mystery for my end because I did what you said to click the Ships filter icon again, again and again, still it does not show the player’s name and both at the same time.

adoxa · wrote on 31 Oct 2017, 08:12

I don’t know what to tell you.

wasabitoy · wrote on 31 Oct 2017, 08:24

Yeah the same ship icon I clicked…

When I click it again it does not show the P1 on top of my list.

adoxa · wrote on 31 Oct 2017, 08:38

The only thing I can suggest is check the spew to verify it is actually installed.

wasabitoy · wrote on 31 Oct 2017, 09:00

I checked it and the shipfilter.dll is there.

[c]FLSpew.txt[/c]

C:\work\builds\dalibs\dalibs-build\build\Src\DACOM\Dacom.cpp(618) : NOTICE:General:DACOM: AddLibrary: DLL 'H:\Games 2\Freelancer\Freelancer\EXE\ShipFilter.dll' [1.0.0]

-EDIT-

Does this work in SP ? lol

adoxa · wrote on 31 Oct 2017, 09:13

Of course not.

wasabitoy · wrote on 31 Oct 2017, 09:22

I see… well it was not stated in the file and even in the website that it is for MP only so maybe include it now for labeling that it is for MP only… lmao…

Anyway thank you for your time for helping me. Appreciate it.