Creating Hidden Systems

Moonhead

adoxa wrote:
I changed Li01 in universe.ini to visit = 128. No star, no connections, even though that’s where I am and I’ve been everywhere. Simple, so what’s your problem?

I’m baffled. Just tried a similar thing and indeed there are no lines! Didn’t need to tag the gate visit = 128 too.

I had it stuck in my head that the connection lines were giving away the system! Discovered that, or so I thought I did, long ago when I was modding the ‘unknown object’ jumphole in the corsair system that leeds to one of the nomad systems. Had been trying then but couln’t get it to work how I wanted. And after that, I never tried it again…

Maybe some of the things I tried in the early days simply didn’t work well on my oldest pc? I also remember I couldn’t put systems at non-integer locations (e.g. 7.3, 5.8 ) but when I tried later, I could without problem… (Some modding tools don’t read beyond the integer though. E.g. FLScan reports a ‘systems occupying same place’ error).

Anyway, this is quite an embarrassing lesson for me to try before asking, even when I’m convinced of how it works. :oops:

Wolfie

I found that FL doesn’t show the system on the sirius map if you just put an Y coordinate there. For example it wouldn’t show New York system if I set the coordinates to 0, 1, 0 instead of 0, 0.

EDIT: It WILL show the system if you set the Y coordinate as 0, for example 0, 0, 0 would show the NY system, but 0, 1, 0 would not, you can replace the 1 with any other number, as long as its not 0 and it wouldn’t show the system.

And yes, Wolfie has returned, this time without making a bunch of useless and rather mentally disturbed posts.

TheDvDMan

Did you try to put there -1? Go guess… Maby it will make the star smaller…

Wolfie

Doubt it would make the system smaller. These are just coordinates and has nothing to do with the actual size of the star.

My guess is it would either do nothing, or hide the star from appearing.

Gisteron

can’t remember anymore, but there is a parameter defining the star size, if im right…

Wolfie

Yeah, but its not in the .ini that starsystem locations are set.

Gisteron

where else should it be? universe.ini is the only ini where systems are defined (meaning the systems themselves, not their contents)

Wolfie

Well, its years since I even looked upon any codes related to FL, but shouldn’t the stars location, size etc. be defined inside a .ini in the starsystems folder, and not universe.ini?

If what I remember is correct, universe.ini sets jumpgate links and a systems location on the actual Sirius map.

LancerSolurus

solar_radius in solararch.ini sets the nav map scaling.

Wolfie

Ohai thar LS. And yeah thanks for clearing it up.

Quarks

LancerSolurus wrote:
solar_radius in solararch.ini sets the nav map scaling.

But only of the star inside a system’s map, right? Not the one that is shown on the universe map.

Wolfie

Yes, only the in-system star. The system star size is decided by the CMP and SUR sphere size as well.

solar_arch.ini, doesn’t it define the FX size? I don’t remember this, LS or anyone else, would be cool if you could clear up.

The dot size on universe map cannot be changed without replacing textures.

adoxa

The star size on the Universe Map is a random number between 3000 and 5000 (freelancer.exe, 0915F4 [range] & 091605 [min], ints).