Creating Hidden Systems

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

solar_radius in solararch.ini sets the nav map scaling.

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

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.

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.

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