Dev's Limit Breaking 101 Techniques

@Gold_Sear Thanks for the additions!

Don’t change the format in the JSON payload right now, what we can do is set up a filter that lets you toggle between the 0x format and the one that just lists out the address so we can make sure any leading zeros are added as appropriate on the final page without a bunch of extra work. I think it’s okay to leave your PR as it is though. I don’t think it will mess up any parsing!

@IrateRedKite ah, thanks, just did some bug fixes from my part that need to be pulled aswell

EDIT: will revert it in the next commit

An update: I did some work on the ‘equipment’ section (mostly).

While underway, I simultaneously edit KraftFragment to BwPatch format, will be updated once I’ve gone over the entire list.

@BC46 said in Dev's Limit Breaking 101 Techniques:

Show all group members on the nav map:

Freelancer.exe, 08DC07, 
E9 85 FD FF FF 90 90 90 -> 83 C5 18 E9 82 FD FF FF

Update:
When I came up with this patch, there was one thing I overlooked. If you had one or more group members that were docked at a base, the original problem would still partially occur.

If anyone has applied this patch already, please undo it and apply these instead:

Freelancer.exe, 08D89B, 90 90 90 90 90 -> 83 C5 18 EB 50
Freelancer.exe, 08D997, 55 -> 00

Now it should work as intended.

I’ve powered through and completed the HUD section on the new limit breaking in it’s entirety, may get another chunk done this afternoon. I think I may also do a pass of this thread again and ensure any new offsets are added to the new page if they’re not already present.

@IrateRedKite Nice! Check’m out later.

Meanwhile, I’m currently working on the ‘NPCs’ section (formerly NPC Spawning and NPC Behavior sections).

Update: I added the rest of the NPCs section to the payload, so that section can be crossed off.

@Gold_Sear Excellent work! I’m going to look at making sure Missions are done tonight.

We’re going to make an update to the page generation script for these. I’ve scoped a little issue to keep track of what needs doing. If there’s anything in addition to what’s in the comment here, please let me know and I’ll do what I can to get it added: https://github.com/TheStarport/KnowledgeBase/issues/39

IrateRedKite created this issue in TheStarport/KnowledgeBase

closed Convert limit breaking to json #8

I’ve added the ‘Server Operation’ section to the payload.

@IrateRedKite you mentioned in your last post that timestamps should only show the date. My timestamps are accurate up to the minute (as most posts have this accuracy in their post date). Is this a problem?

@Gold_Sear Brill! I’ll cross it off the list. As we’re using unix timestamps here, it’s not a problem at all, we just need to adjust what the script that creates the page displays. If we change our mind in the future we can simply adjust the script and display the down-to-the-minute times again

I’ve added every URL and timestamp I could find on the former ‘Misc’ section. In this search for URLs I noticed that some of the offsets were miscredited, e.g.

• “don’t show the unknown graphics card warning” was already found by OutCast in 2011; and
• “Name of folder where FLSpew.txt is stored” is actually found by HeIIoween in 2015.

@IrateRedKite I like your recategorization of the Misc section However, we now have an ‘equipment’ section and an ‘Equipment’ section which are actually distinct. Also, the sync between the payload and Laz’s page seems to be lost, is this indeed the case?

@Gold_Sear Apologies, I’ve been away for a week, your PR is now merged in!

I want to do a pass on the tags, I’ll take a look at this and do a cleanup on them.

It’s possible that the build for the page failed which is why it’s out of sync? I’ll take a look at that as well EDIT: Looks like there was some invalid json, which caused the page generation to fail. I’ve updated this and the page should sync again in about 20 minutes time.

@IrateRedKite Did I make a typo again? Apologies…

Anyway, I’ve gone over the HUD section, adding all the URLs and timestamps I could find, reorganising a little, and adding some offsets I stumbled upon.

@Gold_Sear No worries! You need to escape the \ character in .json when it’s enclosed in quotes, otherwise it’s not read correctly! Tweaked your PR slightly here with an example: https://github.com/TheStarport/KnowledgeBase/commit/acfd904b0a79d26cdb5b72824703eca00b645ed1

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Update limit-breaking.json

@IrateRedKite Thanks! I noticed some more typos from my side, fixed them. Also did a little reorganisation of the ‘Navmap’ section to make certain offsets easier to find.

I have refactored the V2 page to hopefully be a bit more usable. Please let me know if you encounter bugs or have any feedback about the new design.

@Laz Nice! The URLs now work, good job.
This is probably on your to-do list, but I still mention it: align the ‘offset’ and ‘patch’ columns.

Update: I’ve added the ‘Missions’ section to the payload. Also fixed some more bugs.

@Gold_Sear Accepted your PR! I’ll update my list of what’s done. Hoping to get a bit of work done on this today

I’ve powered through and also added the ‘Turret View/Mouse’ section (renamed to simply ‘Turret View’, as all the offsets are focused on that). Also added a timestamp I forgot in the ‘Display’ section.