Dev's Limit Breaking 101 Techniques

@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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@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.

Took a quick look, looked good, merged.

@Laz: thanks!

Meanwhile I’ve added the ‘Systems’ section, naming it as is.

EDIT: the sync seems to be lost again: where did I make a typo?

EDIT2/Update: also added the ‘VFX’ section. I recall having some more offsets laying around, haven’t tested them yet, will add them soon.

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

EDIT: the sync seems to be lost again: where did I make a typo?

Think it’s unrelated. Something broken with the auto-deployment. I will investigate.

Ah… I did make a typo (thanks Laz!)

Okay, so I’ve gone through my archive of untested offsets, found quite a few:

• from this thread the following, tested:

#camera of target wireframe on the top (like a playership wireframe)
#Jeider, 9 April 2020
File: Freelancer.exe
E3D09: B1 01 90 [ 0F 95 C1 ]

#always show target wireframe
#WhiskasTM, 29 July 2019
File: Freelancer.exe
CFE75: 00 [ 01 ]
E203E: 90 E9 [ 0F 84 ]
E20FF: EB [ 74 ]
E3CE0: 90 90 90 90 90 90 [ 0F 85 8F 02 00 00 ]
E1F91: 90 90 [ 74 60 ]
E36DA: 30 [ 08 ]

#force 1st weapon group to be set on entering space
#WhiskasTM, 29 July 2019
File: Freelancer.exe
DB6A5: 07 [ 13 ]
DB6B7: 6A 00 [ EB 05 ]

#make target wireframe ignore all mouse events
#WhiskasTM, 12 July 2019
File: Freelancer.exe
E7DF9: 30 C0 [ B0 01 ]

From here:

#steering arrows always go to mouse
#adoxa, 2 May 2010
File: Freelancer.exe
C8864: EB [ 75 ]

#increase to 12 steering arrows
#adoxa, 2 May 2010
File: Freelancer.exe
C885B: F8 1A 48 [ DC 75 5C ]
C886A: 1.8f [ 1.0f ]

#distance between steering arrows
#adoxa, 2 May 2010
File: Freelancer.exe
C8AE0: 74 86 4C [ DC 6E 5D ]
C8674: 0.15f [ 90 90 90 90 ]

#size multiplier for steering arrows
#adoxa, 2 May 2010
File: Freelancer.exe
C8A6F: 78 86 4C [ E0 75 5C ]
C8678: 0.5f [ 90 90 90 90 ]

Furthermore, I dug up two offsets of my own that I never published:

#hostile threshold for Closest Enemy
#Gold_Sear, 6 June 2024
File: common.dll
13E548: -0.6f

#max selection distance
#Gold_Sear, 6 June 2024
File: Freelancer.exe
1DC130: 10000000f

Everything added to the payload, including fixes for bugs I made earlier.

EDIT: done. I forgot to mention that there are untested patches by adoxa to make NPCs on server recognise collisions. However, since I am unable to test multiplayer-related stuff, I can not test them right now. Someone else willing to?

There was a typo in the new block that I merged, but I had 4 JSON linters all tell me everything is fine. Sometimes it annoys me how the trailing comma is ‘sometimes’ allowed. The auto-deployment failure was caused by a JS peer dependency resolving to the wrong version.

@Laz: thanks again for fixing my typos!
@self: remember to turn off the ‘insert’ button and fix it’s damage!

EDIT:

#make accounts less vulnerable to crashes due to too many cargo/base_cargo lines in character files
#double the size of Freelancer's 'visit' packet (MP only)
#Jolly_Roger, 14 September 2012
#adoxa, 7 March 2021
#adoxa, 1 October 2022
File: RemoteClient.dll
96B1: D0 27 [ 00 28 ]
96E8: 30 20 03 [ 00 90 01 ]
9707: 20 03 [ 90 01 ]
File: remoteserver.dll
9AE5: D0 27 [ 00 28 ]

This patch is actually a composition of two patches that alter the same code, hence had to be merged.

#colors of several things hardcoded in freelancer.exe
#adoxa, 7 January 2010
File: Freelancer.exe
0bd8ec: 43 # R of tooltip background
0bd8f1: 61 # G
0bd8f6: 70 # B
0bd933: b9 # R of tooltip text
0bd938: f7 # G
0bd90b: ff # B (this is e0 of an unused color)
0bd92a: 0f # change it from 0e so above works
15b22c: ff # R of selected maneuver icon
15b231: ff # G
15b236: 00 # B
15b2cb: ff # R of selected neural net icon
15b2d0: ff # G
15b2d5: 00 # B
15b2f6: ff # A of both
161be6: 87 # R of main text color (aqua)
161bed: c3 # G
161bf4: e0 # B
161bfb: c0 # A
161c06: 87 # R of main color (aqua)
161c0d: c3 # G
161c14: e0 # B
161c1b: ff # A
161c66: f5 # R of selected color (yellow)
161c6d: ea # G
161c74: 52 # B
161c7b: ff # A
161ce1: 80 # RGB of disabled icons
161cf7: ff # A
199da6: 87 c3 e0 # RGB of some buttons
199dab: 87 c3 e0 # and again
199dc6: 80 80 80 # RGB of disabled buttons
199dcb: 80 80 80 # and again

Probably want to make a new section ‘HUD: Colors’ to add it in.

EDIT: indexed to payload.

I found a way to have numbers under 1.0 on the drag_modifier variable on [Zones], meaning that 0.5 or similar will increase speed instead of reducing it.

!! Please do a backup of the file, this was done with Ghidra and needs testing !!

Common.dll

OFFSET 000D7A60
CHANGE: 7A -> EB

OFFSET 000D7AC0
CHANGE: 7A -> EB

OFFSET 000D7AF0
CHANGE: 0F 85 73 02 00 00 -> 90 90 90 90 90 90

Your first two offsets seem off; I see them at D7A6F & D7ACC. May as well change the first one to EB 65, thus skipping the second.

@Adoxa how exactly does “include external equipment in cargo size” limit breaker works?

some offsets were sitting in there in a folder

1.Turn off non-music sounds
SoundManager.dll+89B8 (function loads sounds once)
74 -> EB 

2.Turn off combat chatter
Content.dll+12E368
01 -> 00 

3.Turn off rendering of static debris(collisions are not affected)
Freelancer.exe+122669
74 -> EB

4.Thickness of F1 menu/Inventory Rectangle bars, make it more thick
Freelancer.exe+1A36B3(bot line)
Freelancer.exe+1A374A(right line)
Freelancer.exe+1A37B6(top line)
Freelancer.exe+1A383A(left line)

68 A6 9B 44 3B(0.002) -> 68 6F 12 0C 3C(0.008)

5.Icon size multiplier
Freelancer.exe+1D748C
Default is 0 float, can increase up to 0.03

6.Neural net icons will always flash
Freelancer.exe+15B28F
74 05 -> 90 90

7.Change color of clicked (toggled on) icons (00-FF 1 byte minimum/maximum value)
Freelancer.exe+15B22C RED 
Freelancer.exe+15B231 GREEN
Freelancer.exe+15B236 BLUE

default color is yellow

8.Turn off rendering background universe
Freelancer.exe+152E7C

74 -> EB

9.BUGFIX for FLHook RequestSpaceScript
Server sided cutscenes crashes for client due to a bug 
.thn files that you want to play must be in, /DATA folder with the name size of test001.thn

RemoteServer.dll+249B1 0x19F549B1

8B 36 8B 7D 38 8B C8 8B D1 C1 E9 02 ->
8B 36 BF 21 9A 30 06 FF D7 C1 E9 02 

Common.dll+A9A21

90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 ->
BF 71 9B 30 06 89 7D 38 8B C8 8B D1 C3 90 90

@Gold_Sear Sorry for the radio silence on this, I’ve been otherwise engaged! I’ve accepted your PR and fixed a few syntax issues with the merge. Hopefully will have some time this evening to make a push and finish off a few more sections.

@Groshyr It just adds external equipment to the types it tests; perhaps have a look at the original request (last paragraph of that post, plus most of the rest).