Dev's Limit Breaking 101 Techniques

@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).

@IrateRedKite No worries, I’ve been away too.
goes back hunting for solutions on his list

@josbyte,@adoxa: added your offset to the payload and to KraftFragment;
@Venemon : added your offsets to the payload and KraftFragment, with the exception of #7, which was already found by adoxa in 2010.
goes off testing the new patches

Hello everyone I got some crash feedback about some of my offsets, I suggest removing them

1.Auto-CM without activation (crashes with wrecks)
2.Guided projectiles wont give up tracking a target(effects everything in unintentional way)

for the first one, everyone should use BC46’s alternative
and second one here is a better alternative

server.dll+1460C
This will allow 360* FOV missiles and as a side effect, missiles will not give up chasing their targets, if it is 360*FOV

(seeker_fov_deg = 180 means 360* FOV)

0F 8A ED 01 00 00 -> 90 90 90 90 90 90

(as technical note, normally missiles cannot have fov above 180+ due to a limiter that checks missile's trajectory against a target, if it is negative, it kills the seeker)

Just adding this one here too, that is discovered recently

Freelancer.exe+F8C36
Alchemy will read "-1.0" engine state
this will allow -1.0 ALE effects to spawn for reverse impulsing

7A 16 -> EB 16

@Venemon I think with these adding an adjustment to the post with a disclaimer saying that these crash and recommending the alternative offset might be the way to go, as these addresses are potentially useful for additional reverse engineering!

The list:

HUD
Miscellaneous
Missions
NPCs
Reputation
Server Operation
Systems
Turret View and Mouse
Visibility
Visual Effects

Having gone over this category list and checking offsets within each page against the json, we seem to be done! I added a few extras from Visibility, and need to comb recent activity in this thread to make sure there’s nothing new I’ve missed, but we’re nearly ready to do a category/accuracy pass and retire the old page I think!

I’m tracking issues with a few offsets here: https://github.com/TheStarport/StarportDocusaurus/issues/12 so if there’s any that need adjustment/investigation and it’s not a straightforward fix, please add to the issue

IrateRedKite created this issue in TheStarport/StarportDocusaurus

open Offsets that need modifying/format adjustments before being added to the Limit Breaking 101 Page #12

Hi folks! I’m on my way to cross off another point of my list. I’ll post some intermediate results:

#min distance between waypoints for behavior = wander
#Gold_Sear, 6 January 2025
File: content.dll
118114: 1500f
|-
#max distance between waypoints for behavior = wander
#Gold_Sear, 6 January 2025
File: content.dll
118118: 3000f
|-
#randomize flight direction for behavior = wander
#Gold_Sear, 6 January 2025
File: content.dll
C14EB: B9 D5 FF FF FF F7 F9 [ 8D 14 33 83 C6 0C 4D ]
C1508: 8D 14 33 8D 34 86 D9 C0 D8 4E EC 4D F7 D8 EB 05 90 [ D8 4E EC D9 C1 D8 4E F0 D9 5C 24 24 D9 C9 D8 4E F4 ]
C1520: 1A D8 4E F0 D8 47 C4 D9 5A 04 D8 4E F4 D8 47 08 D9 5A 08 8D 34 86 83 C6 0C 85 ED EB 10 [ 5C 24 14 D9 44 24 24 8B 44 24 14 D8 47 04 D9 5C 24 18 D9 44 24 28 8B 4C 24 18 D8 47 08 ]

I’ll put everything on KraftFragment once the entire point has been resolved.

Some hacks which I posted in the HDE Discord and private chats but as far as I know aren’t used anywhere else:

rp8.dll, 6AD9, 0i 
= display adapter index, i.e. the monitor Freelancer will run on (0 = main adapter/monitor). 
~BC46 02/03/2024 13:44

content.dll, CCFAD, 
C2 -> C1 
= Ignore gate locks (prevent access denied).
~BC46 08/08/2024 22:05

content.dll, 1195C0, 0.2f 
= Reputation needed for factions to offer missions on the job board. 
The player's reputation must be greater than or equal to the given value in order for the missions to show up. 
~BC46 22/09/2024 14:47

content.dll, 1195BC, -0.2f 
= Second minimum reputation needed for factions to show missions on the job board. 
This value is only tested if the minimum specified at 1195C0 is not met. 
The player's reputation must be greater than the given value in order for the missions to show up. 
~BC46 22/09/2024 14:47

content.dll, 60D0F, 74 -> EB 
= Faction NPCs will offer missions regardless of the player's reputation. 
~BC46 22/09/2024 14:47

shading.dll, F94B, 0C -> 00 
= Fix color banding with 24-bit TGA textures (render them as 32-bit). 
~BC46 13/01/2025 12:03

@BC46 Thank you for sharing specially the last one! my Homeworld mod was having trobules with starspheres looking wrong

Good to hear! For Freelancer HDE I encountered a similar issue where my upscaled mission and news images looked bad in-game because they were saved as 24-bit TGA. At the time I worked around it by saving them as 32-bit TGA or dds instead. Now we finally have a proper solution.