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hey there, sorry to but in but is there any chance you came across a way to change the colors of those gauges (energy hull shield)? so far i have tried changing the textures in the 3db files, changing the name of the file the exe looks for and putting the correct files in place, and also found no entry in the hud.ini file. I know the RGB values (i think) but don’t really know how to look for them, i did try search for both hex and decimal values in exe, maybe i searched wrong. here is RGB + dec values if this would help:

shieldgauge - 72 72 224 - 0.282353 0.282353 0.878431
hullgauge - 161 50 50 - 0.631372 0.196078 0.196078
energygauge - 216 208 103 - 0.847059 0.815686 0.403921

thx in advance

they are textures in the INTERFACE/HUD folder

hud_shieldguage.3db
hud_energyguage.3db
hud_hullgauge.3db

the textures are in these files fella

Dude, thats what i said. I changed those textures, over and over. Wierd, seems like no-ones ever tried to change em.

Oh well, thanks for the speedy reply anyways

@aden:

Dude, thats what i said. I changed those textures, over and over. Wierd, seems like no-ones ever tried to change em.

Oh well, thanks for the speedy reply anyways

whoops lol, my bad

i actually think thats an FX. im not sure id have to double check fox.

Is there a different hex value for tractor beams then this?

1000000f in freelancer.exe, 0x1d848c = square of distance from loot that the “tractor all” button appears on HUD / can tractor in loot ~fox
0x1d848c = 1.1

I got the increased range but now the tractor beam is bigger than the ship

Hi, do you have the standard tractor effect or did you customise it or shrink your ships due to your system size?

Increasing the float value gives increased range with no increase on vanilla tractor beam size.

It does it on all tractor beams. The only thing I’ve changed on the custom ones was the colors.

posted this back on the temp. TLR, might be useful to some:

Found the respawn time after any solar object will regain full health once destroyed:
0x85530 in server.dll (v1.1): 60.0 double float (= 60 seconds)

Hi fox:

I was read your Information and make sure I’m not any mistake when I edit those files.

But I find the randommissions NPC attack player distance seem like can’t change, even I raise its value to 4500, they just stay there and don’t attack player until player go into 1800 distance.

How can I fix this ? thanks for your help.

Did you change all the related values?

maximum distance that NPCs will persist in MP

max range at which NPCs will engage enemies

Must be changed. Also, the job preferences have to be changed. Same for scanner ranges.

Otherwise, I wouldn’t know.

Thanks FriendlyFire !

That’s point:

The scanner ranges !

I forget to add the max scanner range for NPC use, now it work fine.

Thanks again for your help.

Any new findings about the patrols, fox?

FormationOp
200f, 0x6c00d –
500f, 0x6c017 –

Could you spot a bit more light on this, especially first values, cos this 200 value seems to be familiar, thats the quote from one of my posts:

If one ship of the formation has 0, 0, 0 position, it dosn’t matter how far the others, they dock well(firstone goes first, others follow). It works till approximately 0, 0, 220 position, after this they start docking manuver, and… fly away from the gates about 5-6k, turn around, start docking manuver and it all repeats, if the ships a more then 5-6 k from the centre of formation, they just start spining around with their docklights blinking.
It’s impossible to dock while they are trying.

Maybe that 200 value can help here.

Here’s the opensp patch for the 1.1 version of content.dll. This patch changes single player mode so that a new game “starts” in mission 13. This patch might already be available or documented somewhere else but I couldn’t find it so here it is:

Addr 0x4EE3A change 42 2A to A2 6A.

here is what I got when I changed the values to 1000m and 2000m

200f, 0x6c00d –
500f, 0x6c017 –

The only use I have for this is the capital ship formations (Since some of my ships are 4 - 5 times bigger than vanilla ships). It works the way I want it to so far.