Dev's Limit Breaking 101 Techniques

**Ida is very expensive, the current version is $539 (ouch).

Free version, quite limited
http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro/idadownfreeware.htm**

IDA Free is more than enough for reversing FL

The launch cinematic seems to be integral to the launch sequence. All I could come up with just left you in the docking bay. Not good enough for FL Hack, but for those who want a look:

0x83EC04->0xC20800 in Freelancer.exe, 0x143D50, 0x143D50 = manually launch from the docking bay/ring

I have found a way but it completely skips any sequence so I am currently trying to use it in a clienthook way. Modifying common.dll via hex editor only leads to not being able to dock anymore - but at least the undock sequence is gone

Just a stupid q; what would be necessary in order to make FLHook SP-compatible?

of course some things in the hook code have to be changed I guess, but I think we would also need a chatinterface in the SP to enter the commands…?

Would it be much work to make FLHook compatible to SP? Just a thing I am thinking about to do one day…:x

I doubt you can do that because FLHook works on the server…

There’s no server in SP, just a client. What CAN be done is something similar to Hook, but for client-side hooking. However, that’ll probably require starting from scratch.

FriendlyFire wrote:
I doubt you can do that because FLHook works on the server…

There’s no server in SP, just a client. What CAN be done is something similar to Hook, but for client-side hooking. However, that’ll probably require starting from scratch.

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?post_id=19599#forumpost19599

So my point regarding to this is that you can make something very similar to FLHook for th SP, but since there is no chat there, you have to send all commands (if any) from console window or with a hot-key, something like that.

Still, would you “port” Hook for client or just start over? I can see so many differences that I’m not sure that’d be the most efficient way to do it. Maybe inspire yourself from it, but not modify it to make it work on SP.

I think porting wouldn’t be a big problem. Server.dll hooks, IServerImpl hooks are the same, content hacks, common hacks are the same, what else is there… It should be like just major code cleanout…

Two differences i see clearly right now are Update, Startup and Shutdown which are hooked using GetModuleHandle(0), and absence of chat.

I think porting wouldn’t be a big problem. Server.dll hooks, IServerImpl hooks are the same, content hacks, common hacks are the same, what else is there… It should be like just major code cleanout…

Two differences i see clearly right now are Update, Startup and Shutdown which are hooked using GetModuleHandle(0), and absence of chat.

umm, the other big question would be, why do you want to port a mainly server-side admin tool to a singleplayer environment?
which feature of flhook would make sense in SP?
I cant really think of any feature tbh…

w0dk4 wrote:
umm, the other big question would be, why do you want to port a mainly server-side admin tool to a singleplayer environment?
which feature of flhook would make sense in SP?
I cant really think of any feature tbh…

w0dk4 has a very good point.
There are like no features that would be helpfull in Sp
You would be better using a trainer in sp if u wanted to give yourself cash or such

/autobuy

F88 Features (as EXAMPLE !)

/save (to save game in space ^^)

And of course other new options (for instance, dynamic economy - ok, this can be done even without FLHook)

Ok hotshot thanks for that reply:P

I did miss a few things out bas

but still thats alot of effort to put in for just single player. when there are other programmes out there. ok sure you wont get auto buy or such but thats not a issue really. i never ever used auto buy didnt see the point in it. As for the other stuff meh:P

Found something here…

– 1.25f in freelancer.exe, 0x1C9804, 0x1C9804 = multiplier for distance at which brackets around non-targeted ships in space will appear (1.25 = ~3km, 37.5 = ~93km, etc)

I wanted to remove the brackets completely from no targetted ships, so I set this multiplier to 0, but that made the tractorbeam effect dissappear!

So this multiplier is used for more than one thing…

Does anyone know another way around to remove those brackets? I did see the hack below this one on the list, but I don’t want to remove all that!

Remove the bracket images? Should be somewhere in the interface folders, I wouldn’t remove them though, instead, use alpha channels to hide them.

That’s the problem; those images apparently don’t exist. At least, nobody found them to my knowledge.

I’m believing they aren’t images, they’re actual meshes of some sort defined through VMeshRef and VMeshData.

Re: Save in space

FL Hack can do that.

Re: Removing non-targetted brackets

Should be able to add that (change the pointer to the float, not the float itself).

Re: SP hooking

Is there a reason against playing multiplayer solo and using FLHook?

Brackets are in buttontextures.txm, it is a single corner that is mirrored using UV mapping…