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

Turns out you were modifying the wrong value - you want 0.0004f at 0x1d954c in Freelancer.exe. That’s the reciprocal of the distance at which the brackets will be drawn. Change it to 1 (00 00 80 3F) and the brackets disappear. Alternatively, patch the code itself at 0xec1b3 (0x7A0A to 0x9090) to always succeed the below zero test.

I think the problem with changing this value is that asteroids and other things also start disappearing and winking out.

The value I gave only seems to be used by the brackets (at least, that’s the only place my disassembly listing found it).

**I’ve been checking some of the values listed here, you need to verify the NPC spawning stuff, its incorrect for both unpatched and patched content.dll files, at least for the American version.

– 1775d in content.dll, 0x11AC80, 0x11BC80 = initial NPC max spawn distance in SP and MP (such as after respawn)

1.0 - 00 00 00 00
1.1 - 00 00 00 00**

**Here is a snapshot of both files side by side in my hex editor

As you can see that isn’t the only one that isn’t there…
Both of these were installed yesterday directly from the CD, BTW this is the original CD that came out in 2003, not any of the new ones released after MS stopped selling them.**

**My mistake on the original one, I accidentally used the patched version, updated the pic to the correct files…

Left - Original, stuck in patched folder to make it easier to compare
Right - Patched version

In both the 11(a)(b)c80 is 00 00 00 00, could someone send me a copy of theirs so I can check it?**

Fox, are you using the original 1.1 or a modified version? I had another sent to me by FF and it is exactly like my version of content.dll…

LS, double takes 8 bytes
1.0 1.1

LS, double takes 8 bytes
1.0 1.1

**That is the missing key, thanks!

When I do doubles, its usually shortened to dbl, the way it was listed here looked like 1775 (d) decimal, maybe a legend in the first post will alleviate this misunderstanding.

Thanks again!**

Anyone knows how to remove the brackets around non-targeted ships completely ?
Not only if you dont move with the mouse over them ^^
I mean to remove them complete out of the game.
It suxx a bit if you make a vid

M0tah wrote:
Here’s a nice one for those who take videos.

0x0F85->0x90E9 in freelancer.exe, 0xED5B9 = remove HUD elements on objects in space - includes text, brackets, targeting reticles, and missile warnings

Should do it for you.

with this Hack I always have an arrow rotating around my screen
And I’m not able anymore to klick on Ship to bring the focus on it

I believe my earlier post tells you how to remove non-targetted brackets around ships.

Ye and it works but if you come with your mouse over such an ship the brackets appear thats my problem

try to increase max distance that a ship can be selected to – 100000000f in freelancer.exe, 0x1D15B8, 0x1D15B8 = square of max distance that a ship can be selected — change to 1000000000000 or 10000000000

surprisingly it kinda worked(as far as i remember), still can select ships, but no unselected brackets.

may be not true, but seemed to work.

Some new hacks:

– 0x0F84->0x90E9 in freelancer.exe, 0x6AAF8, 0x6AAF8 = disable new player messages

– 0x0F84->0x90E9 in freelancer.exe, 0x6AF1E , 0x6AF1E = disable departing player messages

– Disable almost all hud elements. This is a horrible hack but hey it works. I’m sure someone could come up with a better hack for this but I got bored with tracing the code and cheated by overwriting the internal resource names.

In freelancer.exe: overwrite the byte at following addresses with 0x00

0x1D9368 = Disable lag icon
0x1D6E54 = Steering bar
0x1CB41C, 0x1CBCF8, 0x1CB3F8, 0x1CB3D4, 0x1CB3B0, 0x1CB38C, 0x1CB498 = Center top borders (but not buttons)
0x1CEB1C, 0x1CEB68, 0x1CEBB4, 0x1CEC08, 0x1CEC64, 0x1CECBC, 0x1CED0C, 0x1CED50, 0x1CED70, 0x1D8410, 0x1D81E0, 0x1D8204, 0x1D8228 = Right top buttons
0x1D7BFC, 0x1D7C04, 0x1D7D60, 0x1D7D90, 0x1D7DC0, 0x1D7DEC, 0x1D7E10, 0x1D7E70 = Center bottom - gauge borders & text
0x1D860C, 0x1D87E0, 0x1D8790, 0x1D8690, 0x1D86E0, 0x1D8668, 0x1D86C0, 0x1D86B8 =Right bottom - ship info - borders & text & icons
0x1D8CA8, 0x1D8C6C, 0x1D8C18, 0x1D8BE0, 0x1D8BA4, 0x1D8B6C, 0x1D8B34, 0x1D8AFC, 0x1D8AC4, 0x1D8A78, 0x1D8A3C, 0x1D8A0C, 0x1D89DC = Left botton - target info - borders & text & icons
0x1D9338, 0x1D9310, 0x1D92E8, 0x1D92C4, 0x1D92A0, 0x1D9278, 0x1D9250, 0x1D9224, 0x1D91F4, 0x1D91A4, 0x1D9184, 0x1D915C, 0x1D9134, 0x1D910C, 0x1D90E4, 0x1D90BC, 0x1D9094, 0x1D9068, 0x1D9538 = Targeting arrows
0x1D939C, 0x1D93D0, 0x1D9404 = Radiation and other misc items

viper wrote:
with this Hack I always have an arrow rotating around my screen
And I’m not able anymore to klick on Ship to bring the focus on it

The arrow is your selection - FL can’t display the selection brackets because they don’t display on NON_TARGETABLE types (which is what FL is being tricked into thinking everything is). Just don’t select anything until you need to dock and it’ll be fine.