Dev's Limit Breaking 101 Techniques

robocop wrote:
I’ve been getting some wierd results.
The ‘speedometer’ is working properly for both cruise and tradelanes, the spinning planets hax from adoxa works, and I haven’t yet verified that the order shows up on the rep list, but other than the gamecopyworld nocd hack, I’ve not done anything else to common.dll and freelancer.exe.

By the way, i want to know if i can make faction like fc_n_grp give me mission just by edit the hex. I tried the “Rep List” hack but still no lucky, and looks only there i can found string “fc_n_grp” in program files, that i miss?

Complete guide to missions against nomads

It’s under tutorials man, not hard to find.

NeXoSE wrote:
By the way, i want to know if i can make faction like fc_n_grp give me mission just by edit the hex. I tried the “Rep List” hack but still no lucky, and looks only there i can found string “fc_n_grp” in program files, that i miss?

For missions against Nomads: http://the-starport.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1463&start=0

lol, you’re a little quicker on the draw mate.

NexOse wants missions to be given to him by the nomads I think?

missions are missions. if he wants nomads to give him some, only thing to change, is the appearance of the mission on a base and changing the bribing faction nickname to fc_n_grp and the target faction to… dunno, any human faction. best’d be order, i guess, as that’s their primary enemy.

He can still figure it out if he reads that thread.

@StarTrader, Yes, that is what i mean, thanks.

@Timmy51m, No mate, that not what i mean, i actually change that to fc_no_grp so all things back to work but i don’t want to do that. i think i can done it with Hex editing. Is there other place in Hexs to Enable those faction for mission?

I guess you need to be a little more exact in what it is you have already done to prepare the nomads for mission availability then. I can’t tell from what you’ve said what you do and don’t already know.

I assume from such a straight forward dismissal of what was in that thread you already prepared the nomad faction in the initialworld, empathy, VignetteParams files etc and somehow have come up short needing some further hex edit to get them to work. Either I’m lost, you are, or we both are. This could do with it’s own thread perhaps as opposed to clouding this one.

NeXoSE wrote:
[…]fc_no_grp[…]

there is no faction in the vanilla game, called like this. Nomads are fc_n_grp.

Timmy51m wrote:
I guess you need to be a little more exact in what it is you have already done to prepare the nomads for mission availability then. I can’t tell from what you’ve said what you do and don’t already know.

I assume from such a straight forward dismissal of what was in that thread you already prepared the nomad faction in the initialworld, empathy, VignetteParams files etc and somehow have come up short needing some further hex edit to get them to work. Either I’m lost, you are, or we both are. This could do with it’s own thread perhaps as opposed to clouding this one.

Let’s be simply, the tutorial will lead you to rename fc_n_grp to new_n_grp, and i already done the same thing only different is i changed the name to fc_no_grp, YES.

BUT I DON"T WANT TO DO THAT. Because this will waste a item in Player profile if player logon with 1.0 profile (savegame). I want to know if there i missed offset at other place so the mission for those faction still disabled.

Now i hope you can understand that i want to ask, thank god.

No hex editing is needed to add nomad missions. Just set them up normally on a base and make sure that fc_n_grp is in vignetteparams.ini (what generates the mission) and you are good to go. if they are not in vignetteparams.ini you will never get a mission from them.

LancerSolurus wrote:
No hex editing is needed to add nomad missions. Just set them up normally on a base and make sure that fc_n_grp is in vignetteparams.ini (what generates the mission) and you are good to go. if they are not in vignetteparams.ini you will never get a mission from them.

Strange…… fc_n_grp is already in vignetteparams.ini also fc_or_grp, but still not work in my mod, but then i change it to fc_no_grp all things will going.

can you see Nomads in your rep list? there are factions blocked to be visible there via common.dll

Did you add a Nomad char to a base (such as as the Worm char) ?

@Gisteron, in common.dll, i replaced the fc_n_grp with gd_a_grp, so i think this will not a problem.

@LancerSolurus, LOL, Nomad women? I just add them to the Base Faction with Mission Vender. But…… I must add a char for them? That’s bit hard for me.

i doubt you need a char for them on the base. however, you can do so by simply changing the faction of a different character. keep in mind, the appearance is irrelevant for the faction. you don’t need the nomad symbionth to have a nomad NPC on the base.

Hehe, its a worm, I have it on one of my custom bases. It was the only nomad char model I found in the files. Gisteron is correct, it doesn’t have to be the worm for it to work, you can just as easily use one of the human models in it’s place.

If you want to im going to set the faction weight for fc_n_grp……that’s 100 so there is problem free…strange, only i had those problem? i may check my mod thorough when i have free time.

Is there a way to increase the LoDs used inside a nebula without fog? It’s clearly different to that of normal LoDs, because objects that are seen from 1000k away with the frustrum hacks in normal space can disappear at ranges such as 35 or 39k if inside a nebula with no fog.
On a related note, is it possible to stop stars from automatically dimming and losing their star spines when you enter or fly in front of an asteroid field or nebula?