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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?

freelancer.exe	111C3C	74->EB = display sun spines within nebula ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	111C80	74->EB = display sun spines within asteroid field ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	11C8FB	0D->00 = display sun spines within nebula (3rd person) ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	11C9BB	0D->00 = display sun spines within nebula (cockpit) ~adoxa

is there a parameter or can there be enabled one for turbulences in nebulas? so you can make a really thick nebula with radiation and stuff and your ship is being shaken a little bit while you fly there. heard speed modifications are possible already.

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.

I bet it will work technically - but I assume the missions’ texts will be the same as for any other faction? Which would be odd, imho.

Even weirder would be missions against the Nomads (expecially the ones that mention a boss’s name - nomads have only one name string, 229608, which is empty). But afaik it’s not possible to alter missions’ texts faction-specific, is it? You can prolly change it, but then the change will be global…

Btw, where are the mission texts anyway? Can’t seem to find them using FLED-Ids…

Btw, where are the mission texts anyway?

OfferBribeResources.dll, 327680 to 332024 (in OfferBribeResources.frc, anyway).

Moonhead wrote:
Even weirder would be missions against the Nomads (expecially the ones that mention a boss’s name - nomads have only one name string, 229608, which is empty).

Try this: this will show alpha to omega as Nomad’s name.

firstname_male = 197808, 197820
firstname_female = 197808, 197820
lastname = 197808, 197820
rank_desig = 197808, 197809, 197810, 11, 15
large_ship_desig = 196891
large_ship_names = 197808, 197820
formation_desig = 197808, 197820
formation = fighters, fighter_guild
formation = gunboats, gunboat_wall
formation = battleships, battleship_wall

Hum, “I’m the alpha and omega, the begning and the end…” Revelation 21:4…

adoxa wrote:

Btw, where are the mission texts anyway?

OfferBribeResources.dll, 327680 to 332024 (in OfferBribeResources.frc, anyway).

Thanks, makes sense, did look there. Not good enough, apparently. Oh well, 't was rather late and I’ve got a mild flue

NeXoSE wrote:

Try this: this will show alpha to omega as Nomad’s name.

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Hum, “I’m the alpha and omega, the begning and the end…” Revelation 21:4…

Nice And fitting, this godlike association. We might indeed see the Nomads as the Nephilim, and the D’am Kvosh as the Bene Elohim from the mysterious sixth chapter of Genesis, to stick to biblical terms.

These kind of biblical references were also in the original Battlestar Galactica series (the twelve tribes, Lucifer, Count Iblis - Iblis being the islamic name for Satan, e.g.)

But I’m getting off-topic now.

adoxa wrote:

freelancer.exe	111C3C	74->EB = display sun spines within nebula ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	111C80	74->EB = display sun spines within asteroid field ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	11C8FB	0D->00 = display sun spines within nebula (3rd person) ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	11C9BB	0D->00 = display sun spines within nebula (cockpit) ~adoxa

Wow, thanks! I implemented this and it turned out brilliantly. There’s something spectacular about seeing stars properly inside a nebula, plus they no longer suffer from transparency within asteroid fields causing objects to be seen behind them. It really improves the look of all systems.

I know it is hardcoded. I am using ST03 as a normal system but the navmap does not show up (It is not on visit = 128 )