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I reused ST03 and so when you fly in the system (Even though the system is set to visit = 0) it says No Nav Map Available. What I need is that to go away. (I don’t know what happened but I made a similar post on Friday and it was gone when I got back Sunday, so here it is again).

Yep, the NoNavMap plugin lets you control that (it totally replaces the hardcoded systems with your own).

Fantastic, thanks for the help

Is there a way to bypass that initial “information fill out dialog” when a server is first started? I’m looking into using FLServer under Wine as an automatic startup item.

Essentially, I just want it to start without having to press the okay button.

Omicron wrote:
Is there a way to bypass that initial “information fill out dialog” when a server is first started? I’m looking into using FLServer under Wine as an automatic startup item.

Essentially, I just want it to start without having to press the okay button.

Try config your server in Freelancer.ini, And then, start your FLServer with flserver.exe /c

Omicron, wait what? FLServer runs under wine? \o/

=Alex= wrote:
Omicron, wait what? FLServer runs under wine? \o/

Mind = blown.

Vesko wrote:

=Alex= wrote:
Omicron, wait what? FLServer runs under wine? \o/

Mind = blown.

I think I lost the meaning of this post.

NeXoSE wrote:

Omicron wrote:
Is there a way to bypass that initial “information fill out dialog” when a server is first started? I’m looking into using FLServer under Wine as an automatic startup item.

Essentially, I just want it to start without having to press the okay button.

Try config your server in Freelancer.ini, And then, start your FLServer with flserver.exe /c

Awesome, thank you good sir. Sorry for posting this request here.

And FLServer seems to be working internally with the latest compiled version of Wine and Debian 6.0.1. I’ve yet to thoroughly test it though, but there is only one way to find out…

Cracks knuckles

=Alex= wrote:

Vesko wrote:

=Alex= wrote:
Omicron, wait what? FLServer runs under wine? \o/

Mind = blown.

I think I lost the meaning of this post.

It’s an Internet phrase, basically means my mind has been blown by the fact that FLServer runs under Wine.

Vesko wrote:

=Alex= wrote:

Vesko wrote:

=Alex= wrote:
Omicron, wait what? FLServer runs under wine? \o/

Mind = blown.

I think I lost the meaning of this post.

It’s an Internet phrase, basically means my mind has been blown by the fact that FLServer runs under Wine.

Wine? WIne? WINEEE? WINE? WINE? WINE? MINE? MINE?

Be serious, what about player profile? I feel better to keep FLServer running in a vmwared Windows.

NeXoSE, player profile?

I do have FLServer + FLHook working under Wine, but Freelancer in my XP VM can’t see or connect to it.

=Alex= wrote:
NeXoSE, player profile?

I do have FLServer + FLHook working under Wine, but Freelancer in my XP VM can’t see or connect to it.

I mean save game. Wine will correctly provide %USERPROFILE% for Freelancer?

Sorry for my ignorant, Im not using wine yet.

alex@alex:~$ wine cmd.exe
CMD Version 1.3.17

Z:\home\alex>echo %USERPROFILE%
C:\users\alex

Certainly looks like it.

I looked in the wiki but didn’t see anything on this.
I seem to recall having read at one time that you could extend the scanner range to detect other players but also had to do an edit to freelancer.exe.

Does anyone have a link to that info available?

Thanks

IIRC after adjusting the values for the scanners, these need to be modified as well,

100000000f freelancer.exe 1D15B8 Dev square of max distance that a ship can be selected
6250000f server.dll 086AEC Dev square of NPC disappear distance in MP
25000000f server.dll 086AF0 Dev square of player disappear distance in MP
100000000f server.dll 086AF4 Dev square of grouped player disappear distance in MP

I know i adjusted everything to 10k in my mod but that’s just me.

All right, I made the edits to freelancer.exe (changed 100000000f to 10000000000f)
and server.dll (changed 086AF0 from 25000000f to 2500000000f and 086AF4 from 100000000f to 10000000000f) which should make players visible out to 50k and groups out to 100k. And it does…

But, even a player without the edits can now see anyone 50k away.

I have the following two scanners:

[Scanner]
nickname = ge_s_scanner_01
ids_name = 263750
ids_info = 264750
volume = 0
mass = 10
range = 2500
cargo_scan_range = 4000
lootable = false

[Scanner]
nickname = ge_s_scanner_02
ids_name = 263751
ids_info = 264751
volume = 0
mass = 10
range = 50000
cargo_scan_range = 50000
lootable = false

The ge_s_scanner_02 is intended for admin use, but even ge_s_scanner_01 can see a player out to 50k, they just can’t select the player.

Is there a way to make ONLY ge_s_scanner_02 have the increased range or is it an all or nothing deal.

Scanners do not affect player visibility.

What I’m trying to do is take the second scanner in the files and dedicate it for use by admins. I’d like it to have a range of at least 50k, but just changing the range of the scanner didn’t make it see any farther.

I thought the edits to freelancer.exe and server.dll would make it so that the scanner range could be increased and then the edits to the scanner would take advantage of that range increase.

I suppose I might expect the ge_s_scanner_01 to need an edit to reduce its range, but even though it’s significantly lower than scanner_02, it still sees the same distance, so reducing its scan range won’t help.

robo, did you read what I said? Player visibility ranges are universal, no matter what scanner you use or what’s the range given. As long as the player is within the range, he’ll be visible. Whether he is selectable depends on I think object visibility ranges, but again scanners do NOT affect players in any way.