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Oh, wow, thanks for that!

I am a staff member on a server and we would like to know if there is a way to hide our location on the player chat screen.
I assume it’s a .exe or .dll tweak.
The server runs FLAC so FLHook is out of the question.

Smackdown wrote:
… we would like to know if there is a way to hide our location on the player chat screen…

maybe u can give adoxas territory plugin a try.
U can configure it how u like it to be (f.e. categorize them in “house system areas” or just let it display “sirius” @ every player)
it works pretty well for me

but i think there could be an offset change that simply overrides the clients “asking for locations”

*looking around for offset magicians *

If you’re trying to hide an admin’s location, using a clientside plugin to do it would be utterly useless. It’s trivially bypassed.

You’d need something on the server side, but I’m afraid FLAC development is near to non-existent around here. Unless someone can figure out a universal hack, you’re going to have a hard time.

I can modify TerritoryMP to work server-side (although it still requires client-side system entries). How should I determine if a player should be hidden (which would be achieved just by having a system called Hidden, or using an empty string)?

The server operator should have the option to choose who get’s hidden and be able to change it easily enough. Be it through a console command or something done to character files. And they could either just always be shown in New York, no matter where they are, or in ??? or something…
I’m sure whatever you come up with Adoxa will be a work of genius.

hey…
it wouldnt be limited to a console command, like smackdown said, a staff-dll would solve the problem too…it doesnt really matter. thanks man

~Rhodan

Went with a mounted piece of equipment, so you can even make it available to normal players, should you so choose. There’s one caveat: the first time you log in (after selecting a server), and you’re on a base, the equipment list hasn’t been created, so you’re still visible until a launch or reselection. Oh, I guess there’s another caveat, in that if you want to unmount the equipment and become visible again, you also have to launch/reselect to make it known. The Territory MP plugin is installed server-side now, so you can remove it from your clients (although it shouldn’t hurt if you leave it). However, as mentioned, the systems defined in universe.ini still need to exist client-side (as does the associated resource DLL), but you can hide the systems belonging to the territory, and/or the equipment hiding the system, from the client should you so choose.

Pure genius Adoxa…
Server op is planning on testing it this week sometime.
Thanks again for all the help!

ALL HAIL ADOXA!!!

Is it possible to enable muzzle flashes (flash_particle_name) in cockpit view?

Is it possible to enable muzzle flashes (flash_particle_name) in cockpit view?

It’s works. Open DATA\cameras.ini and change znear parameter in cockpit camera. (for example, set znear = 0)

adoxa wrote:
[…]Territory MP […]

works excellent
thank you very much

0x27ADCA Freelancer.exe 1c Filter out incompatible builds on server list by default

Thought some people may find that useful.

FriendlyFire wrote:
0x27ADCA Freelancer.exe 1c Filter out incompatible builds on server list by default

Thought some people may find that useful.

How do I implement this in my freelancer.exe ?
With the hex-editor ?
Tried it and coudn´t find a “offset” or am I totally on the wrong path ?

Help would be very welcome

yes, use a hex editor - i am using pspad for everything editing related, pretty good and freeware: http://www.pspad.com/en/

just search for 27ADCA (the lines are alway starting at zero, going into the line will lead you to Hex A) after you openend the freelancer.exe with it or your prefered Hex Editor and overwrite the current value with the one from FF.

THx mate… but it doesn´t work out… maybe its because i use the german version of Freelancer.exe ???
Couldn´t find any offset with that specific number nor any other “text” or HEX similar.

Any help would be welcome to solve this problem…
Greetings J.R.

yw,

i don’t know anything about possible differences between the german and english freelancer.exe versions, sorry.

The picture shows how you need to do it - just in case.

THX for your patients again mate… gonna try this again with pspad…
I think it will work out then … I still hope so.

Nope… no way to do this hack with my version of freelancer.exe !!!
The file doesn´t have any offset higher than 21E… !!!
Seems to be different to other exe´s.

You’re not using the No-CD EXE, are you?