Dev's Limit Breaking 101 Techniques

@Gold_Sear Accepted your PR! I’ll update my list of what’s done. Hoping to get a bit of work done on this today

I’ve powered through and also added the ‘Turret View/Mouse’ section (renamed to simply ‘Turret View’, as all the offsets are focused on that). Also added a timestamp I forgot in the ‘Display’ section.

Took a quick look, looked good, merged.

@Laz: thanks!

Meanwhile I’ve added the ‘Systems’ section, naming it as is.

EDIT: the sync seems to be lost again: where did I make a typo?

EDIT2/Update: also added the ‘VFX’ section. I recall having some more offsets laying around, haven’t tested them yet, will add them soon.

@Gold_Sear said in Dev's Limit Breaking 101 Techniques:

EDIT: the sync seems to be lost again: where did I make a typo?

Think it’s unrelated. Something broken with the auto-deployment. I will investigate.

Ah… I did make a typo (thanks Laz!)

Okay, so I’ve gone through my archive of untested offsets, found quite a few:

• from this thread the following, tested:

#camera of target wireframe on the top (like a playership wireframe)
#Jeider, 9 April 2020
File: Freelancer.exe
E3D09: B1 01 90 [ 0F 95 C1 ]

#always show target wireframe
#WhiskasTM, 29 July 2019
File: Freelancer.exe
CFE75: 00 [ 01 ]
E203E: 90 E9 [ 0F 84 ]
E20FF: EB [ 74 ]
E3CE0: 90 90 90 90 90 90 [ 0F 85 8F 02 00 00 ]
E1F91: 90 90 [ 74 60 ]
E36DA: 30 [ 08 ]

#force 1st weapon group to be set on entering space
#WhiskasTM, 29 July 2019
File: Freelancer.exe
DB6A5: 07 [ 13 ]
DB6B7: 6A 00 [ EB 05 ]

#make target wireframe ignore all mouse events
#WhiskasTM, 12 July 2019
File: Freelancer.exe
E7DF9: 30 C0 [ B0 01 ]

From here:

#steering arrows always go to mouse
#adoxa, 2 May 2010
File: Freelancer.exe
C8864: EB [ 75 ]

#increase to 12 steering arrows
#adoxa, 2 May 2010
File: Freelancer.exe
C885B: F8 1A 48 [ DC 75 5C ]
C886A: 1.8f [ 1.0f ]

#distance between steering arrows
#adoxa, 2 May 2010
File: Freelancer.exe
C8AE0: 74 86 4C [ DC 6E 5D ]
C8674: 0.15f [ 90 90 90 90 ]

#size multiplier for steering arrows
#adoxa, 2 May 2010
File: Freelancer.exe
C8A6F: 78 86 4C [ E0 75 5C ]
C8678: 0.5f [ 90 90 90 90 ]

Furthermore, I dug up two offsets of my own that I never published:

#hostile threshold for Closest Enemy
#Gold_Sear, 6 June 2024
File: common.dll
13E548: -0.6f

#max selection distance
#Gold_Sear, 6 June 2024
File: Freelancer.exe
1DC130: 10000000f

Everything added to the payload, including fixes for bugs I made earlier.

EDIT: done. I forgot to mention that there are untested patches by adoxa to make NPCs on server recognise collisions. However, since I am unable to test multiplayer-related stuff, I can not test them right now. Someone else willing to?

There was a typo in the new block that I merged, but I had 4 JSON linters all tell me everything is fine. Sometimes it annoys me how the trailing comma is ‘sometimes’ allowed. The auto-deployment failure was caused by a JS peer dependency resolving to the wrong version.

@Laz: thanks again for fixing my typos!
@self: remember to turn off the ‘insert’ button and fix it’s damage!

EDIT:

#make accounts less vulnerable to crashes due to too many cargo/base_cargo lines in character files
#double the size of Freelancer's 'visit' packet (MP only)
#Jolly_Roger, 14 September 2012
#adoxa, 7 March 2021
#adoxa, 1 October 2022
File: RemoteClient.dll
96B1: D0 27 [ 00 28 ]
96E8: 30 20 03 [ 00 90 01 ]
9707: 20 03 [ 90 01 ]
File: remoteserver.dll
9AE5: D0 27 [ 00 28 ]

This patch is actually a composition of two patches that alter the same code, hence had to be merged.

#colors of several things hardcoded in freelancer.exe
#adoxa, 7 January 2010
File: Freelancer.exe
0bd8ec: 43 # R of tooltip background
0bd8f1: 61 # G
0bd8f6: 70 # B
0bd933: b9 # R of tooltip text
0bd938: f7 # G
0bd90b: ff # B (this is e0 of an unused color)
0bd92a: 0f # change it from 0e so above works
15b22c: ff # R of selected maneuver icon
15b231: ff # G
15b236: 00 # B
15b2cb: ff # R of selected neural net icon
15b2d0: ff # G
15b2d5: 00 # B
15b2f6: ff # A of both
161be6: 87 # R of main text color (aqua)
161bed: c3 # G
161bf4: e0 # B
161bfb: c0 # A
161c06: 87 # R of main color (aqua)
161c0d: c3 # G
161c14: e0 # B
161c1b: ff # A
161c66: f5 # R of selected color (yellow)
161c6d: ea # G
161c74: 52 # B
161c7b: ff # A
161ce1: 80 # RGB of disabled icons
161cf7: ff # A
199da6: 87 c3 e0 # RGB of some buttons
199dab: 87 c3 e0 # and again
199dc6: 80 80 80 # RGB of disabled buttons
199dcb: 80 80 80 # and again

Probably want to make a new section ‘HUD: Colors’ to add it in.

EDIT: indexed to payload.

I found a way to have numbers under 1.0 on the drag_modifier variable on [Zones], meaning that 0.5 or similar will increase speed instead of reducing it.

!! Please do a backup of the file, this was done with Ghidra and needs testing !!

Common.dll

OFFSET 000D7A60
CHANGE: 7A -> EB

OFFSET 000D7AC0
CHANGE: 7A -> EB

OFFSET 000D7AF0
CHANGE: 0F 85 73 02 00 00 -> 90 90 90 90 90 90

Your first two offsets seem off; I see them at D7A6F & D7ACC. May as well change the first one to EB 65, thus skipping the second.

@Adoxa how exactly does “include external equipment in cargo size” limit breaker works?

some offsets were sitting in there in a folder

1.Turn off non-music sounds
SoundManager.dll+89B8 (function loads sounds once)
74 -> EB 

2.Turn off combat chatter
Content.dll+12E368
01 -> 00 

3.Turn off rendering of static debris(collisions are not affected)
Freelancer.exe+122669
74 -> EB

4.Thickness of F1 menu/Inventory Rectangle bars, make it more thick
Freelancer.exe+1A36B3(bot line)
Freelancer.exe+1A374A(right line)
Freelancer.exe+1A37B6(top line)
Freelancer.exe+1A383A(left line)

68 A6 9B 44 3B(0.002) -> 68 6F 12 0C 3C(0.008)

5.Icon size multiplier
Freelancer.exe+1D748C
Default is 0 float, can increase up to 0.03

6.Neural net icons will always flash
Freelancer.exe+15B28F
74 05 -> 90 90

7.Change color of clicked (toggled on) icons (00-FF 1 byte minimum/maximum value)
Freelancer.exe+15B22C RED 
Freelancer.exe+15B231 GREEN
Freelancer.exe+15B236 BLUE

default color is yellow

8.Turn off rendering background universe
Freelancer.exe+152E7C

74 -> EB

9.BUGFIX for FLHook RequestSpaceScript
Server sided cutscenes crashes for client due to a bug 
.thn files that you want to play must be in, /DATA folder with the name size of test001.thn

RemoteServer.dll+249B1 0x19F549B1

8B 36 8B 7D 38 8B C8 8B D1 C1 E9 02 ->
8B 36 BF 21 9A 30 06 FF D7 C1 E9 02 

Common.dll+A9A21

90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 ->
BF 71 9B 30 06 89 7D 38 8B C8 8B D1 C3 90 90

@Gold_Sear Sorry for the radio silence on this, I’ve been otherwise engaged! I’ve accepted your PR and fixed a few syntax issues with the merge. Hopefully will have some time this evening to make a push and finish off a few more sections.

@Groshyr It just adds external equipment to the types it tests; perhaps have a look at the original request (last paragraph of that post, plus most of the rest).

@IrateRedKite No worries, I’ve been away too.
goes back hunting for solutions on his list

@josbyte,@adoxa: added your offset to the payload and to KraftFragment;
@Venemon : added your offsets to the payload and KraftFragment, with the exception of #7, which was already found by adoxa in 2010.
goes off testing the new patches

Hello everyone I got some crash feedback about some of my offsets, I suggest removing them

1.Auto-CM without activation (crashes with wrecks)
2.Guided projectiles wont give up tracking a target(effects everything in unintentional way)

for the first one, everyone should use BC46’s alternative
and second one here is a better alternative

server.dll+1460C
This will allow 360* FOV missiles and as a side effect, missiles will not give up chasing their targets, if it is 360*FOV

(seeker_fov_deg = 180 means 360* FOV)

0F 8A ED 01 00 00 -> 90 90 90 90 90 90

(as technical note, normally missiles cannot have fov above 180+ due to a limiter that checks missile's trajectory against a target, if it is negative, it kills the seeker)

Just adding this one here too, that is discovered recently

Freelancer.exe+F8C36
Alchemy will read "-1.0" engine state
this will allow -1.0 ALE effects to spawn for reverse impulsing

7A 16 -> EB 16

@Venemon I think with these adding an adjustment to the post with a disclaimer saying that these crash and recommending the alternative offset might be the way to go, as these addresses are potentially useful for additional reverse engineering!

The list:

HUD
Miscellaneous
Missions
NPCs
Reputation
Server Operation
Systems
Turret View and Mouse
Visibility
Visual Effects

Having gone over this category list and checking offsets within each page against the json, we seem to be done! I added a few extras from Visibility, and need to comb recent activity in this thread to make sure there’s nothing new I’ve missed, but we’re nearly ready to do a category/accuracy pass and retire the old page I think!

I’m tracking issues with a few offsets here: https://github.com/TheStarport/StarportDocusaurus/issues/12 so if there’s any that need adjustment/investigation and it’s not a straightforward fix, please add to the issue

IrateRedKite created this issue in TheStarport/StarportDocusaurus

open Offsets that need modifying/format adjustments before being added to the Limit Breaking 101 Page #12