Hello Starport

Howdy. Apparently I’ve been a member here since 2011, but I never introduced myself, but I have been lurking here for a long time. I’ve been playing and modding Freelancer since around 2005. I actually have a mod uploaded to Lancer’s Reactor in the archived downloads section, makeminevanilla. That was my first mod I ever made. It was simple, just ramped up the npc difficulty and missions make more money plus added open single player. I might have changed some equipment and goods around but I can’t remember it’s been to long ago.

Most of the modding I’ve done since then is mashing mods together which is fun, I never submitted those I just play them as single player. But recently I’ve been getting serious about fixing Privateer: The Reckoning mod. I’ve already added new cockpits to it and spruced up the UI, using other mods’ resources, like i said I’m good at mashing them together. I’ve also started to put asteroid bands to relevant fields. I don’t like flying along then BAM I’m in the middle of an asteroid field. So I’m fixing that too. Also some of the bases are bugged so they always show up as 0k away no matter where you are in the system and you can’t dock with them. Whoever made Privateer used a custom mining base and I figure the bug is in that so first step will be trying to revert it back to a vanilla base. Then I want to make Privateer cockpits to go with the Privateer ships that look similar to the original Privateer cockpits. Then maybe get some better Ship models and replace the old ones. Some of the ships in there are really low quality. To me Privateer is alot of fun to play, low weapons refire rates and mobs of mobs. But flying around in a Gothri with 4 thrusters and snipping retros from 1k away with lasers is a blast. Anyway thank you guys for being here when I needed to figure out how to do something. Be seeing ya around.

PS: If anyone can give me a starting point or pointers to debuggin bases I’d appreciate it. I just don’t know where to start looking for the base bugs.

Well thanks for the reply, I will make another post in the appropriate thread.

Man, I just found FLExplorer and Freelancer Mod Studio from reading stuff on this site. I wish I would’ve found these two tools years ago. I’ve read alot of negative comments about FLExplorer but I have to say BIG thanks to whoever wrote that one. Thanks to these two programs I have already debugged the Troy system, Hector and Achilles mining operations are back in business, plus there are asteroid billboards now, makes a big difference. Anyway I’ll stop posting in the wrong threads now and move this to the appropriate thread. I just wanted to share how happy I am with these two programs.

I’m ahead of the game on that one, I already have that program and I’ve been using it alot. That and FL Dev to fix info cards’ dll entries and ids on wepons/goods. I’m ready to pull my hair out tho trying to chase down all the messed up ids and linking them to the proper entry in the dll and also fixing the entries IN the dll itself, and there are a ton of them. I wish i could blank out the dll and just put the entries in it for the mod and get rid of all the vanilla stuff that I have to sort through to to find what I need to change. If I had made the mod I’d know where and what everything is, but since I didn’t make it, I’m having to sort someone elses’ spaghetti out to get to the meatballs. Anyway I appreciate the tip tho.

Is there a program that will show what dll info entry the weapon/gear/good ini file entry is linked to? If not maybe we could put a couple heads together and make that one. Looking between two programs and searching them out is really time consuming. I worked all day on fixing dll entries only to finally scratch what I had done because the weapon_goods and weapon_equip are all mixed up in the vanilla stuff. Plus there is a ton of stuff in there that’s not even being used by the mod. It got so confusing I just scratched it. Going to try simplifying it tomorrow.

Well in the version of FL Dev I have I’ve been copying and pasting in id/name and info card entries using right click. I found that search function yesterday and it really helps but it’d be nice to load an ini file and see the dll entry it’s linked to as the search function in fl dev won’t let you search out the entries’ id number in the dlls. I would love to blank it and just have mod entries in there but the mod uses some of the vanilla stuff and I’d probably break the mod if I started with a new one.

Oh… well thanks for that I didn’t know you could search id’s that way. Thanks a bunch!