Universe CHAT-Channel

J.R.

Applying this patch works fine.

Note: when u select the Console-Channel in chat-history and press enter for typing your message, there´s already the correct “UNIVERSE->” prefix on the chatline. I think i´ll have a look into some dll.s (probably resource.dll) containing the text for “Console”-Label in broadcast-channels. Going to change it for convenience… or is there another way to do so?!

Again u helped me alot !!!

Thank you so much and have a great time mate
Greetings

P.s.: could u explain what this means:
" Test the Console Channel before a Private Channel."
(I´m just curious)

adoxa

I think i´ll have a look into some dll.s (probably resource.dll) containing the text for “Console”-Label in broadcast-channels.

Yep, resource.dll string 7052 (there is no “universe channel” string).

P.s.: could u explain what this means:
" Test the Console Channel before a Private Channel."
(I´m just curious)

Yeah, me too. I think I had to test the console first, otherwise a player might take precedence.

J.R.

Another minor glitch:
When you start a new char the Stats always show Level 19. After /restart-command or on undock (the first time), this odd thing gets fixed and the shown Level is correct (1). Is there a way to prevent this strange issue?

starworld

For me everything works, but the universe channel does not print!

adoxa

Perhaps you need to be admin?

J.R.

Did u test the universe-chat while being alone on the server?
´coz this happend to be the mistake that I made while testing

The printing of ur universe-message only works when someone else is online too…

Just my two cents…

Greetings

starworld

Yes I have 2 computers with 2 accounts.
I disabled flhook and plugins client side.
If flhook enabled my 2 accounts are admin.

Does not print…

Another hack Chat can produce an error?

Edit :

I wonder if the universe channel is enabled?

adoxa

Here’s a revised patch, with a bit more info. I still didn’t get Universe to work with up/down, but it’s probably better to just Escape & Enter or use /u, anyway.

# Enable use of the Universe Channel.
# Jason Hood, 8 & 10 March, 2014.

# Replaces the Console Channel with the Universe Channel.  However, it must be
# selected directly through Chat History - it won't show up using up/down.

File: freelancer.exe

# Use the disabled icon (basically the same colour).
0657BD: 6A		[ F4 ]

# Increase to three rows.
067804: 03		[ 02 ]
067970: 03		[ 02 ]
1CEF1C: 0.074f		[ 0.05f ]

06833E: 08		[ 0C ]		# add to the Broadcast Channels
06987B: 3E		[ 35 ]		# display Universe Channel
06985D: 44		[ 48 ]		# use Universe Channel

# There are no existing universe channel tip strings, so you can do a number of
# things: don't have tips; modify the Console tips; create new tips.
# Uncomment this to enable tips.
#065637: 44		[ 48 ]
# If you want the tips, either modify strings 7052 & 7053 in resources.dll to
# say "Universe" instead of "Console"; or create two new strings and change the
# tip id here and the map in DATA\INTERFACE\rollover.ini.
#065640: 7052i		[ 7052i ]

@starworld: With stock vanilla, for a player to send a message to the universe, they must be admin. For a player to be admin, they must have the admin file in their account directory. If a non-admin player tries to send to the universe, the server console will show a warning as such. It doesn’t look like FLHook’s admin commands change that. So:

server.dll	0399AB	75->EB = allow all players to use universe chat ~adoxa

starworld

Ok.
But “admin” file not work with flserver+flhook.

server.dll hack is good!
All works now.

starworld

I explored “resources.dll” and I saw this tips:

7031, 	"Local area chat channel"

7034, 	"This channel sends to all players in your immediate area."

But there is no interface for the Local chat. Possible to add?
I do not think using it but it’s interesting to know.
Flhook add command /l or /local.

DwnUndr

/l already works. It prints in orange and anyone within scanner range can see it. If someone is docked they can not see it.