Yeah I figured as much. I had a neighbor who had Mass Effect 1, but it was in French! Couldn’t understand anything.

I remember someone did the Command Carrier or whatever it was called (the large doughnut shaped one), years ago. Probably in one of the Re-Balance mods.

But sorry, dont know anybody who made the Bioships. Pity really cuz they were quite good

While perks are nifty and bring a different style of play to the table, I don’t think they are a necessary element in freelancer. Developers drop those in to give their content lacking games some replayability.

We all know that freelancer isn’t missing any content, at all really. Not with the community it has. Don’t get me wrong though, taking the time to do it, and making it work, I’d like to see it, I think it would be pretty cool.

For now though, I recommend focusing on just beefing up the graphics, making them look improved, detailed and VERY appealing, and the easiest task to do on your list.

Make an extension mod after for your perk system if you can get it figured out, that way its an optional feature.

Also, for compatibility for those server hosts, use the SDK as a base for everything. Build up from that as I know the majority of vanilla servers use it for improved stability. More incentive for people to use your Enhanced Graphics.

Good luck!

Thanks Xarian!

The reason I ask guys is I’m creating a very very stripped down version of XP (so much so that its size is about a 100mb or so on disk) with all the tools necessary for modding freelancer.

Call it a sort of Freelancer Editing Kit if you will.

People wishing to use it would just download a file, and then load it into a free “player”, and be able to use it without needing to install anything, as it will already be configured.

Files from the “host” or regular PC can be dragged and dropped right into the window of the editing kit, and dropped back out again to your desktop.

The main ability of this is it will allow those with Vista/7 etc (such as myself) to use programs that don’t work in them.

You can also use it as a side effect to browse safely, as if you did contract any malware etc it would be limited to the virtual environment.

So what I needed was a full list of tools, Xarian if you could create a pack then I can get to work on getting them all included, except the larger tools that is.

Anyone that would like to help, is also welcome to do so!

Including any suggestions for content, as it is will be a custom windows xp install, so it will mainly be designed for that, the start menu will only reflect editing tools etc.

So it won’t be used in place of a true operating system.

Got it up and running with a bare minimum XP install and Notepad++, my favourite editor for modifying ini files

Load the shield sur into FLMT, click resize, select the scale option you want & set the scale to 2, make sure the type still points to scenery and hit OK.
You will now have a shield bubble sur that’s double the size of the original.

Oh? Do enlighten us Mr Solurus 🙂

PS: Hilarious signature SolCommand

Thanks mr cheese 🙂

Errmmm…

Yes, I cannot download it either I’m afraid, nor me neither!! …

I wonder if it’s this server that’s causing my surs to fail too…??? !!! 😄

Thats the original bloom shader there Sushi, I’m referring to the Resident Evil 5 one, the one mentioned in that thread is the RE4 version of bloom, not realistic colours like this one exhibits.

But thanks for the link, gives me some perspective 🙂

What you are saying is how it would be done anyways …

The hook would intercept the destination coords when entering a system and instead place you at the coords you’d specified.

As like in your jump gate method.

The only time a player would be jumped elsewhere is by forcing entrance to the hyperspace area where they would be placed based on position determined by the system they came from, i.e;, sat near the new york exit hole for example.

A jump to Colorado they’d travel through hyperspace for a little bit, and then use colorado exit to the coords they’d entered in prior to reaching hyperspace.

Besides, doesn’t it lead to corrupted data because its a beam to a base/planet/station?

Would a beam to open space not be different as it doesn’t trigger any saving of data to the server files, only when you land?

For the mod/patch project, I am working on a thingy more or less.

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/article.php?storyid=147

Though, I just work at it every then and then at the moment.

I may try to fix that then in the future 🙂

Could you elaborate please mr solurus? 🙂

This is purely experimentation to get some idea of how things could play out in another project of mine.

I’m learning C# at the moment for use with the XNA framework to program my own game in top down arcade style but with rpg, rts and arcade combat elements. I’m currently working on the design document so if anyone has any ideas such as things you felt were missing from Freelancer, i’d appreciate it.

Particulary if it relates to universe interaction, i.e; how the player can effect the world he/she plays in.

Those envmap materials are basically cubemaps. I haven’t experimented with glass much, but I did see some extremely reflective materials in a few spots. Gibbon could answer better with that.

envmapbasic is really nice in that it’s a cubemap that defines pseudo specular mapping. It does so by projecting a particular face of the cube depending on whether you’re looking at the model from

the left angle

the right angle

the top angle

the bottom angle

the front

an extreme angle from any side

The thing is that by default it uses a grey color. That means you can alter overall ambient lighting just by toning that grey down. You can also fake shadows to a certain extent with that by darkening the side.

There are plenty of nice things to do 🙂

Never mind lol, found the freelancer misc database from the downloads section 😄

Fantastic, thanks again 😄

Awesome, I should be able to pick this up, but I would suggest trying to create a refence or guide to this, even if it is only basic, it might suggest the reason why not many have used it. With the proper documentation I think this program would go quite far.

Not to mention the tools included with it.

But, a lot of the statements for the use I will make out of it perhaps won’t require a lot of conditions, for example it would take longer to type nospace than it would to simply type a _

If you get my meaning …

But I do understand the power of it nonetheless 🙂

I hope someone finds it useful 😄

I’ll look into using that then instead …

As you can probably see I’ve placed the widescreen fix in conventional modding.

After a brief test I have noticed several interface sections like the server list and character screens have sections out of alignment, I’m going to have to fix that after I look into UI element positioning.

Just did that as a quick fix for myself to start with, thanks to a handy tutorial to do with tekagis treasure mod.

Nice and easy mod to start with 🙂