Sweet.

I’ll definitly give your tutorials a read and see what I can find out, thanks!

A general question for anyone to answer: Currently we’re using FLExplorer, Freelancer Mod Studio and FLDeveloper.

What modding tools do ye the modding community recommend for the novices?

Bas wrote:
Well, FYI I recall some kind of TC modding starter pack somewhere here.

Cool!

Also, you might find fitting tutorials in our old archived forums area here or at the wiki.

By “archived” do you mean older threads in this forum?

I tried the wiki first but a lot of that seems to be specific only to a few parts of the game.
For example if I click on “Ship & Solar Tutorials” i’ll get a link to “How to make capital ship shields”, with a lot of the tutorials I get this message “You’ve followed a link to a page that doesn’t exist yet.”

Some of this is quite handy but I have to admit that it’ll be a while before I get to most of these things. What I need is an absolute beginners guide (“Idiot’s guide” if you will) to modding FL.

Presume I know nothing because tbh i’d be the first to admit I know nothing about modding this game but for a few years now we’ve really wanted to do this.

Of course if we do get it up and running there will be another Freelancer mod to play online, I don’t care if it takes years to make it.

Hi,

Me and my friend have been playing freelancer for quite a long time now and have decided to make a Total Conversion mod.

Basically we’re starting from scratch as neither of us have previous modding experience in modding Freelancer.

Currently he’s creating systems with FLExplorer and modifying them with Freelancer Mod Studio and Freelancer Devolper.

Currently i’m trying to figure out how to import new ships from another mod I play (they’re not staying there if this goes online unless we get permission) and trying to figure out how to create new weapons (guns/turrets) as well as modifying current weapons.

I’ve tried every google search I can think of and tried reading different tutorials but nothing’s helped me thus far.

Can any of ye recommend what tools I should be using and what the simplest tutorials for that are??

If anyone’s actually intrested in joining a mod team for TC that might be cool too.

All forms of help is appreciated