just been on this server for couple hours and liking it so far, nice and fresh so much to see and goto places, brilliant

mmm tried editing the mouse.ini in notepad, comes up with garbage stuff

run it with what tho

theres 2 files

1 with .lng and another with .mps

anyone?

is it possible to change the targeting cross hair from red to another colour a friend player of mine has problem with reds browns oranges and unfortunatly hes a bretonian ship flyer (planet leeds etc etc) so he has a prob

freelancer on imdb

also that 1st link when clicked on says “freelancer 2 releases” was there 2?

“IPv4 is running out of addresses, will be obsolete soon and not used at all, FL doesn’t like.”

forgive me if i know nothing about ip thingy 4 or 6 or whatever
and slap me sideways with a wet fish if i sound stupid

but cant addresses that are not being used be deleted to make space

interesting, ask him to contact me, im admin for a discovery forum

how would i apply it, as when discovery activated all else is “greyed” out

love the game, but wish that there were better textures for discovery

is there a way without having to manually change stuff. i.e. editing each texture myself

is discovery compatible with changed textures

i just want it to look better

is there anything out there to do it?

would a high texture mod work with discovery?

does the vertical option bring icons futher into the middle or shifts them all up or down, and also what about the no text showing in chat box

so what do i do to get my 1680x1050 resolution

ive tried the jflp, i then coudlnt join any discovery server!

restored, (thanks to me winraring me freelancer folder)

tried the perfoptions method, got 1680x1050, but icons off screen

got the hudshift …

HUD Shift is a plugin to reposition items in the HUD. It can be installed

either in EXE\dacom.ini (add an entry to [Libraries]), or to EXE\freelancer.ini

did both, no joy still icons off screen

(add an entry to [Initial SP DLLs]). Either use the full path to hudshift.dll
for the entry, or copy it to EXE (former) or DLLS\BIN (latter). The latter

done. again no joy off screen

will be loaded every time a game is loaded, allowing positions to be changed

Copy hudshift.ini to DATA\INTERFACE and edit as required (remove the semicolon from the [;HUDShift]
section that does what you require, or add your own [HUDShift] section).

done deleted the other resolutions not needed
deleted the ; as asked

no joy icons still off screen

i have a lg 22" 16:10 monitor

i can get into 1680x1050, just icons at top are off screen, and also ingame chat, has no text!!, nothing appears in the box

i had been struggling with milkshape and exporting the models to obj files (with textures)

ive worked it out with some help

ive not used gmax, does it import obj files if it does then it should work but youll need to edit the obj mtl file (when you export as obj 2 files get created, the model (obj) and the texture/material files (mtl))

if you edit the mtl file youll see each section has numbers then the line where the material is pointed to, only thing is not a lot of programms can read dds files (freelancer material files)

so they need converting to png 1st

then edit the line in the mtl change the .dds to.png resave making sure you save as .mtl then should work

here a render of a shire i did

shire

your read me file

HUD Shift is a plugin to reposition items in the HUD.

It can be installed either in EXE\dacom.ini
(add an entry to [Libraries]),
done at end of [libraries] list, ive added hudshift.dll

or to EXE\freelancer.ini
(add an entry to [Initial SP DLLs]). if this is for single player which i dont bother with anymore so not changing this

Either use the full path to hudshift.dll
for the entry, or copy it to EXE (former) or DLLS\BIN (latter).
done both

The latter will be loaded every time a game is loaded, allowing positions to be changed
on the fly; the former will only be loaded once.

Copy hudshift.ini toDATA\INTERFACE and edit as required (remove the semicolon from the [;HUDShift]
section that does what you require, or add your own [HUDShift] section).
done, delete the lines with not my resolution, i.e. mine is 1680x1050

in game hud/icons still off screen

i edited perfopt.ini to 1680x1050 aswell

what am i missing

update ive also copied the hudshift.dll to bin/dlls

same effect

done figured it out why colours not working

becuase i converted the dds files to jpg. the jpg files are not possible to be a little transparent

pngs are

so this is how you convert the ships etc to obj to import to anywhere

1. convert all dds files in the texture folder of freelancer to png files

2. import to milkshape the cmp’s

3. export as obj’s

4. edit the obj mtl file to point to png files, exactly same line as before but change from .dds to .png in the material line (youll see it)

5. import obj into whatever 3d render you have

thats it after 3 days worked it out

then you can do same with the weapons etc

yep 99 % sorted there

ive mnaged to work out obj files after a lot of searching, i found out why no textures, basically its all in the mtl fil

if you check an mtl file it has the location for the images/files it uses for the texture, this is where it can all go wrong, in my mtl files it included the dds files (mats) which vue and some others dont understand

so

i converted all the dds files (theres only 13) for ships into jpg, but kept them in same folder as the dds

exported obj file from milkshape, created obj and mtl file

edit the mtl file with basic windows text edit, and replaces just the dds part of the line with jpg (you can replace all, very quick), as you want to keep the location etc, becuase thats where you converted to jpg, saves having to type out whole line and replacing etc etc

resaved mtl file

import into vue and VOILA textures included

now the only thing i have to work out now is the “underneath” colours, as the obj file main body colour under the textures “tint” the materiel, which vue seems to ignore, the colours are defo there as when i import the obj back into milkshape or poseray and check the materials it shows them

as i say nearly there

only slight gripe now is, sometimes when i click “import freelancer cmp” in milkshape and select a ship or whatever , most of time it exits out milkshape im lucky if it atucally loads once it has then its obj time

im getting confused here this is the direction i want to go

load milkshape > import model from freelancer folder (cmp file)

save as/export as ….lwo/3ds including textures

file created ###.lwo or ####.3ds

load vue, click load object, select lwo or 3ds file

endup with black object texture less

im not changing/editing anything in milkshape just trying to use it to change file format

is there another prog that will do that inc the textures

as you can guess im new to this, so please be patient

you guys know what your talking about, please see if you can help me

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3437&post_id=34449#forumpost34449

original post

what i want to do is convert or load the ship from the game into a 3d renderer prog (i use vue, can import 3ds file)

ok it works if i use the files in the freelancer game folder, 1st i copied to a different folder to work on and that just crashes milkshape

right doing me head in now

all i want is export from milkshape into vue desprit

or is there another prog that can load the ship models with textures and export to vue

i have vue desprit 5 and 8

this is what im seeing, when i export in either 3ds or lwo, id does say in both vue progs when loading blah blah.dds is not recognised do i wish to ignore, those must be textures so is there a way to make them part of the file not as seperate

in milkshape

thats vue 5

vue 8

what am i doing wrong or is it just milkshapes exporters just dont work properly