http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX5Vq440fSI

It surely looks good enough to be worthy of “better than fine”!

What (in a nutshell, and in layman’s terms) does you project entail? Will you be ‘releasing’ a graphically revamped version of FL? Do you, apart from the graphics rendering, still use all the files that make up the game? Or are you writing a whole new engine? (BTW I apologize if I bore / bother you with these questions; feel free to ignore!)

adoxa wrote:
Change the Single (float32) value in Data inspector (under View->Toolbars if you’ve turned it off).

It turned out that I had an older version of HxD; I installed the new one and this one indeed has the Data inspector

I applied the hacks but unfortunately they don’t work for me (I checked twice). My test system is at -1.7, 3.70, so it should work, according to WhiskasTM’s description…

EDIT instead of changing said values to 112000/-112000, I changed them to 150000/-150000, and now it works

Thanks guys!

Gold_Sear wrote:

Moonhead - these are floats, not bytes. That is, [c]112000f[/c] looks in plain code as [c]00 C0 DA 47[/c]. Same for -112000, that looks like [c]00 C0 DA C7[/c] in plain code, where the last bit is swapped to apply sign.

Thanks. In HexWorkshop, if I remember correctly, I could swap between floats and bytes (and other display methods) - but not in HxD unfortunately (or at least, I haven’t figured out how to).

Could you give me the byte versions of 130000f and -130000f?

Thanks Gold_Sear!

I don’t quite grasp the third part of the instructions though. That might be because I used to work with HexWorkshop, which stopped working at one point (Norton identified it as some generic virus, and it was a cracked version so I couldn’t be totally sure it wasn’t), and am now using HxD which is decent, but seems less versatile than HexWorkshop (I must also stress that I am not at all a hacker; I just blindly follow instructions and usually those get it done.)

WhiskasTM wrote:

//new values
freelancer.exe 967F1 112000f = +x 
freelancer.exe 96816 -112000f = -x 
freelancer.exe 9683B 112000f = +y 
freelancer.exe 96860 -112000f = -y 

```With applying 112000f => 130000f (keep sign there!) limits are ~:

pos = -2.1, -2.6
pos = -2.1, 16.75
pos = 16.75, -2.6
pos = 16.75, 16.75

http://s30.postimg.org/taj8n4gm9/universe.jpg
http://s30.postimg.org/6kk3u4xep/system.jpg

I don’t understand the sign part (as in HxD there is not an option to ‘lift out’ the code at e.g. 967F1; in my recollection of HexWorkshop there was, which made such replacements a lot easier). Also “112000f” is 7 characters while these code replacements usually work with an even number.

Currently the values at those offsets are:

freelancer.exe 967F1 = 00 C0 DA 47
freelancer.exe 96816 = 00 C0 DA C7
freelancer.exe 9683B = 00 C0 DA 47
freelancer.exe 96860 = 00 C0 DA C7

Maybe you could talk me through it? (I’ve done the 1st and 2nd parts already.)

Also, back at the day (when the youtube demo still worked) I was hugely impressed with the multiverse plugin but I decided not to use it; I’ve already grown too fond of my 2D solution.

The Player Ship indicator on the Universe Map is bound within a region. Is there a fix to expand this region?

It seems that the farthest left it can be displayed, is at x=-1. When the system is further to the left, the Player Ship is still displayed at x=-1 (see image: the Player Ship indicator should be further to the left).

I have quite a bunch of systems planned, which are further left than x=-1; hence my request…

SWAT_OP-R8R wrote:
Id consider this only a minor issue since the text is still there. With the first failed submission the session should refresh and a 2nd click on submission should finally submit the content.

The other solution is that you simply type faster

The issue is that, sometimes, you get caught in a seemingly endless loop. So, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and Nth time render the ‘submission invalid’ page.

After w0dk4 made some changes, the site is almost (but not 100%) issue-free for me.

Ironically, it hangs on this very post I had to relog.

robocop wrote:
Thanks for uploading.

Re: the ISO file, the note says:
The clips are MKV files and were extracted with Handbrake, set to H.265 2160p|60|RF:15
Alternatively, you can download the .ISO of the Bonus DVD (3.19 Gb). Because of the size, I won’t probably keep this up for long.

But, when I download it says the file size is only 282MB. Is the right file linked?

I’m sorry for the inconvenience. As I wrote some posts above yours, I never succeeded in uploading the .ISO, and don’t think it is worth keep trying and trying it anyway. I’ll remove the link from my web page.

I can only write a very short reply because my time is pressed!

adoxa wrote:
1. It’s a console program, so ideally you’d run it from Command Prompt. Running it from Explorer should display the help and wait for a key (it does for me on 7). Drop a file on it (say [c]tracks.ini[/c]), it’ll open & close, and you should end up with the output file ([c]tracks-fl.ini[/c]). … Ah, in testing on 10 I realized I forgot to mention that it expects Freelancer to be installed (I use its ini-reading code). If that’s not the case copy [c]common.dll dacom.dll dalib.dll zlib.dll[/c] to subdirectory [c]EXE[/c] (or point [c]HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\1.0\AppPath[/c] to where you installed FL).

Hmm… I’d prefer to point it to my mod, instead of Freelancer directly, also because at some point I have multiple installations of Freelancer. (Btw I haven’t installed Freelancer from an installation disk for years, naybe well over a decade. So, how could there be a register entry for it?)

About tracks.exe: I imagine a GUI like your XML->UTF tool would be excellent: in XML->UTF the user can enter an input and an output folder (and it also helps with my, admittedly irrational, aversion against console programs). But I have no idea how this would complicate your task, and/or how much work that would be.

Gotta run!

Lady}{Diamond wrote:

Anyway, thank you for sharing it with us, really nice !

Thanks I hope they at least give an impression, while they might not be at the best possible compression.

Junkozane wrote:
For me it does download a 282mb file that is corrupted and can’t be opened.

Bugger Yes it is for me too.

This sucks because I tried to upload it maybe 6 times or so, and finally thought it had worked.

Well, as the movies aren’t that impressive anyway (the most interesting imho are the concept art presentations, which are slideshows with ambient music from the game added to it) I think I’ll leave it at this then. I’ll remove the link to (and mentioning of) the .ISO first time I feel like maintaining the page.

Great work Adoxa! It looks very promising!

A few questions though:

[olist]* First of all: how to even use this? When I double-click tracks.exe, it opens and closes within a tenth of the blink of an eye, where I had expected to be asked for a specific text file, or maybe a text interface, or otherwise a dialog to point to the proper directory.

• Second: when you say that [c]lane_id[/c], [c]tradelane_down[/c] and [c]attack_ids[/c] are not used, do you mean not at all, not ever, in vanilla? Or, by tracks.exe (implying that one has to manually add these after the code is generated)?

• Btw I presume (but never gave it much consideration actually) that [c]tradelane_attack =[/c] is a 1-divided-by-value (meaning that the smaller the number, the bigger the chance) rather than a percentage-ish-type value (meaning: the higher the value, the bigger the chance). Do you know how this is treated?

FriendlyFire wrote:
I think we’re coming close to the point where we’ll have to ditch Xoops if we want to have a functional website for the future, but unfortunately I don’t think we have the manpower to redesign and port the site right now.

I have had it only once after w0dk4 changed some settings, as opposed to the, easily, 4 out of 5 times before that. So it definitely makes a lot of difference!

EDIT Attempting to upload the .ISO (3.12 Gb, zipped) takes quite a while, and it failed a couple of times as well. Hopefully this time it’ll work.

EDIT As far as I can tell, it’s up now.

I might have cheered too early: just had to relog to be able to submit a post

The “Installer provided by Ra7en” version is, very likely, the first version I had of this game! I only bought the official version later, when I had fallen in love with the game and decided that it warranted an official purchase (I still maintain this ‘ethics’, or lack of them, with audio cds).

Back in the days, I had this friend (he still is!) who was into downloading, burning .ISOs etc. and he convinced me this game was cool. So, he installed it for me. A third mate joined in. We played at some server called DPIOS (Dutch People in Outer Space) run by a guy with the nick Tanaka (or was it Takana? Or Katana?).

I learned my first steps of modding in this time, and in hindsight I feel bad because I lost contact with Tanaka, and never could apologize for the fact that I crashed the server a few times because of modifications, which were also cheating, technically.

My mates and I took residence at Freeport 6 in Tau-29. It took me a while to figure how to locally add a shipdealer, with the virtual room thing. Because, Katana had made some very cool ship available, but only at the other place of the know universe, and I wanted it before we had to make the dangerous journey through Outcast and Corsair terri Nowadays it feels asshole-ish, but back then I was amazed that it worked, after about three times or so (and every time that it didn’t work caused a global server crash

Still, those were the days my friends, those were the days.

Ouch. Am I now the only one able to post here? Did w0dk4’s fix split off my bulb of spacetime from the rest of the universe?

Based on the contrast before and after your tweaks, I will carefully assume that you might have nailed it If so, great work, thanks!!

That one too.