Hey,

Here’s a possible way to have 3D Sound disabled in a fresh install, or to have it disabled and the option box removed. The ‘optlist.ini’ is the file you want to look in

optlist.ini:

[Audio]
option = -1
option = 1409, 2451, 100, true, false
option = 1336, 2452, 100, true, false
option = 1337, 2453, 100, true, false
option = 1914, 2456, 100, true, false
option = 1915, 2457, 100, true, false
option = 1411, 2454, 100, false, true, 33, 100
option = 1412, 2455, 100, false, true, 33, 100
option = 1918, 1791, 100, false, true, 33, 100 ;--- 3D Sound in FL menu

You can change that last value to one of these three options (or others if you want to mess around with it)

option = 1918, 1791, 100, false, true, 33, 100 ;--- Option 1
option = 1918, 1791, 0, false, true, 33, 100 ;--- Option 2
option = -1 ;--- Option 3

Option 1: Stock. This is how it is in original FL
Option 2: This will start with 3D Sound off in the PrefOptions file that FL creates when it first starts, but you’ll still be able to activate/deactivate 3D Sound.
Option 3: Disables 3D Sound and removes the option from the in-game FL menu.

These do NOT change the ‘PerfOptions.ini’ in “My Document/My Games/Freelancer” which is where the value of whether 3D sound is on or off is actually kept.

PrefOptions.ini:

...
USE_3D_SOUNDS = 0.00 ;--- Off
USE_3D_SOUNDS = 1.00 ;--- On
...

I know there are other ways to do this and this is just one possible way. Feel free to use it.

MostlyHarmless

F!R wrote:
My problem are not the drops or loot, but the loss.
I want to keep the ammo for the player.
Background:
We have items the player needs to collect, to get @ the next level.
Those are defined as [ammo] and kept at the ships with no
‘dump_cargo’ fuse.
But so I want at least the freighters to drop loot,
it’s you can’t have both situation atm (afaik).

Atm we are using KOSACID’s FlHook plugin version 2.0
and I tried the playercntl plugin.

The player control plugin dumps additional stuff
(depending @ the settings of HullDropFactor), but NOT the cargo
(at least with this FlHook version).

And ‘no space items’ does only avoid, that this stuff
spawns in space (as far as I remember). For example
if a player would try to drop a no-trade-item.

Hey,

It might be possible to do this with an FLHook Plugin; having the plugin copy the cargo of the player and then spawn it at their coordinates. That way you can have all ships keep ammo and destroy the cargo, which in turn gets spawned in space by the plugin, similar to the way ‘playercntl’ plugin spawns preset cargo (e.g. Engine components and Super Alloys)

I don’t know what would be used as a particular call to copy the players cargo before they die, but I’m not a programmer either