Kuze wrote:
Also there is are the hardware you can see in the equipment room…what a fine models.

Actually, I thought to use them as stations, because they look like station props more then equipment to me…

Quarks wrote:
Does that mean every ship can mount one then? Or is there some way to limit it?

Yes. Every hook may limit equipment )

Bump

🙂
Ozed

Yep, so i think we have came to the same sort of animation, you know what they say, great minds think alike 😄 . I still invite anyone to try it out. I might try it out with some other models now that i’ve got everything downpacked.

Ozed

oZed wrote:
freight_car.sur
freight_train.sur
freight_train_cargo.sur

The fright_car was probably one of these ‘cars’ where the train’s cargo pods are attached to.

Yeah alright, i get your point about strafing. But i would still want to see engine performance decreased when a nozzel is destroyed, and i think the idea of utilising power wouldn’t work in this case since i am already using power as a key factor in other aspects (think thrusters, sheilds, armor and other items.)

I think this would be best acheived through a plugin, what do you think?
Ozed

Ha that’s all i needed for Mesh type!

the .cam files/nodes only exist in .cmp file that are used for cockpits, for example in:

DATA\COCKPITS\LIBERTY\MODELS\li_elite_cockpit.cmp

There is a node called “cockpit cam020620232716.cam”, which is the cockpits .cam node, in it, it has fovx, fovy, Znear and Zfar values and i need to know what these do.

Also looking at the manhatten cityscape there is a MaterialAnim node, i’m guessing this is a whole new can of worms, does anyone understand Material Animation?

So the question’s are:

What does sort of movement does the sphere node control.
What does the Offset do in the Revs node?
What does the bounding box do in VMeshRef?
Are the values in the Axis rotate a decimal percentage of the measure written in the frames?
Does freelancer actually use the switch2 values for LoD switching, or are they just ignored for the value in the ini’s?
Mesh type, still don’t know what that does (sorry adoxa, understood surface though!)
The .cam node and everything that is under it, that is just the values for the camera when in cockpit mode right? Can you explain how they work?

Thanks
Ozed

Hey, i managed to get a basic starting page/text document for you guy’s to look at any comments/criticisms are welcome i advise you use word wrapping because i didn’t break the lines. just one thing, if you are helping with this i think it would be good to add your own foreword with mine just about modifing freelancer, it’s a bit corny but hay, once you leave this community maybe you will inspire others with your words 🙂

Take a look at it and i need feedback!

Ozed

You’re right on this one. (FF = 256 for all people unfamiliar with hexadecimal numbers) However, as you’re not using Milkshape to create your model, I’d recommend doing the grouping work in blender and then exporting group by group into Milkshape and afterwards into FL.

im really impressed of how clean you work. unbelievable that your sources of information are the same as ours, too… good job, m8, even if i am a bit too late with that.

OK, i’m going to be making the call again for anyone interested in joining Dark Rain. We are interested in recruiting anyone who is willing to give this a go and work in a group. The main skill we need at the moment are texturers, we have a whole heap of models ready for texturing with no one who knows how. If you want to join out team and contribute whatever skill you have please feel free to do so and reply to this topic!

Thanks
Ozed

It’s ok i found the problem, i did not have a 1 after```
debris_type = debris_missile

So to get it working:

debris_type = debris_missile, 1

Ozed

Thanks thats exactly what i was after, works like a charm. And you manage to kill two birds with one stone.

Ozed.

awesome! would be nice to see all modesl like this 😄

I think balance does not depend on increase in capacities.

Efficiency of weapons depends of target shield (if using shields in mod 😉 - graviton, proton, neutron - here on it it is possible to play

In additives it is possible to develop the types of guns and shields technolgies (“here and develop!”, you will tell 😉

So imho need to balance only efficiency of guns

Sample file, credits Phil aka FireDragon

I’ve done this for NU years ago, but thx for the info 😄

there are some sounds in the audio folder not used ingame (e.g. nomad shield sounds due to that nomads have no shields). you can also, as far as you are allowed to, use sound fx from other games, you just have to know how to convert them properly to either wav or riff wav so fl can read them. in general: google is your friend. there are lots and lots of sound fx on the web, even open source or at least available for use in projects, often enough even for free. you just might need a program that can handle different formats and packages and convert them to wav or mp3 (which you then would need to pack into a wav container).