Not sure if the lights issue is a bug but i found myself in the same spot when i changed them…

I finally added ALOT placeholders into the goods.ini and only changed the light_equip.ini as i want my lights to be. That way i don’t have to buy a new ship all the time. It’s only a work around i know.

There is a mod which has a lights shop, “Hamburg City”, however i do not know how they handle it.

And about changing Hp’s… I came across something weird too. Sometimes when i placed Hp’s in hard_cmp they were changed in orientation and sometimes in position too. Actually i think they were put to the next surface if i had them inside one object. Maybe they were too close to the edge or something idk, it finally worked when i changed that object to have a real interior, like say ur object is a sphere and u substract another smaller sphere from it u get a real “hull”.

Not sure if this helps, just my observation.

Ok, successful test… Thx again everyone =))

:oops: :oops:
Ha ha ha… i love photoshop. One should think it will save my alpha channel if i told it to, but guess what, it wont! Gotta force it to… Anyways it works now -.-;
As for the Nomad ships: it’s kinda different for them i think. I couldn’t find alpha channels there. As far as i could see they use different layers of Hulls and some rather weird texture together with a rather high setting of opacity.

Thx everyone for your input on that topic!!

Now if i can manage that bump mapping thing i am all set… I’ll post an image when i am done

That might be a driver issue. Not sure cuz i don’t know much about vista. But as far as i know vista handles audio quite different from XP. I guess u already checked on your audio config if all sliders are up.
I had a similar prob with a game once, i needed to get new hardware drivers to solve that.

Mal ne dumme Frage nebenbei:
Wie isn dat mit der Länge der audiodatei im Bezug zur animation? Ich meine muss das übereinstimmen oder “labert” der NPC dann solange wie die sound datei geht??
PS: hab noch net darüber nachgedacht überhaupt solche dateien anzufassen also echt kp, sry!

Yes FLMM does create folders for each mod or better say mod combination but… i don’t trust it! i lost some savegames still. thats why i keep the important ones in my own folders as a backup. The impotant one’s beeing those who i like testing my mods with

Seems not easy to do that… if i use a partially transparent tga light (of sun e.g.) can pass through but thats about it, LOL. It’s really weird. i don’t mind milkshape or hardcmp for preview cuz i know they wont show the ingame result but i really can’t set it up propperly!
i use a simple form (cube) and got DcDt only in my .mat. the actual tga file is as i said partially transparent and the transparent parts show up white. Only the sun’s light can pass through (i know, weird right?).
What am i missing here?

PS: If i add Oc the texture disappeares and the model becomes invisible -.-

Beeing totally non-programmer and noob i just keep a copy of my FL path. whenever i tried a mod i didn’t like and which didn’t uninstall properly i just copy from my backup.
As for my own mods i try keep all files that i changed in my mods folder so i can restore 'em if i want. I don’t use the FLMM for my own mods, i simply copy files over cuz in most cases i am working on those files so they keep changing anyways.
But editing windows is probably the ace solution, much faster than copying the whole folder all over again.

Well, i am sooo sorry for those noobish questions!
But here is the thing… if i add texture say in milkshape ( a tga with a transparency) it still won’t work. i tried adding a second inversed texture with “combine alpha” same result, no transparency. Now what i wanna accomplish is, that some parts of my borgsphere texture are rendered and others are transparent, so that i can use several layers of a simple object with that texture combined as a part of the hull which can be nuked. If i cannot figure out how to do it with texture that model will be incredibly tough to create / render for FL.

@ Sol: i found you awesome post on digital brilliance 'bout textures and i thought they were supplied by FL (besides of course those who u already said they aren’t).

-.-

I am pretty stuck atm.

Oo…
This is bad! If i cannot use a texture in the Opacity channel of a material then i will have to actually model the whole structure… omfg!
Well THX anyway at least i know now that it’s not possible.

I managed to apply glow or transparency to my model but i tried everything i could think of to get the Ot channel to work…
So far no results other than
1. all went white
2. model disappeared
3. game crashed
-.- Can FL even use the Ot_names / flags?? i mean theres gotta be some way, i hope
(looking at the ale e.g. for thrusters one can see that theres gotta be some sort of function to use grayscale images for an ot channel, right?)
Please help!

I think i finally got a working .sur for my ship. Now i tried to use the sur_splice to get my Hitbox work together with the 12 off-breakable parts of my hull:

And here the additional hitboxes:

I put it all together and since my .cmp contained all the groups needed for those hitboxes i simply used the same names for the sur_splice and it came up with almost the same consfix.

In Hard cmp it seems to have worked fine:

So… what’s the matter, eh? Well…. i don’t understand how the sur connects to the .cmp/.3db files. How does the game know which part to break off when hitting a certain part of the sur? In my example i used the same names but in some tutorials i’ve seen, there where placeholders used for that (lil boxes).
I guess the magic comes mostly from the “Compnd” part of the .cmp…

Another thing i don’t really get: A stock playership file contains 3db’s and sur’s for those bodyparts too (just like my ship, i did it cuz they did). Looking at them made me realize the .3db’s r slightly different from the .cmp’s, so prolly the game takes the 3db file to render the demages object (??).

Now even if i don’t fully understand that .sur thing i am happy that even the spliced sur seems to work, at least for the hit detection on the main hull.

If someone could tell me how the .sur connects to .cmp i would be happy =))

When i made my first .sur i realized there is gravity in this game. Of course that .sur didn’t work right but still i was impressed.
Anyhow, roll/pitch/yaw thrusters (which i really miss btw) aren’t shown and also way overpowered compared to main engine (what makes them effective would be their positioning at extremities of a ships body). But thats off topic -.- sry!

Rightaru! Updated win (last i did was dec/09).
Thx for the subtile blow -.<

Nice work! v2 looking good, even math seem to finally work on my system. Cons/Fix edit is real sweet!
Came across some minor issues tho, not sure if its just with me… freezes with Xlarge multi comp ships, when i try to view them. But could be my fault (wrong splicing?). I am a noob @ modding so…
Also kinda buggy with the drag/drop of nodes.
I am using XP, might be the reason idk.

2bad freelancers flight physics aren’t newtonian, that would have been legandary!

Hi, i am new here. Just found Freelancer few weeks ago as i was searching for a nice trade/combat sim, like privateer2 or i-war2.
I’ve tried to get the v1.0.0.4 of utf edit cuz the older version really started to piss me of, when i was splicing my HQ model of the defiant.
Now i wish i could try that awesome looking v2…
Sadly i get this:

“Unable to save file
Error. The file or Assembly System.Core, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089 or a ref could not be found.
The system could not find that file.”

I tried the dxupdate and both versions of the v2 utfedit. If anyone got an idea i would be very happy. -.-