I’m surprised that I never posted this here on Starport. In March I made a Freelancer “flight simulator” with the goal of getting a flight model as close as possible to Freelancer, even using my own set of modified physics that run on the same formula as Freelancer.

You can actually plug in values from a Freelancer ship and it’ll fly almost exactly the same as it would in the real game. The differences come in how mouse flight is handled, but you can eliminate those differences by flying in cockpit view. Either way, it’s still extremely close, to the point where the only way you’d notice the differences is putting video of the two side by side.

The video player seems to be broken, so here’s a link to the video.

Nice work Why, incase you’re interested I actually went as far as getting a server and database running using a beta version of a network solution called SlimNet. Complete with login and char creation and so on. I had alot of the syncing done aswell like NPC paths and bullet hits stuff like that.

There was alot of other stuff aswell like radar, the guns following the mouse pointer, turret view and so on. I had the flight controls working pretty well, they did still need a fair bit of work though, there was some niggly things wrong with them, like engine kill messing up in some situations.

I did borrow some of the code from the one the Russian guy started.

I also had some other stuff working like system transitions, although that’s all it was was going from one to another, no effects or transition sequences or anything.

Also had planets with gravitational pull and various other things.

I do still have all the files some where, let me know if you want them and i’ll send them to you, you can use what you like or use none of it at all.

I had planned on continuing with it but just couldn’t get the help and it’s not really a one man project.

Ok, the class is built and also includes routines to convert to float, ULONG and int, also comes with an example dialog program to show how to use the class.

I can provide the source if others need it.

there is this explosion, which particle is animated (the 16-frames generic explosion, like station turrets). could that animation run independantly from the emitter?

adoxa wrote:
Updated the patch again.

Very much appreciated adoxa! This works perfectly.

In the effects entry would adding this line help?

snd_effect = your_sound_effect

Then define the sound effect to add your custom sound. Shot in the dark but i do it with weapons a lot.

I’ve just had a browse through the code after your initial post as i have reactivated all the other thruster effects and your problem intrigued me as i’ve not thought about the audio side of it before. Problem is i can’t find a reference to the audio file anywhere either.

This model would make an awesome Zoner base.

Xarian_Prime wrote:
@Why485 -> Just outa curiosity m8… what did u end up setting the hack too… as i use your fx & have pretty much fallen backwards over all this ^^

Well you have to keep in mind that I designed the effects pack with the limit in mind. Meaning no matter what you set it to you will not really see any significant difference. Nor will there be any real performance difference either. That said I currently have it set to ten seconds. It’s mostly arbitrary but I figure I won’t have an effect that requires more than a ten second grace period.

the center can be edited with a hex editor

I tried many experiments with volumetric clouds, but I could never get the clouds to really look right. They always looked very strange, and I had no convenient way to easily disperse and randomize them without going in and doing everything by hand.

That is also ignoring the fact that what would normally take 30 seconds to render (with the system I devised) would now take some 5-15 minutes depending on the density/complexity. Over just 7 seconds of footage, that’s the difference between a render time of 1.4 hours and 14-42 hours.

No, just renaming to .flmod doesn’t work. As I posted, the files are not set up like that. The code needs putting in manually. I was wondering if anybody had already done this.

FlHack does the no HUD hack, go here for a link to his site

Ozed.

Topic locked.

No use anymore as the topic lost its original meaning.

Thanks for the link Timmy!
I’ll try it out later.

Well done bud.

hmm, i see wht ur probs with the hamachi network server, it hangs each second…and i think it has to do with all the view range and the number of NPCs being loaded 2 times

Actually the front of mine is from a Ranger Gunship(SW) (I liked the front of it).