PortableFL already functions independently of the main save location. It temporaringly overrides the windows environment variable that points to that location, saves are merely created and loaded from the My Documents folder internal to PortableFLs folder structure. It’s one of the main reasons for it being Portable.

Thanks for the detailed info though man.

I’m unsure about the info cards, would it not break what little immersion there is? If its required by anyone I have no issues.

Infocards would however offer the best visibility. I shall ponder over this more, my scripting work continues.

Thanks adoxa, I am using something similiar with PortableFL, didn’t know about Alt+PrntScn though!

Yep, agreed. Done that with PortableFL.

Time to bust out Hexedit? Been a while since I’ve even touched it, and floating point numbers! I’ll get on it, still building this rig! My parents delayed me slightly by needing the room I am working on it in.

NOTE: Adoxa’s variant of FLMM creates own folder for each mod. Google here FLMM Opensource - something like this

I’ve almost finished with getting the OS and everything tweaked on this new rig, work takes some time away from that right now.

I have been working on a self contained way to create a portable freelancer.

Basically means that you can drag and drop a Freelancer folder anywhere, the saved games get created within that folder, also FLMM works correctly for JUST that installation.

Other programs that look at the apppath for Freelancer will also work and stay modular/independant. I want to retrofit a FLMM copy just for the installation of mod tools but I need Adoxa’s help with that one wink wink, nudge nudge lol. Could even go one step further and have it pull a list of mod files from a URL if he would be so kind.

I think it would be good to be able to just download a toolpack/tools individually and just install them by double clicking the .modtool extension it would have and work with the file structure.

I’m not ready to release that just yet though, couple of bugs, shortcuts are a pain in the ass, may need to look into a custom installer, then it can be setup by just copying the existing FL game files into the new folder layout via a script.

After I’ve finished that then I will start looking at updating the client to make it a bit more respectable in these modern times lol.

Thanks for putting that together adoxa!

Maybe I am doing something wrong but when I drag the sdeath.pck file to the pck exe file you linked to, it creates the pcx folder but doesn’t populate any files into it.

Am I meant to use it in combination with the xd file you also linked to?

Reason I ask is theres a pck.exe and a pck.c in there (no pck e or pck p).

Thanks!

EDIT: LOL I must be tired, looked at the c file and realised I needed to do pck.exe e

lol thanks, now get back on void!!

Are you using bmp or tga?

As much as i am messing with the HUD myself ive not actually done that part.

if I did it was so long ago I don’t remember! 😄

I think it’s pub::Audio::PlaySoundEffect

FriendlyFire wrote:
They have bugs that can’t be corrected. If new features are desired, they cannot be implemented.

Essentially, you can keep using FLEd-IDS and HardCMP just like you can keep using Windows 98, but that doesn’t mean you should. UTF Editor is better than HardCMP on virtually all fronts, has more features and is more robust.

Furthermore, UTF Editor is the only model viewer/editor which is compatible with the normal mapping-enabled model format used by Freeworlds, so if you want to take advantage of that you’ll have to move to it at one point no matter what.

Thanks FriendlyFire, now I know what you mean.

If people didn’t stand on the shoulders of giants we wouldn’t actually get progress, sometimes the best advancements are made based on others work. Ask yourself what would drive people to innovate if they didn’t see the same stuff over and over?

Thanks, I’ll take a look at those!

Very useful program (although it doesn’t recognize addons like armor etc)

No problem, thanks for trying …

I’ll just need to re-code it all from scratch, won’t be difficult just time consuming as I’ll just do a recursive search using the nicknames like I did before to trace through the files.

Yep, Rss on main page does not working but rss from forums works!

Btw. Try this one:
http://the-starport.net/index2.php?option=com_ds-syndicate&version=1&feed_id=2

It seems to work.

Out of the box, enbseries still looks best with FL IMO.

Ive not seen a setting yet that is not too bright or too dark. The standard setting is a perfect middleground.