Thanks for the pointers, but we’re trying to do something entirely different! The way weapon classes are set up in the mod we’re working on unfortunately requires more than the 20 or so that Freelancer provides.

The idea here would be to allow users of the plugin to arbitrarily add another set of class 1-10 hard-points, so you’d have [c]hp_gun_special_1-10[/c], [c]hp_turret_special_1-10[/c], and then your own [c]hp_gun_new_1-10[/c], all named and defined appropriately via an ini file!

Thanks for looking into this! Passing this on from Laz on Discord, who’s not been able to post here due to technical issues:

server.dll 173DA 74->EB

This seems to reenable it without affecting NPCs. Testing around for a few minutes and poking at the code I don’t see any side-effects.

I have already contributed ~30 wiki entries and might write some new entries these days, but it is quite time consuming.(especially my piece on particle effects).
Another problem is that I can only explain things that I myself understand properly.

On the topic of the gaps in the db, at least some of them are missing because some files are very straightforward imho.

Deprecated Tools

FLED-IDS
An infocard editor capable of modifying or viewing the contents of Freelancer resource dll files. Although it works fine, it does not support bulk import/export and there are better alternatives now.

https://the-starport.net/modules/wfdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=5&lid=866

Freelancer Explorer
One of the early IDE modding tools for Freelancer, Freelancer Explorer is a system/general GUI editor. Be warned many of the ini files it generates are buggy or broken and it does not work well on modern systems. Use at your own risk.

https://www.moddb.com/games/freelancer/downloads/freelancer-explorer1

Milkshape CMP plugins
Moonhead has done a great overview of Milkshape and Freelancer cmp on the Starport, but a lot of the plugins are buggy/deprecated. Use at your own risk.

https://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3747&forum=9

OBJ to SUR Converter
An OBJ to SUR converter. While it can function fine, there is a severe boundary volume hierarchy bug that can cause serious problems present. Use at your own risk.

https://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?post_id=40875#forumpost40875

[W]e were both wondering if there was any documentation out there for us to learn from?

There’s lots of tutorials on learning assembly/reversing, but I learnt pre-internet (initially Z80 on an Amstrad CPC 464), so can make no recommendations.

[…] I have absolutely no idea what’s instructing jflp to look into common.dll or even at the addresses it does.

Finding the addresses involves analysing the disassembly, where exports and text-based ini prove very useful (which is what makes content.dll so hard, since it has no exports and little text). Then it’s off to the debugger, setting breakpoints on where it reads ini values, then hardware breakpoints to find where it uses those values. Once I have an address I try and find existing calls or jumps to use as a hook point, as that allows reusability with other hooks. That’s what [c]NEWOFS[/c] in a plugin does, replacing an existing call/jump destination with the plugin’s. If there’s no call or jump to hook, then I overwrite code with one, which is what [c]CALL[/c] and [c]JMP[/c] do. (I’m still amazed that with all the plugins out there, there’s only been one conflict, where the first version of EngClass didn’t get along with MultiCruise.)

Just jumping back to answer my own question for reference! Callum in the Librelancer Discord server kindly provided a structure that lightprops in thorn scenes seems to follow. It can be found here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3d9/d3dlight9

@HK

You’re a year early 🙂

This comes from Dev’s work on ToW. We just adopted all his stuff so don’t ask me how it all works 😄

This is from our freelancer.ini

[Error] ;EMAURER these four should remain as set. ;log = fl-client-errors.log, 65540 ; alert all asserts log = fl-client-errors.log, -1 ; alert all errors (SEV_ERROR=1) ;EMAURER comment out lines below to vary the amount of output spew. log = $Text, 65536, 5 ; 65536 means 'don't care' about kind value. ; 5 refers to TRACE_LEVEL_5\. means report all messages ; with severity of 5 or less. lower the number, more severe ; the message. WARNINGS are at level 2\. reduce for less spew. ;log = $Text, 'I' ; incoming packet transmission ;log = $Text, 'O' ; outgoing packet transmission ;log = $Text, 'i' ; instance creation related messages (mass, MOI, equip) ;log = $Text, 'r' ; significant attitude/reputation events (show results of AdjustAttitude calls) ;log = $Text, 'a' ; detailed info regarding loading/unloading of archetypes. log = $Text, 'c' ; report server-side events sent to contollers log = $Text, 'm' ; mission-generated messages log = $Text, 's' ; log second thread activity ;log = $Text, 'f' ; report file opens/closes ;log = $Text, 'e' ; explosion/fuse messages log = $Text, 'd' ; damage messages log = $Text, 'A' ; reload console command messages ;---------------------------- ; Error explanation ; ; log = where to display log message, kind of msg, severity of msg ; where: [no default] ; $window = popup dialog ; $text = debugger window ; filename = any filename ; kind: [default = -1] ; -1 // all kinds, distinguish display based on severity. ; ERR_RENDER ='R', // Render Pipeline ; ERR_NETWORK ='n', // SERVER.DLL ; ERR_WARN ='w', // minor general problems ; ERR_SPINST ='i', // instance creation messages ; ERR_REP ='r', // log significant attitude/reputation events ; ERR_ARCH ='a', // log unloads of archetypes. ; ERR_CTRL ='c', // log server-side events sent to contollers ; ERR_MISN ='m', // mission-generated messages ; ERR_ASYNC ='s', // log second thread activity ; ERR_FILEIO ='f', // print File open/close ; ERR_ASSERT = 65540 // asserts ; severity: [ default = all severities ] ; the lower the number the more severe ; SEV_FATAL = 0 // Unrecoverable errors ; SEV_ERROR = 1 // Recoverable errors ; SEV_WARNING = 2 // Conditions which may indicate a problem, but are handled ; SEV_NOTICE = 3 // Useful messages that are in release builds. ; SEV_TRACE_1 = 4 // Information useful for debugging or determining program flow ; SEV_TRACE_2..n = 5..n // Higher traces levels indicate more verbose information

You dont need a key for installing FL. >.<

Hey Ruppet. Long time not see. Good to see you returning.

And, yes, we’re still around. Bas gave the addy above: http://www.freelancer-swwt.com/

Thanks Mate, Will put it to good use. 😄

Regmon too 🙂