Nobody interested? Only main hurdle is figuring out how to re-compress .PCC files, there are extractors for it as its an unreal engine, but nothing we can use to modify and then reconstitute the file.

Has anyone seen any Farscape models around in any of the mods? I'm particulary interested in one of Talyn, Moyas offspring.

Thanks

There was an issue that would cause a crash on startup, usually if restart.fl is corrupted in the my games folder for freelancer.

Delete your single player files and start FL again and see if that works.

I have included at the moment, jasons patch, an updated zlib file courtesy of strail of the void server, the hi-res texture pack you mentioned, and bloom, although I am still toying with it, and if you don't like it too much FriendlyFire, you did mention envmapbasic had a lot of possibilities, if you can provide me with a copy of a modified one, I'll use it as a replacement to bloom.

I just find the darkness options with slight bloom to look good, although there is certain times when it doesn't play ball, like when entering a jumpgate from Magellan to New York, the star textures appear with black triangles around them.

About the changes, yes I guess you could call it a mod.

I had originally planned to include some gameplay changes to be of a similiar level in some other games.

After playing COD I imagined a sort of perks type system, you would unlock them as you rank up in worth.

Say for example extra damage with torpedoes, or a faster rate of fire, regenerating hull, quite a few options really, depending on the class you want to go for.

The roleplay elements haven't really been expanded in the way of roleplay based equipment.

Pirates could have to stay within a certain proximity to steal your loot. A perk of this would be decreased time it takes to steal the loot. Or the other players could be using a Jamming perk, to stop them being able to steal without ordering them to via the standard tax message.

Navy ships could fire of a tracking tag missile or some such, and be able to see where the enemy is (until he/she dies obviously).

Even an ability to switch the roleplay class (maybe with some form of command and the player would be booted, when they come back they have their new ship and equipment options).

I can see a lot of possibilities although the ones above certainly would require a lot of hook use, and someone to program them.

But I think Freelancer multiplayer would be quite awesome with that in mind, along with the AI wingmen and player docking and the other cool features that have been developed over the years.

You can talk about what things people like and what they don't, since thats also the reason of this topic, but your logic applies to the vanilla freelancer as well. There are things some people would change, not like or like. If everyone stopped based on the notion of people disliking something there would be no movies, no games, no new products.

There is no difference except that I'm not Digital Anvil or a member of Microsoft Studios. As such there is no ice to tread on, I neither require nor need anyones permission here, let me just ask this; did any of you ask permission of your peers to complete your mods? I didn't think so.

Unless I misread your meaning with the fact I am treading on "thin ice", in which case I apologise.

As discussed in other threads the aim is to upgrade (for lack of a better word since I'm not a pedantic person and don't argue semantics) the engine/data assets to a point where it would rival current and modern games, to put out screens and videos of gameplay via YouTube and other sites to get more people into Freelancer.

Then what mod they play is up to them. I don't much care as long as I get them hooked or at least help push them towards the game.

No problem, I understand.

You people just keep coming out with more awesome things I can add to my unofficial patch, things such as this may create problems for lower spec machines, but this is mainly an update to show off Freelancer to the people who are buying new games with higher spec machines.

If I can improve the detail, graphics, sound etc in any way possible without changing the main experiences, I welcome it, as I welcome the possibilities and potential of this technique.

Well, if you can provide a full and complete tutorial step by step, that would be awesome.

The game will appeal to more players if I can create an unofficial patch that includes some of these graphical updates along with a hell of a lot of other stuff the fantastic modders have come up with over the years!