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 May. 19, 2022
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Re: Missile Explosions and Hull Damage Detection
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In single player, this hack will generate additional damage. For example, I changed the Javelin to do 10 damage and Flint to a Rheinland battleship (rm_r_battleship). Firing a missile into the center hits two groups (Rh_main_lod1/DpMain & Rh_midfrnt_lod1/DpMidFrnt) for 20 damage. Applying the patch then does 30 damage - the two groups plus presumably the ship as a whole.

The damage is actually found a little further down, in the function at 0x(6ce)9690. In SP, GetRadius returns a valid value, but in MP it is returning 0. I think the real problem is with something used by GetBoundingSphere. That's as far as I went, back to you, M0tah...

Did some more testing, and I couldn't get CArchGroup::GetRadius to be called at all, in either MP or SP (though 0x9690 is). You are referring to that call in 0x9690, correct?

Posted on: 2010/3/29 0:43
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Re: Problem with Freelancer staying in memory
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Huh, I've actually never experienced this problem. Maybe it's due to certain firewall or antivirus software?

Posted on: 2010/3/28 21:38
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Re: What keeps you going?
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Well, for me I think it's three primary reasons:

  1. I've learned a lot from working on the various FL-related projects I've contributed to, and continue to do so. Working on these projects helps me to become a better programmer and modder, which allows me to accomplish some pretty neat stuff.

  2. I like helping out other people. Most of my software is open-source in the hope that others will learn from and extend it. I also learn a lot by looking at the code others write.

  3. I like to stretch the boundaries of what's possible, and create something new. FL is one of my favorite games, so it was natural to experiment with it.

Posted on: 2010/3/27 7:11
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Re: Missile Explosions and Hull Damage Detection
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Decided to investigate the issue; here's what I found.
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0x0C->0x00 in server.dll, 0x960C = fixes explosion damage at full strength
This should fix the issue (it has in my testing so far).

Explanation
FL hardcodes three different multipliers of damage for explosions - 1, 2/3, 1/3, and 0, depending on how far away from the center of the object the explosion is. As far as I can tell, this is computed using the following mapping:
Distance^2 -> Strength
<= (Explosion radius)^2 * 0.1111... -> 1
<= (Explosion radius)^2 * 0.4444... -> 2/3
<= (Explosion radius)^2 -> 1/3
> (Explosion radius)^2 -> 0
So when the hit is farther than the explosion's radius away from the root of the ship, no damage is dealt. The above hack fixes the multiplier at 1 regardless of the distance.

Posted on: 2010/3/27 6:36
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Re: FLDev Wishlist?
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It would be lovely if hexadecimal numbers could be entered into the IDS field of the DLL Editor.

Posted on: 2010/3/23 9:38
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Re: Compiling FLHook
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Sounds like there's something wrong with your paths then - make sure the path to the libs relative to the project files is correct. For example, if the Code::Blocks project is in src instead of a subdirectory you'll need to adjust the paths to be ./source/libs/ *.lib (remove the leading .).

Posted on: 2010/3/21 21:23
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Re: BaseDestroyed() event & BaseID
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Yeah, I remember that there was some weirdness with it - I believe that someone actually needed to visit the base for it to work, or something like that.

Posted on: 2010/3/21 21:11
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Re: BaseDestroyed() event & BaseID
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Code:
Universe::IBase *base = Universe::get_base(iBaseID);
base->lSpaceObjID;

And no problem.

Posted on: 2010/3/20 22:52
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Re: BaseDestroyed() event & BaseID
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Have you taken a look at the code in BaseDestroyed()?

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uint iID;
pub::SpaceObj::GetDockingTarget(iObject, iID);
Universe::IBase *base = Universe::get_base(iID);

pub::SpaceObj::GetDockingTarget is what you're after.

Posted on: 2010/3/20 13:17
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Re: there is this website every freeware known to man
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http://www.thefreecountry.com/ is also a good site to find freeware and open source programs.

Posted on: 2010/3/20 4:26
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Re: Docking Ring
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Aren't there any skilled app builders to update FLEd-Ids? Or is that against some code of honour without asking Dixi first?
As far as I know FLEd-Ids's source was never released.

Posted on: 2010/3/16 16:07
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Re: thinking about building an xp computer
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If your cpu is a 64-bit one then you will need XP-64.
Not at all, regular XP will work fine on a 64 bit CPU. You'll just be limited to 3 GB or so of RAM.

Posted on: 2010/3/15 9:27
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Re: Compiling FLHook
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Huh, I used the SDK files straight from my XP partition, I'll have to test actually installing it. Also, the PSDK-amd64.exe is just the 64 bit version of the SDK as far as I know; the amd is there just because the first 64 bit x86 processors were made by AMD.

Posted on: 2010/3/1 16:17
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Re: Help! GTX285 anyone?
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Nobody's actually written a new renderer back-end as far as I know, but quite a few mods use a DX8 hook that adds bloom. See here, for example.

Posted on: 2010/3/1 16:08
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Re: MP Project [Dev] - Help required...
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There is a much simpler way to accomplish this (with items in bases) without waypoints. I am currently investigating the plausibility of this.
Yeah, you could definitely implement it using items and docking restrictions so they would need the item to dock at the base.

As for dynamically creating the waypoints, I haven't experimented with it at all but I'd guess it would be possible to do (just not sure how exactly).

Posted on: 2010/3/1 6:50
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