I've found the two offsets that control how you can't go over/under the ship in turret view:
-1.04719758034f in freelancer.exe, 0x1dbe0c = lower limit of y/z axis rotation in turret view, in radians
0x1dbe0c = 1.1
1.04719758034f in freelancer.exe, 0x1dbe10 = upper limit of y/z axis rotation in turret view, in radians
0x1dbe10 = 1.1

There's a slight problem with this though - if you're viewing your ship upside down, then the view will rotate in the same direction of your mouse cursor instead of in the opposite direction as normal.

The default -pi/3 and pi/3 (AKA -60° and 60°) setting prevents you from going over/under your ship because starting from 0° it's -90° to view the bottom of your ship and +90° to view the top, for a total of 180° of rotation. The setting simply determines how far you can rotate down/up in turret view, by default preventing you from rotating over the top or bottom 60° of your ship. So to make it seem unlimited, change the lower limit to a large negative number and the upper limit to a large positive number.

hey there, sorry to but in but is there any chance you came across a way to change the colors of those gauges (energy hull shield)? so far i have tried changing the textures in the 3db files, changing the name of the file the exe looks for and putting the correct files in place, and also found no entry in the hud.ini file. I know the RGB values (i think) but don't really know how to look for them, i did try search for both hex and decimal values in exe, maybe i searched wrong. here is RGB + dec values if this would help:

shieldgauge - 72 72 224 - 0.282353 0.282353 0.878431
hullgauge - 161 50 50 - 0.631372 0.196078 0.196078
energygauge - 216 208 103 - 0.847059 0.815686 0.403921

thx in advance

Dude, thats what i said. I changed those textures, over and over. Wierd, seems like no-ones ever tried to change em.

Oh well, thanks for the speedy reply anyways

Anyone have any ideas on how the offset for the screen-shake-when-shot factor might be found? This would be excellent for Capital Ships.

Is there a different hex value for tractor beams then this?

1000000f in freelancer.exe, 0x1d848c = square of distance from loot that the "tractor all" button appears on HUD / can tractor in loot ~fox
0x1d848c = 1.1

I got the increased range but now the tractor beam is bigger than the ship

It does it on all tractor beams. The only thing I've changed on the custom ones was the colors.

Awesome. I'll get it in the list. Thanks w0dk4.