a ship methinks

imagine a Startracker with a forward canard (wing). Looks much cooler than any of the other civ LF's.

As far as I can tell, it's not implemented anywhere (maybe on planet traffic scenes), but the model is present in the game folders.

The ship would be a great addition in a mod IMHO. Give liberty space a nice advanced LF.

If anyone wants to see what it looks like, here's a quick & Dirty method.

use BINI to convert 'data\ships\shiparch.ini', rename the original files extension (I just add .bak to the filename). Remove the '.txt' from the new file.

Open the new file in Notepad, do a Find for "ge_fighter2".

Under "ge_fighter2", you should see:
DA_archetype = ships\civilian\cv_startracker\cv_startracker.cmp

Change that to:
DA_archetype = ships\civilian\cv_starblazer\cv_starblazer.cmp

Basically just changing 'tracker' to 'blazer'.

Save, load up the game, and go git you a StarTracker. Voila.

Starblazer isnt put in anywhere. Looks like it was cut....

Yea, it basically looks like the startracker with 2 fins coming out from the headlight.

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Genius
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Freelancer Software Development Kit

well we could always create this ship building around its model?

I'll have a go tomorrow not doing any hacking tonight lol

Zen,
Even the greatest of whales is helpless in middle of desert.
DuwX.com

Pity, since it looks much better than the Starflier or Startracker.
2 engines, 4 guns instead of 3+cruise disruptor.

(Has anyone actually used a cruise disruptor in the storyline?)

They even remembered to put four contrail points on it, unlike the corsair heavy and very heavy fighters.

It's all of 2 minutes work to add in it, and list it for sale at pitsburgh.

The closer we look at Freelancer, the more it looks like it was rushed out the door. Still fun though.

welp, I was right. the ship appears in traffic scenes. I sat at New Berlin for a moment watching all the traffic whizzing by, saw the blazer twice.

It was cut. Here's an old pic of the Starblazer:

http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/art/dis ... blazer.gif

i tried to change that line, it made the ship in the store invisible

Not set the package info correctly maybe?

Zen,
Even the greatest of whales is helpless in middle of desert.
DuwX.com

lol yep rushed out in say umm all of 6 years

- All we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. -

starblazer works fine,just use the files that are allready there for it,damm how did i do it.lol.i made my own system following the tuturial that was posted and in the base i made there i simply added the starblazer for sale,if u go to
http://www.freewebs.com/kenny9119/
and download my modded files u should be able to play with the starblazer there,the server is up and down at the mo though cos im adding more systems and bases and stuff plus the fact ive got to work all over the weekend (aw poor me.lol) but monday morning the server will be back for testing again.

also somebody sent me a battleship that u meant to be able to dock with,this still has to be tested of course and i cant even start that till monday.but i will keep u all posted on that cos this is 1 thing ive been looking to do myself but im just to busy.lol.

kenny, There is no data for the ship in shiparch.ini. You have to make a new entry which would crash people who dont have the entry... Trust me

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Genius
Writer
Freelancer Software Development Kit

wel i did was add marketgood = gf2_package, 1, -1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1 - StarTracker
to my market ships.ini in my own base and i can fly the starblazer no probs.lol