Slight Bump...

if nobody wants to hold my hand and walk me through this.... ( B-) ) then will some nice, generous person let me know where the map file is, so that I may find and do with it as I will?

Not sure but...

In the folder Freelancer\DATA\INTERFACE\NEURONET\NAVMAP\NEWNAVMAP there are lots of references to the navmap. Use the UTF editor to look in the .cmp files, which contain details of the textures used for each section.

Thats all I know im afraid.

okay, found the universe map... only problem is it doesnt come with words on it, so i have to now wonder where these words would be tagged on, my thought it some .ini somewhere... my question would be.... WHERE?

the words are probably on the background image itself

Bondolon wrote: okay, found the universe map...

And, where is it??


EDIT: seem to have foun it too:

..\DATA\INTERFACE\NEURONET\NAVMAP\NEWNAVMAP\nav_prettymap.3db :

--Texture library
----fancymap.tga
------MIP0


Now, let's hope a way will be found to edit the texts put over it.

Very nice of you to start this thread, Bondolon



Edited by - hans olo on 22-06-2003 00:07:58

DATA\INTERFACE\NEURONET\NAVMAP\NEWNAVMAP\nav_prettymap.3db

just open it up with UTFedit and export fancymap.tga

and the words are not on there, it is the universe map, completely blank...

I hope the words are in one of ids_name and Ids_info dll files, because we know how to edit them.

Too bad the search function on the -very useful!- FLEd-ids has no advanced options, so we could let it search for ONLY "liberty", ONLY "kusari" etc.

Well, if this is they are in those dll files, we'll find them, even it will take some while. But I have to get up at 6:30 tomorrow and it's 00:14 here now, so I will only start searching tomorrow when I come home from work. I hope somebody else will have found them by then

well... i have checked all of the .ini's for Sirius Sector, Bretonia, Liberty, Kusari, Rheinland... but all of mine are still compressed (and i am way to lazy to decompress them all, especially seeing as i had to get the compressed ones again after SomeOne's batch util erased about half of my .ini files) so i was wondering if anybody would be gracious enough to either provide me with the decompressed .ini's or search for Sirius Sector themselves in any of the ini's... i have searched all of the .DLL's and i can't find Sirius in any tables, so i assume it must still be in pure text form

I have all the uncompressed ini files. I don't think the text is there literally; the game just doesn't seem to work that way.I can do a search for "sirius" *

Btw, I could email you the uncompressed ini-files. They are in a RAR archive of 2470 KB, in their corresponding folders. They all have the extension .ini.txt, as they serve purely as a reference; when I need a file, I copy it into my mod folder and remove the .txt.

O, there *MIGHT* be a few files too many, because I only discovered that FLMM doesn't always remove mod files when you deactivate a mod, after I made this uncompressed ini collection.

* EDIT: have done a search for "sirius". no results.


Edited by - hans olo on 22-06-2003 00:31:05

I Seem to have stumbled upon something... incredible...

in resources.dll there is one occurance of SIRIUS SECTOR and one of each of BRETONIA, KUSARI, LIBERTY and RHEINLAND.

i am going to modify these and see what turns up, post back in a second

hey, email me those, i seem to have found the ID# for it so if i can search for that maybe i can even make them place differently

You're right; I fount it too now... For some reason resources.dll does not show uo in FLEd-ids, so it was excluded from my search. Very curious what the result of your experiment will be (I'll stay up a bit longer).

Btw, there are a lot of nice entries in this dll. Too bad FLEd-ids doesn't show it.

THAT was it.... so i know how to change the names now.... all we have left to figure out is how to change where they are placed on the map

Bondolin, the files are on their way. Let me know if they reached you, if they work etc.

And let me also know if you find a file that shouldn't be there (I think I removed them all, but wouldn't bet on it).

Btw, what is the ID for SIRIUS SECTOR? I found the entry but as FLEd-ids doesn't let me search in resources.dll, I can;t look up the number. And am too lazy to look up the formula


Edited by - hans olo on 22-06-2003 00:55:32