Freelancer Resources.DLL: Cool Stuff

Fri Aug 29, 2003 8:30 pm by Gregstar2k

I was poking around in Resources.DLL with Resource Hacker to see what kinds of things DA hid from us...if you click the Dialog box resource in Resource Hacker you see what appears to be some kind of FL development tool!?!? could DA have left parts of the SDK inside FL for us???????

UPDATE: IT APPEARS to be, and this is just a guess, but it SURE looks like it: a BUILT IN UTF EDITOR inside the DLL!!!!!!

...Fascinating: String table folder 127 contains a string table with the words
2027, "This is the basic ship package."
2028, "This is the intermediate package."
2029, "This is the advanced package."
I guess originally, we were supposed to be able to buy different "variations" of the exact same ship, e.g. more speed VS more hull, etc?

Folder 141: Proof that indeed the Warp Drive described on another editing forum WAS built into FL on purpose: 2253, "Activates warp - no longer used."
Folder 191: 3053, "Warp"

ARGH!!! they removed universe chat! Folder 190:
3030, "Chat to star system"
3031, "Chat to local area"
3032, "Chat to group"
3033, "Chat to entire universe"
3034, "Chat to one person..."

-- Gregster2K

Edited by - Gregstar2k on 29-08-2003 21:47:06

Fri Aug 29, 2003 8:52 pm by Gregstar2k

oh, and i discovered (finally!) where to change the size of the annoying fonts (DATA\FONTS\) but what bothers me is...would changing font sizes cause lag or cheat detection if used on an unmodded server?

can someone who knows about the subject tell me? because I would realllly love to make the cosmetic change of reducing font size, the current sizes are ABOMINABLE and i hate the font MS picked! LOL

Edited by - Gregstar2k on 29-08-2003 22:00:21

Fri Aug 29, 2003 9:06 pm by Gregstar2k

I've been poking around in the Key Mapping INIs of the INTERFACE directory. Now I'm looking at it and seeing tons of keys that I've never seen before, including a slew of DEBUG keys which rotate camera and such! I'm going to try and work with this INI for awhile...backing up my originals, of course!

Fri Aug 29, 2003 9:54 pm by blaXXer

resource: stringtable 2753

STRINGTABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
{
44032, "WP1"
44033, "N4 Set 3"
44034, "WP1"
44035, "Cargo route"
44036, "WP1"
44037, "Liberty Gas Miner"
44038, "Rheinland Battleship"
44039, "Waypoint"
44040, "Avalon Patrol Route"
44041, "Waypoint 1"
44042, "Waypoint 2"
44043, "Waypoint 3"
44044, "Waypoint 4"
44045, "Waypoint 5"
44046, "Waypoint 6"
44047, "Omega-13 Ambush point"
}
found this...seems quite ineresting ,eh? especially this:
44047, "Omega-13 Ambush point"

edit: there'S far more than this...keep on searchin' everyone!!!

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Edited by - blaXXer on 29-08-2003 22:55:40

Edited by - blaXXer on 30-08-2003 01:05:03

Fri Aug 29, 2003 11:04 pm by Gregstar2k

Still, though, I wonder if the font sizes would induce lag...i seriously doubt it! but i need opinions...In the meantime i'm going to be fooling around with it, and the key binds...

UPDATE: HAHAHA! IT WORKED! Once I get the font size conventions right, my HUD will be of MY choosing, not the default Fisher Price crud (as some other guy once said)!!! GET A LOAD OF THIS:!!!!! (done by modifying fonts.ini)

ROFL!

Edited by - Gregstar2k on 30-08-2003 00:18:36

Fri Aug 29, 2003 11:46 pm by Gregstar2k

MORE screenies:

Unfortunately...reducing point size for the HUD text didn't affect the number of entries that can be displayed at any given time for the Radar Range... =( After mucking with this stuff for awhile I returned my FL files to normal since A) i dont know what effects it might also have and

as you can see it breaks the Countermeasure readout.. =P

i bet this could be easily applied to some use such as chat font text, but I'm done mucking with this for the moment. Consider these an example of what you can do to De-FisherPriceize your HUD! I just dont know if it can lag servs or not yet, and I'm not going to take the risk anyhow

Edited by - Gregstar2k on 30-08-2003 00:49:00

Sun Aug 31, 2003 8:12 am by Atombombe

Hi!

This is maybe (the recource) the System, where is the black hole.
In the black hole Folder there's a file Omega13.ini

Sun Aug 31, 2003 8:27 am by Kendo THM

This is all very intersting!!

I allready once lloked into the fonts, but I got really ****** as I couldn't find out a good font.

At the moment I'm actually editing the stuff that the guy says in Random Missions!!

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