SOLVED : How to get Order, Nomads etc on rep menu

Mon May 03, 2004 8:32 am by Anton

Ok, How to get The Order, Nomads etc to show? I just found this by accident

You'll need a hex editor to do this; get a free one ->here<-

What you need is in common.dll of FLs exe directory. Search for 'grp' (without the quotes :p) and you'll find a list of the factions that won't show on the rep board. Write hex 00 over the ascii entries for the factions you want to show, save and test. I loaded an SP save on the osiris, clicked an NPC and up came The Order on the board

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Edited by - Anton on 5/3/2004 9:33:58 AM

Mon May 03, 2004 12:21 pm by Moonhead

Anton,

That's excellent man!! Grreat that you solved that one!

This most probably also makes it possible to block a limited number of factions. There seems to be space for another faction, and I amnot using the Nomad pseudo-Navies, so I could replace them with my own factions.

The funny thing is: I can now make The Order simply show up without using tricks, and use the duplicate Order I created just for getting around this block, as an invisble alter ego of The Order by just replacing fc_or_grp with co_or_grp in the DLL file

Mon May 03, 2004 12:50 pm by Anton

Hmmm, I don't know about using 'extra' space as you put it because the exe & other dlls will most likely look at particular addresses to find these strings. However you can swap the originally blocked factions with other <NN>_<NN>_grp names as long as at least 1 00 byte (null termination for the string) remains.

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Mon May 03, 2004 2:10 pm by Moonhead

Hmmm, I don't know about using 'extra' space as you put it because the exe & other dlls will most likely look at particular addresses to find these strings.

You might have a point here... But it could also be that it uses some kind of "while ... wend" kind of routine, to search the entire string... A test should reveil this (which I will do later as I'm busy with Patrol Paths now).

Edited by - moonhead on 5/3/2004 3:11:05 PM

Mon May 03, 2004 3:40 pm by Anton

it's certainly worth a try m8, let me know what you find out

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Tue May 04, 2004 6:26 am by Dark Man

Where exactly do u put the oo? sry but im new to editing dlls

Tue May 04, 2004 6:47 am by Anton

@darkman - in the ascii display part of your hex editor, click on the first letter of, say, fc_or_grp (the order). In the hex display there will be the corresponding byte highlighted. Click on that and type 00 (repeat for each letter). The ascii display will change to a little square. Save it and you're ready to go

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Tue May 04, 2004 9:40 am by Dugge Dank

Thank you Anton.

I just recently decided to try and make the Order show on the rep menu and look at this. It's served on a silver plate!

Thanks!

Wed May 05, 2004 12:09 am by Dark Man

Ah, Thx alot anton, i got it working

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