Changing the Nav-Map

Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:53 pm by alfa_astrix

I saw what the new Crossfire mod had done to their nave-map (background), and I was wondering how it was done. Also, I was wondering if there were a way to increase the size of the map from a 19x18 grid to say, a 250x250 grid map.

Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:46 am by Alcander

I'm terribly sorry I didn't respond to you earlier. I've been away for a few days. At any rate, the NavMap background can be changed by changing the TGA texture in pretty_map.3db in the Interface directory. The names can be changed and the positions can be moved if you modify the EXE. You can also change the IDS names in resources.dll to change the NavMap names but the locations still can only be modified by changing the EXE.

And while <technically> it's possible to probably change the NavMap to 250x250 - it would be ridicously hard because the Interface components are made up of many subcomponents and that would mean spacing each side of the NavMap farther out, getting the background to render more, and having to add code for Nav positions beyond A through F. So in the end you'd probably end up having a really crappy mockup if you tried to change the NavMap since everything else has to be changed accordingly.

Fri Jun 24, 2005 2:10 am by alfa_astrix

so where in the exe are the name, like what lines?

Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:23 pm by ilerien

yes realy where are they???

Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:29 pm by BlasterUK

in exe? the only thing in exe is the hex, in resources.dll look through the strings

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Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:41 am by Gibbon

Think this is what you need in the resources.dll

1252 = is RHINELAND
1251 = is KUSARI
1250 = is BRETONIA
1249 = is LIBERTY
1285 = (MAP NAME ie: SIRIUS MAP, SOLAR SYSTEM MAP etc)

Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:17 pm by Hadryon

What program are you guys using to edit resources.dll? The FLED-IDS refuses to touch it.

Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:39 am by General Drake

Well, Freelancer accepts values lik 1.6, 5.9 as valid too. But then FLE doesn´t display the systems

Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:44 pm by Ogu

@Hadryon - Try Reshacker, it'll work just fine.

Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:24 am by Stanlley

Where can i find reshacker Write link pls !

Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:16 am by Vital

I guess it's somewhere in your email(correct me if I am wrong).

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Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:37 am by devineman

write link pls!!!

do the most basic amount of searching pls!!!

Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:32 pm by Vital

devineman,it was not so easy to find reshack link(maybe it wasn't easy for me?),that's why I emailed him.

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Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:10 am by fadius

It is not a hard tool to locate. Try google and search for it. You would have found it right away.

Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:41 am by Rankor

just post the link and be a nice guy, huh.

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