I dont think (though im not 100%) that its possable

I'm sure this is possable with what we have done so far, and I figured that if anyone could help, it would be the Lancers Reactor community.

Can't you just change the destroyers to be class_cruiser instead and then use the destroyer_class for your own cutom ship class?

Sorry mace, but that's not the same. In the shiparch.ini, it has the line,

ship_class =

and I have it set so that;

0 - Light Fighter
1 - Fighter
2 - Heavy Fighter
3 - Freighter

and I wanted to add 4 - Capital, but the resource.dll olny has room for the four, and I was aking if anyone knew how to add the fifth string so that Freelancer would read it right.

Um, have you tried just using a FLMM name-generation string there?

how would that allow me to input that ship_class = 4 means that when you go to buy a ship, under the name is says Capital? I cn add new strings if I have to, but I need to figure out how to get Freelancer to read it.

Those ship classes are hardcoded... if you dont have the FL source code you wont be able to add new classes

just to say lets take the recources.dll wont help you coz only the names for the classes are stored there but not their stats
those should be somewhere in the common.dll and the freelancer.exe
and its kinda impossible (well no... kinda extremly hard) to edit those files in a way so you can add new classes

there were many people who already tried to edit those files and failed

I'll try a simple experiment after I get some sleep.

@Argh
What are you going to try and do?

What I tried didn't work, so it doesn't matter a whole lot.

I am afraid that OP-R8R is correct... this aspect appears to be hard-coded, and would require the assistance of Alcander or someone with like skills to expand.

let me guess you tried to add hardpoints to those files manually ^^

No, I just tried a quick-and-dirty DLL reference change. No dice, didn't even slightly work. That 0-4 is referring to a reserved memory area

What actually does that line control anyway? Just the icon that is used on the radar window?

Well, it mainly changes how the ship is referred to in the ShipDealer and other areas. Hence people have wanted to change it to give players more meaningful information than "Heavy Fighter", etc.

If ships lack this line, I think that they crash ShipDealers (I can't remember, but I think so), because it looks for this line. Otherwise I'd just remove it from Toolkit, because it's essentially useless, and doesn't tell players anything worth knowing. Instead, in Toolkit 1.3, I made it reflect what classes of Shield were available to that ship-type, so that it actually tells players something useful.

Edited by - Argh on 12/29/2005 12:51:03 AM