About shield-,hull-,energybar positions.

Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:17 am by Vital

Another question from me about HUD.
Is there any way to change PowerBar,ShieldBar,HealthBar position?
Things I know:
Ship status bars are not linked to HUD boxes position.It's programmed to be
in the very bottom of the screen.
There are some text strings in freelancer.exe.For example PowerBar,ShieldBar,HealthBar.
They use hud_energygauge,hud_shieldgauge,hud_hullgauge.3db files(in interface/hud folder).
Tried to put something like [ShieldBar} and some values below it in hud.ini,no succes.
I do understand nothing in exe editing,so strings I've found no use for me.
Any Ideas,please?

Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:55 pm by blackhole

{possibly unethical content} I ripped apart the EXE with a dissambler, but i doubt i could find just where they program that in. Technically if you could find the positioning code in the assembly and recompiled it that would work... but that would be _REALLY_ hard, because it could be anything from coordinates to a percentage value based on the screens hieght. {/possibly unethical content}

However i do know that the 3db files contain a lot of information HUD wise. Many of them seem to have a UTF structure that i've looked at and have values for a lot of things. You may not be able to change the shield position but you could change a lot of other things.

By the way, there is a value in a certain INI that i have forgotten that allows you to change the size of the little yellow boxes.

Edited by - Blackhole on 10/16/2006 3:55:49 PM

Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:53 pm by Cold_Void

look at dev's hex editing tutorial - the spacing between segments in those bars are in the exe/dlls...

Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:58 pm by Vital

Thanks guys.
Well,changing space between segments is not exactly what I need.
Blackhole,could you please remember at least folder In DATA where to look for this .ini?

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