Sounds like your aiming too high.

I gave your permission to use my ships and asked you email me so i can keep you informed of updates in the other thread. I suggest you start by getting a ship to appear on the buyers list of an established station and fire off any questions you have to me at that address.

Then try and get the AI to fly them.

By which time your understanding of the inis will be good enough to tackle new systems.

Making mods is a very satisfying experience. If you really want to make one. I'll give you any help i can via email or in forums. Just nudge me if i appear absent. Im probably knee deep in some ini file someplace trying to the boil and egg missions working lol

The thing worth remembering is that right now most mods have most of the released ships so they are all almost identical. So you have to make yours something special. Give it an angle players can latch on to as well as ships and work towards that goal. Most of all, protect your mods over all look and feel because there are some shadey gits in here releasing copies of existing mods as they own.

The ships are not important, nor are unrealised ideas. Only X,Y,Z stuff that actually appears in your mod matters such as the Giant alien spacestaion that offers free sex with trible breasted women to passing pilots. Should somebody else suddenly have such an item after you release yours, kick off. I my mind that just crossed the line and are invading your mods personal space. Let them use their own imagination and think up their own idea for a floating brothel. ))

That way it will not be the same as yours because its not a cut and paste of yours. If you get my meaning

Giskard

Edited by - giskard on 02-06-2003 01:23:12

You tell em Giskard. I'm tired of seeing all these copycats rip stuff and try and create a mod without even learning how to do it the hard way.


http://www.homebs.com/flsdk/
Tutorials, Utilties, Mods, and much more.

Modding is fun and everybody has to start somewhere

Usually a good idea is the best start because it gives focus to a mod and makes it stand out above the right.

Giskard

k. thanks!! The mod is on its way.

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Hey guys!!

I posted v1 to Lancers Reactor. Should be in the downloads section I hope!!

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Your email addy bounced my email. So i'll post it here.

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Hello Kendo.

The most important thing to be willing to do when making a mod is to be willing to learn new tricks. I have made several mods and each time I've had to learn new stuff to do so. It means putting in hours of research and watching your Freelancer install crash out thousands of times a day.

It is important to make backups and list the files you modify with freelancer so when somewhere works, you have copies of the working mod. FL can get very complex very quickly.

To make a mod and to get help you need to be able to ask specific questions. So first off you need to decide exactly what you want to do. Then find a tutorial and get started. At which point you should have a few questions you need answers too. Each question that gets answered is another trick youve learnt.

This is the usual way things work.

Now youve said you wanted to add ships, so lets start there.

You need to edit the following files.

Freelancer\DATA\SHIPS\Shiparch.ini = the ships main configuration file.
Freelancer\DATA\EQUIPMENT\goods.ini = addons the ship should automatically get, eg engines.
Freelancer\DATA\EQUIPMENT\market_ships.ini = where the ship is sold.

Now your going to have 1 question you need an answer to right away. In market_ships.ini, how do i get my ship to show up ?

This is how.

This ship is for sale
marketgood = rsstarfury_package, 1, -1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1

This ship is not for sale.
marketgood = rsstarfury_package, 1, -1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1

By changing the numbers you enable a ship or disable a ship.

Also each base can only sell 3 ships and bases that already sell 3 ships must have 1 of the existing ships disabled so it is not for sale at that base.

You will also need a list of bases and their coded so you know where your adding your ship so you can test it.

Here is a list of bases to get your started.

Li01_01_Base = Planet Manhattan
Li01_02_Base = Planet Pittsburgh
Li01_03_Base = Battleship Missouri
Li01_04_Base = Benford Station
Li01_05_Base = Ithaca Research Station
Li01_06_Base = Trenton Outpost
Li01_07_Base = Norfolk Shipyard
Li01_08_Base = Newark Station
Li01_09_Base = West Point Military Academy
Li01_10_Base = Detroit Munitions
Li01_11_Base = Fort Bush
Li01_12_Base = Buffalo Base
Li01_13_Base = Rochester Base
Li01_14_Base = Baltimore Shipyard
Li01_15_Base = Battleship Osiris
Li02_01_Base = Planet Los Angeles
Li02_02_Base = California Minor
Li02_03_Base = Battleship Yukon
Li02_04_Base = Willard Research Station
Li02_05_Base = San Diego Border Station
Li02_06_Base = Alcatraz Depot
Li03_01_Base = Planet Denver
Li03_02_Base = Battleship Rio Grande
Li03_03_Base = Ouray Base
Li03_04_Base = Pueblo Station
Li04_01_Base = Planet Houston
Li04_02_Base = LPI Huntsville
Li04_03_Base = Battleship Mississippi
Li04_04_Base = Beaumont Base
Li04_05_Base = LPI Sugarland
Li04_06_Base = Battleship Osiris
Li05_01_Base = Prison Station Mitchell
Br01_01_Base = Planet New London
Br01_02_Base = Southampton Shipyard
Br01_03_Base = Battleship Suffolk
Br01_04_Base = Waterloo Station
Br01_05_Base = Canterbury Station
Br01_06_Base = Thames Outpost
Br01_07_Base = Kensington Shipping Platform
Br01_08_Base = Trafalgar Base
Br02_01_Base = BPA Newgate
Br02_02_Base = Birmingham Station
Br02_03_Base = Sheffield Station
Br02_04_Base = Liverpool Border Station
Br02_05_Base = Kingston Border Station
Br03_01_Base = Planet Cambridge
Br03_02_Base = Cambridge Research Station
Br03_03_Base = Battleship Norfolk
Br03_04_Base = Cardiff Mining Facility
Br04_01_Base = Planet Leeds
Br04_02_Base = Stokes Mining Station
Br04_03_Base = Battleship York
Br04_04_Base = Glasgow Outpost
Br04_05_Base = LD-14
Br04_06_Base = Durham Border Station
Br05_01_Base = Battleship Hood
Br05_02_Base = Mining Station Glorious
Br05_03_Base = Graves Station
Br05_04_Base = Battleship Essex
Br05_05_Base = Arranmore Base
Br06_01_Base = Luxury Liner Shetland
Br06_02_Base = Aberdeen Border Station
Br06_03_Base = Islay Base
Br06_04_Base = Perth Station
Ku01_01_Base = Planet New Tokyo
Ku01_02_Base = Narita Outpost
Ku01_03_Base = Yokohama Shipyard
Ku01_04_Base = Roppongi Station
Ku01_05_Base = Shinagawa Station
Ku01_06_Base = Shinjuku Station
Ku01_07_Base = Kabukicho Depot
Ku02_01_Base = Fuchu Prison
Ku02_02_Base = Battleship Myoko
Ku02_03_Base = Deshima Station
Ku02_04_Base = Planet Junyo
Ku02_05_Base = Ohashi Border Station
Ku03_01_Base = Planet Kyushu
Ku03_02_Base = Tsushima Depot
Ku03_03_Base = Battleship Nagumo
Ku03_04_Base = Nansei Research Complex
Ku03_05_Base = Kagoshima Depot
Ku04_01_Base = Planet Honshu
Ku04_02_Base = Osaka Storage Facility
Ku04_03_Base = Yukawa Shipyard
Ku04_04_Base = Kansai Research Station
Ku04_05_Base = Aomori Station
Ku04_06_Base = Akita Border Station
Ku05_01_Base = Battleship Matsumoto
Ku05_02_Base = Ainu Depot
Ku05_03_Base = Chugoku Gate Construction Site
Ku05_04_Base = Sapporo Station
Ku06_01_Base = Kyoto Base
Ku07_01_Base = Ryuku Base
Ku07_02_Base = Tekagi's Base
Rh01_01_Base = Planet New Berlin
Rh01_02_Base = Oder Shipyard
Rh01_03_Base = The Ring
Rh01_04_Base = Bonn Station
Rh01_05_Base = Dortmund Station
Rh01_06_Base = Essen Station
Rh01_07_Base = Brandenburg Border Station
Rh01_08_Base = Kreuzberg Depot
Rh02_01_Base = Planet Hamburg
Rh02_02_Base = Battleship Westfalen
Rh02_03_Base = Vierlande Prison
Rh02_04_Base = Alster Shipyard
Rh02_05_Base = Altona Station
Rh02_06_Base = Lübeck Border Station
Rh02_07_Base = Battleship Osiris
Rh03_01_Base = Planet Stuttgart
Rh03_02_Base = Planet Baden Baden
Rh03_03_Base = Freiburg Station
Rh03_04_Base = Ulm Border Station
Rh03_05_Base = Konstanz Border Station
Rh03_06_Base = Darmstadt Depot
Rh04_01_Base = Planet Holstein
Rh04_02_Base = Mainz Storage Facility
Rh04_03_Base = Mannheim Station
Rh04_04_Base = Fulda Border Station
Rh04_05_Base = Bruchsal Base
Rh05_01_Base = Leipzig Station
Rh05_02_Base = Bautzen Station
Rh05_03_Base = Pirna Border Station
Rh05_04_Base = Vogtland Base
Iw01_01_Base = Pacifica Base
Iw01_02_Base = Freeport 2
Iw02_01_Base = Barrow Base
Iw02_02_Base = Dawson Base
Iw02_03_Base = Battleship Osiris
Iw03_01_Base = Freeport 4
Iw03_02_Base = Mactan Base
Iw04_01_Base = Planet Curacao
Iw04_02_Base = Montezuma Base
Iw05_01_Base = Ames Research Station
Iw05_02_Base = Nome Base
Iw06_01_Base = Leiden Base
Iw06_02_Base = Padua Base
Bw01_01_Base = Planet Sprague
Bw01_02_Base = Freeport 1
Bw01_03_Base = Rugen Station
Bw01_04_Base = Douglas Station
Bw01_05_Base = Baxter Research Station
Bw02_01_Base = Cadiz Base
Bw02_02_Base = Ronneburg Base
Bw03_01_Base = Freistadt Base
Bw03_02_Base = Briesen Mining Facility
Bw03_03_Base = Elbich Mining Facility
Bw04_01_Base = Solarius Station
Bw04_02_Base = Freital Base
Bw05_01_Base = Gas Miner Naha
Bw05_02_Base = Helgoland Station
Bw05_03_Base = Yanagi Depot
Bw06_01_Base = Planet Kurile
Bw06_02_Base = Atka Research Station
Bw07_01_Base = Luxury Liner Hawaii
Bw07_02_Base = Gas Miner Ogashawa
Bw08_01_Base = Cali Base
Bw08_02_Base = Tau-31 Gate Construction Site
Bw08_03_Base = Java Station
Bw09_01_Base = Nago Station
Bw09_02_Base = Shinkaku Station
Bw09_03_Base = Freeport 6
Bw10_01_Base = Planet Harris
Bw10_02_Base = Holman Outpost
Ew01_01_Base = Freeport 10
Ew01_02_Base = Falkland Base
Ew02_01_Base = Ruiz Base
Ew03_01_Base = Leon Base
Ew03_02_Base = Freeport 5
Ew04_01_Base = Freeport 9
Hi01_01_Base = Planet Malta
Hi02_01_Base = Planet Crete
Hi02_02_Base = Tripoli Shipyard
St01_01_Base = Planet Toledo
St01_02_Base = Battleship Osiris
St02_01_Base = Battleship Osiris
St03b_01_Base = Battleship Osiris

Intro1_Base = Planet Manhattan
Intro2_Base = Planet Manhattan
Intro3_Base = Planet Manhattan
Ew06_01_Base = Planet Primus
Ew06_02_Base = Planet Gammu

I'll leave you to figure out the shiparch.ini and the goods.ini. Those two require some research but i have answered the questions new mod makers usually ask early on in this emial.

The process of adding a ship is simply.

First make the ship.
Create the shiparch.ini entry
Make the goods.ini entry.
Add it to base to be sold.

Please note that all pilotable ships in the shiparch.ini contain extra lines that enable the player to fly them. AI ships dont require those lines and ignore them if they find them. So studdy the differences between nopilotable ships and pilotable ones and you will learn a lot.

giskard

Hey, thanks Giskard.

I've sent you 2 e-mails. 1 should have v1 of the Galapagus mod (of course without ships, you know why) and a second with the e-mail problem. I'm trying to get it fixed fast!!!!

Kendo THM

The ones who have havn't...
The ones who don't do...

By the looks of it, my e-mail address is down.
I hopefully should get it fixed.

Oh yeah, Giskard, did you get the 2 e-mails?
One with the mod and the other one with the e-mail thingy?????

Won't be on for rest of tonight so....

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The ones who don't do...

I got your emails but nothing else.

I cannot exactly take a look at other mods right now anyway because of the way i develope my own mod.

BTW the email addy im sending to is the one from your profil on here which is in the reply to as well.

Giskard

Ah...hm... I've sent you another e-mail. Yours didn't reach me.

Tell me here if you ARE using AOL to send messages.

I'm...Learning...it...ARGHH

By that i mean... The mod is coming on well...I THINK!!

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