**Tutorial** - System Building from scratch.

Fri Dec 26, 2003 3:22 am by laughing plasma

Works for me, I downloaded it just the other day. Follow the link from the first page, then go to Downloads on that site, then Guides.

Giskard, I noticed you said that you couldn't get Solars to appear on the minimap. I made a system using your tutorial and the Ringworld system, and added/altered a lot of my own stuff to it, and I found that all the stuff shows up on the minimap - planets, asteroids, stars, all there! I don't think I did anything different to the tutorials, if you want I can post the system.ini file so you can take a look for yourself and see if you can spot what it is. I do know that it's the 'property_flag' (I think, don't have Freelancer on this comp to check) line that governs what the image on the navmap is, but that only applies to asteroids or nebulae.

On another note, have you worked out any more on getting the Systemshortestpath.ini to work?

"Corona surfing - fun, but foolish."

Fri Dec 26, 2003 9:43 pm by joe360

how do you read the ini files? half of them are encoded and I can't seem to find a decoder. HELP!!!!

Sat Dec 27, 2003 4:38 am by laughing plasma

Look for Binilite in the Dowloads section of this site, that will sort you out.

"Corona surfing - fun, but foolish."

Thu Jan 08, 2004 3:53 pm by Kaiten

Here's a link to Giskards fine tutorial that should work fine. It takes you directly to the Freelancer Tutorial download page on the site.

Kaiten

Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:46 am by larnu

Um this may seem really stupid but i can't find the tutorial, can u send me the HTML file plz, addy is [email protected], ty!

Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:50 am by larnu

Don't worry i found it!

Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:33 pm by 0neManArmy

Yo dudes !

my good m8 told me that they used a program to do it (he sorta knows a guy) ... the point is why dosnt any one make a system decoder/encoder? it is posuble i'm ot just saying it for some one to make one for (me) but it would make it so easyer for (you) and (me) of coures it might not be peafect probly realy hard with a program but...at least a locaion thing

I totally agree with this guy, even though some of his post wasnt very legible, but it is a great idea. System buidling is a complicated and long process and if someone (or possibly a group people) would try to make a system making program or something of that sort it would make the lives of scripting noobs (like me) and even scripting experts a lot better. Expecially if it cut the time down.

Wed Mar 03, 2004 3:57 am by 0sprey

OneManArmy,

Give FLExplorer a try. Point and click system creation to include suns, planets, tradelanes, bases, etc. It should be in the download section, thats where I got it. And my headaches went away. Only have to "tweak" now.

-Osprey-

Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:12 pm by 0neManArmy

Wow thanks man, lol i guess i just needed to look harder in the downloads section.

Thanks again!

Tue Mar 09, 2004 6:04 pm by Jonatan_Raven

First off I'd like to say this:

You all mentioned that creating a system isn't easy, so you posted a tutorial..
It took me about two hours of clicking different links, eyeing through all pages once, reading them a second time to just FIND the tutorial..

Now that I've found it I'm going to read it and give it a shot..

laughing plasma:
thank you!!!

It might be that I'm plain stupid but I kinda thought that if I follow the link I'd see the tutorial..

not that I had to go to the downloads-section, tutorials (not Freelancer) and THEN download the tutorial..

Edited by - Jonatan_Raven on 3/9/2004 6:10:58 PM

Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:33 pm by Projekt Nemesis

love what you got with this Mod tutorial but one question: it says .....
Creating your first system ini files.

Make the following new folders in the directory stated below.

Create my01 in \DATA\UNIVERSE\SYSTEMS

Create BASES in \DATA\UNIVERSE\SYSTEMS\My01\

Create Rooms in \DATA\UNIVERSE\SYSTEMS\YO01\BASES

............ now is YO01 a new folder to create or a type of My01? really nob Q i know but then again i AM a noob lol

Thu Jun 17, 2004 1:57 am by Johnboy2307

Okey i have a problem,

I'm just doing as the tutorail says etc. etc.
Then it says I have to add a line in the Li01.ini file. I open it and it's just in a nice text format.
I do this and test the game, it works as normally etc.
But when I want to change the line in the Li01.ini again suddenly the nice text format has turned in this and the readible text is all mixed up.

How did that happen?
Can it be changed back to normal?

Please help.

Mon Jun 21, 2004 5:05 pm by parabolix

Johnboy that's bini. Use a bini editor like BiniQDU to change it to readable text.

Thu Aug 19, 2004 6:38 pm by EArTh

the link to this tutorial doesnt work...

Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:50 pm by nabishamash

Hey mate,

Could you send me the complete html tutorial file you mentioned and send it to my email address:

[email protected]

Thanks

AG

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