**Tutorial** - Speed and Handling

Sun Jul 25, 2004 5:41 pm by rclute

OK now to change cruise speed for those that don't already know.

first decode constants.ini file using the decoder of your choice. Personally I use FreelancerIniExplorer for its ease of use.

Warning do not use FreelancerIniExplorer on mission files unless you can re-encode the files otherwise crashes may occur.

Next open the constants file and under the section EngineEquipConsts add this line:
CRUISING_SPEED = 600

Now under the section PhySysConsts add this line:
ANOM_LIMITS_MAX_VELOCITY = 600

You can make it faster if you want but will crash land into planets and even with an invincible ship will die when you hit the water. It still says you are going 300 but you can see that you are going faster than that.

Fri Nov 19, 2004 9:26 pm by Davethewave

Hiya, I tried to edit my ship's engine so that my throttle is able to go higher, but I ran into a problem... I set the throttle really high by setting max_force = 8800000, but it's slowest speed is still too fast, how can I make it so when I scroll my mouse wheel up and down the throttle has a more accurate interval/throttle gain/loss instead of instantly jumping to warp?

Sorry if this is answered elswhere, I tried to search for it and came up with nodda.

Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:57 pm by lsimm14

i found a some info on tradelanes in the select_equip.ini but don't know what to edit

[TradeLane
nickname = basic_trade_lane_eq
tl_ship_enter = basic_tl_ship_enter
tl_ship_travel = basic_tl_ship_travel
tl_ship_exit = basic_tl_ship_successful
tl_ship_disrupt = basic_tl_ship_traumatic
tl_player_travel = basic_tl_player_travel
tl_player_splash = basic_tl_player_splash
secs_before_enter = 2
secs_before_splash = 0.2
secs_before_exit = 0.3
tl_ring_active = basic_tl_ring_active
spin_max = 50
spin_accel = 15
activation_start = 750
activation_end = 500
\what is your travel speed in the trade lane

confucius says you'll be on the toilet all night after that 3 week old pizza

Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:28 am by taytayisking

I *THINK* that's in CONSTANTS.INI
which is in "Freelancer\Data"
the following lines have helped me with my mega-speed fighter-

[PhySysConsts
MATERIAL_FRICTION=0.1
MATERIAL_ELASTICITY=0.9
DEFAULT_LINEAR_DAMPING=0.5
DEFAULT_ANGULAR_DAMPING=0.2, 0.2, 0.2
ANOM_LIMITS_MAX_VELOCITY = 4000

-push up "ANOM_LIMITS..." to a reeeeally high number, I do blieve that's the absolute maximum speed for eveything, and that tradelanes use it as their default max speed too... I think that increases trade lane speed, although it still takes a VERY long trade lane to ramp up to that speed. Hope that helps.

Wait, what was I doing? Never mind, it was probably dumb anyway.

Edited by - Taytayisking on 6/29/2005 10:45:32 AM

Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:44 am by taytayisking

Hadn't seen that stuff on Tradelanes you just posted... gotta mess with that, see what it changes (breaks)...

Wait, what was I doing? Never mind, it was probably dumb anyway.

Edited by - Taytayisking on 6/29/2005 10:44:13 AM

Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:47 am by Cold_Void

This entire thread is the result of having no search button.Hate to say it(not really,i'm reveling in it)but I told you so.

everything that has been discussed in this thread has been covered in tutes & general editing.

Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:28 am by pSYCHO

Well thats just because this thread originated in 2003

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