Heres another way if you need to completely fix your copy of freelancer. Find cab1.cab and cab2.cab on the cd, using winzip unzip these files to your HD, it might take a while (almost 1gb) but they contain EVERYTHING that comes with an install of Freelancer. If your copy of freelancer is totally corrupt, destroyed, etc, this will fix it.

Also: Is there a list of settings I can use to make a planet, when I place it in the editor i see it OK, but when I fly close ingame, all I see is the docking rings, which is most bizzare, as I can land on it... ?_?

Little things:

When you put a trade lane to a planet it appears Planet Woopee Docking Ring instead of Planet Woopee.

Agentprop, I think that is due to what type of planet you used. I once used the bottom one (storm_planet_5000 i think) and it didnt appear. Try using a different type of a planet.

Well who said that my Fl is NOW completly destroyed? I'm just testing around and I've got backup inis. Escept that freelancer.ini :p But whatever. Everything is fine.

I just thought of some ultimate ideas (My opinion anyway)
Dunno if half of them are possible. Or they might just take a few years.

-Ability to add your own factions. (Choose what ships they use and stuff)
-Ability to change the map. (I mean the navigation universe map thingy)I dont think that one is that ultimate
-Uhhhh....I thought of some...it will come back to me...
-Oh yeh, like a 3D viewer of objects so you can see what they are like.
-The ability to MOVE systems.

P.S Still haven't worked out the clouds P.S P.S Or I have it just don't want to work. P.S P.S P.S Im bored of doing P.S's.

I have no idea why.... but when I try and load my mod it crashes. I have opened it before, and saved it, but when trying to open it again.... no luck. Also, is there any list anywhere of the docking voice/bodies that work? So far I have got... none to work. I just dock, with no voice or anything, I want the atmosphere!

Keep up the good work anywho

I went to your site and downloaded it again today. But it says the version is 1.0.

Is the one I downloaded the current version?

AgentProp, if you have a mod that generate crashes , plz send it to me
MLEdele, strange the version i see on the web is 1.7.5.1..

I'll check the problem with the docking characters , i have seen it working before, and i might have broken it recently.

I'll release a new version soon too.
Added : possibility to delete zones.

Hello !
So I'm here again !
I have a question :
How work patrol creation with your tool?

When I open a original system, I see lots of differents color for the zones but don't know what they mean. What I already know :
red>>field
yellow>>exclusion
Can't you make a legend ?

Now, imagine you made a trade lane witch you planed to go to a jump gate.
After you made your trade lane, you go to the "simple view" of the system and right click where you want your jump gate to be but if you do this near of the trade lane, you won't see the create menu but the delete one. What I whant to say here is that you made a so large zone around object for delete or edit them by right cliking. I think you should decrease it a little because you aren't able to zoom in the "simple view". But that's only a suggestion !

That's all for today !

Oh! I forgot :
Keep this way ! It's a good work !

Edited by - Archangel on 10-05-2003 16:20:48

Archangel, in the system view , you can use shift right click to force adding a jumphole

Yes i should make a legend but for now :
pink = tradelane zones
blue = clouds/nebula/fields
red = zone with damage
green = mission zone
yellow = exclusion
cyan = population zone.

for the patrols, it's just a polyline (dbl click to finish).

shsan:
something very interested happened with that C:\\ thing.
I was going to change commodities in some base. So I changed them, applied and I chose FL directory. Well there was an error with that \\, BUT...
The error was showing, even when I clicked "Ok":
Error -> OK... few seconds... Error -> Ok... few seconds... Error -> Ok... blah blah.
And after about 10 times of clicking "Ok" button a window showed with the text "Changes applied". And you know what? In the game the commodities changed as I wanted.

But few days ago when I wanted to create a new system it showed (after those \\ errors) "Cannot create ini" or sth like that. So the program don't create ini's itself?

****EDITED****:
Well I found out something new. I tried to make a battleship base in Leeds system (BR04).
So I made it. And the error accured also.
The first error "Cannot find empty_resources.ini".
Then the errors with \\ : universe.ini, br04.ini, mbases.ini, market_comodities.ini, market_misc. ini and br04_02_base.ini.
And so. For example:
universe.ini is in D:\Games\Freelancer\Data\UniverseFirst error: Cannot create path D:\\Games
Second: Cannot blah blah D:\\Games\Freelancer
Third: D:\\Games\Freelancer\Data
And fourth: D:\\Games\Freelancer\Data\Universe
That is 4 times.

And br04.ini had 6 times. And it is in sixth folder.
And the same for the rest.

The battleship was there.

But...
When I created this battleship... Well it saved the ini as br04_02_base.ini which stands for Stokes Mining Station (I think). When I selected the battleship, it also selected that Station (but only in the NavMap. You know, these two bases where flashing). Weird. I couldn't dock with the battleship, because it said "destination is too far". So I wanted to go to Station, but when I docked with the trade lane my game crashed.


Edited by - Wolf Soul on 10-05-2003 20:16:01

Edited by - Wolf Soul on 10-05-2003 20:58:45

Hey, Shsan! Great tool, but I have one request: can you add in keyboard zoom (a pair of keys, in and out) or a menu command for those of us who still don't have wheels on our mice?

Edited by - StClair on 10-05-2003 20:55:54

Wolf Soul, try the new version , i have changed recently the way i make sure that the path exists and it should work now.

StClair, +/- for the zoom with the latest version.

Well I WANT to download it but... uh... the page isn't working.

thats strange it works for me