Ok, so ammo can take up space, but not weapons. I guess that's gotta be "close enough".

Aaaaaargh! It seems that missile weapons, no matter what their true rate of fire, refuse to play the firing sound more than once per trigger pull. How lame. I guess I'm back to using good ol' energy weapons, and I don't have a way to supply them with ammunition unless I make them missiles... grumble... so I can't game-balance that way. Oh well. It's not the end of the world, it just makes things trickier.

Edited by - Argh on 11/14/2004 3:24:04 AM

Can anyone help?!

I have yet another question. I'm trying to populate my bar. I read up all the posts I could find from a search on this, and copied and pasted the text of some solutions even, changing the relevant bits. Still no luck. Can someone PLEASE please help!!!
I'm such a noob!

Relevant bit from mbases.ini:

[MBase
nickname = Br01_havenalpha_station
local_faction = br_p_grp
diff = 7
msg_id_prefix = gcs_refer_base_Br01_havenalpha_station

[MVendor
num_offers = 5, 7

[BaseFaction
faction = br_p_grp
weight = 40
offers_missions = true
mission_type = DestroyMission, 0.480486, 0.900376, 60
npc = br01havenalpha_bpolice_001_m
npc = br01havenalpha_bpolice_002_f
npc = br01havenalpha_bpolice_003_f

[BaseFaction
faction = br_n_grp
weight = 30
npc = br01havenalpha_bnavy_001_f

[BaseFaction
faction = gd_bh_grp
weight = 30
offers_missions = true
mission_type = DestroyMission, 0.480486, 0.900376, 40
npc = br01havenalpha_bounty_001_m
npc = br01havenalpha_bounty_002_f

[GF_NPC
nickname = br01havenalpha_bounty_001_m
body = sh_male2_body
head = ge_male6_head
lefthand = male_hand_left_black
righthand = male_hand_right_black
individual_name = 220325
affiliation = gd_bh_grp
voice = rvp101
misn = DestroyMission, 0.480486, 0.900376
room = bar
bribe = br_p_grp, 10000, 16100
bribe = gd_bh_grp, 10000, 16101
rumorknowdb = br02_to_br04_hole
rumor = base_0_rank, mission_end, 3, 133063
know = 251612, 252622, 5000, 2
knowdb = br02_to_br04_hole
accessory = prop_neuralnet_B

[GF_NPC
nickname = br01havenalpha_bounty_002_f
body = pl_female2_journeyman_body
head = pl_female1_head
lefthand = benchmark_female_hand_left
righthand = benchmark_female_hand_right
individual_name = 220326
affiliation = gd_bh_grp
voice = rvp511
misn = DestroyMission, 0.480486, 0.900376
room = bar
bribe = co_be_grp, 10000, 16100
bribe = co_nws_grp, 10000, 16100
bribe = co_os_grp, 10000, 16100
bribe = gd_bh_grp, 10000, 16101
rumorknowdb = br02_to_br04_hole
know = 251633, 252623, 6000, 1
knowdb = br02_to_iw03_hole

[GF_NPC
nickname = br01havenalpha_bnavy_001_f
body = br_female_elite_body
head = rh_newscaster_head_gen_hat
lefthand = benchmark_female_hand_left
righthand = benchmark_female_hand_right
individual_name = 220364
affiliation = br_n_grp
voice = rvp541
misn = DestroyMission, 0.351002, 0.657737
room = bar
accessory = prop_hat_female_br_elite

[GF_NPC
nickname = br01havenalpha_bpolice_001_m
body = br_male_guard_body
head = ge_male4_head
lefthand = benchmark_male_hand_left
righthand = benchmark_male_hand_right
individual_name = 220328
affiliation = br_p_grp
voice = rvp111
misn = DestroyMission, 0.480486, 0.900376
room = bar

[GF_NPC
nickname = br01havenalpha_bpolice_002_f
body = br_female_guard_body
head = pl_female1_head
lefthand = benchmark_female_hand_left
righthand = benchmark_female_hand_right
individual_name = 220329
affiliation = br_p_grp
voice = rvp541
misn = DestroyMission, 0.480486, 0.900376
room = bar

[GF_NPC
nickname = br01havenalpha_bpolice_003_f
body = br_female_guard_body
head = pl_female2_head
lefthand = benchmark_female_hand_left
righthand = benchmark_female_hand_right
individual_name = 220330
affiliation = br_p_grp
voice = rvp541
misn = DestroyMission, 0.480486, 0.900376
room = bar
accessory = prop_hat_female_br_grd

[GF_NPC
nickname = br01havenalpha_fix_bartender
body = br_bartender_body
head = br_brighton_head
lefthand = benchmark_male_hand_left
righthand = benchmark_male_hand_right
individual_name = 320007
affiliation = br_p_grp
voice = rvp101
bribe = br_p_grp, 10000, 16100
bribe = br_n_grp, 10000, 16101

[GF_NPC
nickname = br01havenalpha_fix_ship
base_appr = Robot_body_b
individual_name = 320006
affiliation = br_p_grp
voice = rvp003

[GF_NPC
nickname = br01havenalpha_fix_trader
body = br_male_elite_body
head = li_sales_head_hat
lefthand = benchmark_male_hand_left
righthand = benchmark_male_hand_right
individual_name = 320009
affiliation = br_p_grp
voice = rvp131

[GF_NPC
nickname = br01havenalpha_fix_weaponsdealer
base_appr = Robot_body_b
individual_name = 320008
affiliation = br_p_grp
voice = rvp003

[MRoom
nickname = Deck
character_density = 3
fixture = br01havenalpha_fix_ship, Zs/NPC/Shipdealer/01/A/Stand, scripts\vendors\li_shipdealer_fidget.thn, ShipDealer

[MRoom
nickname = bar
character_density = 7
fixture = br01havenalpha_fix_bartender, Zs/NPC/Bartender/01/A/Stand, scripts\vendors\li_bartender_fidget.thn, bartender

[MRoom
nickname = trader
character_density = 2
fixture = br01havenalpha_fix_trader, Zs/NPC/Trader/01/A/Stand, scripts\vendors\li_commtrader_fidget.thn, trader

[MRoom
nickname = ShipDealer
character_density = 2
fixture = br01havenalpha_fix_ship, Zs/NPC/Shipdealer/01/A/Stand, scripts\vendors\li_shipdealer_fidget.thn, ShipDealer

[MRoom
nickname = Equipment
character_density = 2
fixture = br01havenalpha_fix_weaponsdealer, Zs/NPC/Equipment/01/A/Stand, scripts\vendors\li_equipdealer_fidget.thn, Equipment


From br01_havenalpha_station_bar.ini:

[Room_Info
set_script = scripts\bases\cv_01_Bar_hardpoint_01.thn
scene = ambient, scripts\bases\cv_01_bar_ambi_Br01_04.thn

[Room_Sound
music = music_bar_br04
ambient = ambience_deck_space_smaller

[CharacterPlacement
name = Zg/PC/Player/01/A/Stand
start_script = Scripts\Bases\cv_01_bar_enter_01.thn

[Camera
name = Camera_0

[Hotspot
name = IDS_HOTSPOT_EXIT
behavior = ExitDoor
room_switch = Deck

[Hotspot
name = IDS_HOTSPOT_BAR
behavior = ExitDoor
room_switch = Bar

[Hotspot
name = IDS_HOTSPOT_COMMODITYTRADER_ROOM
behavior = ExitDoor
room_switch = Trader

[Hotspot
name = IDS_HOTSPOT_EQUIPMENTDEALER_ROOM
behavior = ExitDoor
room_switch = Equipment

[Hotspot
name = IDS_HOTSPOT_SHIPDEALER_ROOM
behavior = ExitDoor
room_switch = ShipDealer

[Hotspot
name = IDS_HOTSPOT_NEWSVENDOR
behavior = NewsVendor

[Hotspot
name = IDS_HOTSPOT_MISSIONVENDOR
behavior = MissionVendor

Hello to all moders am new to moding (But not compleatly fresh) i have been loking true the site to find out how i can add ships from other mods to my own mod But i havent find enny god ansvers,
so am now sking for some help.
Thank's for a truly amaising site.

First of all, i'll again like to say that this is a truly GREAT site!!! Thanks for everybody responsible and all the people posting here. Their posts have helped me a lot understanding abt fiddling [Though i'm a newbie still and thanks to Accushot, Chips, Parabolix, Psycho and others. U people are excellent ; helpin out people like me!!!

That stuff was irrelevent to modding alright, here are my questions:

1: How Can i change the background music for various places??? [eg. A linkin Park song in the manhattan Bar!!!

2 : Please show me some link to editing infocards for weapons, shields, powerplants and tractorbeams.

Hi wizard

To change the music you will need to go into your Music folder. It is (if you installed Freelancer into the default directory) "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\DATA\AUDIO\MUSIC" You will then need to find the music you want to replace. The name of the Manhattan Bar music is music_bar_li01.wav. You then just rename your song to music_bar_li01 and paste it in the folder, overwriting the previous file. Make sure the file is in wave format. You can download Wavepad here. Wavepad lets you easily change audio files into many formats.

Tutorial for Editing Weapons is Here

Tutorial for Editing Ships is Here

Tutorial for Editing Infocards is Here

Hope those are useful

Thanx a lot Parabolix. I'll try that out soon. I'm currently busy preparing for my semester exams. I'll get on with fiddling as soon as i'm free. Thanx for those links. I'm sure they'll help. I've just got one more question before i get on with my studies :

#How do we change the maximum achievable level and the worth reqd for them???

i'm back, and i still have truble...
the bini works now, but i cant find the files to drag into them. please help!

Sigh. Some day, somebody's going to have to update the manuals referring to BINI...

Just go download FL SDK 1.3... it's all of the INIs, already decompressed... plus a bunch of bugs have been removed

I need help!! I added a lot of guns to the .cmp of a ship using HardCMP Editor. I went to the shiparch.ini and made all guns Level 10 and added all eleven guns there, like this, right??

hp_gun_special_10, HpWeapon01, HpWeapon02.....HpWeapon11

I also tried to add 2 turrets. But I went to buy the ship but it is just messed up. There were originally 6 guns, 2 turrets, 2 torpedos. Now it has 4 guns, 1 turret, 4 torpedos. I must be doing something really wrong. I'm gonna pull my hair out! Thanks!

I think you must name them HpWeapon011 instead of HpWeapon11.

Really? Hm, well then 1-9 should still show up all right, no? But only 4 guns... I'll try that tho when I get a chance.

Well I tried that and it didn't seem to help any. But I did another experiment. I edited the cargo hold of another ship and bought it, but it still wouldn't let me buy more cargo than my original hold would have held. So i'm confused

Lol... Had this kind of thing twice :
-First time : Forgot to activate the mod...
-Second time : The file I was editing had to be in DATA\FX.. It was in FX without Data.......

Check for other stupid mistakes like this... Mght be your only problem lol. (Wrong mod activated, wrong ship edited, etc...)

how can i make a mod only for singleplayer

Edited by - CoDeNaMe_X_EcUtIoNeR on 1/2/2005 3:44:52 AM