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Freelancer Character Editor 0.8 by TheJkWhoSaysNi

TheJkWhoSaysNi@Yahoo.com

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This program allows you to change the apperance of many of the characters
in Freelancer.

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This program works as it is, but it is in no way complete. 


Changelog

v0.81
-Sometimes it would crash when changing character that's now fixed.
-If you change character it now changes the images to whatever you 
have set as your character.
-Much lower filesize! 
-Fixed bug where it would sometimes display "Page 1 of 6" instead of 1 of 
correct number.
-It now also gives the "Done" message when you click save while editing
a character in a savegame.
-Added close option to "choose.." pages.
 
v0.8
-Added All Heads
-Added All Bodies
-Code Much More efficient!
-Split Male/Female characters

V0.2
-Added option to save to a save game
-Redid some of the code, now should work a little better
-It now remembers which page of heads you were looking at
-More heads
-More bodies

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LIMITATIONS

It won't load your current players looks when you load from a savegame.

This is because freelancer stores the variables in the savegames as 
numerical strings. Without having my program store the numbers and their
real name. To do this it would take a lot of code for a feature that's 
not really needed. I'll think about putting it in, but at the moment i'm
not even going to consider it. If someone has a better suggestion of how
to bypass this, I might give it some more thought.



Female bodys cannot be used on male characters & visa versa.

This is a limitation of the game itself, although there is probably a 
way around this problem by changing the animations. As it stands, I have
separated the male and female heads/bodies.



The lips don't move when you change the heads.

This is because each character has their own animations. This is another 
restrictions by Freelancer. It would be possible to switch the heads
if it was possible to add animations for each head.



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Future Plans
-Add support for accesorys
-Make it so female bodies can be used on male characters and visa versa.

Known Bugs: NONE!

If you find any bugs please email me: TheJkWhoSaysNi@Yahoo.com

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FAQ:

Q. When I save trent, and load my game, Nothing has changed! What's wrong?

A. You have to go to Options>Save to a savegame and choose the save game
you want to save your character into. Then, once you have chosen the
savegame, you have to push the "Save Trent" button.

Any problmes? Email me at thejkwhosaysni@yahoo.com

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MULTIPLAYER

To use this in multiplayer the server must have it enabled. And make your
changes to trents character.

To enable in on your server, go to file and click "Install For Multiplayer"

This still needs testing, in theory it should work. I will try to test this
when I get the time.

How it works:

Multiplayer should work by setting the character in the servers 
mpnewcharacter.fl file to "Trent" this should make it read the clients
costumes.ini to lookup trent. If you've edited the trent character you
can go into a server with an edited mpnewcharacter.fl and it might ( ;) )
work.


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To restore the original characters:
Go to file>Restore original costumes.

Note: This will not restore trent in savegames. To do that you'll have to
open up the savegame and set the body to pl_trent and the head to pi_pirate5

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Installation

Just unzip it to wherever you want, It *should* work from anywhere.

Uninstall

Firstly (If you want to restore the original characters) go to 
File> Restore original characters. Then just delete the Freelancer character 
editor directory :)

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This program was written by TheJkWhoSaysNi in Delphi7, you may distribute
it as long as you keep this readme file intact.

Many thanks to Juergen P. Meier for the save game encoder/decoder.

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