Posts by Black

  • 1680X150 Resolution?

    Well it looks so much better and untill now i have not had any problems.
    It is not more than a feature that the developers of freelancer could have put in by
    themselves.

  • CF 1.8 can bases for clan leaders

    Players are not able to dock at another player. It is not possible in Freelancer.


    You might be able to create new bases by copying and editing some of the files but a moving
    base would have completely different features which are new to the Freelancer "engine".


    As far as I know it is actually possible to do it by console command: Lets say you see your
    leader in his battleship and type /dock. Like that you might be able to "dock" at a planet
    but as far as iI know you would undock from this planet instead of from the ship.


    Also thiss would need a hell lot of organisation and maintenance as clans arrive and leave
    from time to time and positions in these clans change.


    There are ways to have a Clanbase but in my oppinion it is just not worth it.

  • Custodian

    If you read the Crossfire story in the mod manager it says that a new Jumpgate was found in
    Omicron Alpha. Its really not hard to find...
    In my oppinion new players should follow the story anyways cause thats what it was made
    for

  • Ein paar waffen und subsysteme - suggestion

    Wenn du nur die eigenen Vorschläge sehen möchtest empfehle ich eine andere Plattform als
    ein Forum: Wie wärs zum Beispiel mit Word?
    Der Thread entwickelt sich halt zur deutschen Version vom "Freelancer Dreamland", was solls...


    Ich fänds toll wenn man Projektile hätte, die Schaden über längeren Zeitraum verursachen
    (auch um den Leuten Projektilwaffen wieder schmackhaft zu machen)

  • Howto: Multilevel mousebindings

    Nice idea. Thanks for sharing!
    As a left handed player I always thought it was a disadvantage that ctrl and shift were
    practicly useless but now all keys around my beloved cursor keys will work in some way :)

  • FL on widescreen

    I tried it with 1440x900 and it works fine for me:



    If the HUD does not touch the upper and lower boundary of your screen you should modify cameras.ini and change the WinCamera value
    But if you were worried because the HUD is not exactly expanded to the left and right side, forget it. ;)


    The original problem is that the HUD windows have absolute positions optimized for the original resolutions while status bar has relative values.
    By changing the WinCamera you just "zoom in and out" untill the HUD fits into the heigth of the monitor. The value is apparently relative again so it does
    not matter what resolution you use but what mode (normal or widescreen)
    Here is how it looks with the original Camera but new resolution and fonts:




    The font sizes are absolute values but they should work as i made them pretty small already.


    If this doesnt solve anything please post a screenshot

  • FL on widescreen

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    Is it possible to mod the resolution to 1680x1050? I would not know myself but I have seen other games that had lower a resolution and where someone has modded to a higher resolution.


    Yes, it is possible. To change the resolution you have to edit two ini files (create backups youll need them when you play with normal screens again):


    1. one is located in your documents folder /My Games/Freelancer/PerfOptions.ini
    That is the relevant part

    Quote

    [Display]
    size= 1680, 1050
    color_bpp= 32 (example)
    depth_bpp= 24 (example)


    2. The other one is the Freelancer.ini. You'll find it in your FL directory/EXE/freelancer.ini

    Quote

    [Display]
    fullscreen = 1
    size = 1680,1050 (no space behind the comma )
    color_bpp = 32
    depth_bpp = 24


    Now you play with 1680x1050 but it looks bad because the HUDs are at wrong places
    The solution is easily found at other forums:
    You have to modify cameras.ini found in FreeLancer path/Data like this:


    You might need to disable the writing protection first to save it.
    thats how it would look like now:


    Now we go for the fonts as they are very large yet.


    open Data/FONTS/fonts.ini and use this:


    Save it without protection again and you should be fine



    Thats the optimized version with much smaller playernames and text fonts and an optimized Font size for the nav map.


    BTW The hint with the cameras.ini was known on the berlin city server forums, the fonts are my work though

  • Funny vid

    I played Halo when I was in America and this video describes it perfectly. It's so true
    They just seem to call everyone a faggot :D

  • Wo sind die Stats?

    oder man machts sich ganz einfach und resettet die stats einfach jeden tag um eine bestimmte uhrzeit.
    damit wären wahrscheinlich die meißten (inferno ausgenommen) zu frieden