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I´d be glad to share what information I have on editing the stats files, just drop me a email if your interested, It would also help if you have had some experience with hex editing as it can get somewhat complex.

Could you post here, what you´ve found out? Thereby more and more eople will join the effort to use this terrific graphics engine to other pruposes... <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Best Regards Christian &quot;Bargib&quot; Koerner Editor-In-Charge, <A href=´http://www.lancersreactor.org´ Target=_Blank>lancersreactor.org</a>

Here is what the beginning of the SHIPSTATS.BIN file should look like when you open the file in your hex editor (I use Hex Workshop www.bpsoft.com). The first value (highlighted in red) that can be successfully changed is the top speed of the ship (in this case 320 decimal or A043 hex, 32 bit floating intel ordered byte). To change this value you need a decimal to hexadecimal convertor, say you want to make the maximum speed of the Predator 450, first convert to hex (E143) then replace A043 with E143 and the max speed of the ship is now 450. 5573 2050 7265 6461 746F 7200 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 Us Predator............... 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................................ 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 A043 52B8 5E3F EC51 B83D 6666 ...............CR.^?.Q.=ff 663F EC51 B83D 6666 663F 9A99 193E 6666 663F 0000 2041 0000 4041 f?.Q.=fff?...&gt;fff?.. A..@A 0000 C842 0000 2041 0000 B442 0000 C040 0000 7A44 0000 0000 0000 ...B.. A...B...@..zD...... The next two red highlighted hex values is the ships acceleration rating, the best way I found to change this value and the ships agility rating, highlighted in blue, is by copying and pasting these from other ships, i.e., Shroud. 5573 2050 7265 6461 746F 7200 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 Us Predator............... 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................................ 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 A043 52B8 5E3F EC51 B83D 6666 ...............CR.^?.Q.=ff 663F EC51 B83D 6666 663F 9A99 193E 6666 663F 0000 2041 0000 4041 f?.Q.=fff?...&gt;fff?.. A..@A 0000 C842 0000 2041 0000 B442 0000 C040 0000 7A44 0000 0000 0000 ...B.. A...B...@..zD...... The next five values are the ships shield power, armor class, afterburner fuel, shield recharge, and gun energy. The shield power (the first highlighted value) is currently set at 10 (2041) so to set it at 20 just change the hex value to E041 and the ship will have double the shields. 5573 2050 7265 6461 746F 7200 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 Us Predator............... 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................................ 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 A043 52B8 5E3F EC51 B83D 6666 ...............CR.^?.Q.=ff 663F EC51 B83D 6666 663F 9A99 193E 6666 663F 0000 2041 0000 4041 f?.Q.=fff?...&gt;fff?.. A..@A 0000 C842 0000 2041 0000 B442 0000 C040 0000 7A44 0000 0000 0000 ...B.. A...B...@..zD...... Hope this information helps, and remember I take no responsiblity for any damage that you cause to your game, computer, self, etc. I still haven´t figured out how the specials blind fire, etc., or the weapons on the ships work. I´m starting to figure out the gun and missile values but progress is somewhat slow right now. Any insight into these files would be appreciated. If anyone would like this via email (the highlighted values are actually highlighted) let me know. weasel Edited by - weasel on 5/14/00 8:30:28 PM

Hi ! Can somebody experienced in hex editing write an article to help newbies edit the hex values in Starlancer? I am one of ´em and i will appreciate it if somebody do write one .

Weasel, Good work with the shipstat.bin. If one thing keeps a community(and game) alive it is editing(even though Xwing Alliance has a fairly obsolete flight engine, although I still think it´s fun, the editing community keeps pumping out new ships and missions for it). I, myself, have started poking around in the misslestats with trusty ol´ hex workshop , I´ll post my results when I get it all finished. I just read through the ship editing thread and think it would be great if the upcomeing editor had a ship-editing capability. If it doesn´t, we will need to extract a common 3d format(such as dxf.,3ds,etc.) from the .SHP format that is used, and figure out where additional info such as hard points is stored; no small task. Anyway, if I get the time, I´ll try to write a basic tutorial on Hex editing, although you´ll probably find plenty on the internet(and go get Hex Workshop). Also, if anyone wants to set up an official 3d party editing group, I can contribute any spare time that have. Edited by - Arthur on 5/18/00 12:33:09 AM

What are you calling obsolete?!

Don´t get me wrong, Xwing Alliance is probably my favorite game. I just meant that compared to newer games like SL and alliegence, the graphics capabilities are limited, especially the explosions. Also the physics model is pretty unrealistic, unlike alliegence´s physics. But it is still very fun and easy to modify.

Sorry, but for me when it´s xwingallaince it can do no wrong, even if it crashes on me al the time <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

That´s great news! Learning this stuff already is a sure sign this game will go far in the editing community. What I´d like to see, however, is how the Hell we can change the guns on the ships to whatever we like (not bothered yet about adding new ones) Cptneisen. Who do I send the flowers to, comrade?

If someone comes up with a tutorial for this I will post it on my upcoming SL site. I hex editing is easier than it looks or this game is dead in the water. I already have a whole campaign mapped out but I need a good editor.

I would love to make an editing section... Just untill now, there hasn´t been that much other then the HOG-extractor. Mail me anytime, if you wnat something posted, or want a support page/site or something like that... =) Best Regards Christian &quot;Bargib&quot; Koerner Editor-In-Charge, <A href=´http://www.lancersreactor.org´ Target=_Blank>lancersreactor.org</a>

I personally would love to see a section dedicated to editing. True, there´s not much work done yet, but i don´t think it´s gonna take much longer until fans begin to seriously modify SL: mission editor is coming out (hopefully soon) and regardless of what it can/cannot do, file formats are already being examined by fans. IMHO, the SL editing community already has a good start, it can only grow from this point on<img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Mario &quot;HCl&quot; Brito

I´m staring to put together a table for the shipstats, gunstats, and missles stats. right now I´m doing manual inputs into spread sheet.. I might write a program do that automatically later.. so far I´ve identified most of the values in shipstats.bin for each ships. but haven´t started on missiles and guns yet..

I actually emailed DA and Warthog asking if it´s possible to create new Starlancer ships. Still no reply though.

Hey guys, SLExtractor author here, I haven´t forgotten about you guys just yet. Hopefully within this next week I will write up something about the HOG file format. May be even a HOG creator or something similar..?

After reading the posts by weasel and esung I decided to look the *.bin files. Haven´t found much. Some numbers are confusing. Therefore I post here all the stats so that others can share my headache heheh. I´ve only spent a short time for a quick glance (havent even tested it yet) so can´t be sure. And most of the idea came from weasel and esung <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> SHIP Name (64bytes including 4bytes country prefix) - Top speed - ??? - ??? - ??? - ??? - ??? - ??? - ??? - Shield Strength/3 - Armor/3 - Afterburner - Shield Recharge/3 - Gun Energy - Gun Recharge - Ammo? (1000-3000) NOTE: Data/3 = Hex value in bin file divided by 3 to get rounded scale value. eg: 1. (Predator Shield Strength) 10/3 = 3.33 --&gt; scale 3/10. 2.(Naginata Shield Strength) 16/3 = 5.33 --&gt; scale 5/10. GUN Name (64bytes) / Range? / Speed? / Damage? / Damage? / Fire Rate / Energy Drain Collapser Guns / 200 / 1400 / 25 / 25 / 6 / 0 Gattling Plasma / 200 / 1200 / 10 /7 / 5 / 0 Gattling Laser / 140 / 1800 / 8.5 / 6 / 10 / 2 Laser Cannon / 250 / 1600 / 8 / 8 / 5.5 / 2 Messon Blaster / 150 / 1300 / 9 / 9 / 9 /2 Neutron Particle / 200 /1300 / 35 / 30 / 2 /15 Nova Cannon / 200 / 2000 / 400 / 400 / 0.01 / 1 Proton Cannon / 200 / 1500 / 12 / 11 / 6 / 3 Pulse Cannon / 300 / 1400 / 8 / 8 / 8 / 3 Tachyon Cannon / 400 / 1400 / 20 / 15 / 5 / 5 Vulcan Battery / 300 / 1700 / 30 / 35 / 2 / 0 MISSILE Name (64bytes) / Speed? / Agility? / Range? / Damage? / Damage? / ??? / ??? / ??? / ??? Screamer / 500 / 0.14 / 60 / 80 / 80 / 400 / 40 / 100k / 80 Raptor / 500 / 0.2 / 50 / 250 / 200 / 300 / 30 / 160k / 20 Havoc / 400 / 0.16 / 80 / 300 / 200 / 300 / 20 / 100k / 200 Jack Hammer / 240 / 0.1 / 80 / 2501 / 2501 / 600 / 40 / 100k / 2501 Bandit / 500 / 0.14 / 60 / 220 / 200 / 500 / 20 / 100k / 0 Vagabond / 600 / 0.12 / 100 / 500 / 350 / 400 / 20 / 140k / 100 Solomon / 400 / 0.14 / 60 / 200 / 100 / 100 / 80 / 100k / 100 Imp / 500 / 0.18 / 60 / 240 / 240 / 200 / 40 / 100k / 240 Hawk / 400 / 0.14 / 120 / 120 / 120 / 400 / 30 / 300k / 200 Torpedo / 400 / 0.14 / 80 / 300 / 520 / 200 / 50 / 50k / 200 There´s no Banshee missile, only Bandit. Banshee = Bandit? Fuel pod isn´t there too. My guess it´s just the number of some additional fuel (no need for pyshical pod to exist). Where´s the missile quantity (ie: 20 for screamer or 1 vagabond) per hardpoint? There are some &quot;empty&quot; (only name without stats) missiles. Stalker, Blazer, Iron Tooth, Death Claw, Brute, Hell Fire. Expansion? Unfinished data? Maybe those confusing number are reserved for expansion? Or internal use such as reference to graphics? Or even the market price for Freelance? Edited by - Winter on 5/28/00 8:41:03 AM

BTW, An editing section would definitly be great!

I tried using Hex Workshop to edit a saved mission file. I changed an offset as instructed and saved the file, but when I opened the saved mission the changes (accxess to all ships) was not there. What could have happened. I would like to continue with hex editing