Elite / Frontier Sound and background replacements for FFE?
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hm, difficult...
there is a possibility, according to theunis de jong (check jongware)
you can alter the design of the game (partwisely at least), but this is very advanced "hacking", it costs a lot of time and investigations.
all textures used for the game are coded to the program, so you have to hack the new bitmaps in.
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sound is possible by using different .hmp files with the same title, i guess somewhere i have some on my machine.
you can easely convert midi to .hmp there exists a tool, you find that on various frontier related pages.
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have you tried GLFFE? it didn't changes the original graphics but at least somewhat hi-res.
but use nic's mod if you havn't a GFX card supporting fully DX9 it will work even with OpenGL 1.
i don't like to post all the links again, sorry but check this here http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1606
btw, big thx to alien who keep that in shape.
well, for i don't know which reason i would hack you ONE custom ship to FFE...
or follow theunis' advices yourself and create jjagged bbanner cobra
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some music replacements, compositions from J.S.Bach to replace a few of the original files. http://p66.web.officelive.com/Documents/NEW%20FFE%20MUSIC.zip
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some of the bigger ships in FFE i.e. the griffin carrier use the bitmap font instead of the default font.
you can have that for all ships of your choice, of course you need to hack the program, but it's one of the easier hacks
a example snipped from the code for the cobra mk1:
search in the .exe (either FFE or JJFFE or GLFFE) for this bytes
(copy it and search in a hex editor for it)
replace it with this
and you got the bitmap font for the cobra1 instead of the line font (sorry for the previous mistake it's a year ago since i last time worked on that).
screenshot from GLFFEnics_mod
you can also turn the font around, place it somewhere else, resize it or give it a different colour (only line font, the Times font is allways white).
but ask me if you like to do so, then i show you how that can be done.
to change the registration of the ship i used "fesge01s" (first encounters savgame editor).
the saturn symbol is called with "%" in the name instead of "O".
there is a possibility, according to theunis de jong (check jongware)
you can alter the design of the game (partwisely at least), but this is very advanced "hacking", it costs a lot of time and investigations.
all textures used for the game are coded to the program, so you have to hack the new bitmaps in.
---
sound is possible by using different .hmp files with the same title, i guess somewhere i have some on my machine.
you can easely convert midi to .hmp there exists a tool, you find that on various frontier related pages.
---
have you tried GLFFE? it didn't changes the original graphics but at least somewhat hi-res.
but use nic's mod if you havn't a GFX card supporting fully DX9 it will work even with OpenGL 1.
i don't like to post all the links again, sorry but check this here http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1606
btw, big thx to alien who keep that in shape.
well, for i don't know which reason i would hack you ONE custom ship to FFE...
or follow theunis' advices yourself and create jjagged bbanner cobra
---
some music replacements, compositions from J.S.Bach to replace a few of the original files. http://p66.web.officelive.com/Documents/NEW%20FFE%20MUSIC.zip
---
some of the bigger ships in FFE i.e. the griffin carrier use the bitmap font instead of the default font.
you can have that for all ships of your choice, of course you need to hack the program, but it's one of the easier hacks
a example snipped from the code for the cobra mk1:
search in the .exe (either FFE or JJFFE or GLFFE) for this bytes
Code:
0A0088080A06464616301C1940003C8354050A0088080B064846replace it with this
and you got the bitmap font for the cobra1 instead of the line font (sorry for the previous mistake it's a year ago since i last time worked on that).
screenshot from GLFFEnics_mod
you can also turn the font around, place it somewhere else, resize it or give it a different colour (only line font, the Times font is allways white).
but ask me if you like to do so, then i show you how that can be done.
to change the registration of the ship i used "fesge01s" (first encounters savgame editor).
the saturn symbol is called with "%" in the name instead of "O".
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