Tired of all the effort it takes to apply mods? Freelancer Mod Manager changes all that by letting you instantly and easily activate and deactivate mods whenever you want. It backs up files before modifying them, and does three levels of error detection before activating a mod. It also lets you download and install mods with one click from a web page, by use of a custom file format (modName.zip.flmod).
Goto "Help\How do I..." to find out how to make mods work with FLMM, whether you're an end-user who wants a non-compatible mod to work with FLMM, or a mod-maker who wants to make his mod work with FLMM.
If you have any bug reports, suggestions, or questions, e-mail me at: lieder_matthew@hotmail.com (make sure you have "Freelancer", "Mod Manager", or "FLMM" in the subject to get past my junk mail filter!)
History:
v1.21
-Main dialog is now resizable
-You can now drag and drop mod archives (*.flmod files) onto the mod list control. It can unzip multiple mod archives at once!
-Added keyboard shortcuts for a number of menu commands (example: Ctrl-F now launches Freelancer)
-You now can activate mods by pressing the spacebar
-Added a notice in the installer that using mods on most multiplayer servers is considered cheating, and has serious consequences
-Fixed some bugs that caused GENERATEXMLRES to not work correctly
-You can now use the newline character (\n) in the GENERATExxxRES macros
-Fixed a problem that occurred when using 82+ GENERATEXMLRES macros or 1312+ GENERATESTRRES macros (thanks, Crabtree!)
-Improved the detection of mod conflicts (taking into account custom dll's)
-Fixed a problem that occurred when using both a custom dll and the GENERATExxxRES macros together (thanks again, Crabtree!)
-I made umlimited the maximum number of Section, Dest, and Source tags within one Data tag (thanks, Jeffrey Kwasha!)
-Methods that modify freelancer.ini, and files that aren't mentioned in the mod script, now have priority before everything else (thanks again, Jeffrey!)
-A much-requested feature: added the "numTimes" attribute to the "filereplace" method; if numTimes=0 (default is 1), then that operation will be repeated until the end of the file! (thanks yet again to Jeffrey for convincing me to add that feature :) )
-Added the names of some donors to the About dialog. Thanks!
-Reduced the memory usage by about 30%, and made it load faster, compared to v1.2 :)
-Enhanced the detection of multiple instances of the program, and allowed the second instance's arguments to be dynamically passed to the first instance
-Added support for mod "options"! Now mods can display a dialog letting the user choose different options, like story/nostory, weird costume/regular costume, etc... (thanks, BWS!)
-Added IgnoreErrors attribute to the <data> tag, which tells FLMM to ignore any errors that happen when activating that data tag
-Added new functionality to the fileappend/filereplace methods: they can now append/replace the same thing to specific sections
-Sped up the activation of mods that use multiple <data> tags per ini file.
-Added an optional yes/no prompt containing mod-specific info (like a notice or disclaimer) that's displayed when installing a new mod
-Improved debugging information displayed when errors in mods occur
-Added "newfile" attribute to most ini-modifying methods, to allow a script to easily create new ini files
-Enhanced the Mod Option dialog to allow virtually unlimited mod options!
-Added an "exclusive" attribute to the header tag, forcing all other mods to be deactivated while that mod is active
-Implemented <stringdata> and <xmldata> tags to make using the GENERATExxxRES macros even more convenient; look in the documentation for the details
-A few other minor fixes
v1.2
-Added automatic DLL string and xml resource adding!
-Now FLMM automatically moves saved games into different folders, depending on which mod is active. Your saved game troubles are over!
-Greatly tweaked and optimized how FLMM determines whether mods are compatible or not; more mods are now compatible!
-Optimized the file operations routines to noticeably increase the speed of activating and deactivating mods; if mods were taking more than a minute to activate, they shouldn't any longer!
-Tweaked the dialog layout
-Added a progress dialog when unzipping mod archives
-Added commandline parameter to activate/deactivate mods
-Fixed a couple minor bugs in the sectionreplace method
-Bundled a bunch more mods with it!
-Added info about donating (for if you have extra money lying around ;) )
-Added a splash screen!
-A number of other various tweaks/bug fixes
-Mod script changes (read documentation for more info):
--multiple xml files can be used in one mod! Very useful if your mod's script was getting too big to easily edit.
--changed the way <scriptversion> works
--added custom GENERATESTRRES("a_weapon_name") function
--added a savesafe="true" tag to the xml header section
-Added a work-around for the log control scrolling bug (I'm brilliant ;) )
-Now it (optionally) makes modified ini files read-only while a mod is active (to avoid user tampering problems)
-Improved "section" methods to allow multiple sections
-Added FAQ\Troubleshooting information
-a number of tiny bug fixes
v0.8
-Fixed a big bug whereby mods weren't completely deactivated (thanks Rhodan!)
-Added "renamefile" method
-Now automatically adds dll resource files to freelancer.ini!
-Added a menu option to delete the pesky AutoSave
-Now shows hourglass icon when working
-various other bug fixes
v0.7
-Fixed some bugs with the "by entire files" feature (specifically, it didn't create new folders)
-Merged the "by entire files" and "by script file" features together (read the Help/How do I... document for more info)
-Now works with the Trial version
-Rewrote a lot of the documentation
v0.6
-Added mod deletion
-Added "sectionappend" method
-Added a feature that lets you make ANY mod work with FLMM, with minimal effort (mostly just for end-users to make mods that don't already have mod scripts work with FLMM)
-Made uninstaller (not that anyone would use it... ;) )
-various bug fixes
v0.5
-Multiple mods can be activated! (as long as they don't change the same files)
-Now includes a custom NoStory mod
-Fixed a bunch of bugs
-Much more descriptive error messages when parsing script files
v0.4
-Automatic installation of mods, directly from a http link
-NSIS installer
-Some bug fixes
v0.3:
-Completely rewrote the script parsing/loading code
-Script is now semi-compliant with XML (you can view it in IE)
-It now does 3 levels of error checking before activating the script:
--Script syntax checking (at program load)
--Script content checking (at program load)
--Script compatibility checking with your current FL installation (right before activation)
-Added mod details, like author, description, and readme
-Only allows one mod to be activated at a time (will be changed in future versions)
-Mod deactivation is done directly, without restoring backups
-Has a "Restore backups" option, just in case the deactivation of a mod fails
-Bunch of bug fixes
Todo:
-Bug fixes
-Allow mods to have different "options"
-A super-duper, "enhanced" section modifying method.
-A utility/wizard to automate mod script making, by comparing the original and current .ini files?
