Freelancer: HD Edition is a mod that aims to improve every visual, aural, and gameplay aspect of the game Freelancer (2003) while keeping the look and feel as close to vanilla as possible.

Last update: Jan 8, 2023

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Overview

Freelancer: HD Edition

Freelancer: HD Edition is a mod that aims to improve every visual, aural, and gameplay aspect of the game Freelancer (2003) while keeping the look and feel as close to vanilla as possible. It also serves as an all-in-one package for players so they don't have to worry about installing countless patches and mods to create the perfect HD and bug-free install.

This mod was made possible thanks to the assistance of project Freelancer: Nomad Legacy. Huge thanks to the developers for allowing us to use their textures!
Freelancer: Nomad Legacy website
Freelancer: Nomad Legacy Mod DB page

N.B. Freelancer: HD Edition does not add additional content on top of Freelancer but rather enhances what the game already has to offer. Although minor gameplay changes were made, Freelancer: HD Edition will always be compatible with vanilla Freelancer. Therefore, players can use this mod to play on all vanilla servers as long as the server owners allow these changes.

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Content

Visual

HD Asteroids
HD Character Models
HD Cockpits
HD Effects
HD Mission & News images
HD Nebulae
HD Planets
HD Ships
HD Space objects
HD Starspheres
HD Startup Screen & Main Menu logo
HD System & Universe Map
Improved reflections
Increased effect pool sizes
Maximized draw distances
New interface with new icons

Audio

HQ Music

Gameplay

Advanced Widescreen HUD
16:9 planetscape fixes
Support for scrolling through menus
Support for zooming in turret view
Allow players to be called differently in Single Player
Fixes in many bar scripts
Enabled NPC paths in Multiplayer
Include player ships in ship filter
Make all planets spin slowly
Set maximum level in Single Player to 40
Show the names of zones as you enter and leave them
Show the remaining shield and hull points of the selected target as numbers

Misc

1.1 Patch
Added more sound and general options
Added support for running multiple instances of Freelancer on the same machine
Added updated HUD Shift plugin
All content from Jason's Freelancer Patch v1.25
Direct3D 9 wrapper
Disabled IPv6 addresses in Multiplayer Server list
Fixed friendly jumphole in mission 6
Fixed many typos, grammar mistakes, inconsistencies, and more, in the game's text strings
Fixed missing/small text on 1440p and 4K displays
Fixed MP3 codec error spam
Fixed several incorrect/missing names and infocards in EW05, EW06, ST01, ST03 and ST03b
Freelancer manual
Improved infocards for unknown factions
Improved Nomad group member names
Make energy, shield, and hull bars solid
No longer hide The Order and the Nomads from the factions list
No-CD Patch
Prevent intentional frame drops from occurring
Realigned HUD elements
Removed cruise speed display limit
Removed general speed display limit
Removed ESRB notice
Removed unknown graphics card warning
Show "Far" in contact list only at distances of 999.999K or higher
Single Player console
Smoothened jump effect
Updated zlib.dll for better performance in Multiplayer
Windows 10 compatibility patch (dgVoodoo2)

Recommendations

For the best possible experience, it is recommended to force enable anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering for Freelancer through your GPU settings. To learn how to do this, please visit the link from your GPU manufacturer:

If you have selected the Windows 10 compatibility patch when installing this mod, you can learn how to enable native anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering here: How to enable native MSAA and Anisotropic Filtering with the Windows 10 compatibility patch

Due to the large file size of many textures used in this mod, some users may experience significantly longer load times during gameplay. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to install Freelancer: HD Edition on an (M.2) SSD.

Installation instructions

Download FreelancerHDSetup.exe from Releases
Open the setup file and read the instructions on-screen carefully

Contributing

Have something to contribute to make the mod even better? Feel free to create a pull request or feature request! We are always open to new suggestions and improvements. Making the repository public has allowed us as a community to create the best possible HD mod for Freelancer out there since many modders from around the world have contributed to this project.

Credits

BC46
- HD Character Models (Mirror)
- HD Cockpits
- HD Explosion effects
- HD Mission & News images
- HD Nebulae
- HD Nomad, Pirate, Bretonia, Blood Dragon and Utility ships
- HD Starsphere improvements and HD Starsphere for ST03b
- HD Startup Screen & Main Menu logo
- HD System Map with HD Map objects
- HUD alignment fixes
- Improved reflections
- Many general HD and effect additions
- Many misc fixes
- Many misc improvements
- Maximized Draw Distances (Mirror)
- Spinning planets
- Text Strings Revision (Mirror)
Bolte & DragonFire
- Support
- Testing
Buck Danny
- Unofficial FL SP 1.4 patch (included in Jason's Freelancer Patch)
crosire et al.
- d3d8to9
Dege
- dgVoodoo2
Freestalker.fl
- FLHQmusics Remaster
- HD Asteroid Textures
Hrimthur
- Freelancer Full-HD
HUN0R
Jason Hood
Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
- zlib
Jeider, RenderG & Whiskas T-Mech
Louva-Deus
- Freelancer SDK/QuickFix (included in Jason's Freelancer Patch)
Microsoft
- Freelancer Patch 1.1
Radiant
- HD Textures 1.2
Raikkonen
- Installation script
Ruppetus
- Planetscapes Fixed for 16:9 Resolutions
- Many bar script fixes
Why485
- The Big Huge Effects Pack

Comments

Create tool for fixing 1.0 save files

Players who started a vanilla playthrough on FL 1.0 and continue with the HD Edition are likely to run into an issue where they can't progress to the next level. This is caused by an internal mission number change in the official 1.1 patch, so this is something we can't change. https://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?post_id=20878#forumpost20878

What we can do is create a tool that players can use to fix their save file. It should be a simple Windows forms application where a player can select their save file, and the program will output a fixed version with the click of a button. Using FlCodec for this is strongly recommended http://adoxa.altervista.org/freelancer/tools.html#flcodec. Would need to ask adoxa for permission.
bug enhancement

opened by BC46 8
Linux/Wine 'freelancerhd.zip does not exist or cannot be opened'

I thought it would be cool to get FL with the HD edition Linux/Steam Deck-ready via Lutris, so I've been testing it out with the new Inno Setup installer. Unfortunately, I'm having a particular issue with it after it downloads the freelancerhd zip and attempts to extract it:

The zip file is there and I can open and extract it manually just fine.

I've extracted the setup file to look at the script to see what the behavior is, but I believe this wasn't included when the executable was compiled, because I only see these files:

Here are some install logs of various attempts.

flhdinstall.log flhd.log flhdlog3.log

I've been messing around with various Wine builds and configurations to see if there was Linux things happening (probably). But I was hoping to be able to read the install script and recompile to see if something simple like a pause before unzip step resolves it.

Haven't experienced this issue with the installer in Windows on the same computer. Please feel free to close if this is outside of the project's scope.
bug

opened by keenanweaver 7
Incorrect NPC chatter

Sometimes NPCs can be heard saying "I'm going to Bounty Hunters Red 6", or "I'm preparing to Bounty Hunters Green 4" for example when they start attacking Bounty Hunter ships. It's clear that these lines are missing the word "engage". We should have a look at what we can do to fix this.
bug

opened by BC46 7
Briesen Mining Facility crash on server after undocking

A vanilla player has reported an issue regarding a crash which occurred after undocking from Briesen Mining Facility (BW03) on a JFLP server. Since this is a JFLP issue, it's an HDE issue too.

I had a quick go at trying to reproduce the issue. I was running a vanilla client on the same JFLP server, but I couldn't get it to crash, not even after 5 undocks. I've been provided a save file of the user in question which will hopefully give me better luck.
bug

opened by BC46 4
Compress all HQ music tracks

Freelancer: HD Edition includes HQ music from the Bonus DVD. All the .wav files have a bit rate of 1411kbps, which is a lot. It's also apparent Freelancer doesn't handle such large music file sizes well since there have been many occurrences where a track doesn't load correctly, or the end keeps looping.

It's strongly recommended to compress the existing HQ music files to 320 kbps. Not only would that save a ton of space, but it would probably also fix most if not all of the known audio bugs, including #84. Besides, I doubt anyone would even be able to notice the difference during gameplay.
bug enhancement

opened by BC46 4
No clear indication that Freelancer: HD Edition has succesfully installed

Many users can't confirm whether their Freelancer: HD Edition installation has succeeded. We could change the version number text at the bottom-right of the main menu to something like "HD Edition VER 1.0". The 1.0 should not be replaced as it's crucial that players are aware of the fact that they can play on vanilla servers with this mod.
enhancement

opened by BC46 4
Issues regarding flplusplus
For most people, the flplusplus plugin doesn't cause any issues. However, on some very specific setups it does.

Invalid account name and passwords error

So far two people have seen the following message when they launch the game:

This message prevents them from playing the game. The strange part is that this is a server-related error message which should never be shown when the game launches. Presumably, this is a permission issue. However, I can't confirm that.

Crashes

Two other people experienced outright crashes when launching the game. One user was running Windows Server 2019 and the other claimed to play on an iMac M1 with Parallels 17.1.0 or 18. What's weird is that the reported crash offsets are in completely different DLLs. I've noted the following ones:

results from Event Viewer "Faulting application name: Freelancer.exe, version: 1.0.1223.11, time stamp: 0x3e401b79 Faulting module name: SoundManager.dll, version: 1.11.0.173, time stamp: 0x3e401cd4 Exception code: 0xc0000005"

MP3codec.dll Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0xc00001189 storyfactions.dll Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0xc0000108f VCRUNTIME140.dll Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0xc0000389f

The exception code 0xc0000005 seems to be an access violation. Though I have no idea why it would occur.

Both of the mentioned issues are fixed by simply removing the flplusplus.dll entry in dacom.ini. I myself have not been able to reproduce either of the issues, which makes troubleshooting and debugging them very difficult.

I should mention that I had to recompile flplusplus because of a few minor changes I made to the plugin. First, I removed the built-in WheelScroll plugin since HDE already uses a newer version. Additionally, I added an extra lod scale function in graphics.cpp so that this feature wouldn't conflict with HDE's maximized draw distances. Though I really doubt that any of these modifications are the cause of the reported issues. If desired, I can upload the modified source code.
bug
opened by BC46 3
Repeated crash after undocking from Battleship York on server
I came across this repeated crash when I was testing some stuff on my own server. I undocked from Battleship York in Leeds and about 2 seconds later, the game crashes. When I tried joining my server again, I was in space, but my game crashed yet again. This crash cycle continued until I beamed myself to Planet Manhattan in New York manually.

How to reproduce:

~~1. Enable the Windows 10 compatibility patch when installing this mod~~ 2. Join the Freelancer Anarchy server ~~3. Buy a Rhino~~ 4. Dock at Battleship York in Leeds 5. Undock

~~This crash also occurs without the use of any d3d8.dll or d3d9.dll. However, with d3d8to9 the crash no longer happens, so if you disabled the Windows 10 compat patch, you wouldn't have this issue. Also, this issue does not happen on Single Player, regardless of whether or not you use the Win 10 compat patch.~~

I spent about 2 hours debugging it, and this may sound surreal, but I found out that the crash is caused by 1 or more of the following files:

DATA/SHIPS/loadouts.ini

DATA/SHIPS/loadouts_special.ini

DATA/SHIPS/loadouts_utility.ini

DATA/SHIPS/rtc_shiparch.ini

DATA/SHIPS/shiparch.ini

bug
opened by BC46 3
Create custom installer

Currently, we use Freelancer Mod Manager to make the mod installable. Although this solution satisfies all of our needs, it requires users to have two fully uncompressed versions of the mod on their drives to install the mod. A custom installer would be a better option here, as it simply copies the user's Freelancer folder, unpacks all the files from a compressed archive to the new Freelancer folder, which will save space.

The only thing that stops us from creating a custom installer is the custom options that our mod has. Porting our FLMM options to custom installer options is much easier said than done.
enhancement

opened by BC46 3
Trade route information window not centered

If you go to your inventory, select any commodity in your cargo hold and press "TRADE ROUTES", you can see the new window shifting slightly to the right. As far as I know, the trade route information window's position can't be adjusted with HudShift. Any idea @adoxa?
enhancement

opened by BC46 2
No Engine Trails

There are still no engine trails for SP Ships. This has been moded previously, working on a pull request for review, so you own ship has engine contrails too :-)

opened by angry-bender 2
Corrections to engines_equip.ini

This issue is to address potential changes to both effects and audio assigned to the ship engines in game. It will be split between two different branches.

Effects In the game, there are 3 different "classes" of effect for the different types of player pilotable ships: Light Fighter (LF), Heavy Fighter (HF), Very Heavy Fighter (VHF), and Freighter (FR). This is usually referenced by the use of "smallengine01, smallengine02, smallengine03" on the different effects that make up each engine. By looking at vanilla entries for the house faction engines, smallengine01 = LF, smallengine02 = HF/VHF, and smallengine03 = FR. Using that as baseline, the changes being made are made to align the rest of the engines to vanilla standards.

Audio Similar to effects, some audio references do not align to the house faction engines being used as a baseline. Some examples are freighter sounds being applied to fighter engines or vice versa.
enhancement

opened by Drakohen 5
Implementing model/mesh fixes

In FL, there exists some misalignment when it comes to models/meshes. In the Freelancer Galactic Community, a member who goes by Eagle-Vulture | RedComrade has put in work to fix some of these:

docking_ring: bh_fighter: station_large_a:

These are just a few but I did ask if their work could be used and they said yes:

Anyways, I'll collect their works that have been posted on FLGC and add them to this issue for review. As for testing, these new files need to be checked on MP to make sure no issues arise between those with and without these updated files. More to come.
enhancement

opened by Drakohen 0
Integrate FLSubs

Some players have requested subtitles to be added to the mod. While I personally don't think subtitles fit a game like Freelancer (maybe except for the cutscenes and cinematics), I still think it's nice to at least have the option so players can enable them if they wish.

There's a mod out there called FLSubs (GitHub) that adds English subtitles to the game. It comes with a license that allows other mods/projects to use it without any problems.

Though there are three issues (including two major ones) which should be addressed and reviewed before FLSubs can be properly integrated into Freelancer: HD Edition.

Issue 1

First of all, the subtitles mod makes use of d3d8.dll. Therefore, our DirectX-related enhancements can't be used while the subtitles are enabled, meaning players can only use them if they select the vanilla graphics API in the installer. It might be possible to combine it with DxWrapper.

Issue 2

The subtitles mod comes with a modified Freelancer.exe where the stack size has been increased to 2 MB. From my quick tests, this modification worked fine with HDE for the most part. Unfortunately it seems to cause a few conflicts with the Console plugin, where some commands can't be entered properly anymore. Consequently, the Console option may have to be disabled automatically if the subtitles are enabled.

Issue 3

FLSubs makes use of hardcoded configs for every screen resolution. These configs store the font sizes, text positions for the subtitles, etc. The issue is that there are a ton of different screen resolutions that players use to play Freelancer: HD Edition. Since only a few default configs exist, the subtitles mod won't work properly out of the box for all the other resolutions. Creating configs manually by request doesn't seem viable either.

It might be possible to automatically create configs in the HDE installer based on the user's screen resolution (which can already be detected). This would allow us to dynamically set all the font sizes and positions in the config files. If this works properly, we can later do it in the launcher so we can support any resolution the user wants to play HDE in with subtitles.
enhancement

opened by BC46 0
Update mod description/summary
Our current mod description/summary is:

Freelancer: HD Edition is a mod that aims to improve every aspect of the game Freelancer (2003) while keeping the look and feel as close to vanilla as possible. It also serves as a customizable all-in-one package for players so they don't have to worry about installing countless patches and mods to create the perfect HD and bug-free install.

In my opinion the last sentence doesn't accurately portray the purpose of the mod in its current state. I believe I wrote the last version of the summary around when v0.4/v0.4.1 got released. Back then the mod was really more about the textures, while the other stuff wasn't seen as very important by most people. However, with the releases of v0.5 and v0.6, I strongly believe that the mod has become so much more with all the bug fixes and additional gameplay features we've implemented. Additionally, I'm not a writer at all so I don't think I've worded the description very nicely either.

As a result of the last part of the description being outdated, many players believe Freelancer: HD Edition is a simple compilation of texture packs, and nothing more. While this may have been partially true in very early versions of the mod, in its current state the mod has become a lot more than just that. It'd be very unfortunate if all the other elements we've added would go mostly unnoticed.

What I do like in the current description is that it mentions it's customizable and all-in-one. However, I'm not sure about the word "package".

I'd like to mention the following in the description to ameliorate it (just some ideas):

Restoration of many original textures/art/assets.

Additional gameplay features.

General Freelancer bug fixes and overall quality of life updates to improve the gameplay experience, and to accurately represent a well-polished version of Freelancer.

documentation
opened by BC46 0
Vanilla .thn script issues
In the Sprague cutscene during the bomb drop scene, one Rheinland ship doesn't have an engine trail while the other one does.

In the Baxter cutscene, one of the 3 Rheinland ships doesn't have an engine trail, while the others do.

During the Sprague cutscene when Trent and Juni just land, Trent can be seen moving his lips without saying anything. In the Beta version of FL, Trent actually said something here about the previously destroyed Rheinland ships. However, the audio has been removed while the moving lips haven't. The moving lips should be removed too.

When Trent docks with Battleship Hood after beating Hovis, the music in the story script starts really loud and gets quieter later. It should be quiet from the start.

In the Tekagi cutscene after Tekagi throws his knife at Ozu, he moves his lips without saying anything. The moving lips should be removed since this cutscene uses a so-called "Mix" audio, meaning the entire audio for the cutscene consists of 1 file. Therefore, it's very difficult to add additional voice lines to it.

The final Toledo cutscene is lacking a smooth music transition.

When the fighters attack Baxter there is a lot of Nomad explosion sounds and also laser sounds for the Tachyon weapons.

During the Jacobi cutscene in Mission 11, the lighting looks really bad in some of the scenes.

There is however an issue with the Dethorn tool that essentially causes dethorned .thn scripts to be slightly different from the originals.
bug
opened by BC46 11

Releases(0.6)

0.6(Aug 23, 2022)
Visual

Added all remaining HD Base Interiors & Planetscapes

Added HD vanilla starspheres for the following systems/regions:

Liberty

Bretonia

Rheinland

Unknown systems

Independent Worlds

Tau-37

Added HD oceans

Added HD skies

Added improved Earth and water planet textures that look more like the originals

Added HD vanilla ship textures that are more faithful to the originals

Improved ship window textures

Added improved HD station number textures that have a higher resolution

Improved the Nomad asteroids

Improved the Planet Pittsburgh cliff textures

Added HD sun effects that look more like the originals

Added a new set of alternative icons

Improved the commodity icon

Added higher resolution space cursor textures

Improved cargo pod texture clarity

Added HD mine and spike textures

Character model and props changes:

Compressed textures to save space and reduce load times

Fixed artefact on Orillion's lip

Fixed ridge on the green glass

Removed orange stripes from Tobias' mustache

Improved several textures which were previously not as good as they should've been

Denoised jump effect texture

Added improved lava asteroids

Added improved Badlands obsidian and mined asteroid textures

Added HD organism effect textures

Added more general improved HD effects

Added optional Adaptive Sharpening

Ensure all menu intros use space backdrops with stars

Added the unused Neutron Star effect to Omega-41

Added new optional explosion effects

Improved the Mission and News vendor images

Features

Installer updates

Added more pitch variations for the NPC chatter as an option

Added the DelayDisplay plugin which shows a cooldown timer for weapons that require ammunition

Added the MultiIntro plugin which shows an unused 4th menu intro

Allow the player to visit the lab on Planet Toledo

Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused the debris explosion trail effect to stretch out tremendously

Updated the faction for the Alaska -> New York jumpgate to prevent it from being hostile in mission 11

Added an engine to Battleship Arizona so it can properly move towards the Alaska -> New York jumpgate during mission 11

flplusplus plugin changes:

Fixed an issue that caused Freelancer to crash when launching on some Windows installs

Improved timestamp logging

Removed sound-related patches that previously caused issues

Assigned correct description names to the nebulae in Omicron Theta

Corrected numerous German typos and inconsistencies in the English text resources

Fixed typos and newline issues in the neural net and interface text resources

Fixed seams in ST03b (Dyson Sphere system) starsphere

No longer overwrite the neural net and Pirate voice audio files with English versions by default

Fixed black space backdrops in Kensington and Waterloo station bars

Applied general fixes to the space backgrounds in numerous bar scripts to ensure they represent an accurate view of the space the bases are in

Prevented the Valkyrie from landing on the same position as the Anubis in one of the Planet Toledo mission cutscenes

Reverted a change regarding asteroid draw distances that caused player ships to not be able to collide with some asteroids

Corrected Frankfurt's nebula color on the nav map

Ensure Juni will always say her last voice line in New York during mission 4

Make Ozu and the Blood Dragon escort say something before and after encountering the first hostile contacts in Tohoku during mission 9

Made the edges of the job board icon softer

Ensure Ozu and Hakkera's ships use the correct engine effects during the Tekagi cutscene in mission 9

Updated the MP Rep plugin to fix a crash that would occur on some Windows installs when the equipment or commodity dealer window is opened

Ensure the correct help text is shown for the Change View button

Fixed an issue that caused one of the uncloaking Rheinland ships from mission 5 to attack the player too early sometimes

Updated the orientation of the Freeport station in the gasminer3 intro script so it's no longer upside down

Fixed an issue that caused Benno Henning on Planet New Berlin to sometimes show an empty bribe dialog

Fixed the double spaces issue in Zoner pilot names

Centered the Scan Cargo window

Replaced outdated jumphole infocards

Removed a duplicate news entry titled "RHEINLAND ATTACKS LIBERTY!" from mission 9

Use correct logos for news items from Los Angeles and Crete

Made alarm (klaxon) quieter at the end of the final Battleship Osiris story cutscene

Misc

Compressed nav map textures for faster load times

Compressed several Manhattan base textures for faster load times

Removed unused and unedited texture/configuration files

Updated ReShade to version 5.3.0

Ensure the user sees some explanations about ReShade on first launch

Check "Inherit Color Profile" option in the default dgVoodoo config

Reduced time between weapon list refreshes to 0.1 seconds

Increased time between contact list refreshes to 1.5 seconds

Added a Tonemap shader which will be used when the fullscreen windowed option is enabled

Renamed "GMG Station Glorious" to "Mining Station Glorious"

Added an ambient sound to the lab on Planet Toledo

Changed icon of the track rings in the Dublin system to trade lane rings

Added a description for the Racetrack Buoy in the Dublin system

Decreased saturation and darkness for the ice white blue planet

Changed the "WEAPONS OFF-LINE" text to "WEAPONS OFFLINE"

Renamed "AMBIANCE" to "AMBIENCE" in the sound options

Renamed "CUT SCENE" to "CUTSCENE" in the video options

Revived the unused water planet menu intro from the original game files

Updated the in-game version text so Freelancer: HD Edition's version number is displayed too

Reduced the draw distances of the lower Unknown asteroid field

Added the missing for sale ship in Omicron Minor Battleship Osiris

Disabled encryption when save game files are created and saved

Adjusted next and previous sub-target button positions slightly

Removed an unedited icon file and several unused ReShade effects

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
FreelancerHDSetup_v0_6.exe(1886.43 MB)
0.5(Jan 16, 2022)
Visual

Added HD Nomad Lair textures

Added HD Dyson Sphere textures

Added updated version of the HD Character Models addon (tremendously improved character textures over the previous version)

Added support for native Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering

Added higher quality startup movies

Added improved HD Nebulae and Fog

Improved HD Nomad, Pirate, Bretonia, Blood Dragon and Utility ship textures

Added many HD weapon and misc effect textures

Added an HD Smoke effect

Added HD Base Interior tables

Added HD weapon models

Added HD equipment carts

Added HD background stars

Added HD vanilla HUD

Added HD mouse cursors

Added HD button textures and other icons

Improved HD cockpits

Improved the St03b starsphere

Added HD Base Interiors (Proof of Concept) for the following bases:

Manhattan

Pittsburgh

Liberty Dreadnought

Improved station textures:

Fixed outline for dome trees

Improved dome grass

Improved HD station numbers

Added HD base windows

Added HD light panel textures

Improved texture quality of previously original textures for asteroid stations

Added HD cargo crates

Added optional shinier reflections

Improved overall reflections

Added an improved explosion effect texture

Improved the zoomed map by adding more, smaller stars to it

Improved texture quality of some original ship textures

Adjust colors slightly in the Ew05 and Ew06 (both Unknown systems) starspheres

Added updated Maximized Draw Distances addon (enables high quality sphere rendering)

Include a copy of ReShade with a basic, optional config (includes HDR, increased saturation, and bloom)

Added optional player engine trails

Added an HD jump effect

Audio

Compressed HQ Music to 320 kb/s (fixes issues with Freelancer sometimes not looping or playing the music)

Adjusted the cutscene music attenuation according to the differences in volume between the standard and HQ music

Features

Made intro skips optional

Made jump tunnel time adjustable

Made the Dark HUD optional

Made the Flat Interface optional

Add possibility for users to choose a separate save game folder

Increased max number of characters in the chat input box (allows for longer messages to be typed)

Increased the max number of chat lines in the chat history window

Made both Unknown systems appear on the nav map after visiting them

Made the Text Strings Revision patch optional

Added the Territory plugin with a custom config; shows which region of space the current system is in

Added the Ranks plugin with a custom config; associates a rank with the playerlevel

Added the HUDless plugin which allows players to hide the HUD

Added optional no-story (open single player) modes:

Normal: the player starts on Manhattan with a basic loadout and a default reputation

Pirate: the player starts on Rochester with a basic loadout and an inverted reputation

Ensured Bounty Hunter and Corsair ships have Corsair engines (like the NPCs do)

Added "HDE" to the version text in the main menu to indicate that the Freelancer: HD Edition installation has succeeded

Added an alternative base interior lighting fix

Added flplusplus; allows for configurable draw distances, PNG screenshots, and more

Fixes

Replaced Liberty Defender with Juni's Defender in Kress cutscene

Adjusted the HQ reveal and exposition music so it has the same length as the original

Reduced vanilla icon sizes in contact list so they can no longer overlap

Fixed fog colors on the New York nav map

Inverted the HD Moonblu Planet's color so it looks more like the original

Ensured the Rowlett's Revenge weapon drop has the correct string reference (it used to be called Nomad Prototype)

Reduced LODCurve in the dyson_city hypergate ale effect to ensure it doesn't look too dense

When both the Dark HUD and Adv Wide HUD have been selected, the player will now actually get both

Added a visit tag to the gravity buoy in Tau-37 so it can no longer be selected in the contact list

Removed a purposeless hazard buoy on the outer edge of Sigma-17

Centered the nav map animation in 16:9

Fixed seams in some Bretonia starspheres

Removed silence in the zone_nebula_nomad ambient sound

Made the fog in the Liberty Dreadnought deck start right away, instead of 30 seconds later

Moved Armored Transport in mission 13 cutscene so it's no longer on the same landing pad as the Anubis

Mission 1 cutscene fixes:

Prevented the Transport ship from tilting downwards at the very start

Prevented Freeport 7 escorts from colliding with each another off-screen

Adjusted the angle and position of the 3rd Nomad attacker ship so it can fire torpedoes properly

Ensure the Nomad attacker ship's engines can't be seen as they are decloaking when the camera zooms out

Properly despawn Freeport 7 so it can't be seen in New York during mission 1

Ensured the Planet Houston -> Bering Jump Gate trade lane has the correct name

Assigned a faction to the Alaska -> New York Jump Gate, and the Magellan -> New York Jump Gate so their names are displayed properly

Lowered volume for music that plays when Orillion talks during a mission 13 cutscene

Set numerous friendly jumpholes during story missions to neutral

Prevent cloaked Rheinland Battleships from being visible during mission 7

Turned down the volume of a rather loud voice line in mission 6

Removed a screech in the HQ Omicron Battle music

Applied engine fixes in the gasminer3.thn main menu script

Disabled the D3D8 error spam in FLSpew (Freelancer log)

Fixed uneven edges in HD main menu Freelancer logos

Set the mine detonation distance to 8 (mitigates the mine collision bug)

Added missing audio files from JFLP v1.25; fixes some incorrect NPC chatter

Applied several vanilla compatibility hotfixes (prevents crashes when playing on vanilla servers)

Misc

Increased asteroid field fill distance

Multiplied the maximum docking initiation distance by 5x

Reduced time between contact list refreshes to 0.5 seconds

Allowed the current worth to be shown in Multiplayer

Replaced manual hex edits with the Factions plugin for making several factions appear in the faction list

Added a trail-less version of the CSV engine (unused)

Reverted the solid gauge bars (still made the gaps a bit smaller than the original)

Added the latest version of HUD Shift which centers all windows correctly

Replaced Freelancer.exe's application icon with a Freelancer: HD Edition icon

Replaced d3d8to9 with DxWrapper

Changed dgVoodoo2 version to 2.54

Added an FLDOCS folder with useful Readmes and documentation

Include documentation regarding manual hex/binary edits for Freelancer: HD Edition

Compressed R8G8B8 textures to DXT1 and DXT5 (saves space)

Dropped support for installations via Freelancer Mod Manager

Note: FreelancerHDSetup_v0_5-2.exe and FreelancerHDSetup_v0_5-3.exe are the latest releases. The only difference between them is that v0_5-3 already contains all the mod files, while v0_5-2 downloads them from an external source.
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
FreelancerHDSetup_v0_5-2.exe(14.05 MB)
FreelancerHDSetup_v0_5-3.exe(1612.45 MB)
FreelancerHDSetup_v0_5.exe(14.05 MB)
0.4.1(Aug 25, 2021)
Visual

Added alternative effects

Fixes

Fixed size of 16:9 Freelancer logos

Misc

Updated zlib.dll for better performance in Multiplayer

Added support for installations via a dedicated installer

The Freelancer Mod Manager installer is still supported in this version, but using it is no longer recommended.

Note: FreelancerHDSetup_v0-4-1-6.exe and FreelancerHDSetup_v0-4-1.exe are the latest releases. The only difference between them is that v0-4-1-6 already contains all the mod files, while v0-4-1 downloads them from an external source.
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
FreelancerHDSetup_v0-4-1-6.exe(1921.14 MB)
FreelancerHDSetup_v0-4-1.exe(14.00 MB)
Legacy_FLMM_download_link.txt(102 bytes)
0.4(Aug 25, 2021)
Visual

Added HD Liberty news logo

Added HD Nav map objects

Added HD explosives and missile effects

Added HD Ships

Added HD Effects

Added HD Bases

Added HD Planets

Added HD Cockpits

Added HD Nebulae

Added HD Asteroids

Fixes

Improved HUD fixes for 1440p/4K screens

Fixed contact list view icon

Fixed trade request button in MP

Fixed banding in Tau-37 starsphere

Added MP3 Codec Fix

Misc

Added support for running multiple instances of Freelancer on the same machine

Added more sound and general options

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Mod_download_link.txt(185 bytes)
0.3(Aug 15, 2021)
Visual

Added HD Character Models

Updated jump effect

Improved reflections

Improved system map

Improved universe button on nav map

Fixed starsphere & news images banding

Features

Added console plugin

Added Advanced Widescreen HUD

Fixes

Added missing text fix for 4K users

Realigned HUD so everything is properly centered

Misc

Updated HUD Shift

Improved Freelancer Mod Manager install script

Updated dgVoodoo

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
Mod_download_link.txt(171 bytes)
0.2(Aug 7, 2021)
Visual

Added Flat Interface

Added HD Universe map

Added HD Starspheres

Added HD Mission & News images

Added HD Startup screen & main menu logo

Added HD system map

Added improved reflections

Audio

Added HQ Music

Features

Added dgVoodoo2 as optional Windows 10 compatibility patch

Fixes

Added bar script fixes

Added 16:9 planetscape fixes

Reverted trade lane map visibility change

Moved the neural net bar 1 pixel up so the pixel line disappears

Misc

Added Freelancer manual

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
freelancer-hd-edition-v0-2.zip.flmod(1154.58 MB)
0.1(Jul 28, 2021)
Visual

Maximized draw distances for space structures, asteroids and effects

Increased effect pool sizes

Features

Added support for scrolling through menus

Added support for zooming in turret view

Allow players to be called differently in Single Player

Show the remaining shield and hull points of the selected target as numbers

Enabled NPC paths in multiplayer

Made all planets spin slowly

Show the names of zones as you enter and leave them

Added all content from Jason's Freelancer Patch v1.25

No-CD Patch

1.1 Patch

Fixes

Removed unknown graphics card warning

Disabled IPv6 addresses in the Multiplayer Server list

Fixed friendly jumphole in mission 6

Fixed many typos, grammar mistakes, inconsistencies, and more, in the game's text strings

Fixed several incorrect/missing names and infocards in EW05, EW06, ST01, ST03 and ST03b (unknown and story systems)

Improved infocards for unknown factions

Improved Nomad group member names

Prevent intentional frame drops from occurring

Misc

Include player ships in ship filter

Make the first and last trade lane ring in a sequence visible on the nav map after encountering them

Set maximum level in Single Player to 40

Direct3D 9 wrapper

Make energy, shield, and hull bars solid

No longer hide The Order and the Nomads from the factions list

Removed cruise speed display limit

Removed general speed display limit

Show "Far" in contact list only at distances of 999.999K or higher

Removed ESRB notice

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
freelancer-hd-edition-v0-1.zip.flmod(7.50 MB)