Trade Lanes

[Malcolm_Reynalds]

Even if we could get the ships to not fly sideways, it is still a lot of work. The angle the tradelanes' face is controlled by a line in the ini file that looks like this
rotation = 0, 0, 0
they're the x, y and z axis though I'm not sure which is which in freelancer. But if you imagine this is the tradelane: 8 making the first number will make it look like this '_' as in, facing upwards. second will make it look like this | and third like this 'oo'
That's assuming you changed the numbers to 90.
But that number is not relative to the tradelane, but rather to the map. The tradelane from Manhatten -> WP can be done simply by changing the last 0 to 90
But the lane from WP->Norfolk is facing in a different direction, and changing the same number to 90 had this result:

actually its not that hard to change the rotation:

to "flip" a TL on it's side take the rotation numbers X, Y, Z. and change all the rings to -Y, X, -90
so 0, -45, 0 becomes 45, 0, -90...or 0, 145, 0 becomes -145, 0, -90.

Because in the ini files there is no distinction between tradelanes, there is no way of knowing which entries belong to which tradelanes except through trial and error. It would be a long and difficult process.

not entirely true

[Object]
nickname = Li01_Trade_Lane_Ring_16
ids_name = 260920
pos = 3628, 0, -52369
rotate = 0, 30, 0
Archetype = Trade_Lane_Ring
ids_info = 66170
next_ring = Li01_Trade_Lane_Ring_17
behavior = NOTHING
tradelane_space_name = 196776
reputation = li_p_grp
difficulty_level = 2
loadout = trade_lane_ring_li_01
pilot = pilot_solar_easy

If you look closely, all rings in a specific TL have the exact same rotation value. once I did a little trail and error to figure out the rotation. it only took me 15 min to "flip" all the lanes in NY using the exact formula for all rings. since as long as you change every ring to it's own "inverse" rotation value, it doesn't matter what lane any given ring belongs to.

but I'm with you Nighthawk, that 90 degree roll right upon entering the lane would need to be fixed. chase view isn't bad, but in cockpit or turret view the whole screen rolls.