Librelancer Files

Librelancer 2025.11 is here, with a big set of fixes and features since 2024.06.3!

NOTE: Ubuntu builds are compiled on 24.04, distributions older than this need to compile from source.

LancerEdit

General:

• 3D viewports now take up more of the screen
• Status bar can be disabled for more screen real-estate
• VMeshData nodes can have their material names edited directly.
• LancerEdit interface rendering is optimised somewhat, improving performance on low-power platforms e.g. Pi 5
• Text rendering of the interface is improved
• LancerEdit is now aware of DPI over multiple monitors, with dynamic scaling.
• Configurable style for vertical tabs (icon+text vs icon only).

Utf Tab:

• Add functionality to sort children by name in node.

Model Viewer:

• Workaround added for MS3D exported models with 0 bounding box/radius. If your model has these issues, please export to .lgb and re-import with LancerEdit to create a fixed model.
• Depth range tuned based on model size, fixes display issues with very large models.
• Normals view no longer crashes on models with no normals.
• Basic authoring of pris/rev animations within the model viewer.

Model Import/Export:

• Blender 5.x is now supported
• .blend exports sort objects into collections, and hide them respectively (thanks @IrateRedKite)
• Animation import/export slightly more reliable. Feature is disabled by default due to poor mapping between FL, GLTF and Blender
• Vertex colours supported correctly
• Model importer is less likely to hang on invalid input or options.
• Exporting .tga textures no longer flips incorrectly
• VMeshWire input no longer snaps vertices incorrectly on very small models.
• Scale more reliably applied on import.

Textures:

• Correctly limit .tga import to MIP9 max

System Editor (beta!):

• Dropdowns with searchable contents implemented for most selections.
• Compressed thumbnail cache for archetype selection
• Basic asteroid field editing for existing fields
• Patrol path and zone creation on the 2D map (thanks @josbyte)
• Add new infocards/strings when editing object properties (thanks @josbyte)
• Convenience feature when selecting two objects to parent the child, and move it to a hardpoint on the parent.
• Many bug fixes since 2024.06

Audio Importer (new!):

• Import audio files to Freelancer-compatible .wav files with MP3 compression
• Fix existing mp3->.wav files by adding trimming info if present from the LAME encoder

Mission Script Editor (beta!):

• New node-based editor for mission .ini files (thanks @Lazrius)

Misc:

• .frc resource files can be compiled, find the compiler in the Scripts menu.
• vignetteparams.ini can be edited using an easier to read simple DSL, find the compiler in the Scripts menu.
• State Graph tab can now edit.
• Hash calculator tool added.

Game Engine

Gameplay:

• More mission conditions implemented, the game is now playable from M01A, through to M01B then the pueblo section of M02 (bugs allowing).
• Debris spawned by fuses has correct damage caps
• Basic player statistics implemented (total play time, kills, sys/base/holes visited).
• Basic undocking camera implemented
• Tractor beams implemented
• Cargo scanning implemented

Video:

• Intro Movie playback is removed, pending a better implementation.

Audio:

• Attached effects on solars play sounds (thanks @Lazrius)
• Sound engine now implements culling of sounds by distance and priority, with a new limit of up to 128 sounds playing concurrently.
• Sounds now correctly mute at max distance.

General:

• Transform3D introduced for position/rotation instead of full matrices.
• Move to SDL3 by default. SDL2 still supported on Linux ass a fallback.
• Empty model nodes in .cmp no longer crash.
• Sphere constructs in .cmp fixed

Rendering:

• Move to blurgtext text rendering library on both Linux+Windows for consistency.
• Shaders are rewritten in HLSL, paving the way for a future SDL_GPU backend.
• Letterboxing in cutscenes is improved
• Fix crash on drawing sun with no spines

Multiplayer:

• Implement partial world updates, allowing more NPCs than can fit in a packet to be alive at one time.

Debug:

• Objects list debug window (thanks @mrmbernardi)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Librelancer/Librelancer/compare/hotfix-2024.06.3...2025.11