[Sheridan_37]

Hi all,

another noob question here, How do i get Fred to use my custom subtitles?, i have read a tutorial about cutscenes which briefly went over custom subtitles but it didn't cover what folders to put them in so fred can recognise them. Is there a complete Fred tutorial somewhere that covers everything someone could ever want to know??

Many thanks.

[Black Wolf]

You'll get more help in here.

As for your problem, well, there's no independent file for subtitles... do you mean the message text, or the subtitles used for in-game cutscenes?
As for a basic FRED tutorial, there's an exceptional one by none other than Volition themselves - it came with your copy of the game, and is accessible through FRED (under Help Topics, Extended Walkthrough). Unfortunately, it's for Pre-FSO (i.e. Vanilla, not SCP), s it doesn;t cover everything FRED id capable of these days. But it's a rock solid way to get started, and it will allow you to understand how the editor (and the sexp system) works. From there, it's easy.

[Sheridan_37]

Well basically it's for in game cutscenes at the start of a mission ie name of the star system and date, in fred using the cutscene sexps you can type a brief subtitle but what i want to know is how to use my own subtitles. I read a cutscene tutorial on the freespace wiki but that didn't explain how you actually get them in game. The Fred help which came with TBP is a great aid and so is the forum, i've learnt and experimented to the point where i'm creating my own mission, just can't get my head round this particular point lol!!

[FreeSpaceFreak]

There's two ways of getting subtitles in a mission: by text (like you said, using the cutscene sexps you can type a brief subtitle) or by image. Create an image with text on it (save as PNG or no-mipmap DDS), and use the show-subtitle-image SEXP to show it. Where the image should be located, data/interface should work.

[Sheridan_37]

Ok thanks for that, it was begining to bug me lol, i will try it out at once.