[Grug]

So what are the flags that I should be using?
-fredhtl -mod xxx and is that all?

[Slasher]

Originally posted by StratComm
^ What he said.  FRED's OGL exclusive.  If for whatever reason your card can't handle OGL, you're stuck with software rendering.

Phreak, is there a reason my backgrounds turn into Shards-O-Death whenever I save?  Doesn't seem to effect anything else and it goes away as soon as I open the background window, but it looks mighty funky.

Happens to me too, though like you said, if I reopen the background editor the nebulas revert from their violent pileup state.

[Ferret]

The only time mine have turned into shards of death was when I opened SM1-01, but I opened the editor and they all came back.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Grug
So what are the flags that I should be using?
-fredhtl -mod xxx and is that all?

-jpgtga (If you're using either format as backgrounds or textures)
 -no_warn (Turns off all the warning messages. Use with care. Some of them are there for a reason!).

[Grug]

Thankee.

[phreak]

Build updated with some minor fixes.  Link in first post

[DaBrain]

Is it possible that textures are only supported up to 1024².

I have a 2048² map there that just won't show up on the model. (It works fine in-game)

[Ferret]

Again big thanks to you Phreak, I've nearly finished the first mission I've done in aaaaaages because Fred 2 Open has generally always been unusable for me. Now it works like a charm!

[Blitzerland]

Hello, FRED has been fixed. Newsify this! Finally, Briefings can be pain-free again!

All the wasted years...

Edit: Thanks, Phreak, because of your noble actions, I finally got around to making that seven stage briefing I'd had in the works.

[Trivial Psychic]

Ship models are still being rendered out of position in HTL mode (March 24th build).

[phreak]

Originally posted by Trivial Psychic
Ship models are still being rendered out of position in HTL mode (March 24th build).

yea i haven't gotten around to it yet.

[Trivial Psychic]

Originally posted by PhReAk
AS OF MARCH 24:
2) Distances draw correctly in HTL

I wasn't sure exactly what that entailed, so I decided to re-post the problem just incase.

Additionally, I've noticed that when I save a mission for the first time, it thinks that I've selected some ship other than Alpha 1 as the player ship.  Selecting Alpha 1 and clicking the "set as player ship" button then resaving, seems to solve it... its just weird.  Also, I was FREDing a mission in non-HTL mode and as soon as I added a Fenris (HTL model), all the other models suddenly got a blueish glow on them, as though there was a bright blue light in the area.  The Fenris went all funky with colors, especially on the details.  Also, I was using -jpgtga.

Later!

[StratComm]

I've seen the colors on the Fenris too.  I think that loading a model of that complexity in non-htl mode is a bad idea regardless of what it actually does, but that's a little beside the point.

[karajorma]

Any chance that you can fix the load and save dialog boxes so that they open in the data\missions folder of whereever -mod points to rather than using the last used folder?

It's only a low grade annoyance the way it is now but it is still an annoyance.

[Trivial Psychic]

2nded

[phreak]

arg i was very close to fixing the load/save annoyance, but i thought i was doing something wrong and started over (i was actually on the right track).  blah

[karajorma]

Been there. Done that before.

[Luigi30]

FRED crashed after I saved my mission and now it refuses to start. I've got a screenshot of the error here. Well, it starts if I hit OK, but nothing is drawn in the grid area and I can't interact with the program.

[karajorma]

That's a table error. What mods are you running? Do you have media vp files installed?

[Luigi30]

I have the War mission, it comes with a table to make the Deimos playable and not crash vanilla FS2. It worked last night and earlier this morning. I got FRED to start, but the mouse cursor disappears when it's in the FRED window.