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Title: FRED help
Post by: Thor on June 21, 2003, 03:22:26 pm

Alright, this may seem silly :blah: but I'm having issues string together missions into campaigns.  Is there an FAQ or could someone give me a few tips?  help:nod:

Edit: THanks for the tips

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Post by: Sesquipedalian on June 21, 2003, 04:28:42 pm

The campaign editor is not the most intuitive bit of programming ever written.  The Fred2 help files explain it quite nicely, however.

By the way, that is an annoying subject title.

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Post by: TopAce on June 22, 2003, 09:14:25 am

Yeah, FRED Campaign Editor is the best way. Just select the missions, place then each other in a different brick, and connect them. The downer means the later missions, so It must have the looking like this:

Mission 1
     I
     I
Mission 2

Add a repeat link before you connect them to each other. A repeat link means an event that must happen to force the player replay a mission.

Keep in mind, that the 'branch to Mission 2' must be true, it means the player can step to the next mission. It must also be the last one.

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Post by: karajorma on June 22, 2003, 09:37:08 am

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Originally posted by TopAce
Yeah, FRED Campaign Editor is the best way. Just select the missions, place then each other in a different brick, and connect them. The downer means the later missions, so It must have the looking like this:

Mission 1
     I
     I
Mission 2

Add a repeat link before you connect them to each other. A repeat link means an event that must happen to force the player replay a mission.

Keep in mind, that the 'branch to Mission 2' must be true, it means the player can step to the next mission. It must also be the last one.

Actually if you look at the way the FS2 campaign file is done you'll notice they did it the other way round :D

Although there is nothing wrong with the way you've suggested, since there are more ways to fail a mission than succeed I generally find it easier to make the repeat loop true and then make it so that the option to move on to another mission only comes true when certain events have occured.

That said the FS2 campaign file actually fails the error checker so what do [V] know! :D

Title: FRED help, take # 100000000000000
Post by: Thor on June 22, 2003, 11:06:04 am

Thanks guys.

Title: FRED help, take # 100000000000000
Post by: TopAce on June 22, 2003, 03:51:41 pm

Not at all, especially I am one who needed help very much times. :D