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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Trivial Psychic on December 16, 2003, 08:32:10 pm

Title: Questions about 3.6
Post by: Trivial Psychic on December 16, 2003, 08:32:10 pm

A comment made in the "new builds" sticky thread prompted me to make this thread.  Since no recent updates have been made to FRED2_Open since around September, can we expect any updates to this when 3.6 comes out?  On the other hand, since the road to 3.6 is supposed to be paved with squished bugs, then answer could be no.  If that be the case, then would we expect a rush of additions once 3.6 is out the door?

For every one else, feel free to post your own questions about 3.6, though I obviously can't garantee that any SCP members will respond to 'em.

Later!

Title: Questions about 3.6
Post by: Bobboau on December 16, 2003, 08:56:12 pm

I know I'll be adding things like crazy, I'll wait about a week after the relese before I start commiting things

Title: Questions about 3.6
Post by: Taristin on December 16, 2003, 09:04:04 pm

Hopefully good things everyone can use

Title: Questions about 3.6
Post by: IceFire on December 16, 2003, 10:20:37 pm

Is there a stable and workable FRED Open build that is the one headed for release in 3.6?

Title: Questions about 3.6
Post by: CP5670 on December 16, 2003, 11:06:50 pm

The only semi-major issue with fred2_open (3.55) I can think of at the moment is that it cannot properly load missions with the support ship hull repair cap (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,17193.0.html) enabled, much less edit them. The game can read these missions fine, but the editor gives an "Unable to read mission file" error followed by an illegal operation message.

Additionally, there is a bit of an annoyance with the Windows associations for the .fs2 mission files. I usually like to have these associated with Wordpad or some text editor but if I change the association, fred2 always steals it back upon opening the program, even though it cannot load the file like that and just starts up normally. :rolleyes: The best thing would be to just delete this association-changing code altogether.

It would also be nice if some of those BS error checker messages were removed (no players in alpha wing, starting wings' orders do not match, etc.).

One other thing I have wanted to see for a long time is the ability to customize the keyboard controls used for camera movements. I have no idea how difficult this would be to do, but it would be great if the editor uses the controls from a specified player file instead of just using the default settings. I have changed around some of the controls in the game, so it is slightly inconvenient to have to use the default controls in the editor after getting used to a different setting in the game.

Title: Questions about 3.6
Post by: Goober5000 on December 17, 2003, 01:11:05 am

Mantis.

Title: Questions about 3.6
Post by: IceFire on December 17, 2003, 08:01:46 am

Where is 3.55?  Its not on the website :D

Title: Questions about 3.6
Post by: Goober5000 on December 17, 2003, 03:03:57 pm

Eh?  It's in the 3.5.5 thread.

Title: Questions about 3.6
Post by: Taristin on December 17, 2003, 03:08:24 pm

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Originally posted by Goober5000
Mantis.

Yeah? Get email working and it'll be in.