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Title: Orientation in FRED?
Post by: Flaming_Sword on February 20, 2005, 07:00:41 am

Are there any plans to allow fine tuning of ship orientations in FRED instead of just using "point to"?

Right now I have to open .fs2 files in notepad and manually edit rotation matrices. I wrote a program in VB produce the matrix from pitch, heading and roll but I have to save and reload in FRED to see the effects. It works, but it's not very convenient.

Thanks.

Title: Orientation in FRED?
Post by: Hippo on February 20, 2005, 07:15:24 am

click on the ship, press T (and release) and use the keypad to turn. press T again before trying to move the view... for an easier result, press Shift-V before pressing T, and you can view from the ship

:welcome:


Oh, there's also a rotate objct tool at the top of the screen, but its teribly ineffective and hard to use, so i suggest you go with the aformentioned method...

Title: Orientation in FRED?
Post by: Flaming_Sword on February 20, 2005, 07:55:05 am

That's what I was frustrated with. That rotate object tool.

The method you mentioned is great, though I still like being able to control the orientation of a Mjolnir to a fraction of a degree. That, and the keypad yaw rotates around a misaligned axis. (unless I have a dodgy fred2_open_3_6_5.exe)

Title: Orientation in FRED?
Post by: Hippo on February 20, 2005, 07:56:47 am

no, its just the bank while turning thing...

Title: Orientation in FRED?
Post by: Flaming_Sword on February 20, 2005, 08:11:52 am

Okay, thanks for clearing that up.

Title: Orientation in FRED?
Post by: Kie99 on February 20, 2005, 09:20:07 am

Guys! Where are your manners?

:welcome:

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Title: Orientation in FRED?
Post by: Goober5000 on February 20, 2005, 11:06:47 am

This is something that would be good to add.