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Hosted Projects - Standalone => The Babylon Project => Topic started by: Spellfire on February 23, 2005, 02:27:19 pm

Title: FRED Background Question
Post by: Spellfire on February 23, 2005, 02:27:19 pm

Hey all,

Hopefully it's ok to ask the question in this forum...

In FRED (the one with TBP), I can't see any Planets or Nebula. If "Show Background" is ticked on, only suns and stars show up.

In-game, everything shows up where it's supposed to, but since I can't see what I'm placing where in FRED, it's all a bit of a mess.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.

Title: FRED Background Question
Post by: Singh on February 23, 2005, 02:38:57 pm

this problem appears to be common with the current builds of FRED. Try using an older build if possible.

Title: FRED Background Question
Post by: Spellfire on February 23, 2005, 02:49:01 pm

Thanks for the reply, where can I get an older build from?

Title: FRED Background Question
Post by: Singh on February 23, 2005, 02:55:04 pm

For backgrounds, your best bet would be this (http://fs2source.warpcore.org/exes/latest/C06172004.zip)  build. Don't use it for much else though, as it has some stability issues.

Also, missions made with the current FRED2_Open won't work in this build, so you'll have to copy the background info via notepad to another mission and then open that one with this. Once you're done, simply copy the edited backgrounds to your original mission.

Hope that helps :)

Title: FRED Background Question
Post by: Primus on February 23, 2005, 03:41:30 pm

And
:welcome:
Spellfire
:)

Title: FRED Background Question
Post by: Fury on February 23, 2005, 11:06:36 pm

FRED2_open is just one bugged chunk of code. No build works perfectly. Fortunately the SCP team has finally acknowledged the issue and is working on a good fred2_open.

I hope.

Title: FRED Background Question
Post by: IPAndrews on February 24, 2005, 05:54:33 am

Singh is giving good advice here.

Just to make things even more difficult you'll find that the older builds of FRED won't give you access to the full list of nebs. That's okay. Just use the old build for positioning and change the nebs to the ones you wan tin the new build.