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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: foolfromhell on July 11, 2006, 02:57:38 am

Title: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: foolfromhell on July 11, 2006, 02:57:38 am
I have searched and cant find a thread telling me how.
Please point me to a FAQ or tell me how to add a ship/object in FRED. Thanks.
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 11, 2006, 03:21:31 am
READ   the FRED2 documentation that COMES WITH THE GAME, Do the tutorial before asking uxxor questions.
and by the way
:welcome:
and your user name does you justice :P
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: foolfromhell on July 11, 2006, 03:25:05 am
What tutorial? Could you please point me to the file? I cant find it in the main DIR
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 11, 2006, 03:30:01 am
*cough freddocs folder* Did you DL FS" or buy it? if you DL'd it i got no clue where to get them from.

For the record press ALT+F4 to add ships.
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: foolfromhell on July 11, 2006, 03:31:08 am
That quits the game.
Also, I dled it. I used to own it, but lost it while moving countries
Also, what kinda file is the Tutorial? I found the freddocs folder. It has some stuff about Fred, like a Cascading Style Sheet Document and a screenshot of FRED in action.
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: Wanderer on July 11, 2006, 03:33:09 am
There ought to be some tutorial included in the installation but incase it isnt you should get pretty far just by going through this Using FRED2 (http://www.woodentoyandgift.com/GTD/fred/).. though it might be pretty old and links may not be exactly valid but the basic stuff is the same..

Some info is already and additional stuff may should will (lets be optimistic) appear also to FSWiki (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) and more precisely to it's FRED pages (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Portal:FRED)
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: foolfromhell on July 11, 2006, 03:41:14 am
There ought to be some tutorial included in the installation but incase it isnt you should get pretty far just by going through this Using FRED2 (http://www.woodentoyandgift.com/GTD/fred/).. though it might be pretty old and links may not be exactly valid but the basic stuff is the same..

Some info is already and additional stuff may should will (lets be optimistic) appear also to FSWiki (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) and more precisely to it's FRED pages (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Portal:FRED)

Where in the installation? Do i need to re-install?
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: Wanderer on July 11, 2006, 04:18:58 am
I think the tutorial is the same as one that can be found from the first link..

And no.. no re-install is needed.
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 11, 2006, 04:47:57 am
Its an HTML file or HTM (same difference) index or fred2 possibly, In any case just press F1 or go to help and it should pop up...
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: karajorma on July 11, 2006, 05:56:38 am
If you have a Freddocs folder with anything in it (Some people don't depending on where they downloaded the game from) you simply need to open Index.html in your browser to access the docs.
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: Goober5000 on July 11, 2006, 08:17:17 am
For the record press ALT+F4 to add ships.

That is no way to treat a newbie.  You've just been banned for a day.

As for the actual problem... to add a ship, you simply ctrl-click on an area of space.  Very simple problem, one that many people have trouble with.
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: aldo_14 on July 11, 2006, 08:26:08 am
It took me the best part of a week to figure that one out :D
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: karajorma on July 11, 2006, 09:37:28 am
I never had that problem in placing ships but there was a time when I was working in the campaign editor and I forgot you need to do the same thing to add missions there too.

Wasn't the first time I'd ever used it either so I was getting really confused as to what I was doing wrong :)
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 13, 2006, 04:02:02 am
For the record press ALT+F4 to add ships.

That is no way to treat a newbie.  You've just been banned for a day.

As for the actual problem... to add a ship, you simply ctrl-click on an area of space.  Very simple problem, one that many people have trouble with.

Rofl, I deserved that.
Apologies man. :D
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: foolfromhell on July 13, 2006, 06:24:01 am
For the record press ALT+F4 to add ships.

That is no way to treat a newbie.  You've just been banned for a day.

As for the actual problem... to add a ship, you simply ctrl-click on an area of space.  Very simple problem, one that many people have trouble with.

Rofl, I deserved that.
Apologies man. :D
Now worries. I did that first thing, so nothing was lost.
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 13, 2006, 06:25:15 am
Save often, best advice i can offer @ mods, a warning would have been nice [unhostile tone]
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: karajorma on July 13, 2006, 06:33:34 am
Consider that a warning :p
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 13, 2006, 06:38:11 am
 :eek2: The Word of KAJ...........
[trembles]
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Point taken  :lol:
Title: Re: Adding Ships in FRED Retail.
Post by: Taristin on July 16, 2006, 10:17:13 am
Fortunately for you all, Hippo has put the Fred Documentation online.

http://www.woodentoyandgift.com/GTD/fred/