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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Kon on July 30, 2006, 03:09:22 pm
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OK, I finished the Walkthrough, but there's an odd problem with the reinforcment units. I can't call them in. So, I go back to FRED, both Zeta and Epsilon wings are checked as reinforcments. I had to rename Beta to Zeta, because when I saved, the Error Checker said that I could not have a starting wing as reinforcments. Anyway, both wings were in the Reinforcments editor, but I remembered I had checked the boxes in the Wing editor and not the Reinforcments editor. So I deleted both wings from the Reinforcments list, and when I went to add either one of them again (this time from the list in the Reinforcments editor,) I got "Cannot have a reinforcment wing with mixed teams, sucka!" But all the fighters in both wings are Friendly. What the heck?
Oh, and since this is the last thing I have to revolve with the Walkthrough, can I jump right in and get a FA mission (if it's still going, doesn't seem to be much going on in there.)
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Feel free to pick an FA mission. Not much is going on cause no one posts any missions for me to playtest these days.
I've seen the error you mention but I can't be quite certain what causes it. Zeta wing is a bad name choice though. That's the name used for TvT missions and I've heard reports of it causing problems. Try Delta wing instead.
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It could perhaps be the arrival cues. The condition has to be satisfied before a reinforcement unit can be called in, so make sure they will be at the time you want them available.
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Actually it appears as though any wing added in the reinforcement editor does that not just Zeta wing.
No idea how long that has been the case. I never use it. I have always just used the tickbox in the Wings Editor.
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Yeah, the reinforcement editor gives lots of headaches. Just check off "Reinforcement Wing" in the Wings editor and it'll work like a charm.
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Changed them to Delta, and checked the boxes in the wings editor. And I think this problem has been around quite some time, as I'm using retail. :)
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Wouldn't surprise me. This was actually about the 3rd or 4th time I've ever opened the reinforcements editor in all the time I've been FREDding. Which should give you an idea of how little need there is for it given that you can specify everything in the wings editor. :)
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The only use I saw for the Reinforcements Editor was that when I first opened my mission after half a year, I didn't have to check each wing if they are reinforcements or normal units.
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Yep. That's probably the only time I can think of that it's at all worth using :)
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OK, I finished the Walkthrough, but there's an odd problem with the reinforcment units. I can't call them in. So, I go back to FRED, both Zeta and Epsilon wings are checked as reinforcments. I had to rename Beta to Zeta, because when I saved, the Error Checker said that I could not have a starting wing as reinforcments. Anyway, both wings were in the Reinforcments editor, but I remembered I had checked the boxes in the Wing editor and not the Reinforcments editor. So I deleted both wings from the Reinforcments list, and when I went to add either one of them again (this time from the list in the Reinforcments editor,) I got "Cannot have a reinforcment wing with mixed teams, sucka!" But all the fighters in both wings are Friendly. What the heck?
Oh, and since this is the last thing I have to revolve with the Walkthrough, can I jump right in and get a FA mission (if it's still going, doesn't seem to be much going on in there.)
I have the same problem with reinforcments. I have tried everything. Still not working. Crap :(
Do you have any clues ? How can I fix this ? Thanks :)
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You can simply select the wing and make it a reinforcement from the wings editor instead. As I said earlier just don't use the reinforcements editor.
No one else does after all :)
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stange that the reinforcement editor doesn't work in fred2 it always used to work in original fred(fs1)
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No program is perfect..... :sigh:
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Mantis the problem. I'll take a look one day if I'm bored :)