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Title: Create custom Missions
Post by: Superdreadnought on October 22, 2006, 05:07:48 am

I'd like to see a Colossus fight a Ravanna or any other vessel ...
Just for fun watching the fight as i hated not having time to watch teh capital ships wipe our each other due to me having to kill hundreds of enemy fighters and bombers, so:

How can i create a custom missions (just a single mission, not a cmpgn) i can select all fighters/bombers and weapons and let some some large ships fight some other ones.

What do i have to do to create such a mission?
Ne tutorials u know?
Software (Will need to run on Linux)?


THX4YA'HELP!

Title: Re: Create custom Missions
Post by: Mobius on October 22, 2006, 05:38:39 am

FRED is everything you need,place ships and make their beams fire either with mission specs(if you're using FRED2 Open)or beam-free-all for every ship(FRED2).

However keep in mind,if you have played the main campaign only,that FreeSpace and FRED have limits.Putting hundreds of warships is impossible,this "mania" or simply the curiosity a FS fan has to re-create enormous battles is called "Battle Of Endor Syndrome".

Click on the first link on my signature :D

I'm making a campaign with the Colossus as protegonist,I made four missions but now I'm concentrating on Steadfast and The Sagitta Project,I'll continue it later.

Title: Re: Create custom Missions
Post by: Superdreadnought on October 22, 2006, 05:42:09 am

battle of endor-syndrome ...

my problem is that i cant run fred, as im using linux ...

Title: Re: Create custom Missions
Post by: Mobius on October 22, 2006, 06:23:16 am

Cross platform development board.
I think it's the best place for such questions.There's taylor ready to help you ;)
Or Karajorma if you need FRED help :D

Title: Re: Create custom Missions
Post by: Polpolion on October 22, 2006, 08:35:47 am

Quote from: Superdreadnought on October 22, 2006, 05:42:09 am

battle of endor-syndrome ...

my problem is that i cant run fred, as im using linux ...

Looks like we got a notebook FREDer...

Title: Re: Create custom Missions
Post by: Cobra on October 22, 2006, 03:34:41 pm

Quote from: thesizzler on October 22, 2006, 08:35:47 am

Quote from: Superdreadnought on October 22, 2006, 05:42:09 am

battle of endor-syndrome ...

my problem is that i cant run fred, as im using linux ...

Looks like we got a notebook FREDer...

uh, dude, notebook FREDing is hard as hell, for one. If he's a newb and asking for help to create a capship dogfight, he doesn't know how.

Title: Re: Create custom Missions
Post by: Mobius on October 25, 2006, 03:22:31 am

First we need him to have FRED compatible with Linux,then I can give some help.

Title: Re: Create custom Missions
Post by: WMCoolmon on October 26, 2006, 01:12:36 am

Quote from: LieutenantGeneralMobius on October 22, 2006, 05:38:39 am

FRED is everything you need

FRED was everything, everything that I wanted;
We were meant to be, supposed to be, but it crashed then.
And all of the new SEXPs, so close to me, just fade away...
All this time I was not saving,
So much for my happy ending.
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh...

Title: Re: Create custom Missions
Post by: KappaWing on October 28, 2006, 09:28:32 am

Know that if you want to make a simple capship fight, do not forget the beam-free-all on all capships involved! (Or else it will be pretty boring)

Title: Re: Create custom Missions
Post by: Taristin on October 28, 2006, 12:00:02 pm

Run a recent FSO build in Wine. It supposedly works.