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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Ostron on November 04, 2007, 09:01:07 pm

Title: New poster, New to FRED_Open, have bg question
Post by: Ostron on November 04, 2007, 09:01:07 pm
Hi there. First time posting. I just recently downloaded the SCP in all its glory; FS2 still is one of my favorite games, primarily becuase of the ability to design your own missions. So of course I dove right into FRED2_Open. I'm at the "midpoint" of my design for my first mission with it, which for me is adding the background.(I have designed 60+ missions using the standard FRED2 that came with retail, but the last one I built was over 2 years ago),

Now, I don't need to use any custom backgrounds or anything at this point, but what's confusing me is that I thought in the retail FRED2 that there was a way you could see your backgrounds as you added them to the mission. But I checked the wiki and it said that in FRED2_open the only way to check is to actually play the mission. Is that correct?
Title: Re: New poster, New to FRED_Open, have bg question
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on November 04, 2007, 10:01:23 pm
Do you have show background checked under the view tab? 
Title: Re: New poster, New to FRED_Open, have bg question
Post by: karajorma on November 05, 2007, 01:22:49 am
Yeah, there used to be a bug about backgrounds but that was fixed a long time ago.
Title: Re: New poster, New to FRED_Open, have bg question
Post by: TrashMan on November 08, 2007, 05:09:42 pm
I'll post here so I don't have to start a new thread..I got one question for you guys:

I want to make a enemy (fragile) ship indestructable, but I still want to be able to take out its subsystems.

ATM I have it so that the shps hull auto-repairs iself to full every second, but there probably is a better way. Any good suggestions?
Title: Re: New poster, New to FRED_Open, have bg question
Post by: karajorma on November 09, 2007, 01:32:02 am
I'd suggest using ship-guardian-threshold but I've seen ships get destroyed that were protected by that SEXP even though they shouldn't be.
Title: Re: New poster, New to FRED_Open, have bg question
Post by: TrashMan on November 09, 2007, 05:47:39 am
ERm...the idea is I want to take out ALL subsystems of the ship wiht normal weapons wihtout destroying the ship (reason why is in the spoiler).

IIRC, once a ship is guardianed you cna't damage it's subsystems any more (especially not trough shields)


Spoiler:
the Black Knight[/quote]
Title: Re: New poster, New to FRED_Open, have bg question
Post by: Colonol Dekker on November 09, 2007, 06:57:54 am
Can you link to the Wiki where it says theres an error? It may need updating if so  :)
Title: Re: New poster, New to FRED_Open, have bg question
Post by: karajorma on November 09, 2007, 09:28:57 am
ERm...the idea is I want to take out ALL subsystems of the ship wiht normal weapons wihtout destroying the ship (reason why is in the spoiler).

IIRC, once a ship is guardianed you cna't damage it's subsystems any more (especially not trough shields)

Nope. That's not true. You can still damage subsystems on a guardianed ship.
Title: Re: New poster, New to FRED_Open, have bg question
Post by: Admiral Edivad on November 09, 2007, 11:34:06 am
I'll post here so I don't have to start a new thread..I got one question for you guys:

I want to make a enemy (fragile) ship indestructable, but I still want to be able to take out its subsystems.

ATM I have it so that the shps hull auto-repairs iself to full every second, but there probably is a better way. Any good suggestions?

SEXP:
ship-subsystem-guardian-treshold
  your ship
  hull
  100

OR
every-time
hits left (your ship) < 99
set-subsystem-strenght
  your ship
  hull
  100
but i can't remember if "hull" is always considered a subsystem


@Ostron:
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(yes, I prefer the old version of the welcome beam)

Title: Re: New poster, New to FRED_Open, have bg question
Post by: Ostron on November 10, 2007, 10:17:38 pm
 :sigh: Ok, I'm a moron. Thanks for the response to my query, and for the welcome beam.
Title: Re: New poster, New to FRED_Open, have bg question
Post by: karajorma on November 11, 2007, 02:21:36 am
Not really. Can you link us the to the bit of the wiki with the bad advice. That needs to be fixed.
Title: Re: New poster, New to FRED_Open, have bg question
Post by: TrashMan on November 12, 2007, 11:57:00 am
ERm...the idea is I want to take out ALL subsystems of the ship wiht normal weapons wihtout destroying the ship (reason why is in the spoiler).

IIRC, once a ship is guardianed you cna't damage it's subsystems any more (especially not trough shields)

Nope. That's not true. You can still damage subsystems on a guardianed ship.

Holy jumping batman, you're right!

that makes thing easier for me. thanks :p