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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: JGZinv on March 24, 2008, 01:47:19 pm

Title: FRED Open manual differences?
Post by: JGZinv on March 24, 2008, 01:47:19 pm

I'm reading over the FRED help files trying to get my foot in the door
so to speak in order to start FREDing in small amounts... but I'm noticing
a lot of "this doesn't do anything" listed.

Ex:

Quote

Pattern and the other fields below the line in the Nebula panel don't do anything.

Are most of these the same in FRED Open, or should I be looking at/for a list of changes
between it and retail that hopefully tell me what they are used for?

Title: Re: FRED Open manual differences?
Post by: Mustang19 on March 24, 2008, 02:01:23 pm

You should try FRED Open. It doesn't fix any of disabled features, but it does add several new ones. Go here (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Portal:FRED) and look at the "New FRED features" section on the right.

For example, the Nebula panel is left over from FS1 when nebulae were drawn differently.

Title: Re: FRED Open manual differences?
Post by: JGZinv on March 24, 2008, 04:18:11 pm

Well I'm using open and don't plan on going backwards...but there's no such thing
as a FRED 2 Open manual from a to z. So I have to start with the retail.

Thanks that should answer most of what I wanted to know.

Title: Re: FRED Open manual differences?
Post by: karajorma on March 24, 2008, 04:21:35 pm

The FRED2 walkthrough can be done in FRED2_Open. None of the features have been removed. At worst the buttons have moved a little.

And a couple of the non-working things have been fixed.