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Title: Using user made ships in FRED
Post by: basnyy213 on March 31, 2009, 03:40:36 pm

Maybe I'm not looking hard enough through the Wiki but can someone explain to me how to do the topic?

Title: Re: Using user made ships in FRED
Post by: Mobius on March 31, 2009, 03:43:55 pm

http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Installing_Mods_for_FS2_Open
http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/FRED_Command_Line_Reference#-mod

Then create a shortcut to FRED, right-click on it and add "-mod <insert your mod folder's name>" (without the quotes) in the shortcut's path. If it doesn't work, let us know. :)

Title: Re: Using user made ships in FRED
Post by: basnyy213 on March 31, 2009, 03:53:53 pm

For the path am I putting it in the start in or the target box? Sorry about the questions but I'm way confused. The folder is "Ships"
So I'm doing
C:\Games\FreeSpace2-modShips
Is that correct?

Title: Re: Using user made ships in FRED
Post by: basnyy213 on March 31, 2009, 04:08:49 pm

I got it to stop giving me an error message and I've got it set as
C:\Games\FreeSpace2\FRED2.exe -mod Ships
in the target box. Now I can't find the ships in FRED

Title: Re: Using user made ships in FRED
Post by: Mobius on March 31, 2009, 04:15:13 pm

What did you place in the Ships folder?

Also, I see a major glitch. You're using FRED2, not FRED2 Open - that's why it doesn't work. Try to get a build of FRED 2 Open.

You may get one here:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/board,97.0.html

or here:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/board,173.0.html

Title: Re: Using user made ships in FRED
Post by: basnyy213 on March 31, 2009, 04:23:35 pm

Every single download place I've found says that the link is invalid.

Title: Re: Using user made ships in FRED
Post by: Mobius on March 31, 2009, 04:25:49 pm

That's impossible...:wtf:...please check again...

Title: Re: Using user made ships in FRED
Post by: basnyy213 on March 31, 2009, 04:31:25 pm

The links on this section here work
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,34852.0.html
I just have no idea what to download.

Title: Re: Using user made ships in FRED
Post by: Mobius on March 31, 2009, 04:34:26 pm

Why not this instead?

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,61960.0.html

Title: Re: Using user made ships in FRED
Post by: basnyy213 on March 31, 2009, 04:35:46 pm

I'm using Windows so Linux won't work. And I'm looking for FRED Open specifically. Not that well versed in computers. Just trying to get this set up.

Title: Re: Using user made ships in FRED
Post by: Mobius on March 31, 2009, 04:37:00 pm

Then this one...?

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,61858.0.html

Title: Re: Using user made ships in FRED
Post by: basnyy213 on March 31, 2009, 04:37:21 pm

Way out of my league trying to do this so a link to what I need exactly would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for all the trouble.

Title: Re: Using user made ships in FRED
Post by: basnyy213 on March 31, 2009, 04:38:55 pm

Download that and then extract it into my FS2 folder? This will give me FRED Open?

Title: Re: Using user made ships in FRED
Post by: Mobius on March 31, 2009, 04:40:49 pm

That's the link you need. Check the first post of that thread, click on the link and download.

You should then place the contents of the download(two FSO builds and two FRED2 Open builds) in your root FreeSpace 2 directory.

In the FreeSpace Launcher, browse the FSO build marked with "r" and choose "Apply." Do not browse the build marked with "d", since it's there for debugging purposes, only.

EDIT:

Create a shortcut to the FRED 2 Open build marked with "r" and follow the hints I posted above (add "-mod Ships", without the quotes).

Title: Re: Using user made ships in FRED
Post by: basnyy213 on March 31, 2009, 04:41:23 pm

Thanks I'm all set now. Sorry for the trouble.

Title: Re: Using user made ships in FRED
Post by: Mobius on March 31, 2009, 04:42:50 pm

No problem. :)