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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Venicius on June 26, 2009, 12:02:22 pm

Title: question about beam weapons
Post by: Venicius on June 26, 2009, 12:02:22 pm

I'm very new to FREDing and can't  get the capital ships to fire their beam weapons.  All they want to use are their non-beam weapons. 

Title: Re: question about beam weapons
Post by: General Battuta on June 26, 2009, 12:03:55 pm

So, you might want to go through the FRED tutorial.

You can manually beam-free individual ships using the beam-free-all SEXP. You can lock beams and command individual turrets to fire on demand using fire-beam.

Lastly, if you want uncontrolled beam fire, go to 'mission specs' and tick 'all ships beam-freed by default.'

Title: Re: question about beam weapons
Post by: Dragon on June 26, 2009, 12:58:45 pm

Be advised that "all ships beam-freed by default" is an SCP feature. (you must have FS2 Open to use it)

Title: Re: question about beam weapons
Post by: headdie on June 26, 2009, 01:02:26 pm

in addition to the above posts If you are running a 3.6.9 or later version of SCP there should be a flag in the
EDITORS - MISSION SPECS window

Title: Re: question about beam weapons
Post by: Dragon on June 26, 2009, 01:25:57 pm

That's exactly "all ships beam-freed by default" flag we were talking about.

Title: Re: question about beam weapons
Post by: General Battuta on June 26, 2009, 01:29:56 pm

What Dragon said.

Title: Re: question about beam weapons
Post by: Venicius on June 26, 2009, 01:31:03 pm

Oh, found it.  Thanks!

Title: Re: question about beam weapons
Post by: Snail on June 27, 2009, 04:47:59 am

Have fun with your Battle of Endor missions...