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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: killface on January 04, 2010, 07:14:51 pm

Title: Create asteroid field
Post by: killface on January 04, 2010, 07:14:51 pm

I'm FREDing and wondering if it is possible to create an asteroid field mid-mission.  Can't find a SEXP for it, but I swear I saw it somewhere once.

killface

Title: Re: Create asteroid field
Post by: Colonol Dekker on January 04, 2010, 07:16:52 pm

Hmmm. . . . . . .
Sounds new. Which campaign was it in?

Title: Re: Create asteroid field
Post by: killface on January 04, 2010, 07:41:56 pm

Sorry, I meant I thought I saw the option in FRED somewhere, just can't find it now.

Title: Re: Create asteroid field
Post by: headdie on January 04, 2010, 08:05:43 pm

its in the editor menu set at the top of the screen - asteroid filed shift+a, allows you to create an asteroid field, set nebula functions and theoretically subspace but if memory serves that used to crash retail FRED2 and i don't know if that was ever officially fixed

Title: Re: Create asteroid field
Post by: killface on January 04, 2010, 09:23:34 pm

Right, but can I CHANGE any characteristics of the asteroid field mid-mission?

Title: Re: Create asteroid field
Post by: karajorma on January 04, 2010, 10:12:54 pm

You can't.

As far as I'm aware there never was a way to add asteroids mid-mission.

Title: Re: Create asteroid field
Post by: killface on January 04, 2010, 11:27:31 pm

Damn.  Would be useful, given the current limitations of the asteroid field feature as a whole.

Title: Re: Create asteroid field
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on January 04, 2010, 11:29:40 pm

You can create an asteroid skybox and add a bunch of non-field asteroids.  Not exactly a great solution but for a spread out field it can work.  

Also you can already have the asteroid field in game out of visual and radar range and move the player to it.