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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Mancubus on April 14, 2010, 08:02:22 pm

Title: OK VERY n00by question about mediavps
Post by: Mancubus on April 14, 2010, 08:02:22 pm: So how do I make fred 'see' all the stuff added by mediavpS?

Background nebulas, shivan weapon variants etc? I mean when I open Fred2open (using 3.6.10 now), it doesnt recognize any of that stuff. (literally shows only the retail nebulas in background editor and shows them looking like in retail fred2, crashes after using starfield.pof etc)After copying mediavpfiles to main fs2 directory seemed to do the tric, but caused numerous other problems (like mods not working properly espetially fsport and related) now I would appritiate Idiots explanation...
Title: Re: OK VERY n00by question about mediavps
Post by: General Battuta on April 14, 2010, 08:03:11 pm: Create a shortcut to FRED2Open and add -mod mediavps to the command line.
Title: Re: OK VERY n00by question about mediavps
Post by: Mancubus on April 14, 2010, 08:07:46 pm: Thanks. I couldn't get the shortcut part info anywhere...
Title: Re: OK VERY n00by question about mediavps
Post by: Sushi on April 15, 2010, 09:17:43 am: Yeah, it's a trick that people in the community tend to know, but isn't very prominently featured anywhere. We should probably fix that... either via a wiki article or maybe a pinned "FRED FAQ" kind of thread.
Title: Re: OK VERY n00by question about mediavps
Post by: redsniper on April 15, 2010, 07:40:58 pm: We should make FRED use the launcher settings somehow, or add the ability to launch FRED from the launcher or something.
Title: Re: OK VERY n00by question about mediavps
Post by: Galemp on April 15, 2010, 10:23:34 pm: Cross-platform replacement wxFRED is going to be integrated into the new FSO launcher. It will take a while, though.
Title: Re: OK VERY n00by question about mediavps
Post by: karajorma on April 15, 2010, 10:29:04 pm: Quote from: Sushi on April 15, 2010, 09:17:43 am
Yeah, it's a trick that people in the community tend to know, but isn't very prominently featured anywhere. We should probably fix that... either via a wiki article or maybe a pinned "FRED FAQ" kind of thread.

It's in my FAQ. :D
Title: Re: OK VERY n00by question about mediavps
Post by: Shade on April 16, 2010, 07:24:08 am: It's also on the "Common FRED Issues" page on the wiki, which I totally did not just update to have that info after reading this thread :nervous:
Title: Re: OK VERY n00by question about mediavps
Post by: Shivan Hunter on April 21, 2010, 04:12:19 pm: Quote from: redsniper on April 15, 2010, 07:40:58 pm
We should make FRED use the launcher settings somehow, or add the ability to launch FRED from the launcher or something.

According to this (http://scp.indiegames.us/mantis/view.php?id=2176) mantis entry, this will be appearing in 3.6.12. :D
Title: Re: OK VERY n00by question about mediavps
Post by: General Battuta on April 21, 2010, 04:20:49 pm: Yeah, I believe Fury started agitating for that when we had to switch builds a lot during War in Heaven development and had to add the massive command line manually each time:

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C:\Games\FreeSpace2\fred2_open_3_6_13r_INF_SSE2.exe -mod blueplanetSVN,blueplanetSVN\test_bp2,blueplanetSVN\blueplanet2,blueplanetSVN\test_bp,blueplanetSVN\blueplanet,mediavps
This new system will be much easier.
Title: Re: OK VERY n00by question about mediavps
Post by: Shivan Hunter on April 21, 2010, 10:48:12 pm: EPIC COMMAND LINE IS EPIC

really, I'd just have a shortcut to a program named "FRED_Open", and keep renaming the FRED build to that.
Title: Re: OK VERY n00by question about mediavps
Post by: General Battuta on April 21, 2010, 11:03:27 pm: That would probably have worked, but if you had to switch to FRED for another mod (also using SVN), it's still a pain.
Title: Re: OK VERY n00by question about mediavps
Post by: Rodo on April 21, 2010, 11:12:59 pm: frikking long command line :eek:

do you really need all those diferent mods?
Title: Re: OK VERY n00by question about mediavps
Post by: General Battuta on April 21, 2010, 11:46:16 pm: For development, yes.
Title: Re: OK VERY n00by question about mediavps
Post by: Fury on April 22, 2010, 04:49:59 am: That's not even the longest one I was using.

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-mod blueplanetSVN\test_bp3,blueplanetSVN\blueplanet3,blueplanetSVN\test_bp2,blueplanetSVN\blueplanet2,blueplanetSVN\test_bp,blueplanetSVN\blueplanet,fsu\MV_Advanced,fsu\MV_Assets,fsu\MV_Effects,fsu\MV_Music,fsu\MV_Core"fsu" dir is mediavps SVN.