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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: FlamingCobra on October 02, 2011, 02:42:18 pm

Title: Rearranging ship list
Post by: FlamingCobra on October 02, 2011, 02:42:18 pm

How do I rearrange the order of the ships that appear in the ship list when I'm SEXPing?

Title: Re: Rearranging ship list
Post by: The E on October 02, 2011, 02:54:08 pm

The ship list is determined by their order in ships.tbl. To alter it, you need to edit ships.tbl.

Unless you are speaking about the ship selection list used when a sexp requires a ship from the mission. In which case they are ordered alphabetically, IIRC.

Actually, that was wrong. In this case, the order is determined by the order in which they are saved in the mission file (Or the order in which they were added).

Title: Re: Rearranging ship list
Post by: FlamingCobra on October 02, 2011, 03:01:16 pm

The second one.

And for me they are listed according to the order in which I placed them.

Title: Re: Rearranging ship list
Post by: Axem on October 02, 2011, 03:02:01 pm

The only real way to modify the order is to open the missile file in a text editor and cut and paste them around to your liking.

Title: Re: Rearranging ship list
Post by: FlamingCobra on October 02, 2011, 03:21:13 pm

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah




I'm going to end up doing that before long. >.>

Title: Re: Rearranging ship list
Post by: karajorma on October 02, 2011, 06:48:00 pm

.....waits for Flaming Cobra to return to ask for help with a problem of his own making. :p

Seriously though, are the ships not being in the perfect order in FRED really that much of an issue? I know you can rearrange stuff with cut and paste but that doesn't make it a smart idea when dealing with such a trivial issue.