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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Ostron on July 22, 2012, 09:13:25 am

Title: Old reference card
Post by: Ostron on July 22, 2012, 09:13:25 am
Back 10 or so years ago, I remember someone made a "quick reference card" that listed, among other things, the filenames of all the command briefing files built into FS2 (in case you wanted to reuse one or more). It also had a breakdown of which beams where which and which communication animations displayed what.

Does anyone know of this and/or where it could be found. Alternately, is there a different resource that lists what all of the built-in command briefing scenes are?

Thanks.
Title: Re: Old reference card
Post by: The_Force on July 22, 2012, 10:25:16 am
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/FAQ/downloads.html there is a link to freespace 2 reference guide that's what you should be looking for.
Title: Re: Old reference card
Post by: Ostron on July 22, 2012, 01:16:03 pm
Well, that was it, but it appears whatever resource it was pointing to is long dead. Thanks for the link anyway.
Title: Re: Old reference card
Post by: jg18 on July 22, 2012, 02:35:46 pm
Well, that was it, but it appears whatever resource it was pointing to is long dead. Thanks for the link anyway.
Huh? I just tried the link a minute ago and it worked for me. :confused:
Title: Re: Old reference card
Post by: Black Wolf on July 22, 2012, 09:55:31 pm
Back 10 or so years ago, I remember someone made a "quick reference card" that listed, among other things, the filenames of all the command briefing files built into FS2 (in case you wanted to reuse one or more). It also had a breakdown of which beams where which and which communication animations displayed what.

Does anyone know of this and/or where it could be found. Alternately, is there a different resource that lists what all of the built-in command briefing scenes are?

Thanks.

Most of that data can be found on the Wiki now (Beam Weapons, (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Weapon_Comparison_(FS2)#Beam_Cannons) Communication Anis (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Head_Anis) (Plus some more of them (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Black_Wolf%27s_Anis), if you'll excuse the shameless self promotion :p)) and a bunch of other stuff too, of course. Unfortunately, a breakdown of the retail CBAnims is one of the few things we don't have on there at the moment, although it is a worthwhile project, and something we should have. I'll get onto it when I have a second.
Title: Re: Old reference card
Post by: jr2 on July 22, 2012, 11:22:18 pm
Mirror

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ai8cgkbz5buazrh/fs2refguide.chm

To fix your problems:

(Nice guide with pictures) http://didierdanse.net/blogs/dev_en/archive/2009/09/08/windows-7-how-to-display-chm-content.aspx

(MS article) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2021383
Title: Re: Old reference card
Post by: Goober5000 on July 23, 2012, 10:08:18 am
The original original FRED reference card is available from here, along with a few other goodies:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060208143604/http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/fs1/fred/
http://web.archive.org/web/20060208143630/http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/fs2/fred2/
Title: Re: Old reference card
Post by: jr2 on July 23, 2012, 12:40:17 pm
Is that stuff also available from GOG?
Title: Re: Old reference card
Post by: Goober5000 on July 23, 2012, 12:49:58 pm
It was generated by people from either VolitionWatch (which was a Volition fan site, not Volition themselves) or the FreeSpace Developer List, so I doubt it.