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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Wet Orange Ostrich Toilet on June 24, 2016, 03:31:04 pm

Title: How do I make a campaign?
Post by: Wet Orange Ostrich Toilet on June 24, 2016, 03:31:04 pm

So, I`ve been following the guide. But I can't insert any missions into a branch.

Help?

Title: Re: How do I make a campaign?
Post by: Axem on June 24, 2016, 06:20:08 pm

Select a mission and then do a ctrl-click, just like placing a ship in FRED. :)

This is one of those sort of obvious things in retrospect, but I think pretty much everyone here has fallen for that problem. (Including me multiple times!)

Title: Re: How do I make a campaign?
Post by: Wet Orange Ostrich Toilet on June 25, 2016, 04:05:55 am

Thanks! You just helped me solve my ultimate problem in the creation of campaigns. Expect horrendous campaigns to arrive in the near future, as soon as I can figure out, how to get any missions to appear in the "Available Missions" Category...

On an unrelated note: Nice Gentleman Perseus. It made me laugh uncontrollably when I saw it. :lol:

Title: Re: How do I make a campaign?
Post by: Axem on June 25, 2016, 09:21:05 am

Right so FRED is pretty lazy and will only list out the missions available under the directly selected mod, nothing through the other /data/missions/ directories that the actual game may look through. So if your selected mod is /awesomemod/ then FRED only looks in /awesomemod/data/missions for the campaign editor, and not /data/missions or /mediavps2014/data/missions. I hope that makes some sense...

Quote from: Wet Orange Ostrich Toilet on June 25, 2016, 04:05:55 am

On an unrelated note: Nice Gentleman Perseus. It made me laugh uncontrollably when I saw it. :lol:

Why thank you. :)

Title: Re: How do I make a campaign?
Post by: General Battuta on June 25, 2016, 11:50:12 am

I have literally never figured out how to do this. Every time I have to create a campaign file I go around begging for someone to remind me how. As soon as I do it, I instantly forget how it works.

Title: Re: How do I make a campaign?
Post by: X3N0-Life-Form on June 26, 2016, 04:48:47 am

I don't think I've ever used the campaign editor. There used to be bug that would sometims prevent it from recognising mod missions, so I just copied another campaign file and edited it via notepad.

Title: Re: How do I make a campaign?
Post by: procdrone on June 26, 2016, 08:59:37 am

Someone could do a detailed tutorial on Campaign Editor. this thing wrecked my own release, its not clear at all... -.-

Title: Re: How do I make a campaign?
Post by: karajorma on June 27, 2016, 12:28:19 am

http://diaspora.fs2downloads.com/FREDDocs/editors_campaign.html

Is there anything about that which is unclear? I don't mind suggestions.

Title: Re: How do I make a campaign?
Post by: procdrone on June 27, 2016, 05:26:27 am

I've never read the Diaspora documents to be honest, actually. hm. That might have been a mistake.