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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Reppyboyo on September 08, 2002, 09:27:35 am

Title: n00b FRED question...
Post by: Reppyboyo on September 08, 2002, 09:27:35 am: How u get the cap ships to fire their beams?
thx all
Title: n00b FRED question...
Post by: Thor on September 08, 2002, 09:34:26 am: I answer this quickly before they all kill you;) Use the Beam-Free-ALL sexp. that will unlock all the beams on a given ship. Now to quickly steer you away from the mob, What are you working on?
Title: Re: n00b FRED question...
Post by: aldo_14 on September 08, 2002, 09:35:34 am: Quote
Originally posted by Reppyboyo
How u get the cap ships to fire their beams?
thx all

There is an sexp called beam-free-all.

The FRED2 walkthrough explains it in more detail.

:nod:
Title: n00b FRED question...
Post by: karajorma on September 08, 2002, 09:41:18 am: The walkthrough can be found by looking at the help menu in FRED. There's some more help for newbie FREDders in the link below.
Title: n00b FRED question...
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on September 08, 2002, 12:24:37 pm: If this thread were at the VBB it would be 500 posts long and contain such rantings as:

DO THE WALKTHROUGH, IF YOU DONT'T KNOW WHAT WE MEAN THEN YOU'RE TOO STUPID TO PLAY FS, etc.

Ahh, sweet, sweet HLP.
Title: n00b FRED question...
Post by: karajorma on September 08, 2002, 12:42:54 pm: If this thread was on the VBB it wouldn`t be noticed cause the baord would be too full of people wondering why the VBB was back and for how long this time :D
Title: n00b FRED question...
Post by: Redfang on September 08, 2002, 02:13:04 pm: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma
If this thread was on the VBB it wouldn`t be noticed cause the baord would be too full of people wondering why the VBB was back and for how long this time :D

:nod:

Though I think it wouldn't be noticed because no-one would knew it was there.
Title: n00b FRED question...
Post by: Whitelight on September 08, 2002, 02:47:51 pm: But this is not the VBB, thank god... Or you would see (Hope zylonbane dosen`t see this post) :p
Title: n00b FRED question...
Post by: CODEDOG ND on September 08, 2002, 03:31:18 pm: BeamFreeAll
Moloch 24

Unless the ship is warping in. Then it is.

When
Has arrived
0 Seconds
BeamFreeAll
Moloch 12
Title: n00b FRED question...
Post by: karajorma on September 08, 2002, 04:05:03 pm: Quote
Originally posted by CODEDOG ND
BeamFreeAll
Moloch 24

Unless the ship is warping in. Then it is.

When
Has arrived
0 Seconds
BeamFreeAll
Moloch 12

Be careful with that one. A lot of people have reported problems with it.

When
-Has-arrived
--Moloch 12
--1

Always works. Has arrived 0 might not for some people. I`ve written missions where has arrived 0 hasn`t worked. I changed to has arrived 1 and it instantly starts working.
Title: n00b FRED question...
Post by: Reppyboyo on September 08, 2002, 05:45:57 pm: Thanks peeps....
version above worked...
coz all my ships were subspacing in...
Title: n00b FRED question...
Post by: Killfrenzy on September 09, 2002, 04:47:34 pm: Also, you could use the 'has-time-elapsed' sexp to switch on beams. But only use them for capships present at the start. :)