[Lone Knight]

One more quick thing....what is an animated map?

[Taristin]

It's a texture file that's animated.  Basically it's the pulsing shivan glowmaps.

[Ghost]

What do you mean, Freespace_Open? What the **** is that?

I almost cried.

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Lone Knight
One more quick thing....what is an animated map?

It also takes up a lot of video memory (ie can cause major slowdowns), so if you have speed problems with mv_adveffects, try disabling it first.

[Mr_Maniac]

Err... Did anyone mention, that he should run the new launcher to setup things right?
Everyone just talks about starting the fs2_open.exe
But It's much easyer to setup fs2_open with the launcher

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Lone Knight
will I lose all previous FRED missions?

Since no one addressed it.

FS2_Open comes with it's own version of FRED2. FRED2_Open has lagged behind FS2_Open and as such has a few bugs in it. Some people can't live with those bugs but most of us can and find that the new features make up for it (You won't believe all the new stuff FRED2_Open can do! Nameplates for ships, new SEXPs that allow you to do previously impossible things, Persistent variables that can be set in one mission and read in 5 missions later and a tickbox that automatically beam-free-all's every capship in the mission for you!)

Your current missions will load in FRED2_Open but if you save them they'll be converted to the FRED2_Open format and will no longer work with the retail version.

A newer version of FRED than the one in the FS2_Open 3.6.5 thread can be found here

BTW if you've missed the SCP you've probably missed the FRED Academy too. If you feel the need to polish up your FREDding or want to help new FREDders learn it's worth taking a look.

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Raa
No, Fred missions will remain intact.

I did address it, but not in depth

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Mr_Maniac
Err... Did anyone mention, that he should run the new launcher to setup things right?
Everyone just talks about starting the fs2_open.exe
But It's much easyer to setup fs2_open with the launcher

6) Run the launcher, comfigure the settings to your liking, and click "Run"!