[dr22]

Hi All; OK I'll remove it. Note I went to the FRED2 to build the little shooter again and did as it said. When I went to play the shooter I got the error message (The system can't find the file specified. I noticed the in the file menu that the Run FreeSpace did not say run FreeSpace2. Is that a problem of the wrong build? I hit Alt+R and got the same problem. I'm posting the picture of my FreeSpace2 folder. Note also that this time the little mission was saved in C:\Games\FreeSpace2\data\missions.

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[karajorma]

Run FS2 from the launcher. I'm not certain which build it will try to run otherwise. The bug with FRED saying the wrong thing is actually something that dates all the way back to retail days. Apparently didn't change the menu entry when they changed FRED into FRED 2

[dr22]

Hi All; Ok I'll try that. For some reason my connection seems to be running like a slug on a salt desert. I have comcast cable, whats the deal??? Oh well Thank You again for helping me.
 I want to try and get to the point that I can build games levels in fs2 like I was doing in Descent3. Buildings to blow up and places to fly into. Also why does the ship I pilot in the fs2 game fly so slow around The Sathana? Is there a way to make it go faster? That is to say a way to program more speed into the ship?

[Goober5000]

Hi All; Ok I'll try that. For some reason my connection seems to be running like a slug on a salt desert. I have comcast cable, whats the deal??? Oh well Thank You again for helping me.
 I want to try and get to the point that I can build games levels in fs2 like I was doing in Descent3. Buildings to blow up and places to fly into. Also why does the ship I pilot in the fs2 game fly so slow around The Sathana? Is there a way to make it go faster? That is to say a way to program more speed into the ship?

Your ship flies plenty fast around most of the ships in the game.  The reason it takes a long time to go around the Sathanas is because the Sath is big.

But yes, if you want to change a ship's speed you simply edit ships.tbl.  Look in the wiki or karajorma's faq to learn how.

[dr22]

OK thank You.

[Goober5000]

OK thank You.

You're welcome; but it is not necessary to capitalize personal pronouns referring to me.

[dr22]

I tried to do the FRED2_open quick start mission build. I followed the instructions three times all whit the same results. Attempt to load mission failed.
I will attach a copy of the spec file at the end.
I saved the qoick start mission from FRED2_open as the instructions said but when I went to FreeSpace2, tech room and high-lighted the mission I got; attempt to load the mission failed. What have I done wrong??

[dr22]

I followed all the info so far and have again tried to create the FRED2_open quick start mission. When I went to FreeSpace2 to try and run the mission I got; attempt to load the mission failed. What am I doing wrong?? I have I hope attached a copy of the mission spec's in zip 7.

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[dr22]

I'll try to post the spc's again this way.

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[Herra Tohtori]

Oh, and by the way:

If you don't want to meddle with table values, you can always speed up the game. Default keys are:

SHIFT + . (period) -> Increse time compression by factor of two

SHIFT + , (comma) -> Decrease time compression by factor of two.


Extremely handle if you just have to go through large distances in a mission without having to fight your way through. The compression can be increased all the way to 64x time compression, but beware; at this compression rate, incoming enemy fighters get much more time to act before you can decrease the time compression back to 1xtime, as it will take six keypresses of shift+comma to reduce the compression.

That feature is one of those that have been there since retail, but IMO the retail time compression only reached to 8x or  something like that.

[karajorma]

I followed all the info so far and have again tried to create the FRED2_open quick start mission. When I went to FreeSpace2 to try and run the mission I got; attempt to load the mission failed. What am I doing wrong?? I have I hope attached a copy of the mission spec's in zip 7.

Mission worked perfectly fine as soon as I gave it a shorter filename (You have to stay under 32 characters including the extention IIRC) and changed the extention to .fs2.

No idea what you're doing wrong on your PC.

[dr22]

Hi All; Well Big K, When I saved the mission I only typed duel.fs2 and hit OK. Where did the rest of the file name come from? Also If you look at the file name heading in the tutorial (quick start) you'll see that it to has the same long file name. I'm not contesting what you say I am wonder how it got there. Thank You for your help. Not also am I in the wrong link here as I saw your post in another thread with similar questions and answers.

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[dr22]

How do I shorten the file name so it will work?

[Getter Robo G]

right click on the mission and hit RENAME

[dr22]

Hi All; Found a way around the problem for me. While in FRED2_open when it's time to save the game, go to File menu,Save format, click on FS2 retail. Then go to FS2 start game and then to tech room. Bingo. I can play my little shooter now. I've even added a couple more enemy fighters and they shoot back to. Thanks all. Have a great day.