[darkmaster]

Thank you, vid. And please take it easy on your new apprentice. 

[karajorma]

so now I am a pro? 

Half a year ago I was like darkmaster here, begging (in my case Orph) to test my extremely buggy new campaign. I even upset IP until he removed multiple post by me    I guess that's what's called career 

Six months continuous FREDding is quite a bit of experience actually given how easy FRED is to learn. After the first few months you probably know the basics fairly solidly and you're only really dealing with the more advanced topics and some of the gotchas that occasionally crop up.

Besides you've released more missions and campaigns than I have and they have included some pretty impressive innovation in them (Dark Children's special feature for instance) so I think you can wear that title with pride.

[Vidmaster]

when kara says so, I really can   

[darkmaster]

Please help, I'm stuck again. The asteroid didn't move no matter how I tried. I want the asteroids to hit a specified ship, so I used AI-chase and kamikaze but the problem is that those rocks didn't want to move. At first I thought that it was because the things don't have engine system, but when I opened "the fortune hunter" mission to have a reference I noticed that vid used the same SEXPs, what's wrong with me ?

[IPAndrews]

You can't make an asteroid move. None of the asteroid ship classes have a top speed. You would need to create a new ship class entry in ships.tbl using a .tbm file and create a new movable asteroid ship class. You might be able to persuade one of the modders here to knock one up for you.

Bad news is standard TBP has so many ship classes already you would need to force people to use the Inferno build with upgraded limits if you wish to add new ship classes.

[darkmaster]

But Vid managed to make them move in Fortune Hunter 2260 mission 10 ? And he just use the same SEXPs as me. Plus, he didn't put any ship.tbm in his vp ?

Edit : Ok, sorry. He just put them on the way of the ship, they were not moving. I think I must change my script now.

[karajorma]

Making a single asteroid move is difficult but if you want to make a whole field move you can create an active field in the Asteroid Editor.

If you really need to make only one asteroid move you can use the set-object-speed SEXP to do so.

[darkmaster]

Thanks, kara.

I decided to cut off the final battle ( a big battle  )  because it doesn't fit well to the story ( it takes place 10 years after the previous mission ). So the campaign will have only 7 missions (which are all done basically, it needs bug-fixing and play-testing now).

I must contact vid and andicirk now, thanks all who helped me in this topic.

[darkmaster]

Well, now I have a strange thing here.

When playing as a single mission, everything is ok. But when I line them up to a fc file and play as a campaign, there is no weapon as all. Primary weapon : none, secondary weapon : none. Does anyone know what is going on here ?

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Did you allow the weapons in the campaign?

[darkmaster]

Did you allow the weapons in the campaign?

Thx a lot, that's the problem. I was so stupid 

EDIT : SORRY I DID NOT WORK !! I ALLOWED ALL THE WEAPONS BUT THERE WAS NO WEAPON IN MY CAMPAIGN, WHY IS IT ?

[Shade]

What exactly did you do? Did you use the 'Initial Status' dialogues in the campaign editor, or did you just allow them through the loadout editor in the mission? For a weapon to show up in a campaign, it needs to be both enabled in the team loadout of the mission as well as either in the list initial allowed weapons in the campaign editor or allowed through a mission event in an earlier campaign mission.

[darkmaster]

I meant both the Initial Status and the team load-0ut. The weapon is the "particle array" of the Centauri.
Can anyone have a look at my files to see what is wrong ? I will send them to you if you want to help me.
Thanks

EDIT : Now it works, finally. I deleted all .pak files in the missions folder and it worked. Thank you all.

[Shade]

There is one more thing you could try: Make a new pilot and try that in the campaign. Occasionally using an old pilot with a new campaign can cause problems not unlike what you're experiencing. If that doesn't do it though, then sure, I'll take a look.

[Ker.Soth]

what are .pak files anyway?I think they were crashing my editor when I was trying to open the Campaign. Just a newbie question, trying to get a grip.

[Shade]

Do you mean .bak files, maybe? If so, it's just an .fs2 file with the extension changed that's used as an automatic backup by FRED, in case you screw something up and want to revert your changes. You can open it if you change the extension back. The same goes for the backup.xxx files, though those don't identify the mission they're backups of.

[Ker.Soth]

thnx Shade. Yeah I meant .bak       In that case I won't be so hasty to delete them from now on.