[Krackers87]

I am stuck with an incredibly agravating problem, where fred is randomly not setting backgrounds correctly, it seems to happen at random aswell, heres what i did:

im changing the fs2 campaign files (the ones in the latest media vp) to have trails active during missions, and all i did was open each mission, open the background editor (to check that it was not a full nebulae mission) close the background editor without touching anything in it, then adding the flags for trails always on, and setting the minimum speed to 5, and hitting save, thats all.

however, random missions are no longer displaying their backgrounds after being edited.

sm1-02 is working fine
sm2-04 wont display anything except for the star box and sun.

whats going on and why could this possibly be happeneing to some missions and not others?

[Krackers87]

if i revert to the file in the media vps, the background shows up fine btw.

[The E]

No clue, really. Although I do hope that you are using the missions from the 3610 patch vp, not the ones from mv_assets....

[Krackers87]

No clue, really. Although I do hope that you are using the missions from the 3610 patch vp, not the ones from mv_assets....

....**** i have to check that

[Mongoose]

I was actually having some rather hellish issues with the background editor the other night myself when trying to run through the FRED2 walkthrough.  I'd select the graphic I wanted and type in the correct position and scale values...but when I hit "Add," all that showed up in the list was the very first graphic choice, with none of the data filled in at all.  When I clicked on that and tried changing it to the graphic I wanted and entering the values a second time, half of them didn't keep when I clicked on another option in the window.  I wound up having to essentially add each graphic twice, get all the values set, and then hit Enter, which closed the background editor window but managed to get the data saved.  I don't have to tell you that doing that five or six times in a row got old very fast. This was all with the 3.6.10 final release.

[The E]

I think I'm going to punt this other to SCP. Sounds more like a bug/feature thing to me.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Well Mongoose's issue is just the way it has always worked you hit add then change the values.  I agree it's a pain but not a bug.

Are those particular missions using skyboxes?  It may be that since it can't find the skybox since it's packed in the VP it removes it. 

[The E]

No, the only skybox used in mediavps missions is starfield.pof

[karajorma]

Well Mongoose's issue is just the way it has always worked you hit add then change the values.  I agree it's a pain but not a bug.

I've been meaning to change the way that works for bloody ages! Yes it's real pain in the arse even for skilled FREDders cause it's so easy to forget and enter values which then get wiped out. At the very least greying out the value controls until you actually select something would help.