[Takka]

Ok so i have recently been learning about the ins and outs of how freespace2 works and decided it was time to try my hand at using fred.

I began using the online walkthrough and i was getting along fine until i tried to open it with a mod running and forgot what mods were being saved where. All of a sudden my walkthrough mission needs blue planet to work...."No worries i'll just start again".....so i did.

So i make sure i have two shortcuts for FRED2_Open, one for blue planet and one with just the mediavps in the command line and crack on with my tutorial mission. Everything was going fine untill i tried to test play a section and i noticed that although the background looked all pretty the text on the menu screens is slightly choppy and my hud in game has zero detail. Then i noticed that the text on my primary weapon selector runs over the edge of the box. My first thought was that the MediaVPs weren't working with FRED so i loaded up both my blue planet save game and my FS2 campaign and it was the same story there.

I have been sitting here playing with different features and command lines and trying out ideas from here for a couple of hours now and nothing i have tried has changed it even in the slightest.

If anybody has had any similar experiences or could tell me what i might have changed i would appreciate it. I will get a screenshot up if needs be when i get back to my computer.

Thanks in advance.

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Takka

[KyadCK]

debug log and a screenshot will help people help you quicker.

[Takka]

Ok here are the screenshots of my HUD in with both Blue Planet and the MediaVPs running and the FS2_Open.log from both mods. They have been renamed appropriatley.

It is fairly difficult to see the font distortion untill it is moving against a star field but if you look closely you can see some marks around the letters similar to noise on an HDTV. In the MediaVPs screenshot the lettering is within the box for weapon selection but the you can clearly see on the energy guages that they are just solid bars with no definition.

I am 90% sure the VPs are working elsewhere but i am starting to second guess myself. 

Thanks again.

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[Rodo]

I see no problems there, that's how the retail hud looks like when stretched to fit hi-res screen resolutions.
And the fonts ghost is a well known issue, that luckily for us is being fixed.

To get better looking hud-gauges you can start looking around here: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=69858.msg1380458#msg1380458

Also, you don't need two shortcuts to use fred2_open, that was only usefull with the old build where you needed to add a command line for each shortcut in order for Fred to load the mod you wanted, in 3.6.13 and later you just need to select your mod from the launcher and then run Fred directly, it will automagically load that mod, and every mod indicated in it's mod.ini file.

[The E]

To be precise, the fix is in 3.6.14RC3 and higher. Not that you should use 3.6.14RC3 at this point; there's a pretty bad bug in it (that has been fixed in the code, however no new builds are provided yet).

[KyadCK]

To help make putting in the new hud simpler, just download the attached TBM and put it in {fs2folder}\mediavps_3612\data\tables\

Make the directory if you have to.

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