[thrakath]

I just recently found this game and love it. I started messing around with the editor making a few "practice" maps. I've read a few of the tutorials that I could find but couldn't find an answer to my problem in them or here on the boards. I know that the main beam weapon on the Whitestar is AI turret controlled, however, whenever I load the whitestar as my ship in a map the turret never fires. Is there something I have to do to turn it on? Or something Im neglecting to do in the editor? Thanks for the help

[Trivial Psychic]

You'll need to either check the "all ships beem-freed by default" option under the "mission specs" editor, or add an event such as:

when
-true
-beam-free-all
--Alpha 1 (or whatever the playership is)

[Whitelight]

Also make sure the ISA Whitestar is a player flyable ship by making an entry at the end of the ship table in the (player ship precedence) field..
I did the sexp like this

event name
when
has-time-elasped 5 (or when you want the beam to fire)
beam-free
alpha1
turret1

This may not work if your trying to use the beam against another fighter..

I tried it against a capital ship and it worked

(edit) Darn almost forgot

(edit2) Umm, not sure if you need the player flyable in the ships tbl for FS2Open, you may not i`m not sure..

[Whitelight]

Ok, its offical, you do not have to make any changes to the ships tbl, player flyable field, the beam worked after I removed the ISA Whitestar from it .

[thrakath]

Just to be safe I enabled all beams from mission specs, and added the event, thanks for the help, but Im still getting an error about the secondary hardpoint, I cant quite find out how to put something in there so it doesnt give the error, but the map still plays fine even so thanks again for the help.  Im sure I will have more questions as I get the hang of this editor.

[Whitelight]

Glad to see your making progress. As for the other fire point does it show the WS Pulsed Neutron in the weapons field? if not then I not really sure, hope this is of some help.

[thrakath]

Sorry, I wasn't very clear in my last post. I'll try and clarify. The exact error message I get when I save my map is Player "Alpha 1" has no secondary weapons, should have at least 1. But as I said its a minor issue as my map is still playable

[Whitelight]

Ah, the reason for that is that the whitestar has no secondard weapons, just primary weapons.

Hmm I don`t get this error, what FS2open build are you using? I`m using the latest official FS2open release, fs2open_367_p4 build..

(edit) A little extra I forgot to mention, there is a non p4 build avaible if you don`t have a p4

[IPAndrews]

Change the secondary weapon to (None)