[Reppyboyo]

How u get the cap ships to fire their beams?
thx all

[Thor]

I answer this quickly before they all kill you;)   Use the Beam-Free-ALL sexp.  that will unlock all the beams on a given ship.  Now to quickly steer you away from the mob, What are you working on?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Reppyboyo
How u get the cap ships to fire their beams?
thx all

There is an sexp called beam-free-all.

The FRED2 walkthrough explains it in more detail.

[karajorma]

The walkthrough can be found by looking at the help menu in FRED. There's some more help for newbie FREDders in the link below.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

If this thread were at the VBB it would be 500 posts long and contain such rantings as:

DO THE WALKTHROUGH, IF YOU DONT'T KNOW WHAT WE MEAN THEN YOU'RE TOO STUPID TO PLAY FS, etc.

Ahh, sweet, sweet HLP.

[karajorma]

If this thread was on the VBB it wouldn`t be noticed cause the baord would be too full of people wondering why the VBB was back and for how long this time

[Redfang]

Originally posted by karajorma
If this thread was on the VBB it wouldn`t be noticed cause the baord would be too full of people wondering why the VBB was back and for how long this time

 

 
Though I think it wouldn't be noticed because no-one would knew it was there.

[Whitelight]

But this is not the VBB, thank god... Or you would see (Hope zylonbane dosen`t see this post)

[CODEDOG ND]

BeamFreeAll
Moloch 24

Unless the ship is warping in.  Then it is.


When
Has arrived
0 Seconds
BeamFreeAll
Moloch 12

[karajorma]

Originally posted by CODEDOG ND
BeamFreeAll
Moloch 24

Unless the ship is warping in.  Then it is.


When
Has arrived
0 Seconds
BeamFreeAll
Moloch 12

Be careful with that one. A lot of people have reported problems with it.

When
-Has-arrived
--Moloch 12
--1

Always works. Has arrived 0 might not for some people. I`ve written missions where has arrived 0 hasn`t worked. I changed to has arrived 1 and it instantly starts working.

[Reppyboyo]

Thanks peeps....
version above worked...
coz all my ships were subspacing in...

[Killfrenzy]

Also, you could use the 'has-time-elapsed' sexp to switch on beams. But only use them for capships present at the start.