[TopAce]

I did not read the walkthrough, I like experiencing things myself. The first major problem for me in FRED that I did not know how to place ships.

[mrduckman]

I've never fredded. Well, I've fredded a test mission with a mara, to check models and effects on FS2.
But I can't fred with warships because I have a small system and usually FRED would just CTD or hang the computer.

[Nuclear1]

I really got into FREDing when I started getting bored with the main campaign and lost my faith in the ST campaign. I started with basically fighter vs fighter then started moving to more complex missions. I occassionally made a few (nonvalidated) missions for FS1 multiplayer that me and the few ghosts that still play(ed) FS1 would play on.

[Nuclear1]

EDIT: Gah, double post.

[Solatar]

I did a little Alpha 1 vs. 50 Basilisks mission (on very easy) then proceeded to build a battle of endor.

To this day I'm a crappy fredder 'cause I never learned sexps well. To all would be FREDers...learn sexps..

[InfernoGod]

My first mission was a red alert mission where you had to defend the Galatea, an Orion, versus one of every Shivan vessel. The Galatea was at 75% and disabled. There were no events, cuz I didn't understand SEXPs at that time. The player flew a Ulysses and had the Ulysses standard armament. Needless to say, I never beat that mission- mainly because it took so long!

[TopAce]

Your FRiEnD

[Gloriano]

Well I'am doing only test missions

[SadisticSid]

I bought FS1 because of the promise in the demo that you'd be able to create your own missions using the same tool as the devs. Needless to say it satisfied all my expectations - I'd wanted to make space sim missions for ages and XvTED was a bit of a crappy editor (and of course, FS owns Star Wars any day of the week).

[Airborne]

Speaking of FRED, I'm having some trouble with the FRED 2 walkthrough and I would appreciate it if you guys could help me. I'm in the section where you're supposed to assign the GTFr Pelican a "has-docked-delay" SEXP and supposedly it would depart right afterwards. Before I had assigned the designated SEXP everything went well, the Freighter docked with the cargo and just stood there because it had no further orders, but when I assigned the SEXP the Freighter just disappeared from the mission. It was still there in the editor, but it did not show up at all in-game. So, basically, what the hell is going on?

[Goober5000]

Did you add the sexp to the "arrival cue" box instead of the "departure cue"?

[Airborne]

Originally posted by Goober5000
Did you add the sexp to the "arrival cue" box instead of the "departure cue"?

lol...  whoops

[Getter Robo G]

One thing got me into Fredding...  Max Sterling and his gang of mad modders and a little project  called ROBOTECH...

  now with 1gig of voice captures this alone is so unrealistic for a mod...  (but I like it!)...

   Plus I can't wait to kill sdf-1 for real when Trashman finishes her. For the past two years Khyron has been ramming a re-skinned Orion!

[Singh]

Ummmmmm........

BoE syndrome actually

At least now im over that.........I think

*runs

[silverwolf]

lets see i have tried to fred several times since i got freespace but could never grasp it :'(

[karajorma]

You did try the walkthrough I assume?

[TopAce]

Originally posted by silverwolf
lets see i have tried to fred several times since i got freespace but could never grasp it :'(

CTRL-click on the grid and you will feel fine.
After the first placed ship, everything is easy and obvious in FREDing. Did you try any of the tutorials? Even ones at HLP or the official walkthrough by Volition?

[ShadowWolf_IH]

I started fredding because i was using the FS2 demo as space combat to determine the amount of drop ships that made it planetside for a mech3 league i developed.  anyway...i bought fs1 and played the campaign...and then made what is arguably the "worst ever freespace campaign".  mostly it was a learning exercise.  Then i bought fs2 with the intention of creating new missions for the space combat portion of my league, but with the advent of mech4, my league died, and since i didn't like mech4 there was no building it for that.  anyway.....i kept fredding, cause it was fun to see my creations come to life.

of course i am still learning, i have yet to ever use a variable in any of my missions....mostly cause i have never needed one so i haven't bothered to explore them and figure out how they work.

[karajorma]

I've never understood why people are so scared of variables They are pretty easy to use.

[ShadowWolf_IH]

just never had a need of one...so i never bothered to explore them.