[Overlord]

I think when look at them in the techroom an ibx will be generated. I could be wrong, though.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Overlord
I think when look at them in the techroom an ibx will be generated. I could be wrong, though.

Nope. You're correct. Of course doing things that way involves editing the table file so that every ship is in the tech room and then starting the campaign again so it's not a huge improvement on just FREDding a mission.

[WMCoolmon]

What's wrong with just letting them be generated as needed?

[Goober5000]

Because if you have a bunch of new models, it takes ages.  It's better for the modeller to supply the IBX as well as the POF.

[WMCoolmon]

Er, I mean how is it any different from going through the techroom and clicking through each one? If you're releasing a model you should have the .ibx anyways, if not, it only happens once for each ship.

For campaign/mediaVP releases I do see why you'd want it though.

[übermetroid]

oh!!!  I want to test this out!  I cant wait to get home to DL it all!

[phreak]

just for a goof:

[Goober5000]

Are we bilingual now?

[phreak]

no, i just found it

[JC Denton]

2 things:

1) How big are those file sizes, anyway?  The file size for the release version of fs2_open after I had finished downloading it was about 3.06mb.  Fred2_open's was 3.19mb

2) The file completed downloading, and I noticed it had no file icon.  Shrugged, went to open it in the launcher, saw a blink of a command prompt window, and a popup from the launcher:  "Fatal Error - Failed to read flag file."

Shrugging again, I went to open the file directly, it pops up a command prompt with no message in it.  So, I open command.exe, navigate to the fs2 directory, punch in the filename, and I'm greeted with this message:  "Program too big to fit in memory."

Identical results when I try to open the fred2 file.

My guess is the file was corrupted when I downloaded it.  I'll re-d/l them again, but for future reference could you please, please, please put them in a bog-standard RAR file with no self-extractor garbage? (if that happens to be the case)  I don't much care for downloading naked EXEs.

[Goober5000]

http://fs2source.warpcore.org/exes/3.6.5.zip

[Overlord]

You can open the self-extractor with WinRar and extract them manually.

[JC Denton]

No SFX, just uncompressed, un-RAR'd executables.  And I thought you SCPers knew better.

Anyways, muchos gracias, Goob.

[Singh]

strange.....backgrounds appear to be not displaying in FRED......

[Kie99]

1. It can't play Homesick.  It crashes whenever you press Commit.
2. If you press Alt-Tab to go on another thing it crashes.  I always used it when I was testing a mission.  Design mission---> Test ----> Find Error in Mission----> Alt-Tab----> Fix Error -----> Restart Mission ---> Test Again

Now I have to Design mission---> Test ----> Find Error in Mission----> Exit Freespace----> Fix Error---->Start Freespace  -----> Go into Tech Room & mission Simulator---->Test Again

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by kietotheworld
1. It can't play Homesick.  It crashes whenever you press Commit.

Press Commit where?  In the campaign screen?  In  the ready room?  In the command briefing?  In the regular briefing?

2. If you press Alt-Tab to go on another thing it crashes.  I always used it when I was testing a mission.  Design mission---> Test ----> Find Error in Mission----> Alt-Tab----> Fix Error -----> Restart Mission ---> Test Again

Now I have to Design mission---> Test ----> Find Error in Mission----> Exit Freespace----> Fix Error---->Start Freespace  -----> Go into Tech Room & mission Simulator---->Test Again

Yeah, that's annoying us too.  We're working on it.

[deep_eyes]

Im curious, when you guys plan on the next BIG UBER release, wouldnt it be more "convienent" and "simpler" to get everything togeather in one File to install so users old and new wont get lost or confused installing the new SCPs?

[WMCoolmon]

Sort of like the installer?

[Kie99]

Regular Briefing.

[Kie99]

Strange... Its working Now...

Oh Yeah Before I forget, In FRED 2 Open the ships are all on the lowest detail level, the Orion looks a blue brick, yes even more than normal!