[supernova_989]

1. Im making an arrival Cue for bombers. I also do a send messge.

>>Ship-type destroyed
--------100
--------fighter
You have to destroy 16 manticores and once you destroyed them the bombers (should) come. its crazy.

2. Also.....this might be something  I dont know
I want a Ravana To attack a station but all it does is fire turrets. I want it to fire its Lazers but I cant find out how........

   

Cheers,
Supernova_989

[Night Hammer]

1. I dont know what youre asking


2.beam free-all sexp

or if youre on FRED Open there should be a checkbox to make it that way by default

[supernova_989]

1. What else can you do to make them come when the Manticores are destroyed? If not, are manticores fighters

2.thanks

[Carl]

Originally posted by supernova_989
I want it to fire its Lazers but I cant find out how........

ahhh reminds me of the VBB.

[Night Hammer]

do
is-wing-destroyed

[Singh]

or even better:

is-destroyed-delay
---0
-----

[FireCrack]

Yeah, your asking it to check for ALL fighters, you're in a fighter..


If you kill all enimies, then your wingmen, then kill yourself somehow the bombers should come. However, i doubt that is the desired effect.

[Night Hammer]

Originally posted by Carl


ahhh reminds me of the VBB.

haha yeah, feeling all nostalgic:thepimp:

[Whitelight]

A lot depends on (2) things..
(1) Are you using Fred2. standard version

To use the beams (in standard version) you`ll look in the events editor.
or


(2) Are you using FS2Open. (SCP) Sorce code project version

The events editor will have  modifications to various editors, changes made by the SCP.. Navigate these editors to find what you seek.
 
Use the (Mission Specs) editor to beamfree by default... Beams are active at game start. and the (events editor) is used to trigger beam free at a specific time.
I hope this helps at least a little, had to many rum and cokes, hehehe.  

Oh i`m 49 so i`m allowed to drink, carry on.

[Trivial Psychic]

Be advised that the "all ships beam-freed by defailt" flag (IIRC) will only apply to ships that are present at the very beginning of the mission.  Any that jump in will require their own beam-free-all events.  Personally, I'd like to see the afore-mentioned box in the mission editor removed, and a similar box added to each ship's initial settings.  That way, you can say that a ship is beam-freed as part of its initial status... no activation event, even if it jumps in later.

[Grimloq]

-or make it so that itll apply to ALL ships at ALL times (unless its locked by an event later, of cource)

or both... i dunno. im sleepy. dont mind me.

[ShadowWolf_IH]

I didn't know that.  no...because i have ships warping in that are beam free when they arrive and i don't write an extra sexp for it.  I thought beam free all ships by default did that. i never knew so i never did it, and it works fine for me.

[karajorma]

Supernova. It's plainly obvious that you haven't done the walkthrough that comes with FRED since you're asking questions that it answers.

Put aside the mission you're trying now and with FRED open got to Help>>Help Topics. In the document that comes up click on the extended walkthrough option. Don't just read the walkthrough. Sit down and do it. If you're serious about becoming a FREDder the walkthrough will teach you about 90% of the things you need to know to get started.

If when you click Help Topics nothing happens get this and using WinRAR extract it to your \FreeSpace2\Data\freddocs folder.

So far people have been happy to answer your questions but eventually their patience will run out when you're asking questions that are answered so easily for you elsewhere.

[ShadowWolf_IH]

Kara's always so polite, he makes me sick.  

Go through the walk through and go to the fred academy.

[karajorma]

He's already signed up for the FA so he's taking a step in the right direction already

[ShadowWolf_IH]

Good deal.

WALK THROUGH!!!!!!

[Hippo]

Originally posted by Trivial Psychic
I'd like to see the afore-mentioned box in the mission editor removed, and a similar box added to each ship's initial settings.

And that, sir, was the content of my very first post on the VBB years ago ...

I probably still have that archived somewhere...

[pecenipicek]

i have another question...
how do you move faster in FRED?
its too darn slow

[Hippo]

1 through 8, 1 being slow, 8 being faster...

Rotating is Shift-1 through Shift-4, again 1 being slowest, 4 being fastest...

[Nuclear1]

Also, isn't "ship-type-destroyed" in his case, simply a number of the type of ship that must be destroyed?

In this case:

--when
      --ship-type-destroyed
               --100
               --fighter

Is that not simply asking for 100 fighters to be killed?

--when
      --percent-type-destroyed
               --100
               --fighter

That is the SEXP (I believe; haven't checked with FRED yet) ordering that all fighters in the mission must be destroyed -- including yourself, if you are in a fighter.

In his case, he would have to take ths suggestions of the people above, using:

---when
       --is-destroyed-delay
              -0
              -
       --send-message (or whatever he planned on)

Or chain it:

---when
       --is-destroyed-delay
              -0
              -
       --do-nothing

The above could serve as the arrival cue for the bombers (through "is-event-true-delay").

Chained:

---when
       --true
       --send-message
           --#Command
           --High
           --