[DoctorWho]

Im a noob at FREDing and have started a couple of missions but I can't get beam wepons to work on the Sharlin or any other ship, any answers?

[IPAndrews]

Mission specs. Tick all ships beam freed by default.

[pyro-manic]

Ouch. *dons asbestos suit*


You need to use the beam-free-all sexp. Or if you're using SCP (I dunno if TBP uses it), then there's a "all-ships-beam-free-by-default" option in the mission specs editor.



Welcome to HLP, DoctorWho. Enjoy your stay.

EDIT: Argh, beaten to it again....

[karajorma]

I'm biased but I heavily reccomend taking a look at the FRED Academy so you can make B5 missions with a team of people to help and advise you.

Campaign 5 is the one you want to look at.

[DoctorWho]

thanks

[karajorma]

Actually even if you don't join up I recommend the FRED section of my FAQ. It will help teach you a lot of useful things. The common mistakes section is a good read too.

[DoctorWho]

No offence the FRED section of your page is so complicated I got nothing out of it. How do you use variables?

[Fergus]

Don't worry, after FREDing for a bit and doing the Fs2 FRED walkthrough it should make more sense

[Black Wolf]

Wow. How long has it been since we had one of these topics?

[DoctorWho]

I can't get a event to happen when a ship docks

[Slasher]

Could you be more specific?

[DoctorWho]

Im having of troble in general with events I can't get anything to work. All the guides I've seen are rather useless. Can you sugest a good one?

[karajorma]

Originally posted by DoctorWho
No offence the FRED section of your page is so complicated I got nothing out of it. How do you use variables?

Variables are something of an advanced topic for many FREDders (In fact there are some people who've written entire campaigns and still don't like to use them) so if you don't get them straight away and my FAQ isn't helping it's probably a good idea to understand how SEXPs work before you move on to them. On the other hand several FREDders got the hang of them quite quickly so don't feel that you'll never understand them.

My FAQ makes the assumption that you've done the FRED walkthrough. If you haven't look in your TBP folder at Data\Freddocs\index.html as there is tonnes of good information there.

It's worth actually doing the walkthrough rather than simply reading it. FREDding isn't something I find particularly hard but there is a lot to it so it's hard to remember everything from just reading a document.

It takes an hour or two to do the walkthrough but it will take you far longer to puzzle out how to do everything yourself

[DoctorWho]

I'll try it out, thanks

[DoctorWho]

Im doing pretty well but it keep's talking about an attake any ship comand and I can't find it. Anyone?

[karajorma]

Go into the ship or wing editor (depending on what you're giving orders to) and choose initial orders.
 You'll find in in the behaviour pull down.

[DoctorWho]

The guides keep saying use the SEXP. How do you do that

[karajorma]

What you want is the following SEXP.

when
-whatever
-Add-Goal
--Name of ship
--AI-Chase-Any

[DoctorWho]

But what are SEXP

[Prophet]

They are the ones you make in the events editor.
We could call them events, but SEXP sounds a bit cooler

This too is explained in the FRED walktrought karajorma mentioned earlier. Read the whole document as it tells you all the basic things you want to know, and most of the complex things too. Pretty much everything you have asked so far can be found from the walktrought. And if you keep asking these very basic things you could find from the walktrought people will eventually get annoyed by it.

If you encouter something that you can't find from the walktrought after reading it at least three times, the chances are that it is a new thing the source code people have added for our enjoyment. And that you are encouraged to ask about.

So do a little research and learn where these things can be found because I'm a veteran and I still have to check the walktrought for a quick reminder...