[phreak]

I think that targets show up as untargetable blips at 5000 and at 2500 you can target them.  not sure about that, but i'll take a look at it.

[phreak]

Hmm i have an implementation question for RA/Goob

Currently I don't think FRED likes decimals, so IMO the "scale" entries in "add-background/sun-bitmap" should multiplied by 10 so you can enter scales as 4.2 as 42 for finer precision for placing stuff

[WMCoolmon]

Read them as percents, it's more intuitive that way.

[phreak]

yea that would work too

1% up to 1800%

[MiniSiets]

Originally posted by Ransom Arceihn

• Switch the mission to a nebula mission (or back to a normal one)

Are you trying to say here that you want to know if someone could design a mission where you can fly into and out of a nebula in the same mission? Actually I thought of this idea once too and thought it would be a really nice feature in the game.

[phreak]

theoretically yes, dunno how good it would look.

[MiniSiets]

Another idea I had was to have missions that would take place in the upper atmosphere of planets, battling above their surface. I'm not sure if this has been done already, but it's just another cool thought of mine that came to mind.

[phreak]

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,33767.0.html
http://www.sectorgame.com/twistedinfinities/screenshots.php

On another note i have the add-background-bitmap and remove-background-bitmap sexps working.  they should be in the next CVS build.

[redmenace]

Actually tomorrow night.

[phreak]

add-sun-bitmap and remove-sun-bitmap got into CVS during downtime.  So all of them should be working.

[Ransom]

Would they be in the 07/11 build of FRED? Because they're still greyed out.

[phreak]

you need to add a variable in order to get them to appear, they should be in though since i commited on 11/5

[WMCoolmon]

Why do they need a variable? I've had similar problem with some SEXPs I've implemented, they remain greyed out for no good reason, even though they should be valid in the instance.

[phreak]

one of the arguments is a variable for add-sun-bitmap and add-background-bitmap.  it'll be greyed out if there isn't one already defined.

[Ransom]

Ah, okay.

Just tried it out, they're working perfectly as far as I tested them. Excellent.

*gets FREDing gloves on*

[IPAndrews]

This feature was seemingly added ages ago and yet I cannot add the sexps in FRED? Do I have to edit the mission file in notepad? How do I know what the parameters are? I'm using: "fred2_open_G-20050715.exe ". I kind of expected that to be new enough? There's probably a very simple explanation for what I'm doing wrong here but I'm at a loss.

[Ransom]

I'm pretty sure they were added in November 2005...