[Mercer]

hi to everyone i got 2 questions about freed. here the first one.

i have desinged a mission everything works fine but in the end of the mission the player ship should land on a nova crusier how to do this in fred?

The second question is about the messages in Fred

i´ve done some messages and i chose b5-command as ani file but i dident shown in the game. If tryed the others ani files but they also wont work

i hope somebody could help me

[karajorma]

Not sure why your command ani files aren't working but the landing on the Nova is done by checking the distance from the hangerbay subsystem (it may be called the launch bay or something similar, I can't remember)

The SEXP would look something like this

When
-and
--is-event-true-delay
---5
---Mission complete  <-------------------- basically the name of the event that tells the player to land
--<
---distance-subsystem
----Nova Cruiser
----Hanger Bay
---100
-end-mission

[Mercer]

hi
thx for the fast reply i have set the events like ur example but in the pull down menu when i make

distance - ship subsystem

i get a pull down menü with only 5 subsystems 

engine
navigation
weapons
communication
sensors

i use fred open 3.6.5

[karajorma]

My bad. That's what happens why I type too fast and don't open FRED to double check

The SEXP is basically describing the subsystems on your fighter not the Nova. It should be

Distance-Ship-Subsystem
-Alpha 1 (Or whatever you've called your player)
-Nova Cruiser
-Fighterbay

[Mercer]

thx it work now big thx

[karajorma]

No problem. You might want to consider looking into the FRED Academy. You get to make B5 missions and have them checked out by experts who tell you how to improve them. We've already had one student hired by the offical team

[0rph3u5]

i´ve done some messages and i chose b5-command as ani file but i dident shown in the game. If tryed the others ani files but they also wont work

1)use
b5-commanda.ani...
you need to add "...a.ani" to all FRED-shortcuts for B5 anis for ingame messages...

2) get yourself the vpviewer to access the base-vp and to look up the filenames of all other comm.anis (subdirectory "interface" or "hud" in the vp - if you sort the list by file-types you can find them very easy)

[madaboutgames]

On some ships they don`t actually have a fighterbay or launch system you can use to activate the sexp distance, If this happens the best way I have found is use a target instaed of the subsystem and but this just out of sight behind the actual docking bay, set the distance trigger to 100 and then when you fly into the docking bay the mission ends and gives the same effect.

[Mercer]

thx for the help where can i get the vpviewer ? got anyone a dl link for me ?

@ 0rph3u5 i got a question i dl the blackhand beta version but a had i HD crash so i had to format my hd so all files where lost :/ is there an alternate dl link for the beta version because the link in the forum here wont work says site is not there

@ mad great campain

bevor i forget i have another question i want to make curisers that fighting each others thats no problem so far but i want do this like that

the should closing into beam range firering beams then they should go into a short "dogfight" mean close in fight then the should turn go to distance and fireing beams again i´ve tryed this with sexps but all the do is closing in firing beams and then start curving around like fighter combat should i do this with nav poinst ? or got anyone an idea ?

mfg

Mercer

[karajorma]

USe nav points. Capship combat should always be scriped. Never just use the attack commands.

[0rph3u5]

thx for the help where can i get the vpviewer ? got anyone a dl link for me ?

@ 0rph3u5 i got a question i dl the blackhand beta version but a had i HD crash so i had to format my hd so all files where lost :/ is there an alternate dl link for the beta version because the link in the forum here wont work says site is not there

visit karajorma's FAQ I found the link to the the VP viewer there

if you want a new release of The Black Hand you will have to wait until the 16th, the old beta file is not on the server anymore....
I wanted to release the Episode I v0.9 already but when aipz came up with some ideas to improve the balacing and the gameplay and the playtests of the new missions (exspecially "Combat Drill") gave me some distrubing results which delayed everything
I think I can fix the last problems soon but I simply don't got the time to do it right now (school started again on Monday)

[Mercer]

again thx for help

hope get some missions online startet one it handle about the cival war earthforces vs earthforce

mfg

Mecer

[karajorma]

visit karajorma's FAQ I found the link to the the VP viewer there

Yeah. It's on the tools page now

While you're there be sure to check out the FRED pages. There's a lot of useful info there.