[Mefustae]

Say what!?

[IPAndrews]

You've really not followed what I've been trying to do here have you. 

[Mefustae]

Of course not, I just want to get Nebulas to show up in FRED so I can see what i'm doing with 'em without having to get into the mission every dang time!

[IPAndrews]

There's an option on the view menu. If it doesn't work, you need a newer FRED build.

[Mefustae]

Obviously i've got the 'Background' thing ticked in the 'View' menu, so what new version after 3.6.5 would you recommend?

[IPAndrews]

I wouldn't want to recommend one because some of the newer FREDs save missions which have backward compatability problems with the older version of FRED, and for all I know (haven't tested) possibly FSOpen itself. I'm using a build from November last year but hey, that's just me.

[CP5670]

I generally use the 10/24 FRED2, which works with most older pre-3.6.7 FSO builds like the excellent 9/17 one. The only thing I use that it's missing is the flipped briefing icon support. The newer FRED2s won't work with most FSO builds more than about a month old, although it's possible to manually edit a mission and make it work if you have to.

[IPAndrews]

For anyone who is bothered and really I can't imagine it being that many people. Here is the random background generation code for BHX. It could probably be simplified for other campaigns, since the BHX one if fancy and picks from two sets of nebs based on where in the galaxy you are.

(the idea being you the nebs change more to a colour befitting a race as you get further into their territory)

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[karajorma]

I'm interested. In fact I think this is one for the FRED cookbook I'm only waiting to see if you can improve it any

[IPAndrews]

As it stands it's good for hardcore FRED users only. Since to be any use to most people they'd have to rip out all the "team" related stuff. I don't have time to do that myself. So consider it to have one of those "use entirely at your own risk" stickers slapped on.

[karajorma]

The cookbook is meant to be a showcase for good or innovative FREDding. Some of that stuff is there for people to rip out and plug straight into the game. Other stuff is intended to inspire or simply show how much is possible with FRED without having to bother the SCP team for something new.

This is definitely in the latter category