[bfobar]

I'm doing the walkthrough/tutorial for FRED 2 where you make the shipyard NTF attack mission and I'm having the following problem: No matter how I click on the boxes or whatever, I cannot make my reinforcements command light up for delta wing, which shows up in my reinforcements list. I tried making a bare bones mission with me, a hostile fighter, and 2 ships in delta wing as reinforcements and am having the same problem. Since reinforcements work everywhere else in all the missions, I can only come to the conclusion that I am a moron somehow. Anyone got any ideas how I'm screwing this one up?

[Trivial Psychic]

The walkthough comes with a completed form of the mission.  You could copy it from the freddocs directory to your missions directory, open it in FRED and see what they've done.

[Mefustae]

I had the same problem when I was doing the walkthrough earlier this week. Rather than do it on the reinforcents editor (which gave me an error saying "Cannot have a reinforcement wing with mixed teams, sucka!"), go to the 'Wings Editor', and just to the right of the box containing the wing name (ie. Beta), there's a tick-box with 'Reinforcement' on it. Tick that, and it automatically adds it to the reinforcement list.



Of course, this is likely the wrong way to do it, and this is likely only on FRED_Open 3.6.5, but it works for me. 

[karajorma]

That's the way I've always done it. Even back in the retail days

[bfobar]

arrrrrrg.

FS2 SCP -- V Completed Shipyard: No reinforcements working.
FS2 SCP -- My Shipyard: No reinforcements working.

FS2 Retail -- V Completed Shipyard: Reinforcements work fine.
FS2 Retail -- My Shipyard: Still no reinforcements working.

I don't see any differences between their and my scripting of epsilon wing in ships, wings, or reinforcements editor.
This is frustrating.

[karajorma]

Post the mission and I'll take a look at it.

[bfobar]

Ahhh, the arrival queue for the wing needs to be set to TRUE, not FALSE. duhhhhhhh.......

Although I think the latest CVS build is having issues with reinforcements. Works fine in retail though.

[Dark Hunter]

Don't you hate it when the big problems have the simplest solutions?


"For there to be a problem there must also be a solution. If there is no solution, there is no problem."

[bfobar]

Actually I was using murphy's law there to get a solution.

"The simplest answers to the stupidest problems only reveal themselves after you publicly humiliate yourself."

Hence my post. It helped me quickly see what was right in front of me by making me feel dumb in public.