[rcrph]

Just a suggestion or a plea if you will, could someone upload a complete working compilation of FSO, TBP, and Fred2-open that will play nice with each other.  I've been trying different versions of fred2-open and FSO but I just can't find a combination that will function at 100%.  I fully appreciate all the effort that this must entail but I think that it would be of tremendous value to us noobs (or maybe just me).  Please ?????     If that isn't possible maybe which versions of FSO and Fred2-open should be used and maybe a link to just the specific version ??

[Trivial Psychic]

The 3.3a patch includes a build from January which is pretty much the most stable and forgiving build available for TBP.  The downsides are that it doesn't include voice recognition, that you have to extract and rename the ships-adv.tbl file from the included vp, and it doesn't have support for dynamic stars.tbl to allow all included backgrounds to be activated.  This feature is available for some newer builds though.

[rcrph]

OK, which builds of FSO and Fred2_open do you use ??

[Trivial Psychic]

I've been sticking with the 2006/01/09 almost exclucively, but recently I've been testing the new CVS releases, especially since the bug with multi-part turrets was fixed.  It may be possible to find a ballance of FRED from one build and play missions with another.  I've still got some testing to do to find the right ballance.  In any case, if I did recommend a newer build, it'd probably require a change to your tables, which you may not be comfortable in doing.

[rcrph]

Is that date of build for FSO or Fred2_open ??

[Trivial Psychic]

Both.

[rcrph]

Thx for your suggestion.  I'll give it a try when I'm off work.

[Slasher]

I've been using the 2-27 builds of FRED2 and FSO for a week now and they work fairly well.  I've noticed one oddity though: capships will target their own and other friendly missiles.  It looks weird when a Warlock unleashes a salvo of Nemeisis missiles only to have half the pulse guns on the ship try to shoot them down upon launch.  I guess the gunners just want extra practice.

[Goober5000]

I've been using the 2-27 builds of FRED2 and FSO for a week now and they work fairly well. I've noticed one oddity though: capships will target their own and other friendly missiles.

Mantis.