[Shade]

Here's a start, at least: The FRED Portal. Set up the portal, arranged the few existing FRED articles into proper and accessible categories and set up a few links to non-existant articles that should definitely be made (such as the sexp reference that got this started). The portal isn't linked to from anywhere yet though. Well, from anywhere but here.

Can start adding stuff to it now

Anyway, should probably take any further discussion to the wiki forum.

[Edit] Wanderer was nice enough to add it to the main page without even being asked to, so seems like it's good to go

[karajorma]

I'll have a look and add some things myself

[Shade]

Made a post in the wiki forum for discussing it, so we can stop spamming the poor TBP people.

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,39355.0.html

[Dwin]

Okay, I have a mission that takes place inside a nebula ( hyperspace for TBP setting). So, do nebulae affect engines or something? Cause a number of my ships became disabled very quickly.

[karajorma]

Nope. It's probably just that it's taking you longer to shoot the enemy disabling those ships most likely

[Dwin]

Navpoints were added for the Wing Commander Saga team and they basically are designed to give you the ability to autopilot yourself and other wings or even capships to points very far away. IIRC you can use them like waypoints for simple distance measuring. Unlike waypoints Navpoints can be made to show up on the HUD.

Autopilot?

[Shade]

It's a new feature added for the WCS.

[Dwin]

Yup, I just took a look at it in the controls menu. I really should try to figure things out before I open my mouth.

This autopilot and cycle navpoint doesnt seem to work in TBP though...or am I doing something wrong...?

[karajorma]

To be honest the navpoint system is a complete mystery to me too. I've been meaning to sit down and puzzle it out for ages.

[Dwin]

Ah, okay.

What does a jumpnode do?

[Shade]

By default? Nothing. It looks pretty on the hud. It's entirely in the hands of the mission designer to script any interaction with jump nodes through dis/enabling warp at appropriate times and perhaps the depart-node-delay sexp.

[Dwin]

So it just serves as a hud indicator?

[Shade]

On the bottom line, that's all they are. But when used as a plot or gameplay element, they can be much more.

[Slasher]

Basically what you see in FRED2 is what you get regarding the jump nodes.

[Dwin]

 

Got it. Thanks.

[Dwin]

How do I get rid of suns?

[0rph3u5]

dunno...
put them there where nobody is likely to see into them...
or place a normal planet in front of it - should work

[Shade]

I actually have no idea. I'd like to know this as much as you.

[Slasher]

In oldschool FRED2, removing an actual localized light source like this was impossible.  You could remove the actual graphic that represented a sun but the game would still put the light source in the game.  In essence you would look into the blackness of space at some random spot and the glare of a sun would make the screen go white as though a sun were actually there.  I don't know if this has been changed.

If this hasn't changed, you're stuck with a light source one way or another.  As mentioned before, you can make the source of the light invisible in a way by using one of the "ambient_x" suns (replace x with the color of your choice in FRED2), but you'll get the whitewash effect when looking in the direction of that graphic even though an actual star won't be visible in game.

[Dwin]

Yea, that was the first thing I tried, Slasher. I'm using an ambient red instead of a sun, but the sun is still there.