[diceman111]

Ok well so I currently FREDING away on my own campain have got 5 missions or so finished however I just played through them and realized the the NTF Boadicea I had been using as an asteroid base suddenly split in two and there was an Iceni.
Well I didnt think that would happend so now I am just wondering if anybody has any suggestion on either any other station I could use or if there is anyway to prevent it from splitting in two into an Iceni using FRED ???????

Was thinking of using a Arcadia instead but since these are suppose to be pirates I dont think thats realistic.


/Dice

[Shade]

Pirates would likely have to improvise. With that in mind, you could use a couple of disabled ships strung together with multiple docking to make up the base, then scatter some groups of containers and sentryguns around the area to flesh it out some.

[diceman111]

Pirates would likely have to improvise. With that in mind, you could use a couple of disabled ships strung together with multiple docking to make up the base, then scatter some groups of containers and sentryguns around the area to flesh it out some.

Hmm thx that might work just need to blow it away anyway more of an intro to the campaign anyway, I have concluded that if u start the campaign with some big booooooommmmmssss that hopefully people will be moire interesting

[Goober5000]

How hard would it be for an intrepid modeller to make the Boadicea into its own model?  AFAIK all they'd have to do would be to remove the Iceni and create new debris chunks.

[Dark Hunter]

You could look on hades-combine.com for some other bases (I think they have some downloadable ones), or just mash a bunch of a ships together. FRED doens't crash or anything if two ships occupy the same space. In Derelict, for example, they used a Ganymede docking ring and just attached a bunch of science cruisers and medical cruisers, as well as a Deimos corvette, to it. Looked pretty cool.


And as long as we're taking requests for new models, I've got one that I thought I could do but I can't. Could someone please just increase the size of an asteroid model to like seven or eight clicks long? I thought I could do the with MDLView's .pof editor, but nooooooo. I don't have anything resembling a modeling program, and they're expensive. I kinda need this for my own campaign idea, or else I'll have to cut like five missions out. 

[Trivial Psychic]

That GVI Cheops is a good one, though you should reskin it.

[diceman111]

You could look on hades-combine.com for some other bases (I think they have some downloadable ones), or just mash a bunch of a ships together. FRED doens't crash or anything if two ships occupy the same space. In Derelict, for example, they used a Ganymede docking ring and just attached a bunch of science cruisers and medical cruisers, as well as a Deimos corvette, to it. Looked pretty cool.


And as long as we're taking requests for new models, I've got one that I thought I could do but I can't. Could someone please just increase the size of an asteroid model to like seven or eight clicks long? I thought I could do the with MDLView's .pof editor, but nooooooo. I don't have anything resembling a modeling program, and they're expensive. I kinda need this for my own campaign idea, or else I'll have to cut like five missions out. 

Thx Hunter I will most likely use some of the bases here.

[diceman111]

Just a quick question isent there any easier way of importing the ships then copy/past (Guess thats how you do it since I havent gotten to that part yet with the tables files and all that.)

Maybe an editor in FRED or somthing.......

/Dice

[Mars]

TBMs are the easiest way of adding ships nowadays, it prevents problems when using multiple ship mods.

[diceman111]

TBMs are the easiest way of adding ships nowadays, it prevents problems when using multiple ship mods.

TBMs ???

Sorry new to this just creating my first campaign

[Mars]

Reccomended reading
Karajorma's Freespace FAQ
Freespace Wiki


Kara's FAQ us just the basic stuff you should know, and some advanced stuff.

The Wiki is for things like TBMs, if there's somthing specific you don't know about, it'll help you.

[diceman111]

Reccomended reading
Karajorma's Freespace FAQ
Freespace Wiki


Kara's FAQ us just the basic stuff you should know, and some advanced stuff.

The Wiki is for things like TBMs, if there's somthing specific you don't know about, it'll help you.

ok thx

[Black Wolf]

How hard would it be for an intrepid modeller to make the Boadicea into its own model?  AFAIK all they'd have to do would be to remove the Iceni and create new debris chunks.

Everyone remember this'n, and remind whoever gets around to HTLing the Boadicea. Very good idea.