[Wildrosewolf]

lol, i am a bit curious guy.......i edited my FRED so many times but i see no change,...may i know whats the use of it?

[Black Wolf]

You... edited your FRED? Do you mean you edited missions in FRED? In that case, you have to save them into the data/missions folder, and then you can play themin the tech room under mission simulator.

[Wildrosewolf]

no no no. i dunno how.....when i click it, there was only 1 ship, i dunno how to add in the rest of the ship......i just moved the position of the 1 ship, that is all.

[karajorma]

FRED is basically a mission editor which allows you to make new missions as good as the ones that came with the game. There's a walkthrough included with FRED which you can access from the help menu. If you want to make missions you definitely should do it.

[Black Wolf]

Ah, right. Ctrl Click. You chose the type of ship you want to place with the menu up the top right.

If you have a bought, burnt or halfway decent downloaded version of FS2, you should be able to go into the help menu and grab the walkthrough as Kara said. It's brilliant, and it will solve all of these early problems (for what it's worth, the first time I used FRED, I couldn't figure out how to place ships either).

[Shade]

You have no idea how long the Ctrl-Click thing had me hanging the very first time I opened up FRED - I sympathize. But the help files are really quite excellent at teaching the basics, so definitely check those out

[Mars]

...i edited my FRED so many times but i see no change,...may i know whats the use of it?

Don't you dare touch my FRED

[karajorma]

You have no idea how long the Ctrl-Click thing had me hanging the very first time I opened up FRED

About a year ago I opened the campaign editor and found I couldn't place missions. I spent a couple of minutes head scratching till I remembered that you have to do the ctrl-click thing there too.

[jr2]

You have no idea how long the Ctrl-Click thing had me hanging the very first time I opened up FRED - I sympathize. But the help files are really quite excellent at teaching the basics, so definitely check those out

That one had me for quite some time too... think my bro figured it out...

[Snail]

You have no idea how long the Ctrl-Click thing had me hanging the very first time I opened up FRED - I sympathize. But the help files are really quite excellent at teaching the basics, so definitely check those out

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[Wildrosewolf]

lol

[Cobra]

I had the same problem, but I duplicated ships and changed their classes. it worked, but it was bloody hard to double click the duplicates.

[Wildrosewolf]

im going fine now but the thing is that i don't know why the hostile ships are not appearing when i try playing them....i create 1 hostile ship, alpha wing and a friendly ship.........all of them were there on the game when playing........but the hostile ship is the only one not appearing there why is it?
 and also how to set time limits for the hostile and friendly ships? like, e.g if i want leo wing to come in 5 mins after the cato died........how to do like that and why isnt the capital ships use their beam turrets to fire?? JR2 i need you immediately........IM me ASAP....the rest of you, if you know how to do all that then please reply.....thx

[Wildrosewolf]

why only some ships are appearing when i play? even worse......they are not moving!! they are just standing down there.................help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee       

[Black Wolf]

[VBB]Do the Walkthrough![/VBB]

In the help menu. The FRED2 walkthrough will teach you all those basics.

[Wildrosewolf]

ok ok let me see

[Wildrosewolf]

well...its gives me more idea and tips.......and i learnt more from there..but still dunno how to make jump nodes, make large ships fire using beam turrets.....

[jr2]

You need to use the beam-free sexp, or the beam-free-all sexp, or select "all ships beam freed by default", as long as you are using fred2_open_3_6_9.exe and not retail fred2.exe

[Wildrosewolf]

my that one got problem like i said yesterday so im using retail......by the registry settings you gave me yesterday......what shall i do with that??

[jr2]

Merge them with your registry.  Double-click the file after downloading.  Click yes.  Done.  Retail FreeSpace2.exe should then work.

Your Fred Open 3.6.9 shouldn't have the problem, if you use the shortcut I helped you make, that has the -fredhtl switch on it.  Hmm... I'll have to IM you sometime when I get home.