[origin]

Simple question I think.  I have made ships I can run them in fred.  I have everything setup, I guess, so how do I make a  mission?  I can't do it in fred if I do it in fred it gives me a default player ship that I cannot change.  Well I want to use my own ships, so how do you do it?

[Stormkeeper]

You mean you can't place your ships in FRED? Hav you placed your modified tables and models in their respective directories in the your data folder?

[origin]

No, I can put my ships in FRED just fine, but the only ship I can fly is the GTC Ulysses.  How do fly a different ship?

[origin]

I see that people have read the post and nobody is answering which can mean several things all of which are not good.

I have made 3 different ships.  I would like to make a mission with only those 3 ships.  How do you do that?  I assume that you would use FRED - maybe I am wrong.  If I use FRED I am forced to use the Ulysses - I don't want to use the Ulysses - I want to use only my ships.

Any help or ideas would be appreciated.

[Retsof]

Go into the ships editor, there should be a drop-down menu where you can change your ship.

[origin]

No, the ability to change any other ship to the player ship even the ships from the game are grayed out.  Even the ulysses is grayed out so you cannot deselect it from being the player ship.  What gives?

 

[Polpolion]

*facepalm*

There is a drop-down menu in the ship editor where you can choose the class of each individual placed ship. Double click on the Player, click on the drop down "ship type" thingy in the upper-left portion of the window, and choose your desired ship class.

The "player ship" checkbox has nothing to do with this. But if you're curious, when FREDing a multiplayer mission, you have multiple player ships, yes? To make a mission a multiplayer mission, go to IIRC mission-specs, then somewhere there, there will be a circle with "multiplayer" beside it. Choose that. Now, you can check and uncheck the "player ship" checkbox in the ship editor to your heart's content.

EDIT: If I could run FRED on this compy and take a snapshot of the stuff for you, I would. But I don't have FRED here.

EDIT2: BTW, you do know that you can choose which type of ship you want to pilot from within the game itself, right?

[origin]

Thanks,  geese I just couldn't figure it out.  Pretty obvious now that I see it.

[karajorma]

The other way to do it would be via the loadout editor. Then you can choose which of the 3 ships you want to fly.